And the difference is??????

I worked for the postal service for 14 years, and never once was it necasary for me to ever work overtime, however management decideit to have me work overtime. We had 5 to 6 supervisors every shift at the genaral mail facility. They bought a $12 million dollar tray management system that know manager knew how it should work. I worked as mail proccer, general expiditer, window clerk, and manuel distribution. We had way to many supervisors and most had any knowledge of how to move mail they it should be moved. They only cared about the number of letters they got in and not how to corretly process the mail. I saw managers that had high volume custermers run them away because they would not get them the materials to move thier mail. Managers did not stay on top of the mail flow so a lot of clerks on the overtime desired list created there own overtime. Why does’nt the postal service start by cutting dead beat managers and listen a little bit to the clerks. There has never been a need for Saturday mail delivery. Letter carriers just want to keep it so they can get the overtime. It is a shame that post master doesn’t look at the real problems he has withi his managers.

I don’t understand this. I spend much more now at the post office than I ever did.

Many of the responses I read to the demise of the post office carry the “who cares” message underlying their text. It is as if the writers think that the end of this valued public service is a good thing; a money saver; a wave of a new and better future.

It is not. The post service is a government agency and one of the few entities that has tied this country together since its inception. It provides a rare, honest reliable service to all of us no matter our status or the place we choose to live. It functions to allow us to have privileged communication without the worry of cost or loss of covenience. It is worth paying for.

Yet our Congress is going to allow it to fail. Go figure. Do you suppose that the cost of home and mail delivery will continue to be cheap once the post office is brought to its kneees? Do you think that its competitors will continue to offer inexpensive delivery to rural and outlying areas when its gone?
who do you suppose will pick up the slack? How will you send a certified letter? Who will uncontitionally guarantee delivery?

Like every other cut the government has made these past few years, the poor, aged and unconnected will suffer for this stupid failure of our Federal government. Part of being America will be gone once the postal service is gutted.

Stupid! Short sighted! Foolish beyond belief!

Why wouldn’t we, Mark? Look at the stupidity we fund overseas. You tell me why we invaded Iraq, killing thousands of our own young people, and wasting trillions of our resources, and I will tell you again why we need the postal service!

oh, and drop the anti-union rant. It shows your stripes too clearly. Why would I not want a fellow citizen to make a decent wage for the work they do?

Mark, the less we pay our workforce (public or private), and the fewer benefits we provide them, the less our country becomes. We are driving the middle class out of existence in one generation for no good reason. Greed at the tippy top is sucking up all the money. We currently support the lowest Federal tax rates since World War II, and we are fighting two wars plus a recession. Why? Low wages nations are not nations we want to replicate.

Unions have never negotiated with an empty chair across the table. I have not heard of a postal workers strike in recent days. If you have a problem with workers wages, you have a problem with the management, not the unions.

Not all of us can afford to live in castles, or pay private couriers.Our country will be less without a vibrant publicly run postal service. Any country worth its salt can afford one and can afford to support it.

The Post office is way too Management heavy, the cuts need to start from the top and work its way down. its the little guy that does the work!

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HMMM, My mom said today she mailed my birthday card from 100 miles away, asked why I did not call to say I got it. Well, it is 7 days today and I still don’t have it. Sent my d-i-l tickets for the MN Zoo, took 3 weeks to get 40 miles from here. First class postage does not always work. Heard more and more of these stories like mine as of late.

Got some friends who’s son works metro postal and the horror stories as well as ‘get off your ass’ stories. If all the biggies at the top took their fair share cut so that the ones actually doing the work got paid, I would not be as mad. It is those who say they are managers, and can’t hit the toilet when the P, I have young grandchildren who know work ethic better. Pay equity would toss moe than a few bums on their butts. This is how the postal used to work. When greed and all get in the way of any business/good job, there’s no place to go but under.
Having more chiefs so they can have a meeting to have a meeting—-and they still get paid for doing stupid. The front line is the ones who deliver to my door and stand behind a busy postal counter trying to get things done.