@toooldtorock wrote:
"and in the case of us at USPS out and out sabotage by the new Postmaster General
(appointed by tRump after he gave tRump a 2.5 million dollar "donation"
The service here has gone downhill long before the current Postmaster General came
into office. I hate when I get an order that comes through with postal shipping anymore.
The service has become erratic and undependable and you have no idea when the
carrier is going to show up.
Yes in some areas. There isn't any issues in the area that I work in (mail comes out of Columbus) or where I live (out of Cleveland). But yeah ther are some areas .
In the time I have been with USPS things have changed. The subs lost their benefits. A retooling of the system prior to my hiring (2000) a sub did earn some sick days and their time counted toward retirement. When I was hired that had gone, I earned an hourly wage and that was it. (Most subs spend around 10 years subbing before getting a route),( it was 13 years for me). When I started I was assigned to a route and I worked Saturdays and my carriers vacation and sick days. I could train and work other routes if I wanted. These were usually routes where the carrier had serious illness or injury and I would be subbing for their sub.
Now a sub is assigned a route but EXPECTED to learn all the routes in their office and as there are so few of them the phone rings daily with pleas for help in other offices. Yesterday I had 7 trays of DPS mail (a tray is 2 foot long and mail stands up on end) about 1.5' of raw letters (letters not in order) and 4 feet of flats at least a foot of which were political big glossy cardstock that have to be handled carefully or they will slice you up. I already had a heaping cart of packages and then Amazon came with 6 (yes 6) pallets 5' and 6' tall of packages (there are only 7 routes in our office).
Rachael our sub took around an hour from each of the 5 rural routes and the clerks took turns watching the window and running packages for the city carriers. I have been without a sub of my own for over 2 years now. No one wants a job where they have to abuse their own vehicle for just a standard hourly rate.
I should note that a bill has been sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk that would reinstate benefits for subs and allow us that worked the job to buy our sub years pension. Pay in our portion for time on the job. This would make us older workers eligible to retire earlier so subs wouldn't have to wait so long and make the sub position mush more desirable for new hires. But McConnell REFUSES to bring it to a vote dispite it being a non partisan bill.
Still even with all these problems in my area (rural Ohio) USPS is best for dependability, followed by UPS and Amazon (just started in my home area and is doing OK), FedEx is the problem here with a lot of damage that is when I actually get the package.
