@richard454 wrote:I get the understaffed part- but other Federal government offices are not randomly closing. There needs to be a better system in place. I'm self employed- and quite often having to work when I am sick and there is no such thing as a "paid" vacation.
There is already a self serve Kiosk- why not have a self serve scanner? I mean mailing letters is not where the Post Office business is headed.
I dropped off the packages before lunchtime on Tuesday- looks to me that have been sitting for over a day?
Not all Post Offices have self-serve kiosks. In fact, I have worked for USPS since 2000. I have never seen one.
I have paid vacation days, though 99% of them are taken because my Jeep is broke down (yes I drive a POV on my route). I have worked with my back out, with my right shoulder grinding away, with a torn meniscus, and with multible bandages on one hand because someone mailed knives loose in a box. I'm not the only one, there usually is someone in the office working with some injury, a co-worker even worked through his cancer treatment with a port hooked to a bag of meds in a fanny pack. The carrier that is out had heat stroke and keeps passing out, that isn't something that you can push through.
It may look like they are sitting there but I doubt that they are, they may have not been scanned or the scanners didn't download , but if you want to be sure call or stop in and ask them to check.
