Harry Dresden
Adamantium Member
they have already done what UPS did....eliminate routes and give everyone who still has a route pieces of the eliminated routes...some people picked up an hour of other routes some less...now their mail volume that they have to deliver just increased and their street time just increased..... and the trucks we use were already cramped,now they are really cramped, in some, unsafe loads....i was in an office with 19 routes they eliminated 3, everyone had at least 45 minutes added to their routes, some more....and its the Anaheim Hills.....high volume Mail....and because of the Mail Volume we had to deal with our Street times were shorter than light volume routes in the rest of the city....it was out of control after they did this....even the young runners were having a hard time doing it in 8 hours.....and they had not hired anyone since 2006 so we had no more help than usual.....Overtime went through the roof.....when Election time came most of the carriers were on the street in the dark and working at least 10 hours a day.....try delivering mail in the dark.....especially if its raining or snowing....if you were a carrier you would not think that.....every Monday would be fucked.....and then if there is a Monday holiday.....Tuesday would fuck x 2.....Second stupidest comment of the entire week
The reality is that people no longer need the post office like they used to
The USPS is a quasi-government service that is run as a business with unrealistic expections imposed by Congress
I like getting my paper mail. The internet is just not reliable enough. I don't mind the post office. I think they should stop delivering mail on Saturdays though. There is no need for that. Five days a week of mail delivery is plenty.
Well? Why are mail carriers so special that they need to work on Saturday too? How about cut out Saturday, and cut out some mail carriers? That would probably save a butt load of money.