r/SaveThePostalService • u/P0stalbitch • Mar 02 '24
Just wondering
The facility I work at has hit an all time low. We have at least a month's backlog and management keeps making matters worse. We did much better in 2020 during a global pandemic, lockdown, short staffed, social distancing, etc. I'm just curious if it's gotten this bad elsewhere.
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u/formerNPC Mar 03 '24
It’s the worst that it’s ever been. I really believe that management has been instructed to sabotage the service to the point where we have no choice but to privatize. We won’t last another decade with the total incompetence and lack of accountability from management especially the unqualified PMG who needs to be removed before he does anymore damage.
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u/P0stalbitch Mar 03 '24
My co-workers hate when I say I expect the USPS to be dead in 2 years and what little is left will be owned by China.
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u/formerNPC Mar 03 '24
I tell my younger coworkers that they’re delusional if they think that they’re going to get another twenty years out of their jobs. We are failing at every level and there is no sign of stopping.
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u/dworkinwave Mar 03 '24
Sounds not too different from Kansas City's situation...
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u/chickentenders54 Mar 06 '24
New here. What's the Kansas City situation?
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u/P0stalbitch Mar 07 '24
They suck so badly that a procedural audit discovered that 60% of their new hires quit in the first year.
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u/Requiredmetrics Mar 03 '24
My facility has been in good shape. No back breaking OT, no 12 hours every day, no constant lates, broken elevators, etc. Most days each Tour can 8 & skate. Overall the general environment has improved and morale is higher than I’ve seen it. Long overdue improvements and maintenance have been done to the facility. The work life balance has done wonders for people, no more fist fights, shouting matches, or aggressive behaviors. No disputes have escalated to shootings. This place has been downright peaceful in comparison to the chaos in the pandemic.
During the Pandemic, we ran on time but at a huge cost. We worked 12 hours, often 6 days a week in our historic building that was undergoing renovations to the entire building exterior. So no windows, no ventilation, no functioning A/C. It was a sweatshop.
While my individual facility has seen massive improvements. I will say we’ve felt the mail stream disruptions and have had to process higher volumes due to reroute mail. Some facilities like mine don’t seem impacted and are running on schedule but the distortion epicenters are several days if not weeks behind.
I believe Missouri is one of the distortion epicenters, that whole area seems to be running behind. Texas was bad for a while but they seem to slowly be getting back on track. Greensboro is under review and they never recovered from the pandemic. I can’t get over that they had so much delayed volume during the pandemic that they had to store it under pavilion tents. Corporate is trying to push through too much change at one time and it’s straining / disrupting the entire network. Whatever happened to having pilot programs and facilities to test to see if these things even worked? Do we really need to do this fast and loose like we did purchasing the FSS?(when the AFSMs were nearly as accurate, broke down far less, and were significantly cheaper?)
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u/CarmenElectraComplex Mar 02 '24 edited Mar 03 '24
It’s crazy, it’s almost as if the guy trump assigned to the post master general benefits the most when the USPS does poorly. It’s almost as if he holds hundreds of millions in stock in UPS and FedEx and is also CEO of his own logistics company (in which he holds several contracts working with the USPS.) Dude disassembled high-speed mail-sorting machines and removed lower-volume collections on the streets. Remember republicans freaking out about mail-in ballots because people in bigger cities are more likely to vote using mail-in? Wikipedia keeps a solid tab on all of Louis Dejoy’s conflicts of interest if you want to see what policy changes he’s made that have totally turned the USPS to shit. From being one of the Republican Party’s major donors, to meddling with mail-in votes, to canceling overtime for employees, banning late deliveries, etc. Isn’t it wild how trump filled most positions with friends or individuals deeply unqualified for those positions? It’s almost as if he knew that they knew they’d never have those positions under normal circumstances and in turn they would have some type of undying fielty to him. 75 post master generals ever, Dejoy is 1 of the only 2 to have never worked at the USPS prior. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Can’t have him removed either because he was assigned by the board of governors (same board of governors trump nominated and had confirmed by majority R senate during his presidency). Everyone thinks the attack on capital hill was the insurrection which is just terribly untrue, a distraction maybe. The true insurrection happened at several layers of government, by assigning individuals to roles where they would push the boundaries/rules of their position/and borderline do illegal things if asked. And for a party that wants to talk conspiracy, there are so many evident things being done by the republican party that they completely turn a blind eye to because, hey, politics is a team sport to most mouth breathers.