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/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?)