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Postal Service Audit Blasts San Diego Mail Carriers for Inefficiency
You know what? I was a route examiner for the USPS. If the management of the USPS was ridden like they try to ride the carriers, we would be able to recover about 6 or 7 hours of unproductive work! I even did training for supervisor "candidates," who ended up being more and more of the upper management's relatives and "friends" as the years went on. The last few classes of supervisor wanna-be's did more playing on their freaking cell phones and computers, then ever listening to the things I was trying to teach them. The carriers have a hard job and their routes are getting longer and longer because the mail is getting lighter and lighter (thus, more deliveries have to make up the time loss). Before it is all over, they will probably be on the street for 7.5 hours a day! Many of them have walking routes. I NEVER see management work as hard as the carriers do! There is always one or two management representatives (like me) who isn't related to anyone, or screwing anyone, so they do all the work while the others take all the credit and do nothing! This is how the USPS works and it's a sad, sad thing. Although I know there are carriers out there who play games and "fritter" around, most of the carriers are extremely hardworking individuals who probably work harder than anyone else in the post office! Why don't you get off their backs and look where the actual loss in productivity is?Supervisors and postmasters come and go as they please, work less than their 8 hours a day and pad their mileage reports with false mileage? Luckily, I worked in "the real world" for 20 years before I came to the USPS. I loved my job for a long time, I am now ashamed to say I work there. Patrick Donahoe, all the POOMS and District Managers and Area Vice Presidents have made it a shameful place to work. Tell me this, how much time and money did they waste when we were doing full-blown route inspections in an office with over 60 routes and when we had just a few more routes to do, one day they just called us in the middle of the route inspection and said we weren't doing them anymore and to come back in? Nobody on the "outside" would ever believe all any of this! I will continue to say it, the management (and that means ALL OF THEM) are the ones who need to be studied and watched. But make sure you don't tell them you're doing it, because they'll put on a good front for you as if they actually work all the time. And by-the-way, don't just pick out the people that aren't "connected" to the higher ups, pick on them all. That would be the fair and right thing to do - and OMG! the potential savings would be EARTHSHATTERING!!!!!— June 14, 2012 9:59 p.m.