I shipped some items to one of the boys here week before last. I get it back marked Undeliverble/NSA - no such address. The only thing I can figure that it got dropped out of a sorting machine so one of the hands dropped in a return bin or semethiing to that effect.
Anyway, I go up to the Post Office and shipped a new package Priority Mail this morning. I've got the old package unopened and a receipt for the same address. I'm going up to the post office when he gets it and have a little fun with the post master.
I get a new mail person every week. Problems all over th neighborhood with the mail - so bad the Home Owners Association is about to take it in hand.
One of the girls that delivers the mail is a sweetheart and doing her best to get my mail right. I'm not going to tell you all the problems I've brought to their attention but it's been a bunch.
She was telling me little while ago about one of the postal managers and a team meeting. He told them they were lucky to have their high paying jobs and the great benefits they had. Over half of the hands in my local post office are part time, have no benefits. They are given 6 hours to do a job that may take 10 hours and still only get paid for 6. It is still called a "rural post office".
There is a thing called the Fair Labor Standards Act. In government service there are those that are "exempt" - no overtime pay and the hourly workers. Believe me, in my period of working with both federal and state agencies, the ones that break the law the most often are government agencies. If you are a "contract" employee, you had better keep your mouth shut or you are down the road with a black mark that will keep you from being employed as contract ever again.
I've never received that "black marK' but come close.
The gist is the part time hands that bust their asses catch hell from piss poor management and get the blame when things go wrong. Management will blame the hands - they've already done that in my discussions with them. I ain't buying it!
This girl mail carrier has taken good care of me and my mail but there is only so much she can do.
So I raise hell about the local mail, she could suffer a "black mark" and never get hired full time.
Not her fault, but likely to catch the blame. That sucks!
101ABN, you've made comments about my bitching and not looking for a solution.
Here's my take - I'm going downtown to the Postmaster General of Oklahoma City, tell him the whole long problems I've had with my mail (neighbors if they will go also!), the different management I have spoken too, how things get better for a while, then go to hell again.
I will be courteous but damned insistant that something b e done. And follow up on it!
Now that makes me an asshole I know. Asking for reliable and consistant service that is required to make this country work.
That seems to be the worst thing you can do to ask management in government! Who TF do we think we are going to such extremes!