When I lived in Houston I’d be working in my garage shop and the mail guy would come by. I’d see him often so we would chat a minute. Nice guy, gay Hispanic which was kinda unusual as that was not particularly culturally common.
One day I see him coming and call out hello, he’s got this frown on his face and he kinda shakes his head, and sorta tops it back over his shoulder. I see this woman back behind him following, clipboard in hand. WTF. So he gives me the mail and continues on. This goes on for like 3 days. Then I see him alone a couple days later and I ask him WTF that was all about. He says it was some evaluation thing and he was worried about it. Ok. A week later he is gone and replaced by a succession of incompetents, random people. Amazing. Some months go by and one day here he comes again. He was happy to see me and I him, he stopped and we chatted a bit. He tells me that he got some bad evaluation, none of it made any sense, so they shipped him off to a bunch of random routes like these people on my route, none of them have time to learn anything about the route and the residents on it so they do a $h*t job as one would expect. He said he was there on such a rotation. He was around for 3-4 weeks then I never saw him again and service was crap from then on out. I guess I knew at that point the USPS was doomed. Or it just reinforced that opinion. --FT Sent from iFōn > On Dec 12, 2021, at 7:18 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I’ve personally known to career postal workers, a father and son who are > both mail carriers. They said it’s a high pressure job mainly because you > can’t screw up. Period. They said the pressure to perform and the constant > scrutiny by postal inspectors is what makes it such a bitch. They said that > if you let it get into your brain it’s not surprising people go crazy. > > -D > >> On Dec 12, 2021, at 7:14 PM, Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> It has been broken for at least 40 years. Going Postal was not something >> that took place back in the day. Postal workers were intelligible, hard >> working, pleasant, and on the main less error prone. Sometime in the late >> ’70’s things took a turn, be it for EEOC candidates, PTSD veterans, or >> cramming unrealistic expectations for production through the system. >> >> clay >> >> I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. >> >> >> >>>> On Dec 12, 2021, at 7:50 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> The USPS would benefit from more union workers and more union rules and >>> more union benefits, and of course spending more money on it. It's really >>> the only way to fix it. >>> >>> --FT >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
