Yesterday at work our pretty based mailman came in. He looked at me and showed me this device he was carrying in his hand. It looked similar to this devices that UPS carry for you to sign.
He said the post office wants us to carry these so they can track us. They can see if they are able to add more work on us.
I laughed and said you better walk real slow. He then stated that the post office can call you in on your route for a virtual meeting to the powers thay be to discuss your route.
I asked him how long do you have to carry this? He said he thought through Saturday. I said be ready to carry it indefinitely.
Then I said you know they need to get you guys moving for all those fake ballots you need to deliver.
He laughed and stated oh no they will give you plenty of time for that.
Today he came in and was complaining about it to others in the office telling them they can watch every move he makes. They know if he is walking or driving or sitting somewhere.
Somehow I think they are up to something because this doesn't slmake sense.
Your thoughts?
It really sickened me to find out that the usps is corrupt. And infuriates. Since my business funs on delivering tangible items through the mail and fedex/ups is not competetive.
Amen.
Lysander Spooner agrees with you.
The fix is in.
Just a gov agency concerned about waste & inefficiencies. Move along, nothing to see here! /s
Kek.
I worked wit a"SafePilot" app in my phone that id followed properly would help reduce the insurance bill. The problem is I don't drive enough each month to get a solid discount PLUS the GPS factor means "harsh braking" gets a ding and not realistic by todays hazards. sometimes I need the use of a map function -thats a ding too. Too much intursion not worth the "discount".
When I saw these I would never use them.
When the govt pays workers to provide assistance to the elderly and disabled they require sign in on their app with GPS tracking. Sounds like that. There are so many ways and people just think it's advancement in tech.
Their old scanners already work like gps where it shows whether they are moving or even if they slow down too fast or back up too often. It's now apparently a better version that can tell exactly what they are doing, including goofing off too long at one of their stops. In the old days, all the carriers would meet up at a taco shop and hide until close to quitting time because if you get done with your route early they would send you back out to help someone else's route. GPS foiled that practice.
Than you.
He may be harmless and "based" as you say, but he's still w/ the g0v. I'd be careful about interactions with him, esp if he's in possession of a tracking (and potentially eavesdropping) device. Be cordial obviously, but me personally, I'd be careful about "showing him my cards" if you catch my drift.
He is not like that. He reads here and watches X22. Trust me he is constantly telling me he hates Biden and the usual suspects. The other day he said what the hell is Trump waiting for.
I'm an ex-mail man. Retired about three years ago and one of the contributing factors was the scanners and how they were being used to track performance. I was one of those very few carriers who didn't screw off while I was delivering the mail and these scanners showed that. So, after a reasonable time the supervisor and postmaster drug me into the office and told me that since I was so efficient that they had no choice but to add to my route. It made me mad to have to carry an extra twenty minutes every day, but at the same time it save me some Annual Leave because I was taking about twenty minutes of AL every day. Such is life. Well, about this same time we all noticed that the amount of letter mail and flat mail was drastically declining. This meant that there was not enough work in the office to stay there for a couple of hours a day. Thus, we only had ninety minutes in the office. This caused me to get another twenty minutes added to my route. Seemed odd to me that no body else got added to. Oh well such is life. After my frustration level calmed down I made the decision to move to another post office as a clerk. Was pretty good there until I found out the post master had never done any clerk or carrier work. She had been the secretary for the District Manager for a few decades and her husband was a Postal Inspector, thus he could place his wife into any postmaster position, whether or not she was qualified. I tolerated this situation for a year and a half and then retired with a full pension. I haven't been back and I don't care if the USPS goes broke or not. It's kind of nice to retire at 57 and get a full postal pension AND social security. But, I played my cards right and it worked out for me.
Then they wonder why they are broke.
SMH.
I believe u/Tynyyn would agree that the USPS is way too top heavy with 'managers' in the various branches, efficiency declines when there are too many managers and not enough good workers per manager.