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?
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.