We have terrible delivery service. We see a lot of new post persons weekly, or we do not receive mail at all. Routes must not be fairly distributed. The gloat of personnel must be in the offices or senior positions not in the mail delivery personnel.
Had a sister that did it for many years and finally got fed up with things and left. There are good people who work hard, but some are lazy and get away with it. The union protects them and many of the good managers don't bother trying to deal with things because of the union. Some managers are totally worthless and don't do anything but collect a check.
If it was actually run like a business, albeit a monopoly with oversight, it would probably be a decent organization.
I don’t think that is how DOGE is operating though. I believe it is middle management that has most to fear as they are typically the most bloated. Especially with regard to government bureaucracy.
All the delivery services suck here. It's just the nature of the area with fuzzy addresses, long distances between deliveries, and services skimping on personnel.
I have serious issues with the USPS organization. IMHO, they're far far worse than UPS or Fedex for packages. I honestly don't care about letter delivery - I don't use it and all I get in that category from USPS is spam and ads. I'm in IT - I've been using email for anything I can for nearly 30 years. Letter delivery only enters my mind if I want to send someone a Christmas card.
But I will say, our local USPS people are awesome. They get to know us so we don't need ID, they're extremely helpful and, generally, if a delivery makes it to our local office, we'll definitely get it. It's the whole organization above them that blows chunks.
We have terrible delivery service. We see a lot of new post persons weekly, or we do not receive mail at all. Routes must not be fairly distributed. The gloat of personnel must be in the offices or senior positions not in the mail delivery personnel.
Had a sister that did it for many years and finally got fed up with things and left. There are good people who work hard, but some are lazy and get away with it. The union protects them and many of the good managers don't bother trying to deal with things because of the union. Some managers are totally worthless and don't do anything but collect a check.
If it was actually run like a business, albeit a monopoly with oversight, it would probably be a decent organization.
Most businesses with unions (and some without) are the same as you described.
Good to run it as a business, but, it doesn't mean those things will change.
Whenever cuts are made it's the people at the bottom, the actual worker bees, who are cut not management.
Not always, I worked at the PO and when the mail base shrank we got rid of loads of management!
I don’t think that is how DOGE is operating though. I believe it is middle management that has most to fear as they are typically the most bloated. Especially with regard to government bureaucracy.
We're in a rural county of a rural state.
All the delivery services suck here. It's just the nature of the area with fuzzy addresses, long distances between deliveries, and services skimping on personnel.
I have serious issues with the USPS organization. IMHO, they're far far worse than UPS or Fedex for packages. I honestly don't care about letter delivery - I don't use it and all I get in that category from USPS is spam and ads. I'm in IT - I've been using email for anything I can for nearly 30 years. Letter delivery only enters my mind if I want to send someone a Christmas card.
But I will say, our local USPS people are awesome. They get to know us so we don't need ID, they're extremely helpful and, generally, if a delivery makes it to our local office, we'll definitely get it. It's the whole organization above them that blows chunks.