RIKSNY  05-20-2013
01:56 PM ET (US)
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/m4245 Spam,spam,spam,spam,spam. Yuck.
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jeck
05-20-2013
01:16 PM ET (US)
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Level 13, contact your local Postal League president and have them investigate why you were lowered. A form 150 should be done to see where you stand.
Margahayuland | Margahayuland
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Postman
04-25-2013
10:25 AM ET (US)
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Actually Budwill it's the headquarters fault. We managers and supervisors are trying our hardest to get career employees hired. But you should see some of the emails I received basically screaming at us that we can't hire. But we still have to make the numbers. My employees do not want me to leave as I treat them the best I can and they do a good job for me. But I have seen some very abusive mangers and I will tell them to back off. The POOMS above me are on a power trip and all they want to do is go out and have a drink and look at their numbers from home while I sit here from 6 am until 7 at night making sure all the reports are done. For eight hours pay! But I have only 18 months and I will be gone too. I feel sorry for the new hires as they don't know what they are up against.
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Budwill Tx
04-23-2013
07:33 PM ET (US)
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Customer service has been empty rhetoric for years. Only the "numbers" count. The clerks and the carriers have been the buffers between the PO and the customer and they are being pushed so hard that they either CAN'T
make the time ( those lunches and breaks are not the PO's to play leaway with )or are giving up on the effort and letting the supervisors and station managers deal with it. Of course, it is all the craft's fault.........
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Bartrom
04-23-2013
06:37 PM ET (US)
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Man, looking at the posts below shows vividly that Donahoe must leave now. What a crime that has happened to service.
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RIKSNY 04-23-2013
09:40 AM ET (US)
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I have to agree, the post office in general is getting crazier every day.
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Postman
04-23-2013
09:05 AM ET (US)
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Duh, I run a 21 office you obviously need to understand that some situations can not work out. In my area the cost of living is so high we can't hold on to any CCA's,or PSE's. Everyone's situation is different. So don't assume that the training will cure everything. My mail comes in at 0815 in the morning and the carriers have to be out on the streets by 10 am. With only two clerks to do this you figure it out, plus run a full window staff. I was just denied again to hire a PSE if I can get any to apply. So how is your day?
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Level 13 PM w/a route
04-22-2013
02:31 PM ET (US)
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Only me too--one person office. There's a big difference...having over an hour to sort before opening the window. That's a luxury. You are lucky your mail gets there that early.
This PMR tries hard but has problems--as I said, there are other PMRs in our area that are having troubles too. It seems like an epidemic the last year in our area. Can't get people who want the responsibility for the pay. I don't know if it's emoves and the manual scale or what, but things went downhill after that.
I may just retire and if I do, the PMR may too and the rural route sub says he's going when I go. So, the carrier stands alone.
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Duh
04-22-2013
01:34 PM ET (US)
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Sorry RIKSNY message was nemant for Post 4233
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RIKSNY 04-22-2013
01:17 PM ET (US)
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I don't have a PSE there in the morning when I come in. It's only me, until the carriers get there at 8:45 and 9:00.
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Duh
04-22-2013
10:42 AM ET (US)
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Our window opens at 8 AM mail arrives at 6:45. Carriers report at 7:30.. No carrier in our office is allowed to do clerk work. I somehow even find time to do EXFC audits at other offices and Step 2's for my MPOO. Some days I come in at 7:30 and my PSE has everything done. You obviously need to relook your PMR training as it's lacking. Edited 04-22-2013 10:46 AM
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Level 13 PM w/a route
04-21-2013
07:00 AM ET (US)
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That one hour of the window being closed surely must help. Mine opens at 8 am. I hate to change it because the school employees like to come before school starts. So, I do not have an hour of just casing.
I guess time for this "slacker" to retire. Let someone else do it quicker--though in 33 years and the number of people I've seen here (including other postmasters), no one has done it faster than me. Something surely is amiss.
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RIKSNY 04-20-2013
11:32 PM ET (US)
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Truck pulled up to the dock at 8:17 Friday morning & I had it sorted and boxed by 9:20. True there was not much for flats, but no, we do not have FSS flats, just regular. Have DPS letters though. Window opens at 9:00. I start at 8:00, work alone. (PSE works weekends. She was the PMR & has been there for years.) eMoves office. Scan the parcels AAU myself. If the truck arrives really late (got there at 9:30 one day last week), then the carrier on the smaller route will stack all the parcels on a table for me, bar code side up, with his on one end - since he has to leave first. But he doesn't do that unless he is waiting for mail anyway. As long as I am able to keep the mail coming to him, he is casing it. He ends up doing that maybe once or twice a month. Edited 04-20-2013 11:35 PM
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Level 13 PM w/a route
04-20-2013
11:11 PM ET (US)
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Hard to believe. You must make your carriers scan their packages arrived or some other short cuts that we are not allowed in our district. There is no way you could break down the mail for 3 routes and scan and sort all their mail and your box section too in 1 1/2 hour. I bet your window opens later too. You probably have DPS flats too. POS too, obviously.
I have put in over 80 hours training my replacement. I have even written a manual for them complete with samples. So, don't tell me how to do my job. I've had 3 excellent PMR's. This last one just has difficulty as do 3 others in neighboring offices. Since switching to eMoves, we had a hard time in our area getting good help.
Obviously there are particulars in our situations that make things different. No two offices are the same. Even the way mail is dispatched to offices is different--sacks and hampers--no postcons for us. The 18's in our area have no routes and a clerk, so obviously something is different in your area.
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Duh
04-20-2013
10:17 PM ET (US)
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Level 18 three routes, a box section, a window (that does 300K walk in) and worked it all for many months by my lonesome.
My PMR now PSE has been trained to do what I do.
You are responsible to train your replacement.
A normal day no more than 1.5 hours to sort and box the mail.
Once again you're paid to be a manager so manage.
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Level 13 PM w/a route
04-19-2013
09:24 PM ET (US)
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That's one person simultaneously waiting the window, doing the 3 required reports on the computer in the morning and dumping the mail, sorting for the carrier, scanning all packages and we have to write on all our packages our initials, date scanned and #2 for attempted. I've been here for over 30 years. I am not slow. I do it quicker than any other employees have ever done it here. We are an emoves office. As far as PMR shortcomings, I don't know about your area, but I do let my PMR do emoves. Two nearby PM's won't let them touch it because they don't want to clean up the mess. We have a lot of trouble finding good help in our area and they are only trained in POS and then put in our offices where we have to teach them how to do things manually. Tell me, Duh, do you work alone while waiting the window? Do you have or work with new PMR's? Is there proper training in your area? Edited 04-19-2013 09:26 PM
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