135 thoughts on “USPS Closing Six Districts, Eliminating 1,400 EAS Positions And Offering Early Retirement”

1. The people I have no use for are the retiree’s who think we need to get rid of USPS just because they already have their time in. I bet they didn’t talk like that when they had 15 years to go. They need their stupid teeth kicked in.

2. You’re full of crap, bill. I went in 30 years ago gung ho out of the military and after dealing with sh&thead postal management I don’t do sh&t anymore. And all of these a**holes, for all of their bullying can’t make me do sh*t. So f%%k you a$$hole.

3. idiots its not management that has ruined the post office its the lazy ass craft employees that have spelled its doom. if they really want to do something get rid of the unions that all the lazy people hide behind and give them the right to fire the slackers that have ruined it for everybody. you know who i mean probley most of the ones that have left a comment here

4. What a dummy! The unions have disappeared and so have the miidleclass, knucklehead.

5. Good luck to all of you. All the things I am reading here do not strike me as strange. They just show why the USPS will fall through the cracks in the not too distant future. I see why unions in the United Sates of America are only 15% of the workforce. The unions in America are no longer needed and are causing nothing but hate and discontent. God help us all.

6. SCREW THOSE SUPERVISORS WATCHMAN. THEY ALL LEFT THE CRAFT AND THEN STABBED THEIR FELLOW WORKERS IN THE BACK EVERY CHANCE THEY GOT.THEY ALL FORGET THAT MOST OF THEM FOUND THE HIDING PLACES. MAYBE MR DOIS CAN HELP THEM FIND ANOTHER JOB.

7. I say start at the guys that are station managers one of them could run 3 or more stations. The Manager for Cape Central in Florida, is hardly ever there and when he is there he is just talking about what they should have for lunch. One guy like this could run 3 stations go into each place check the mail and make sure everyone is alright then do a telacon with the other 2 to see what they want to eat.
   Get rid of them.

8. the beginning of the end for the postal service watch how management at the entry level will start stabbing each other in the back. something they learned by doing it to the craft employees. it is going to be a sight to see and savor

9. Triple Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

10. All that clamour for a $50,000.00 buyout get real the OMB caps VER at $25,000.00 this can only be changed by congress. However if there is a R I F or layoffs then the Postal Service is mandated to pay up to a maximum of 52 weeks of your salary in bi-weekly payments. If 25 grand comes along would be prudent to look long and hard at it. Good luck to all Postal Workers this is the tip of the coming events it won’t be nice.

11. Wait a minute! The Union told me if I voted for Obama, he would save the Postal Service! I don’t feel stimulated. Did the APWU lie to me?

12. Being an MPE, I am not affected, but on riffs I hope Veterans and American citizens get job preference. Here on the West Coast they hire mostly foreigners

13. i case my dps everyday and run over what u gonna do?

14. Sad but true the USPS are letting Supervisors go, who needs them anyway when they get so picky and yell at you as if you are a child. All those sorry bastards who have a choice to find another craft should try being what they where before they became arrogant sonz of bee’z…and that is Letter Carrier Craft. I would love to see those supervisors who burned a lot of Letter Carriers go out there and do our job in all kinds of weather and feel what they was missing all those years when they was sitting on their fat butts and walking around the Station with their hands in their pockets. I will have no remorse for them for what they put me and my fellow Letter Carriers through.

15. I am very saddened by all of these comments from my fellow postal workers. I hate to see anyone lose their job now or at any other time. However, I do agree that if they want workers to retire they need to offer some kind of incentive or at least offer no penalty if you have your 30 years in but are under 55. We have many workers in our office that are way past retirement age and have earned their full retirement…yet they don’t go. The work has lightened up so much for the clerks that they can basically get through the day doing very little unless they are Tour II clerks busting their butt on the window. So they stay on for more than 40 years instead of quietly going and allowing the younger workers the opportunity for the hours they need to feed their families.
    This is my first comment on here and since I’m sure I will be chewed up for it, it will probably be my last. But I am very sorry for anyone that is losing a job right now. I don’t care who they are.

16. Some of them need to go. What goes around comes around. God don’t like ugly. ( Neopotism and favouritism ).

17. EAS STUD Says “if you go to work and do what’s right things will always fall into place craft or management!”

    That is BS!!! Obviously you didn’t read my post! It does not pay to do a good job in the Postal Service!!! It pays to “go slow, more dough”. Until they change that, the PO will always be a slackers dream job. If the City routes were like the rural routes (evaluated and paid at the same rate regardless of how long it took YOU to do it), they would see a DRAMATIC improvement in productivity!!!!

    The other city route in our town has had 30 minutes added to it (from my route) twice now… once after DPS (when they also adjusted my route and I went back to PTF) and again this year because of the volume drop. So her route has gained 1 hour, my route lost 1 hour + if you consider that both route were supposedly 8 hour routes back when slacker slough Carol was doing the one I’m doing now, then it follows that my route also most have lost 1 hour to adjust for DPS and dropping volume… RIGHT? So my former 8 hour route (minus the sections I lost)SHOULD take me 6 hours if I was doing it at the speed at which Carol did it.

    Here is REALITY: Carol is “over burdened” and hands off ALL of the segments she took from me EVERYDAY ALL WINTER! During the spring, summer, and fall, she hands off the mail any day the mail isn’t ridiculously light. She basically took those sections of my route on paper only, she rarely actually carries it!!! Meanwhile I am still doing everything that I was doing BEFORE the so called adjustments (the majority of the time), so it should take me 7 hours, RIGHT? (8-the 1 hour adjustment for DPS and Vol made to my route). During the winter (this is a all foot/no vehicle route) it takes me and average of 5 1/2 hours! In the summer I can do it in 5. These are my CURRENT times as a freakin’ CRIPPLE!!! I use it be able to do in 4 to 4 1/2.

    Yet the Postmaster calls ME into her office and screams at me that I’m “burning” her on hours, when I started slowing down due to my injury and arthritis!!! She has NEVER said a word to Carol about how long she takes; continues to let her hand off the mail, and here is another kicker… continues to allow Carol to go through her DPS every morning, pulling out holds and fwds, and bundling it into her loops!!! (I have personally seen Carol take 10 to 15 mins on a normal day doing this, and as much as 30 mins on a heavy day)

    Do I have to say it, or can you tell? Carol and the Postmaster are friends!!!

    The Post Office SUCKS and doing the “what’s right” will just get you screwed!!!

18. Eas Stud, You are just like all the supers/postmasters in the postal service. I just proved it, by the comments you posted. I was trying to make a point, you do not have any say in how your office is run.

19. 1,400 EAS posits eliminated? No way!
    The job title may be gone, but the 1,400 will still be on the payroll.

20. when i first started working for the usps 35 years ago the majority of carriers did their job,did not bitch and did the work in the time alloted. now atleast half of them are overtime sucking whinners. Wake up. We have a great job,benefits,etc. Do the work especially now that the mail volume is way down. Amazing

21. Hey porkroast, I’m a 30 year Postal employee and I would make you the PMG . . . You’re the man !

22. peace brothers hahahahahahahahahahahaahhahaha

23. hey porkroast

    after i’m done eating shit i will tell you on dois to eat my shit and you will and also do a pivot in 8hrs dickhead!!!!!!!

24. EAS Stud, When that distict manager or area manager tells you to eat shit, you will the shit and you will tell him it tastes good

25. Potter wants another raise!! How about 50% this time??

26. I’ve been in the post office 20 years and started as a ptf carrier. I went into management because I was tired of watching the pieces of sh>? carriers bring the USPS DOWN! I would blast out the routes 2 hrs faster than the reg and more accurate while they were working six days a week getting ot! I vowed to make a difference and I will ! Like anything in life there are sh”? supervisor’s and sh*& craft employees! if you go to work and do what’s right things will always fall into place craft or management!

27. What you idiots and the press don’t realize is these people are not losing their jobs. THEY HAVE SAVE GRADE!!!!!!!!!THey will get paid the same for doing less work elsewhere. How many times have I seen a manager so incompetent or stealing from the PO relieved of there job and put on Quality control at the same pay rate. These employees will just be shuffled around and thats it.

28. If efficiently run companies are folding left and right how much more a bloated, dysfunctional organization like the po which have thousands of employees in its payroll most of whom have an entitlement mind set? It is a heartless organization that goes with a slogan “a nice place to work.” Yes a nice place to work for people who have no souls, no conscience…greedy people who would go home to their families, act normally as if screwing somebody in the workplace is normal. I’ve seen it all from the management and the craft side. I could not even imagine that this workplace exists in this country that professes all the positive principles and values in this world. Yes, I am disillusioned. But I still hope that money will not become our God.

29. Notice that out of the 6 districts closing, It will only affect 110 people. 411 of them are eligible to retire! Maybe this is a way to get them to GO HOME and find something better to do!
    I can’t imagine why people would rather go the Post Office where you are treated like dirt, then find something better to do with their life!
    Offer me no penalty and I’m gone.

30. I have been at the PO as a carrier for almost 23 years. Starting as a PTF for the first 7. I always believed in doing my best… So I “ran” the 2 full time city routes much faster than the 2 regular carriers, who were your typical slough. When one of the carriers retired, I moved into one of the routes and continued to do the route at my same pace, taking LWOP and going home when done with my route. Mail volumes were increasing during this period, but DPS came along, so that made casing faster.

    They finally got around to adjusting my route 5 1/2 years ago. I was excessed with the “opportunity” to go to 2 different Post Offices, both 50 miles away and a good hour drive. I told them I don’t like my job enough to spend 2 hours a day driving back and forth, and reverted to a PTF again, where I still do my route, that is an aux route now. I COULD HAVE gone to a office that was only 30 miles away (and would have) but I was not given the option… That’s when I really began to see the writing on the wall, …that the PO will F*#k you over every chance they get, no matter how good a job you have done for them!!!

    I figured out once how much money I saved them during my first 20 years by “running” instead of doing the routes as the other sloughs did…It was enough to have PAID FOR MY HOUSE!!! How did they thank me? Guess I should have followed the “go slow, more dough” credo!!!

    I STILL continued to go out and run even after I reverted… In fact as mail volumes started dropping (and DPS reached 90%), I started going to neighboring offices (5 and 30 miles away) to pick up hours. Then I tore the meniscus in my knee (on the job). I also have arthritis which has been getting progressively worst . I was going slower after that due to knee pain, and our A$$hole Postmaster accused me of “burning” her on hours!!! (Ironically, I was still doing the route slightly faster, time adjusted for changes over the years, than the slug before me! What a crock!) Needless to say, my disenchantment with the Postal Service has reached a new high! I no longer make any effort to do my best! If I’m going to be accused of being a slough when I had a legitimate injury and a medical reason for being slower than in the past, then I WILL GO AS SLOW AS I POSSIBLY CAN!!! AND I DO!!!

    The Postal Service SUCKS and I can’t wait to leave! I was eligible for the VERA, but I am a FERS employee…. Nice the way they screwed us on that deal, compared to the CSRS employees offer! I hope they come out with a better one this next time around, but I doubt it, … why break tradition? 🙂

    I am just ONE (of what I am sure is hundreds) postal employee who was treated like sh#t, even though I did a good job…. THAT is why this company is going to go under.

    and I will laugh my A$$ off when it happens!!!

31. I’m a vietnam vet and have 38 total years of service in. I was going to go for 40 but I may hang around. It’s fun being an old slug and watching all my supervisors stressing out. If they want to RIF I’ll be the last one turning out the lights.
    Message to BigWigs in Washington DC: MAKE IT WORTH MY WHILE.

32. I for one do NOT care what will happen to all of you!

33. Watchman,

    You hit the nail on the head. This is one company and like it or not, we will all fail if we don’t work together. Some of these post are so unfair and critical of all EAS. What of those who are caught in this hailstorm who don’t supervise craft employees? Also, these will not be the final layoffs, clerks and carriers are next even though no one is saying it. When they don’t receive the numbers from the VER, and they won’t they will reduce craft, and all of your kind words will be aimed at your co-worker.

34. Where’s BOSS??? Cat got his tounge??? I miss his misguided interjection… Perhaps he is filling out that app for the greeter position at the local Wal-Mart. Good luck pal…

35. With a bloated postal bureaucracy that epitomizes the Peter Principle, how is this dinosaur going to survive? When decisions are made like to purchase MPE that require new facilities to be built to house it (FSS) and it sorts mail that nobody wants to get in their mailbox, somethings got to give. The postal service suffers from the same lack of moral clarity that our government displays on a daily basis, i.e., there is no accountability and God forbid anyone actually has to suffer for their extremely poor decisions. I have a feeling this Congress will see their way to removing the “impedement” of collective barganing in the postal service, before another contract is rendered. There would be no problem getting that pass the American people. They think we’re overpaid anyway.

36. Watch Man, I have done what you said. But then I realized that I will have two sets of people who hated me for being efficient. The slugs who said I made them look bad because I do not go with the mantra (go slow more dough) and the leeches from management who would let me carry their pet slugs. Bottom line is there is no incentive to do a good job in this pig sty.

37. Lets drive it home

38. Daylight who needs them

39. GOOD BY

40. I work as a rural carrier for cincinnati district and have seen my evaluated hours cut drastically in the last 6 years. You know, force us into a mailcount, manipulate the mail in po’s favor and at the end tell us our route is only worth 42 hours per 6 day workweek. So that means no off day. Been with po for 19 years this month and I still love what I do, but I have to say, this situation has me depressed. To all who have lost, you have my heartfelt sympathy.

41. If you could’nt get 40,000 out in December how are you going to get 150 thousand now. They better offer some cash. The PO better start acting like a Corporation and not some nickel and dime store.

42. Speaking of deadwood, let’s get rid of the bogus “LIGHT DUTY” bums. And the angry lazy’s who complain about every thing, hide in the bathrooom, and do nothing all day. Because they were too stupid to plan for retirement they want to share their misery. Judging from some of these post there are some angry employees, my question is why don’t you leave the P.O. if it is so horrible???????????

43. Hmmm….wait a minute…the DOIS numbers say 1400 EAS positions is not enough. DOIS says we can do without 5,000 EAS positions. Gotta believe DOIS.

44. I really love these retiree’s that want to privatize the PO now that they have THEIR time in. Betcha you didn’t talk like that 15 years before you retired, scumbag.

45. Send them all to the bunny slope.

46. Send them all to the bunny slope.

47. Send them all to the bunny slope.

48. Send them all to the bunny slope.

49. Think of the bon-fire we can all have with so much dead wood laying idle. Seriously how about trim the management fat and leave the workers alone to get the job done.. Maybe even get some proper route adjustments to reflect reality. Save some real money cut off their bonuses too.

50. I read all these posts and it really disappoints me. We are all brothers and sisters. Individuals made decisions to move up the ladder, some were content working in their respective crafts. What job do you know of where you start doing one job and 30 years later retire? There are not many. For all different reasons Postal employees all over the country made decisions on what they wanted to do and how far they wanted to go, some decided to give more to the company and become Postmasters, Supervisors, Managers, Human Relations, Labor, IT, Op Support, but they all have one thing in common, once they were craft…all of them. I know of no single employee that walked in off the street and became a Postmaster, Supervisor or Manager. We all started from the bottom, we all worked the same jobs, and we all gave blood for this company that has given us and our families a good life. As everyone can see, that is going to change. The Postal Service is starting with the only craft that does not have a union to fight for them…management. They are starting from the top and will end with the bottom. I firmly believe there is not one job safe within the Postal Service. All of us need to do better at our jobs, seek revenue, and be a part of the solution, not the problem. I hope some of the critical people posting their words of disgrace here anonymously do not have to go home to their families over the next few months and tell them they lost their job. Tough times ahead for everyone, God Bless and I hope all weather this economic storm with dignity, honor and integrity.

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