From Federal Times
The clock is ticking on a host of measures pending in Congress that would have a big impact on are of high interest to high-impact items affecting federal managers and employees.
Finally, one measure that has virtually no chance of passing this fall would:
• Allow the Postal Service to cut back to five-day mail delivery.
Postal Service officials have been pleading with Congress to approve five-day mail delivery to reduce operating expenses.
The outlook is dismal. When many Americans are waiting anxiously for their Social Security or unemployment checks to arrive in the mail, cutting back mail service doesn’t seem like a popular idea to many lawmakers.
No one has even introduced legislation to enact five-day delivery. In fact, one pending House resolution, HRes 173, expresses the sense of the House that the Postal Service should do everything possible to ensure six-day delivery.
START BY MAKING CUTS FROM THE TOP!!!! JUST HOW MANY POSTMASTERS DO WE NEED? 1 FOR EVERY ZONE I DON’T THINK SO AND THEN YOU HAVE A SUPERVISOR FOR EVER 10 EMPLOYEES INCLUDING MANAGERS AND SO ON, WE ARE SO SO TOP HEAVY IT’S UNREAL….WHY DO YOU ALWAYS CUT CRAFT EMPLOYEES WHEN WE DO THE REAL WORK? CUT THE HIGH MANAGEMENT WHO DON’T WORK THE MAIL JUST ARE PENCIL PUSHERS AND GET ALL THE PERKS FOR NOTHING!!! BUT KISSING BUTT TO PMG POTTER AND ALL HIS FLUNKIES!!!!
DEB, ARE YOU AN IDIOT? (WE ARE A SERVICE) TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR PAY CKECK, WHAT DOES IT SAY? POSTAL (SERVICE) MAYBE YOU DON’T NEED YOUR JOB, BUT MOST OF US DO…WE WORK FOR THE CUSTOMER AND WE WANT/NEED THEIR BUSINESS, ARE YOU BLIND? DO YOU NOT SEE THE VOLUME THE DAY AFTER A HOLIDAY? OR ARE YOU A MANAGER WHO DON’T HAVE TO DO ANY WORK JUST CRACK THE WHIP? THAT’S WHY MOST WENT INTO MANAGEMENT BECAUSE THEY WERE TO LAZY TO WORK/OR WANTED TO BULLY THE REAL WORKERS.. BECAUSE THEY HAVE LITTLEMAN SYNDROME… ANYWAY WHY WOULD WE WANT TO RISK GIVING OUR BUSINESS AWAY SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!! I HOPE IT DON’T PASS THAT WILL BE A BIG MISTAKE!!!! EVERYBODY SEES IT WHY CAN’T YOU????
The elimination of Saturday (or any day) of delivery will NOT produce the savings everybody thinks.
First of all, out of an eight hour day, only 4 or 5 hours is route time. The rest is the time needed to sort and handle the mail, which would be done the following day anyway. And, as any carrier will tell you, on a heavy day you spend more time jamming mail into full cases then you would handling mail on a normal day, again reducing potential savings.
Eliminating a day of delivery will save three hours AT BEST. This idea should be disregarded immediately. More savings would be realized by eliminating the postmaster positions in many small offices and replacing them with one postmaster for every 5 offices, spending one day in each. After all, they are not needed to answer the phones anymore since we don’t even publish the associate office’s phone numbers anymore for the public.
has it occurred to anyone that many mailers will change their mailings to even out the volume? in other words, they’ll send their ad mail/bills either one or two days before/after they previously did. what’s the big deal? what ever happened to the ability to think? it’s not too difficult to adjust to a five day delivery. it most definitely can work with a modicum of adjustment.
I can not even imagine coming in after a Monday holiday, Yeah that’s right Saturday. Sunday Monday-Mail never stops, it will take us at least all week to catch up. What a mess!!!!!! No money will be saved,where do they intend to pile this mail as days go by???????