(WMC-TV) – Dozens of mail trucks were stuck in South Memphis for hours Saturday afternoon with nowhere to unload.
The holiday rush nearly doubled the mail coming through at the Memphis United States Postal Service processing center.
Some drivers took cat naps as they waited to unload Christmas mail. At one point, the line to unload regional Priority Mail was three miles long.
“This is the first time we’ve ever been backed up 12 hours,” said one truck driver.
David Walton with the USPS said the closure of three West Tennessee post offices in January were not to blame for the long lines.
this is what I call the “bottle neck”
It’s called a work slowdown for purposes of making a point to the agency. This was done all the time in the 70s & 80s…nothing new here. Unions are behind it.
WHAT’S UP BALTIMORE? WORKED SOME OF YOUR MAIL LAST WEEK!!
Wow…..amazing posts. You would actually think there was some mail to deliver, but you people must be being paid by someone because anyone who is anyone will tell you there IS NO MAIL. Volume has plummeted to the point where workers can get it done and be home by noon. SO, which is it??? Don’t bother…figures lie and liars figure…ESPECIALLY fuzzy postal/governmental math……
That’s NORMAL for this time of year! There is NO place to put mail in the building, so the docks stay crammed and the trucks don’t get unloaded. Yes, I used to work there. I’ve seen drivers have to wait closer to 24 hours.
You keep delaying my trucks your going to pay, thats what i’d be telling postal management,my trucks arint for your storage f-ups
That fool is drinking the purple kool aid and trying to get every one else to taste it to.
Well you know Damn well that it is those lazy ass union employees causing these backlogs….. it will be much better next year when we get rid of 120,000 of them and I can hire more PSE’s We Will bust all federal unions by 2014…..maybe faster if we can dump Obama
Keep and eye on Baltimore,
same delays every year at christmas been this way since I started in 1994 guess someone finally opened their eyes and noticed
Long lines= less workers= more bonus… mgnt theory
Check out the Des monies Iowa,the same long lines. Service to the customer has been thrown out the window with delayed mail and poor service with no window clerks to wait on customers
Replace the PMG
Same everywhere, mail backed-up to the celing. We have parcels sitting for two days before a supervisor “finds” them and gets them moved to another “holding” area. Management is using more overtime than I have ever seen. Suprisingly the mail gets out besides Management’s involvement or hinderence.
I track the mail on a daily basis and I have been logging actual proof that since April there has been a marked delay of mail coming from Florida, Ohio, Tenn, Kentucky, and just forget about getting your mail timely delivered from anywhere out west, Service standards are being thrown out and no-one is more frustrated than the people who actually process the mail the workers!!! Management for the Postal Service is being sold a bill of goods from the greedy corprate thinking in washington
Why aren’t people emailing these packages? Isn’t that what’s causing us to lose money?
My postal management. Hard at work ruining Xmas. *beams with pride*
If closing 3 offices didn’t cause the backup common sense would say you should give the reason why it happened you moron! Actually it’s o k because anything that management says is a lie anyway! Wait until they close half of all the processing plants and then see what happens!!!!!
Did District Manager Gamble get out of his cushy chair at the District Building and do anything? Na, Stupid what s it called
Way to go Tennessee Management, That s what they want, Less Buildings, anager Gamble. What a stupid LOW LIFE, iGnorant Manager.
“Some drivers took cat naps as they waited to unload Christmas mail. At one point, the line to unload regional Priority Mail was three miles long.
“This is the first time we’ve ever been backed up 12 hours,” said one truck driver”
It’s just a Grand Illusion folks
at least they were being unloaded…Baltimore is just parking them in truck yards or riding them around the beltway
“David Walton with the USPS said the closure of three West Tennessee post offices in January were not to blame for the long lines.”
Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus and he will always bring you exactly what you want.
The primary theory of management of the Postal Service can be distilled quite simply to a never ending attempt to put fifty pounds of manure in a twenty-five pound sack. Thus it has been and thus it will be since the prevailing belief of Postal management is, “Because we said so” mystically over rides the rules of physics and trumps all evidence to the contrary.
I’m sorry I missed the end of that. Closing 3 offices was not to blame but what was?
Walton Sounds like an idiot, but he is only repeating what he it told to say. The USPS wants everyone to think that they have it under control……little do they know. They don’t have a clue!