Is the postal slowdown affecting you?

[Ford850]

The career delivery % is down to less than 70% and rapidly decreasing Only career employees receive full benefits. Carriers are divided into 2 categories - city and rural carriers. They are governed under separate union contracts. All city carriers use postal vehicles and do not get paid an allowance. You can tell the city carriers because they wear a uniform. Rural carriers may or may not use postal vehicles, depending on their situation. If they use their own vehicles, they are paid allowances, based on the measured distance of their route. The USPS is currently having a difficult time retaining new carriers. In some areas, it is under 25% retention after their initial training.

Interesting. Thanks!

 

[lilranch2001]

And 10, 11 and 12.




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I wish idiot post police was disallowed

 

[lilranch2001]

Yes, and this one is deliberate and intentional by someone we can't talk about here for reasons we can't talk about here.

Says he who is always policing everyone else

 

[Bird]

Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars - Portland Press Herald

I've often wondered whether the chicks were still being sent via USPS. It USED TO BE that if chicks arrived at a Post Office and could not be delivered or picked up within a certain amount of time, the local postmaster could sell them for almost nothing. In my pre-teen years, my Dad bought our baby chicks that way every year from the Ardmore, OK, Post Office. As a result, some years we had white chickens, some year red, some years speckled, etc.:laughing:

 

[rswyan]

USPS Headquarters Tells Managers Not to Reconnect Mail Sorting Machines, Emails Show

 

[5030]

In a nutshell, NO.

 

[Tinhack]

I've often wondered whether the chicks were still being sent via USPS. It USED TO BE that if chicks arrived at a Post Office and could not be delivered or picked up within a certain amount of time, the local postmaster could sell them for almost nothing. In my pre-teen years, my Dad bought our baby chicks that way every year from the Ardmore, OK, Post Office. As a result, some years we had white chickens, some year red, some years speckled, etc. :laughing:

We used to get ours at the 5&10. They were too dirty for the drug store. Wasn't much else in town but the police building, a couple of bar/eateries and a gas station that I remember. A lot of empty buildings even way back then. They were still recovering from the Depression. I think the PO gave strays to the chicken farms up the road outside Heavener, OK.

 

[rswyan]

DeJoy ordered USPS to remove 671 mail sorting machines by end of Sept, including 24 in Ohio, 11 in Detroit, 11 in Florida, 9 in Wisconsin, 8 in Philadelphia and 5 in Arizona

"We are not to reconnect any machines that have previously been disconnected" USPS employees were told

Twitter

 

[rswyan]

In a nutshell, NO.

No ... what ?

 

[Ford850]

After Covid-19 hit us in the spring, I used to joke that the USPS should be advertising they are the safest courier because any virus from the sender that was on the packages or envelopes would be dead by the time they delivered it. Doesn't seem as funny now.