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They don't fill in for anyone, how fucking hard is that to understand?

I wonder why you cut it off right before here:


furthermore:



they can't even make them train


not once is it mentioned filling it for anyone because they don't.

here is how it is designed to be used:


notice it says nothing about coverage for those sick/vacation


I know she tried to be sneaky and it still failed, please don't tell me you have gone full DERP bro
 
goodnight, karen



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/postal-service-paying-fewer-workers-to-do-nothing/2011/08/26/gIQA6b9nmJ_blog.html
 
Watt?

I live in a rural area, and have recieved both FedEx and UPS packages. There's a FedEx drop box at the local post office, and a "UPS Store" in town... down the street from the post office.

The problem is management, and union ties. Drop the unions. Pay people a just wage for their work. USPS would easily break even.
 
That statistic is pretty meaningless. If USPS was covering the volume of USPS their labor/other costs ratio would certainly be higher. On a side note, but related, I just moved and we still have a walking mailman with little boxes on the house. I was amazed. The dog was less than thrilled.
 
If someone comes in one day and doesn't work at all, no benefit was received from them. Just because they do work the next day does not mean a benefit was received during the previous day.
 
My boss used to run a rural route in texas, 250-300 miles daily, through six zip codes just to get something worthy of a truck to go out. And that wasn't an offical extra charge area.
 
It says right in that article that they go into standby when there isn't any work for them to do. If someone who would have been doing the job that they are on standby for calls in sick there would be work for them to do and they would no longer be on standby. It isn't surprising to me at all that the article describing what they do or don't do while on standby doesn't go into what they do when they aren't on standby. (IE when someone calls in sick so they aren't on standby)

I think you are grasping here, quite frankly.
 
Oh... firstly, they are paying people to be on-standby.

protip: Having workers who are readily available to accommodate and fill in a schedule with some unpredictability is a BENEFIT to that organization.



Secondly, there are paying people because of contractual obligations.

protip 2: Not getting sued for breach-of-contract is a BENEFIT.





Good night, TKG. See ya in a week.
 
I would imagine that the rate of pay for a carrier is similar to the rate of pay for a meter reader or someone else that has to regularly go door-to-door. Likewise, I would imagine that the rate of pay for the clerks is more or less about what you'd expect someone working a high-volume dock to get paid.

I'd say it's not the salary so much as it's the bureaucracy. The carriers' union has USPS by the balls.

Breakdown of USPS pecking order:
Temp - temporary - starts at $8/hr. usually no schedule, works per diem
Casual - temporary - starts at $10/hr. no guaranteed schedule, works in 3mo intervals
Part Time, Flexible ("PTF") - career - starts at $14/hr. no guaranteed schedule.
Part Time, Regular ("Regular") - career - starts at $16/hr. no guaranteed schedule.
Full-Time, Regular ("FT" or "Full-Time") - career - starts at $18/hr. guaranteed schedule.

That was back in 2007, and that's for the clerks, the least paid employees at USPS (yes, even the janitors make more). Career positions get benefits packages as well, and they are your union merabers. Moving up in the hierarchy is based solely on seniority, never merit.

So the bureaucracy gets interesting when you're distributing hours. The unions, particularly the carriers' union, have made it so that Temp gets less hours than Casual, Casual less than PTF, etcetera, all the way up the ladder. FT employees are guaranteed 40 hours per week. So the guys that get paid the most per hour are also the ones that get the most amount of hours. If you're a Casual that's working his ass off, you still won't get more hours than any of the career employees who, after benefits, are making nearly, if not more than, twice as much as you. So labor costs go up.

If one route gets overloaded, you gotta have a career employee pick up the slack if your Casuals have already used up their allotted hours for that pay period, and since that career employee didn't get to his position based on merit, it's possible that he's a lazy asshole that's going to take forever.
 
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