Anyone else having trouble with the US Mail?

[5oakterrace]

In retirement I worked for the post office thinking I was going back to summer job I had 40 years ago. The joke was on me. I quit after 2 weeks. They have a hard time "keeping" new workers.

With Amazon having the USPS deliver packages, many routes had their usual mail, plus all these packages. My trainer has 250 packages one day. She gets paid for 8 hours no matter how long it takes her to deliver. 2-3 days a week she cannot finish in 8 hours. She takes no lunch break. On those days she is working those hours "for free. She has been doing this route for 10 years. She knows it like the back of her hand. If you are "new" you have to know how to arrange those packages in the truck in the correct order to save time. It will take you at least 4 hours longer to do that route than the regular. It will take 6 months for you to get up to "regular" speed IF you can do that route day after day, which never happens.

The post master said their routes should be re-evaluated in which case they would divide them up and add 30 percent more routes to make it manageable. That means adding employees. Has not had a re- evaluation in years

Why doesn't the union step in? Because in some areas Amazon does it's own deliveries in which case the routes are decent. But where Amazon deems it economical to offload onto the USPS, Amazon does not deliver. Maybe the USPS should charge Amazon an arm and a leg to deliver for them.

[lunardds]

Originally Posted by meyatt

USPS pays temp workers from November (sometimes mid-October) until the beginning of January to deal with the excess of holiday packages. They've done this for quite a long time and the temp hourly wage is generally pretty decent.

My usual mail carrier showed up Monday and told me she is sharing my route with the new temp carriers. She had a stack of mail and said the new carrier is just leaving my mail on the shelf claiming my business is never open. I haven't received any mail since then. Pretty frustrating to say the least.

[Lewis Moon]

Originally Posted by lunardds

My usual mail carrier showed up Monday and told me she is sharing my route with the new temp carriers. She had a stack of mail and said the new carrier is just leaving my mail on the shelf claiming my business is never open. I haven't received any mail since then. Pretty frustrating to say the least.

Twice in the last month packages noted as "out for delivery" didn't arrive until the next day with the reasons being "animal interference " and "blocked access", neither of which was true. We have a camera trained on the mailbox area.
I finally chased down the package marked as delivered, but was not. I went to the PO and talked to a manager. The carrier made a "mistake".