I'm all ears. In fact, my ears are prominently displayed in nearly every depiction of my image.
But I like to listen. And now's your chance to tell Benny. In your opinion, what does the Post Office need to do to not only survive, but thrive into the next decade?
Leave your opinion here.
25 comments:
We need to get control of the excessive regular and overtime hours used by the city carriers. I see city carriers every day slowly delivering their routes. If they were paid by the day like the rural carriers, we would see them speed up and ask for more work to get more pay.
Offices need to be more responsible with PTF hours.Some PTFs or doing the regulars work to make their hours. Then when the work is done, they sit and watch the clock for a specific time to leave.
It used to be when the PTF work was done,they left. No certain hour or minute.
Consolidate small offices, with a postmaster installed at the most centrally located. Have a working supervisor/clerk there to do most of the supervising, with the PM available on a rotating basis.
In my community, there are seven 18 and below offices in an eight mile radius. These really should be reclassified to be more like city stations.
I also agree with the evaluated system for city routes. The less to micro-manage, the fewer managers we need, not to mention reports. As my postmaster once told an incoming OIC "Leave the rural carriers alone, they know what they're doing."
The USPS needs to perform a CBA (Cost Benefit Analysis) on each and every new program or policy that is launched. The CBA should be conducted by either the next higher level or a team within that respective area. An example is the CPMS program, where each office is required to print and sign the daily CPMS report. If every one of the 37,000 post offices are required to print this report, that’s 37,000 sheets of paper a day being printed. Multiply that by 6 days a week and 52 weeks a year and you get 11,544,000 sheets of paper being used for this one report. Assuming you have a printer that yields 2000 copies per toner cartage, that comes to $719,190.00 a year for paper and toner alone, not taking into consideration the man hours used to perform this one activity. If a CBA was done on this one project, could we justify spending nearly ¾ of a million dollars? The data on this report is already stored in the computer systems and a hard copy does not seem justified.
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Have drive thru windows...speed up things for people..plus have plenty of supplies available for purchasing !!!
RR 17
Hudson Station
Modesto, Ca.
95357
Good ideas listed here. There is way too much waste in the man hours AND supervisor hours. We need to get rid of the unions or at least tell them that the Post Office is going to 5 day delivery whether they like it or not. DO THEY WANT JOBS OR DO THEY WANT THE POST OFFICE TO GO UNDER. Getting rid of the unions might be able to let the Post Office get rid of the slackers that hide when they don't want to do things or just stand around and talk even though they are on overtime. We also need to think about the Secret Shopper people that we pay. Why do we pay these people AND pay postmasters to do the same thing. STUPID STUPID STUPID. Quit paying people to be out on DETAILS. If they don't want the office that they are supposed to be in then either get another position or retire. Way to many postmasters in my area that have been out of their assigned office for 5 years or more ON A DETAIL. They don't have any intentions at all of going back. Give them an ultimatume either put in for another position or get out.
Simply put, we need to grow our business. Cutting service by stopping Saturday deliveries in my opinion is a mistake - no one ever grows their business by cutting service. If we need to temporarily suspend Saturday delivery as a "save our sinking ship" measure, I think the public (and Congress) would be much more receptive to the idea. Nearly every household has had to tighten it's belt at some point to get by; certainly many businesses as well. Once the economy rebounds, we would be in much better position to return to Saturday delivery and not permanently give that profit segment to commercial deliverers. To survive is one thing; to prepare for the future is vital. Let's not give UPS any more of our market share.
The Post Office is putting itself out of business by hiring and promoting the least qualified personnel. Clerks and Carriers that barely speak english and can't read or write! Postmasters and Supervisors that have no postal experience! Honestly what do they expect?
We have to many programs,and logs. Stop the VOE,MS,PFP,EXFC,and on and on. We can no loger justify spending money on these programs. Lets get back to deliving the Mail.
The Post Office carrys too much dead weight in the form of the employees who can no longer perform the work they were hired to do. They should retire them on disability when their doctor states that they will never be able to perform work. It is degrading for these people to come to work and get paid to read a book, or sit around and shoot the breeze. It is insulting to the other workers to watch them. And they get paid overtime also.
All employees take a 10% cut in pay under $50,000.00. All
employees take a 15% cut in pay that make over $50,000.00. All USPS employees are over paid. All of us are living very well. Learn to adjust. This is fair to all employees. Lets do the reduction fair for all. Everyone still need a job. We are all in this together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The postal service
also needs to cut spending.
Change all residential deliveries to mounted and make each route larger by consolidating auxillaries and vacant routes. Let go subs that show up when they want. Reduce the amount of paperwork and train supervisors on how to make a schedule.
Lose a few VP's-(Do we really need 42 of them)? Go to Congress and tell them to put up ($) or shut up. If they want this run as a buisness bud out-they mess up everything! go to 5 day delivery
I agree that there is a LOT of waste going on in the form of programs and reports that are run on a daily basis. As the PM of a Level 15 office, I see one report run 3-4 times a day out of our district office and sent out via email each time. Why? I'm required by my district office to print various reports on a daily basis, and they go right into a file and are never looked at again!
Aside from cutting the waste, we need to expand on the products and services we provide. We are in every community in the country...we could provide certain services that are currently inconvenient for people.
Yes, definatly one thing would be to stop sending out the VOE surveys. Their real surveys are right here on Your Postal Blog!. They never ask the right questions for employees to say what they would like anyway. Plus, they know exactly who they send them to. Smaller offices usually only receive one at a time. And they say they are anonymous....then why is the finance number printed on the back side of every survey? I cut mine out.
Remove the unions and their power!
Why don't we forward all mail for the first 3 months then return first class and endorsed pieces for 3 months longer with the correct address? Why do we babysit for 18 months?
Offer 2 years service or age to CSRS employees - they will retire without a penalty.
The auto companies started out with
their own way in trying to drum up
business then the government handed
over billions to bail them out then
supplied billions more to trade in
clunkers worth nothing to buy
$30-$40 thousand dollar vehicles.
We need to start just like they
did and:
OFFER STAMPS AND MAILING RATES TO
THE PUBLIC FOR THE SAME PRICE WE
THE EMPLOYEES PAY.
LETS HEAR IT FOR EMPLOYEE PRICING TO EVERYONE
I would recommend we get rid of the Areas and go back to 4 Regions. The Area employees merely add a comment to HQ communications and send forward. Only the District Managers and Plant Managers report directly to an Area Manager (VP). Outside of these positions, district employees don't much care what the area asks for. Nor are they accountable to the Area so there is little value the Area brings.
Also, we now have data to rely on to measure performance. We don't need the Area staff to monitor the Districts.
We need to look for additional revenue under different venues then we have in the past. Buisness reps. should be at every level of government pitching vote by mail. We should be at every buisness promoting our products. The 90/90 blitz should be an everyday norm not a special promotion.
We need to Automate and use IT services whereever we can and try to build IT projects and services ih house. There is lot of overpay and wastage through support to high end IT firms who are not deliveries top class products and services they stand for. Either they need to pay penalty for delays bugs and offer free warranty service for after release for all bugs. Maybe creating a mixture of 80-20 Employee to Contract employees may help bring quality service in house and make a better build vs buy decision.
Also lets make First Class mail $1 and make it pay-off expenses so that our bottomline is not effected even if they are not there. There are no other firm who is providing first class mail and we need to put higher premium so that we can focus on high end services. Maybe providing Parcel and shipping services can help us attract bigger firms in our business portfolio and compete with UPS and Fedex. How about going international operations having offices overseas to promote international operations.
We have lot of expertise in project management,Logistics,Packaging, IT services and projects. We can start Training, IT services and even government and contracting to other business our IT employees and generate revenue for our expertise. Postal IT services provider firm. We can this way utilize some of the under utilized resources and bring in expertise that they may not get while working only at Postal IT projects and good source of revenue.
The truth is we are giving discounts to mailers for presorting and barcoding mail that OUR machines can do.
We lose a great deal of money with nonprofit rates. Would they not mail if they paid regular rates?
Would organizations stop mailing without the huge discounts? Or could the discounts be cut back to reflect a needed revenue?
It would be worth looking into.
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