Our Standard Of Living
Much controversy over collection boxes at the Postal Service has many up in arms. In spite of the fact that the USPS has virtually the lowest postage rates rates in the world, everyone is whining about rate increases. Cash-cows have a way of mooing in the wind. (Don’t ask me what that means.)
Congress and the postal boards have whittled away the standard of living, both working and retirement of the postal worker to the point of removing quality of life for the average rank and file laborer in order to keep direct marketers happy.
How can someone recommend a job to someone job hunting when conditions have deteriorated to the point of having no quality of life in retirement without finding a job at Walmart as a greeter so dismal, (If you qualify after taking the bodily beating that repetitive stress takes on carpal tunnel and back, shoulder, neck and hips from casing and delivering mail for the number of years it takes to receive retirement?)
Sounds like an easy job, but you try casing 600 magazines per hour, plus over 1000 letters per hour, delivering parcels and special classes of mail as Fed Ex, UPS and DHL do, remembering ebay and other online company’s depend on cheap rates from the postal service to survive.
I, as a carrier, can take a whopping 30 minutes rest per day, that is it! The rest of the time I’m working to the pace I mentioned before for as long as it takes to process 8 hours of mail or more per day.
Now that management has automated tools at their beckon call, they can load level mail, (make sure I have next weeks ads, this week to fill any open spots in the day that were not figured into the contractual way I am suppose to be paid.) They will say that is “undertime”, “deadtime”, or some other meaningless terminology to garner sympathy from the public, but, they have breached their word by doing so.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/usps-goes-postal-with-r2d2-mailboxes/
