Thanks for the response! I'm tuff enough to take out anything the post office dishes out! Just a little spoiled, and very disappointed. The way they treat us sure makes you stop and think, doesn't it? I saw these two articles on Postal Reporter this morning, and I know this probably isn't the right place to post it, but well....here it is:
It seems that the Postal Service has a program through which it buys the houses of relocating employees -- instead of the employees having to sell them like everyone else does. In more stable times, that policy might not be a big deal. But in these times of plummeting home prices, it is a huge deal.
Here's a painful case in point: The Postal Service bought the McMansion (five acres, six bathrooms, indoor swimming pool) owned by the former postmaster of Lexington, S.C., when he was transferred to Carrollton, Texas. The Postal Service paid $1.2 million for the house. According to a local real estate agent, there aren't a lot of buyers for $1 million-plus houses in that area these days. That might be a problem for Joe Homeowner trying to sell his house, but if you work for the Postal Service, forgetaboutit!
Articles like this, give the impression that we (ALL postal employees) are mismanaging our funds. It gives my customers the impression that the amount of money I make is more than I deserve. How can I defend myself against this? The closest I will ever come to any McMansion will be the mailbox, or maybe the doorstep if I am dropping off a package. For the past couple of years, AOL has posted a tipping guideline that suggest the customers give nothing more than a box of candy for Christmas, or at the very most $20, but due to ‘postal policy’ carriers aren’t supposed to accept gifts.
If the post office relocates me, it will be to a cardboard box, since I wont be able to afford my own home, due to constant paycuts, from the rural mailcounts.
I am not worried about losing my benefits. Between Blue Cross, and the PO, who can afford to use them??
If the benefits were all that great to begin with, then why are we working into our 80’s and 90’s? I don’t think it’s because we love our jobs that much! When are we going to let some fresh faces, and some NEW ideas into our work force that will allow us to grasp technology, and Grow with it instead of blaming all our problems on online billpay, and email?
Edwin S. Oliver was 18 when he was hired as a temporary employee at the Manasquan Post Office, filling in for a letter carrier who had fallen and broken a rib. That was in 1954. Oliver is still on the job, working as a window clerk . Approximately 5,000 have been on the job since 1969 and 202 since 1959, according to employment records. The longest-serving postal employee, a window clerk in New York City, was hired in 1944, but recently took sick leave. The Postal Service has several employees who still are working well into their 80s and 90s, including a 90-year-old custodian in Queens and an 89-year-old letter carrier in Birmingham, Ala.
