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Posted: 12/13/2023 10:30:45 PM EDT
Employees of the U.S. Postal Service in Missoula have been dealing with serious issues this year, including not getting paychecks on time, inadequate staffing levels that essentially force many to work six or more days a week, poor workplace morale, absence requests being denied and high staff turnover at both the administrative and lower levels.
The issue is leading to severe mail delays in the area, with local residents complaining that important health, tax and business documents are not getting delivered on time. The Missoulian spoke separately with three employees of the Postal Service in Missoula who described an extremely difficult workplace environment because there aren't enough people to cover all of the necessary shifts. Carriers, especially rural carriers in the area, don't have enough substitute carriers to allow them to only work five days a week. If they take two days off a week, they often come back on their first work day to a huge pile of undelivered mail, meaning they have to work twice as hard. moar |
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Posted: 12/13/2023 11:25:19 PM EDT
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Welcome to the Federal government.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:55:06 AM EDT
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The gal who used to be on our route is a good friend of ours. She is awesome. Super hard worker but 110% burned out. She constantly bitches about her job but she is stuck. Doesn't want to leave as she is too vested in the system.
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Posted: 12/17/2023 9:39:06 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Employees of the U.S. Postal Service in Missoula have been dealing with serious issues this year, including not getting paychecks on time, inadequate staffing levels that essentially force many to work six or more days a week, poor workplace morale, absence requests being denied and high staff turnover at both the administrative and lower levels. The issue is leading to severe mail delays in the area, with local residents complaining that important health, tax and business documents are not getting delivered on time. The Missoulian spoke separately with three employees of the Postal Service in Missoula who described an extremely difficult workplace environment because there aren't enough people to cover all of the necessary shifts. Carriers, especially rural carriers in the area, don't have enough substitute carriers to allow them to only work five days a week. If they take two days off a week, they often come back on their first work day to a huge pile of undelivered mail, meaning they have to work twice as hard. moar |
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Posted: 12/17/2023 11:59:17 AM EDT
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Public sector is going to see more and more of this, and some of the public sector as well. As things turn away from meritocracy, and promotions are based on checking other boxes, you will see a lower and lower quality product. It is atlas shrugged.
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Posted: 12/18/2023 2:03:28 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Employees of the U.S. Postal Service in Missoula have been dealing with serious issues this year, including not getting paychecks on time, inadequate staffing levels that essentially force many to work six or more days a week, poor workplace morale, absence requests being denied and high staff turnover at both the administrative and lower levels. The issue is leading to severe mail delays in the area, with local residents complaining that important health, tax and business documents are not getting delivered on time. The Missoulian spoke separately with three employees of the Postal Service in Missoula who described an extremely difficult workplace environment because there aren't enough people to cover all of the necessary shifts. Carriers, especially rural carriers in the area, don't have enough substitute carriers to allow them to only work five days a week. If they take two days off a week, they often come back on their first work day to a huge pile of undelivered mail, meaning they have to work twice as hard. moar Unions also make it hard to get rid of problem people. Local postmaster works seven days a week. |
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