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Preview: The Great Explorer November 25, 2009 9:20 AM
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Preview: Congo Gold November 25, 2009 9:06 AM
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Preview: Bob Ballard November 25, 2009 7:30 AM
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Rooney on Thanksgiving November 22, 2009 10:25 AM
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60 Minutes, 11.22.09 November 22, 2009 10:45 AM
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James Cameron's Avatar November 22, 2009 10:15 AM
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Maziar Bahari: Witness November 22, 2009 10:07 AM
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The Cost of Dying November 22, 2009 10:06 AM
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Web Extra: At Home, At Peace November 22, 2009 9:47 AM
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Web Extra: Comfort and Costs November 22, 2009 9:44 AM
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Extra: "A Peaceful Terrorist" November 22, 2009 9:44 AM
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Extra: "Mr. Hillary Clinton" November 22, 2009 9:36 AM
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Web Extra: A Defining Moment? November 22, 2009 9:32 AM
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Web Extra: Target Audience? November 22, 2009 9:32 AM
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Web Extra: His High-Tech Cave November 22, 2009 9:24 AM
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Preview: Witness November 21, 2009 5:05 AM
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Preview: The Cost of Dying November 20, 2009 11:47 AM
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Preview: Cameron's "Avatar" November 20, 2009 11:43 AM
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On The Set of "Avatar" November 19, 2009 10:34 AM
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Kroft's Reporter's Notebook November 19, 2009 11:39 AM
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See all 51 Comments1) We were recently given a service talk mentioning that the USPS is installing GPS units (TRACKING, not navigation) in all letter carrier vehicles. Our right hand drive vehicles are over 20 years old. We have vehicles that need repairs. USPS says that the move is to determine fuel usage and for safety. WAIT a minute! We're given scanners in which we have to scan up to 9 bar codes per day TELLING management EXACTLY where we are at any given point of the day.
2) I just found out today that the plant will be implementing a "green tag" program. If a tray of SORTED mail from the plant has a green tag, that carrier has to verify (check every single piece) in that tray and pull out all misorted mail (which we do on the street during delivery) and it has to be manually sorted by our clerks BEFORE we leave out on the street. Verifying a tray can take up to 20 minutes (can be up to nearly 500 pieces in one tray). This is a WASTE of time and money because now every carrier has to be delayed because of this "idea." Instead of the plant getting the mail sorted correctly (they can actually point out where the mistakes are, but don't fix them), they dump the work on us letter carriers as if we don't have enough to do.
USPS management has done everything to eliminate service. It's the letter carriers, clerks, and mail handlers who are trying to keep service.
Kudos,
Ken Figueroa
MSG, USA (RET)
San Antonio, TX
Thousand Oaks Station
"Work smarter not harder!"
We think he was sending us a "letter" from the "big post office in the sky" as he used to call his version of heaven when he was alive. Andy delivered the message.
Thanks, Poppy. We miss you, too.
I enjoyed listening to your comments on the US Postal Service. The personal frustrationI have with the Postal Service is as follows: Some official postal person has removed all the mailboxes from my immediate neighborhood. I loved walking to the mailbox, silly as it may sound. Always an opportunity to walk the dog and run into neighbors you don't often see. I loved sending my children on one of their first big "solo trips", to the mailbox. To them it was an adventure. To me, a safe and important errand. I remember being entrused with this errand as a child and I passed it on to my kids. They are now young adults and have noticed the absence of mailboxes..."what's up with that?" was their question.
elastics, or other supplies to our customers at the window, but to sell them these needed supplies instead. Can you imagine the customers reaction being told they have to buy a roll of tape for that little piece they need? Management has shortened the window hours and installed an "automated self service kiosk". This kiosk intimidates most of our older customers. You can see their frustration when they try to operate it. They've also removed from the lobby, all our stamp vending machines. When the window is closed, you can no longer by a single stamp, you have to buy an entire book from the kiosk if you wish to post that letter immediately. Managements shortsightedness and incompetence,from HQ on down is what's going to doom the postal service, not the reduction in first class mail volume.
is going to doom the postal service
I am a total tech geek but really like your vlog...I mean video. There is something awesome about mail - something tangible. I combined both with an iPhone app that turns any photo into a postcard that is delivered by a mailman to a mailbox. Now, I still like getting emails but these shoot it postcards make me reminiscent of days gone by.
Look into the monies that are being abused. Address the number of mental breakdowns.
When were those pictures of the mailmen taken, 50 years ago? Don't they looked a bit staged?
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