U.S. Postal Service to close 2,000 post offices

Chicago Breaking Business ^ | 1/24/11

[upsdriver]

LOL, I’m retired now but I always got along great with the FedEx drivers and Post Office folks. We helped keep each other up to date on people moving in and out of our delivery areas. My youngest brother delivers for the USPS. We give each other a bad time.

[AGreatPer]

I have heard the argument that in many towns the post office is the town. Sounds to me like they should go to the local watering hole.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Bender, you don’t have a scanner, fax machine, e-mail? I thought everyone did.

[redangus]

The biggest problem the USPS has is the unions (sounds like a broken record doesn’t it). They have three they have to deal with and the unions run the USPS with an iron hand. Management won’t cross them on anything. That is why they have twice as many people as they need and why thing never get done efficiently. I made a few enemies in both management and labor because I didn’t kowtow to their demands. I wasn’t a lifer I was a consultant and was there to do a job. I had a 3 year contract and cared less about what they union wanted. People weren’t happy, but we got things done.

[nnn0jeh]

I life in a small town (about 10,000) We have 1 PO. Most of the times I have been in it there are older people that are in getting MO’s to pay bills. Unlike other places including large cities. the postal employee’s will help them file out the bills and the MO’s and anything else they need which is most of the time goes beyoned what they are required to do. It’s the small staions that do the most good. The large city PO’s don’t care about the people. One clerk told me that she will only do the required and nothing more as she did not want trouble by taking to long to work customers because her retire ment was coming up in a few years. Small PO’s are better also because they know most of the people that come in. they are not just another distraction.