LOL wut? Mail carriers required to walk across lawn even in feet of snow?

[Wintermute]

So what happens if the lawn has a picket fence?

Do they train the dudes in running hurdles just in case?

[Kang]

Dude, do you know how much fucking snow Buffalo gets each winter. Fucking wow.

[pohibaba]

And you guys want the government to run healthcare and the banking industry when they can't even get mail delivery correct.

[Darus Grey]

Dude, do you know how much fucking snow Buffalo gets each winter. Fucking wow.

I know...I think we're still #2 in the country. "Lake Effect" FTL.

[Tirrock]

If he got suspended or fired he'd get full pay anyway. The post office union is pretty good. They'd probably save money if they stopped giving upper management massive bonuses. The plant manager in my area took home $400k as a bonus last year. At the same time, he froze all hirings locally and cut my hours to save money. Awesome.

Edit: Missed the "warning letter" part in the story. That's nothing. Postal discipline is: Verbal discussion > written warning (what he got) > 7 day suspension > 14 day suspension > fired > rehired with backpay thanks to union > repeat. Just to get to the verbal discussion you have to keep ticking them off. It gets even harder to get to the next step. Several people I work with are almost always on written warnings because they call in sick almost weekly.

[Septimus]

And you guys want the government to run healthcare and the banking industry when they can't even get mail delivery correct.

Yes. The HMOs who regularly deny people the treatments that their doctors prescribe to keep up profits and the banks that lost all of their money and went begging to the government for a bail out are doing spectacularly on their own. Go free market!

[pohibaba]

Yes. The HMOs who regularly deny people the treatments that their doctors prescribe to keep up profits and the banks that lost all of their money and went begging to the government for a bail out are doing spectacularly on their own. Go free market!

Because of course we have a free market right now, right?

[Ruiner]

And you guys want the government to run healthcare and the banking industry when they can't even get mail delivery correct.

LOL

[archibaldcrane]

Wait, since when are there not private postal services?

People still use USPS because it's way fucking cheaper. Pretty sure there was nothing "incorrect" about this guy getting mail from one person to another.

When the headline is "USPS just gives up entirely because who gives a shit, it's not like they are a for-profit venture anyways", then come here with your free market masturbation Pohi.

[pohibaba]

Wait, since when are there not private postal services?

People still use USPS because it's way fucking cheaper. Pretty sure there was nothing "incorrect" about this guy getting mail from one person to another.

When the headline is "USPS just gives up entirely because who gives a shit, it's not like they are a for-profit venture anyways", then come here with your free market masturbation Pohi.

Private Express Statutes.

[archibaldcrane]

Private Express Statutes.

Doesn't that 42 cent stamp price really chap your ass Pohi? It's like you're signaling your approval of socialism every time you buy one, isn't it?

[Kuya]

I thought the OP was about the US postal service, not free market vs government controlled institutions.

Why are you trolling/derailing/etc, Pohi?

[Skjie]

ITT: Bitter posters.

[Norelco]

I thought the OP was about the US postal service, not free market vs government controlled institutions.

Why are you trolling/derailing/etc, Pohi?

Yes, it is/was.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

The Postal Service, which lost $2.8 billion last year, has been searching for ways to increase efficiency.

For a start lay off the supervisors who have nothing better to do than to stalk their own staff

Same thing is going on at UPS, where I work, right now. A ton of supervisors and managers got shit canned, something like, 1,400 of them. It actually makes me kind of happy, because as far as I know, most of the people who got fired are the same kind of people who just come around and fuck my day up.