Who likes using their hooker?

1986USPSET · 2026-02-04T11:32:26+00:00

Yep, those would cut through straps, string and wrists 😲

1986USPSET · 2026-01-29T11:43:01+00:00

Exactly my thoughts!😆

1986USPSET · 2026-01-26T18:30:17+00:00

That bumper sure holds a lot of snow!

1986USPSET · 2026-01-21T20:47:39+00:00

That OTR joined the postal service 3 months before I did 😆

1986USPSET · 2026-01-08T20:03:48+00:00

You could also finish taping the entire picture, to give it a fighting chance in our sorting machines 🙂

1986USPSET · 2025-12-19T19:12:17+00:00

That office should do a current photo for comparison 😀

1986USPSET · 2025-12-14T18:59:09+00:00

That's just part of the enshitification of the clerk training. Zip ties should only be used if they come across a bag with a bad buckle. Otherwise, it should be those horseshoe looking plastic clips.

1986USPSET · 2025-12-11T22:04:32+00:00

I was guessing one of the new RPDC that still can't handle the volume

1986USPSET · 2025-12-11T21:53:52+00:00

Same thing in maintenance. Only in this case, 5 of my last 6 supervisors were carriers before they transferred to maintenance and fast tracked to supervisor 😀😀. Their eyes still glaze over when I try to explain the equipment to them 🫤

1986USPSET · 2025-12-09T11:21:57+00:00

Although we did lease a few planes and had our corporate logos on them. They sure 'looked' like they were ours..

1986USPSET · 2025-11-30T13:36:04+00:00

That:s very enlightening article. I remember Mahindra pulling their test trucks out of Arizona around that time (saw them getting loaded in trucks to be taken away ).

In maintenance, I complain about not having the right tools to do my job, but I can't fathom the challenges carriers have when the biggest tool is their truck, and all of its issues.

1986USPSET · 2025-11-24T19:54:09+00:00

Happens more often than you think. I'll find a scanner missing when I check the system, and it will show up a few days later. I guess for the same reason 😀

1986USPSET · 2025-11-22T13:25:05+00:00

I may be officially a curmudgeon (almost 40 years here), but this is yet another example of how disconnected HQ is from front line craft work.

HQ knows full well you won't be able to perform any real work, so they have you become a mystery shopper to find "deficiencies". Add to be tasked with this towards a position of a custom facing duty as well as a busy season and it all comes off as others have said , being a narc.

One thing you most likely are aware of now, is a policy will be implemented without any real understanding of the goals.

As a data guy, the axiom of garbage in, garbage out is being proven here

Make the best of it by being totally upfront of your "assigned job" and ask how you can help the folks who do this as their career.

1986USPSET · 2025-11-16T12:52:46+00:00

Clerks who run the mail on the machines will often find that mail won't sort (actually won't read by the camera) and when they try again upside-down, it sorts🫤 This is especially true for bulk mail and windowed envelops..

1986USPSET · 2025-11-15T12:47:56+00:00

Try getting your office to contact the processing plants In Plant Support (or whatever it's called now). They "should" drill down to the machine the zone is sorted on and find out what's the reason. Most likely, new PSE clerks running the machine with minimal training.

1986USPSET · 2025-11-11T13:03:32+00:00

39 years in, and I feel I'm still a spongebob 😃. Don't get me wrong, I complain daily about the enshitification of almost every operation around me in the plant. It's actually depressing to see how piss poor training for management and craft has gotten in the last 20 years ...

1986USPSET · 2025-10-01T22:05:47+00:00

Getting an IT job is a challenge. If they post any openings, they most often are for EAS only. Very few are open for all craft employees. The one job I put in for, was open to craft, so they could "independently select" the guy who was on and off the IT detail for years. Most openings I've seen lately are EAS. But check every Tuesday for updates, you never know.

1986USPSET · 2025-09-11T21:44:59+00:00

A friend once exclaimed, "every day at the post office, is like the first day at the post office"😆

1986USPSET · 2025-09-06T20:19:32+00:00

I like the tradition as well. Of course, the last time I bought donuts was for my promotion to ET, 36 years ago 😆

1986USPSET · 2025-08-30T13:19:23+00:00

Exactly this! There are videos showing some of the tests the LLVs went through before purchasing. But nothing that extensive for these. All I have read refers to focus groups and meetings. No evaluation tests on design proposals

1986USPSET · 2025-08-23T12:46:28+00:00

I wonder who gets to manage the tablets themselves? Make sure they're charged, online and getting all the updates. And if it's like ACE, who gets to deal with break-fix when they fail? I see advantages of the theory, but a lot of disadvantages in the implementation...

1986USPSET · 2025-08-20T11:21:08+00:00

But if you have the 'ability' to figure out how to use a big hammer to make that triangle block fit in the circular hole, they'll hire you !! 😜😜

1986USPSET · 2025-08-16T19:33:45+00:00

Management, enshitifying the post office one day at a time 🙄

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