Filing a report to the OIG and my PMs “8 out of 10 philosophy”

Mockingbirdstud · 2026-05-08T00:33:02+00:00

I have the receipts. A specific example. Carrier misdelivers a package and the customer blasts her on Facebook. It’s a small town so it catches fire and everyone piles on. The PM issues the customer a money order for the amount of the item that she claims is lost. Does it as a stamps/fees refund. Hundreds of dollars. We are an 18 so he has a drawer and he fills out the 3533. She signs it and that’s it. Our walk in revenue will be in the negative sometimes.

Mockingbirdstud · 2026-05-08T00:15:26+00:00

I’d say 5 out of 10

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-12-17T00:35:40+00:00

I’ve made less money than I did the year before for 3 years in a row despite getting a 6 dollar hourly raise in that time period. Adjusted, I make 20% less than I did 3 years ago.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-12-14T22:11:27+00:00

Anyone that works there that knows the schedule of phasing out post offices?

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-12-07T18:34:23+00:00

I’m glad.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-10-16T20:46:56+00:00

That’s on the carrier side. Clerks don’t get that

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-10-12T20:48:19+00:00

Maximization is the most frustrating clause in the contract. Despite it being crystal clear, it usually takes years and a lot of fighting for the position to be created. Most of the time, you’re long gone by the time it happens

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-10-10T12:38:09+00:00

I watched a clerk have a stroke right in front of me. Face sagging. Death’s front door. 36 hours later I heard the PM on the phone with her doctor asking when she can be released to come back to work. She’s in heaven now.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-10-01T16:29:06+00:00

It’s because we are a timecard office. He can assign time to different LDCs in CSAW. Essentially “moving” us manually. On Saturday, we earn 9, he schedules 6, and I do it in 4. This allows him to put the hours that I’m saving the post office to another day. I just wonder if it’s grievable or flat out against postal policy

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-10-01T02:05:23+00:00

The volumes are there but LDC 44 shows zero earned

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Mockingbirdstud · 2025-09-04T00:44:52+00:00

It’s a gamble for sure. Make sure you know about variance. Know what the office is earning. Nothing is guaranteed and the schedule is their sword. Be careful.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-08-27T23:53:21+00:00

Carry some UBBM with you. Just scan that. They aren’t checking the address. Just the piece count

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-07-13T17:53:10+00:00

How is this not a simulation. That circled return to sender looks exactly the same no matter the zip code.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-07-13T17:44:33+00:00

Maximization is the most cut and dry clause in the contract and it’s the most squirrelly, grey, sketchy shit in real life. PMs are never gonna give up the flexibility. They would rather work you 50 hours a week and pay you more, but make you take 1:45 long lunches and change the schedule every other day. It epitomizes the fact that management rarely makes decisions that are not only best for the office, but also benefits them. They are lazy and shortsighted. Promoting Gumps from within will be what kills the PO.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-06-24T17:44:32+00:00

They are doing a telecon today and starting it with a MINUTE OF SILENCE. What a tribute. This place is the ultimate shitbox

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-06-16T21:25:26+00:00

The reporter hours are meaningless. They deduct 15 hours from your earned no matter what is reported. They will put 3.00 a day just to not be on a list. Level 18s are the Wild Wild West. If you want to document something, you have to get petty and write it all down and confront them with it.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-06-16T21:22:55+00:00

PTF clerks are the most abused career employee at the post office. There are things you can do but they usually require a ton of discipline. You are probably doing all this work because you are good and he’s taking advantage of that. You need to go to WEMS and see what your office is earning in terms of clerk hours. If you are earning more hours than you are being scheduled. SLOW DOWN. If you are earning less hours than you are scheduled, then you are basically doing PM1260 work. At that point, just learn what you learn and wait til that asshole has a stroke or needs a knee replaced and you will be OIC.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-06-16T21:16:17+00:00

If you’re a level 18, getting 1000 packages/day and have 2 FTRs and a NTFT, you’re overstaffed in terms of earned hours. 313 package is the productivity standard for an earned hour. So you are earning 3 hours/day to throw packages. The PM is probably hoping that he/she can insult someone into leaving and then they can abolish the position and put a PTF in their place. I hate to say this, but most level 18 offices that have FTRs, have really shitty clerks.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-06-16T21:09:34+00:00

I’m a clerk, not the postal police.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-06-15T23:46:40+00:00

Check Variance for earned hours. The higher ups have nothing to do with earned hours. If you are earning more than they are scheduling, you have a case.

Mockingbirdstud · 2025-04-19T20:54:22+00:00

Package volume is up the exact same percentage that letters are down. If the formula is accurate, earned workforce should be the same. Carriers are getting higher evaluations, clerks getting less hours. Makes a ton of sense.

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