Comments on: The Reality Check Is Not in the Mail http://themoderatevoice.com/40768/the-reality-check-is-not-in-the-mail/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:18:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: prmaleman http://themoderatevoice.com/40768/the-reality-check-is-not-in-the-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-197544 prmaleman Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:08:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=40768#comment-197544 Hopefully, the next time they offer early retirement, there will be some real incentives for people to take 'em. Just like those bonuses that management gets when they, holding their ever important clipboards performing their all inclusive busy, fill work matrix routines while getting in the way of real workers, get all the credit for our job well done. Otherwise, it's just another exercise in futility...yes folks, believe it or not, we are a dying breed. Less mail means less real workers and less real workers means less clipboard holding souls too! My advice to you is...take the money and run and disregard silly, nostalgic "used to be's" 'cause "used to be's" sound nice and heart warming, but certainly, "used to be's" don't pay the bills! Hopefully, the next time they offer early retirement, there will be some real incentives for people to take 'em. Just like those bonuses that management gets when they, holding their ever important clipboards performing their all inclusive busy, fill work matrix routines while getting in the way of real workers, get all the credit for our job well done. Otherwise, it's just another exercise in futility…yes folks, believe it or not, we are a dying breed. Less mail means less real workers and less real workers means less clipboard holding souls too! My advice to you is…take the money and run and disregard silly, nostalgic “used to be's” 'cause “used to be's” sound nice and heart warming, but certainly, “used to be's” don't pay the bills!

]]> By: rsiriuse http://themoderatevoice.com/40768/the-reality-check-is-not-in-the-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-197378 rsiriuse Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:31:28 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=40768#comment-197378 Management has for about two decades gone overboard with technology. It has helped get the mail "there" faster, but I doubt if they've ever gone into the black before they unwrap their bumdles of money and invest in newer technologies and bigger machines.<br><br>In any business, this is just running yourself in the ground. And management has its eye on fewer workers, bigger bonuses, more investments.<br><br>This place still runs on GAO quarterly accountability. If the money isn't spent, it goes back. <br><br>This office where I work needed a few lap top computers. These would do some electronic tallying they needed in various spots and random checking of the mails. Three pallets arrived. They were four feet high.<br><br>I guess the upper management got something to take home. They didn't need more than three for each tour.<br><br> There was an "unloading" here. A large number of items were removed from the offices and put into storage. It included a good number of exercise machines, none which looked cheap. <br><br>Management ought to take some blame. Management has for about two decades gone overboard with technology. It has helped get the mail “there” faster, but I doubt if they've ever gone into the black before they unwrap their bumdles of money and invest in newer technologies and bigger machines.

In any business, this is just running yourself in the ground. And management has its eye on fewer workers, bigger bonuses, more investments.

This place still runs on GAO quarterly accountability. If the money isn't spent, it goes back.

This office where I work needed a few lap top computers. These would do some electronic tallying they needed in various spots and random checking of the mails. Three pallets arrived. They were four feet high.

I guess the upper management got something to take home. They didn't need more than three for each tour.

There was an “unloading” here. A large number of items were removed from the offices and put into storage. It included a good number of exercise machines, none which looked cheap.

Management ought to take some blame.

]]> By: your_momma http://themoderatevoice.com/40768/the-reality-check-is-not-in-the-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-196938 your_momma Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:45:19 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=40768#comment-196938 The Reality check is not in your brain....First, the Post Office is not in its death throes, even if management is trying to make it so. Second is 170 "Billion" pieces are still being sent...Thank you very much!!!! Third what customers should be raising hell about is the (wasteful) Billions spent on equipment that they don't need, IE flat sorters that will never pay for themselves...even though they will tell you otherwise!!!! The Reality check is not in your brain….First, the Post Office is not in its death throes, even if management is trying to make it so. Second is 170 “Billion” pieces are still being sent…Thank you very much!!!! Third what customers should be raising hell about is the (wasteful) Billions spent on equipment that they don't need, IE flat sorters that will never pay for themselves…even though they will tell you otherwise!!!!

]]> By: redbus http://themoderatevoice.com/40768/the-reality-check-is-not-in-the-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-196677 redbus Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:39:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=40768#comment-196677 There is no way to electronically send a package at Christmas. And have you ever received those impersonal e-birthday cards? No thank you. The post office will survive, but in a reduced form. There is no way to electronically send a package at Christmas. And have you ever received those impersonal e-birthday cards? No thank you. The post office will survive, but in a reduced form.

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