Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has impacted our country in ways that were unimaginable months ago. It is changing how people across the U.S. and around the world are working, shopping, even interacting with one another. States have ordered many stores and businesses to close. Businesses that continue to operate are faced with protecting their employees and customers, while coming up with creative ways to market and deliver their products.
The Postal Service continues to serve the public, operating on the front line, fulfilling the universal service obligation to deliver to every house and business every day. USPS is finding itself serving a population that is relying on it now more than ever. For many home-bound and quarantined people, home delivery is the only source for medicine and other vital supplies. During this time, the Postal Service has also prioritized the safety of its employees and customers.
We recognize the reality of the pandemic and have adapted our operations to maintain continuity while ensuring the safety of our employees. We are taking abundant care to minimize exposure to both our employees and Postal Service employees, using technology whenever possible. As we have told our employees, we also ask you to follow CDC guidelines, remain home as much as possible, and stay safe.
For questions or concerns about delivery during the pandemic, please go to usps.com to track mail or get information from the USPS Coronavirus FAQs page.
Postal Service employees, for work-related complaints or issues, please use our Hotline to let us know.
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"ALERT: USPS IS EXPERIENCING UNPRECEDENTED VOLUME INCREASES AND LIMITED EMPLOYEE AVAILABILITY DUE TO THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE." My post office is handing packages to the wrong people. this is unacceptable that I cant opt out of this service that I already paid for with taxes. this is an unconstitutional monopoly.
Was he NOT on the clock??? I wanted to ask him if they had recess or nap time
The problem: Why are we not releasing clear and understandable reports?!
Worked at Mail Processing plants, EAS17, in Queens MPC located in Whitestone N.Y. and also Crooked Hill here in Harrisburg, PA. Retired after 37 years.
As an clerk in the 70s I hand sorted SIX [machine] trays per hour. One every ten minutes. The point THEY knew I was not lazy.
Yes, there are employees spending beyond their means believing they can always get overtime. I never believed in OVERTIME pay - We DO have the skills and resources to process the mail in the allotted time frame EIGHT HOURS.
It was worse in Harrisburg P&DC. I recall saying to myself what is going on here employees coming up to me full of vim and vinegar demanding where is MY overtime, staying 2 hours at end of shift, reporting two hours early OR working an layoff day. - as I never scheduled any as they were getting every day.
They reported me to everyone they can. The APWU - they can NOT 'grieve ME into scheduling overtime. I introduced the concept our current Postmaster has taken in the late 1980s ! And to cease Saturday delivery - not to cut service but because Saturday service does not make sense. And overtime to get out 4- 6 trays of letter, at app. 300 pcs per tray, is ridiculous. Two clerks at time and a half and then have an vehicle on standby to transport it to the facility - where the carrier is already on the street attending to His/Her appointed rounds.
I do not - never supported that.
But I did not leave mail behind.
Presented to my manager, I was not asking, I'm going to cease, DENY premium pay and still get [all] the mail out. He asked, quite dubiously, how are you going to accomplish that. I appraised the people as being an proud group of people; yes, several WERE taking advantage of appeasement; and management is not responsible for you spending money which is not an part of your pay schedule; the mail you process on overtime is NOT in fact getting into the mailbox. I explained ... When the mail remains behind they will feel guilty, they DO believe that mail belongs in our last dispatch. OVERNIGHT everyone began processing ALL the mail.
IF management allows their people to whine and moan and worse of all say "Yea, I know how you feel - nobody appreciates us" - then you are lost. Basically giving the employees minutes after hitting the clock no incentive towards excellence. Why would any manager allow their employees to feel as failures. Pride is an motivator.
OK - CV19 ..... WE DID NOT COWER IN THE FACE OF ANTHRAX OR THE THREAT OF TERRORIST ATTACK after 9/11 !
I read there are 74 employees passing from CV19 out of 12,000 having CV19??? Are those TWELVE thousand verified?
Many postal operations - the employees by design are not close to each other. The Bar code reader types, OCR, BCS have an feeder and an sweeper - they do not get in close proximity. The mail handler is assigned to an Bay/truck - the next is app. eight feet.
It seems to me, and I could not be completely correct, it sounds like the militant truck driver saying He can not drive the truck because it is unsafe 'no headlights' working during - DAYLIGHT HOURS! As Laura S. said "get your butt in that drivers seat and get that truck to your next destination and THEN report its defect".
The APWU is wrong to expect Postal employees to receive 'hazardous duty pay'. Along with pay and benefits their salary is envied.
Many people are struggling for many different reasons, and your whining entitlement just makes 2020 suck even more.
You ignorant, science-denying, conspiracy-theory spreading tools would be funny if you weren't doing so much harm. You propagate stupid and false ideas that you read on Facebook, which is the world's biggest toolbox.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0714-americans-to-wear-masks.html