A Letter From A Former Letter Carrier

[mikekohr]

39. Wrong Again! Aren't you even reading my posts before you slam them?

Last edited Tue Feb 12, 2013, 06:39 PM - Edit history (1)

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"I'm a former rural letter carrier who proudly carried the mail for 10 years. Prior to that I spent 17 miserable years as a supervisor/dispatcher at United Parcel Service."
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I left the post office 7 years ago to work in an entry level job in a warehouse, because I saw the writing on the wall. I took a cut in pay so I could end my working years working for an organization not flaming out in a death spiral. I loved my job as a rural carrier. My brother-in-law just retired from the USPS. I have many close friends that still work there.

I left PRIOR to Congress passing the assinine rule of pre-funding pensions. The issues of Saturday delivery and the blackholes of unprofitable, tiny, unjustifiable Postal faciities existed before Congress's pension bill and were universally recognized by the Postal workers I carried the mail with 10-15 years ago.

There are two classes of people that will be the doom of the USPS
1). those in Congress and in the private sector that are hostile to the existance of the Postal Service (UPS and the Republican Caucus for example)
2). And those who are ignorant of, or willfully blind to the changes that must happen to ensure that the Post Office remains as part of the fabric of America.

Of the two groups it is the second that in the end is the most dangerous to the Postal Service's existance.