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Social Media threats-Updated September 12, 2020

Call the 800# sick/call out line to schedule your EAP. (You can still fill out leave slip, if you like.)
Ask for it to be FMLA. That will generate the paperwork. You'll have the packet mailed to you.

Talk to the people on the EAP hotline. They will help you pick out a counselor, and you can change counselors if you don't like the first one. They emailed me a bunch of info that was a tremendous help. They gave me some counseling on the phone.
You can call them 24/7. I called them 3a.m. on a Saturday morning because my lazy supervisor had not delivered the stalker's mail for a week. (You get so upset you forget they are there 24/7.)

The USPS zero tolerance policy mandates the USPS is to keep you safe. (Thank you for that gem of info, btdtret) Yes, I read that to my incompetent supervisor during that week.

You have every reason to feel threatened. We are not hard for peeps to find. There are things the counselors will teach you that can be a tremendous help.
FMLA is not a bad thing! It helps protect you from unprofessional PMs. The counselor will fill out most of it. In my experience, if there is a fee for that, the USPS pays it.

My abrasive PM tried to mess with my EAP time off....oh HELL no.

My DR was threatened by someone on his route, and after he went through the channels he had the state police following him on his route for a few days. Those threats involved firearms.
A phone call to your DR may give you more tools to help you.

After 4 years of enduring harassment from my creepy stalker they finally had me stop delivering his mail. That occurred after my eighth call to the postal inspectors. (It helps to speak to them yourself. Mine gave me their direct phone number.)
(I would never touch stalker's box with a bare hand, always put on a glove. I was concerned about him trying to drug me. Bombs never entered my mind until suggested to me as a concern of someone on this site.)

Do all you can to learn, go up the food chain and let those people jump up and down on your unconcerned PMs head. They will make her care.
 
Thank you all for your input, insight, suggestions, etc.
First off, I have learned that I was awarded the bid for Rt that just happened to be open when all this madness started. I had no intentions of leaving my current Rt of 10+ yrs, but my safety is of utmost importance to me & if PO refuses to be proactive & ensure my safety I will. Also, I have learned that the threat assessment team and Postal Inspectors are the same. They had the MPOO call customers and explain tort claim and MPOO is now a psychiatrist and she thinks these two men or calming down. I gave her my 2 cents about that also. I know how calming that woman isn't. ?Every time she has visited our office & she turns it upside down and leaves it engulfed in flames.
Second, I met with my PM and had Step 1 discussion. She told me the zero tolerance policy did not apply outside workroom floor & it was meant to protect you from other employees?. I wholeheartedly disagreed & explained my route is my workplace.
She asked me again if they had threatened me to my face. From one woman to another, seriously???? I responded I didn’t that was a qualifier to be considered a threat. I swear the Post Office is riddled with ignorant, stupid ass managers. She then had the audacity to say, you don’t think I have ever been threatened? These men came to the window twice in a ten day period and her chicken shit, dumbass wouldn’t speak to them. She had managers give them a number. That worked real well. I told her how nice it must be to have a door between you and the person threatening you. Your asking me to service their box and stop right next to there home 3 times daily.
She also told me I was worrying to much about it????
So now I will sit here for another week and a half using LWOP after filing FMLA. It will be a total of 3 weeks when all said and done. Looks I will start new Rt August 3rd. Praying that the union is able to get all my pay & benefits back. Both Routes are 46K. That is the only bright side of all this?
 
Thank you all for your input, insight, suggestions, etc.
First off, I have learned that I was awarded the bid for Rt that just happened to be open when all this madness started. I had no intentions of leaving my current Rt of 10+ yrs, but my safety is of utmost importance to me & if PO refuses to be proactive & ensure my safety I will. Also, I have learned that the threat assessment team and Postal Inspectors are the same. They had the MPOO call customers and explain tort claim and MPOO is now a psychiatrist and she thinks these two men or calming down. I gave her my 2 cents about that also. I know how calming that woman isn't. ?Every time she has visited our office & she turns it upside down and leaves it engulfed in flames.
Second, I met with my PM and had Step 1 discussion. She told me the zero tolerance policy did not apply outside workroom floor & it was meant to protect you from other employees?. I wholeheartedly disagreed & explained my route is my workplace.
She asked me again if they had threatened me to my face. From one woman to another, seriously???? I responded I didn’t that was a qualifier to be considered a threat. I swear the Post Office is riddled with ignorant, stupid ass managers. She then had the audacity to say, you don’t think I have ever been threatened? These men came to the window twice in a ten day period and her chicken shit, dumbass wouldn’t speak to them. She had managers give them a number. That worked real well. I told her how nice it must be to have a door between you and the person threatening you. Your asking me to service their box and stop right next to there home 3 times daily.
She also told me I was worrying to much about it????
So now I will sit here for another week and a half using LWOP after filing FMLA. It will be a total of 3 weeks when all said and done. Looks I will start new Rt August 3rd. Praying that the union is able to get all my pay & benefits back. Both Routes are 46K. That is the only bright side of all this?

Uhh, are you aware a "talon" may be in reference to rounds?

Not at all surprised.
 
Wow, your PM is even more clueless than I originally thought.

You are correct. The zero tolerance policy handed down from on high says she is responsible for your safety.

Please go over her ignorant head. She needs to be educated, she may cost you your life or your health, or drop the ball with someone else in the future. Her posture, (I'm addressing the fact that her head's up her @$$), is dangerously negligent. She is incapable of doing her job, and you are (quite reasonably) suffering.
 
Please tell us you spoke directly to postal inspector?! These are the kind of chicken shit people who leave booby traps at boxes. This isn't about you anymore, this is about every carrier required to drive by their location. Please have inspector help you file a restraining order. And the next carrier should get one as well. They should have had delivery suspended.
 
MPOO is now a psychiatrist and she thinks these two men or calming down.

So what if they're "calming down!" They have broken the law and should suffer consequences.

Second, I met with my PM and had Step 1 discussion. She told me the zero tolerance policy did not apply outside workroom floor & it was meant to protect you from other employees?.

Wrong. She, as your boss and is required to keep you safe. Any incident is deemed preventable, especially one involving written plans disseminated on a public forum.


I wholeheartedly disagreed & explained my route is my workplace.

You are correct, but then, you have a brain in your head.

She asked me again if they had threatened me to my face.

Immaterial. Their posts constitute legal threats.

From one woman to another, seriously???? I responded I didn’t that was a qualifier to be considered a threat.

You are correct.

I swear the Post Office is riddled with ignorant, stupid ass managers.

You are correct.

She then had the audacity to say, you don’t think I have ever been threatened?

It's her responsibility to handle those threats,too.

These men came to the window twice in a ten day period and her chicken shit, dumbass wouldn’t speak to them. She had managers give them a number. That worked real well.

Lame, unprofessional and dangerous. She can get USPS help to handle the problem. The Postal Inspectors went to my stalker's house wearing their guns, and spoke to him. What does she want to do, give them a "time out?"


I told her how nice it must be to have a door between you and the person threatening you. Your asking me to service their box and stop right next to there home 3 times daily.

Rational, valid observation. Unfortunately, those qualities cut no ice with her limited view of her responsibility to you. Unforgivable.

She also told me I was worrying to much about it????

No, someone needs to be worrying about it. She is clueless.
 
So now he/she is threatening the PM....I bet it becomes more serious, very quickly. I feel for you. I'll never understand these people who claim to love their dogs so much but allow them to just run around...chasing cars all day.
No, this is not new knowledge. They just don’t believe they are a real threat. No way I can work that route again knowing how unstable they are. The lies and slander are the icing on the cake.
 
Yep, yep & yep. I have never felt so disgusted in my life and I’m not young. I love my job as a Rural Carrier, but this makes me want to walk away from it all. I started working with USPS in 1998, went regular 2007. I pray that this new Rt will give me enough gusto to make it to 20 years & my ass is out of here.
 
No, this is not new knowledge. They just don’t believe they are a real threat. No way I can work that route again knowing how unstable they are. The lies and slander are the icing on the cake.

You must save and forward all documents to your congresspersons and cc to local news.
This person is beyond venting. Do they know where you live? Do you have pets?
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No, this is not new knowledge. They just don’t believe they are a real threat. No way I can work that route again knowing how unstable they are. The lies and slander are the icing on the cake.

When I asked my manager to call the postal inspectors the first time, years ago, they said they thought he just had a little crush on me. Moronic incompetence.
 
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