Here is why we are broke.

[ATCBigE]

34K views · 128 reactions | IF YOUR ROUTE DONT LOOK LIKE THIS YOU GOT AN AUX ROUTE | GenuinePear5825

If your route ain't like this, you have an aux route. This is 8 hours?!?!?

 

[justacarrier]

As much as I hate to say, there is just no mail anymore. I can be gone for a week and not even have to worry about putting my mail on hold anymore!

 

[ATCBigE]

As much as I hate to say, there is just no mail anymore. I can be gone for a week and not even have to worry about putting my mail on hold anymore!

I agree but if this is 8 hours. My route is easily 16 hours a day then compared to that.

 

[Worve]

Interesting take looks like a rage bait video.

 

[jaymacgthree]

I used to do a 2.67 Aux that would have had the back of that LLV packed and way more mail. Scary

 

[Old Fart]

That's the last 5% of my route....

My route has varied up or down one hour since start of RRECS.

 

[LouSainus]

I talked to some city carriers about how their routes are adjusted. Most of them have not had evaluations in 3 to 4 years. They are on average about half the size of our rural routes.

 

[Ally]

I talked to some city carriers about how their routes are adjusted. Most of them have not had evaluations in 3 to 4 years. They are on average about half the size of our rural routes.

since city carriers are paid hourly, and not given a specific time at a stop at each box, there are ways to keep their routes 8 hours. for example not cutting lawns. And not "running" their routes. And if they don't have mail for a house but the house has outgoing they still get "paid" for walking up to their house. for mounted, they can pull up to a box, stop and finger every piece a mail, it is not timed.

 

[Rt2mailman]

Although city carriers do not work efficiently as rural carriers, they do some work and add to the USPS by "delivering", our only "Product" we actually have to sell, our "service".
Usps managers do nothing to add to our "Product", they deliver nothing. Does any office notice when a manager is on vacation? No, that's because they aren't necessary. They are similar to the lights, somewhat necessary, but only add a cost to the Usps. If we had one working employee paid a slight amount more than now to do payroll, we wouldn't need most of our managers.
Then look at the number of managers the Usps has compared to any other business. Normal businesses have 1 manager for ever 25 workers. The Usps has 40,000 managers for 640,000 workers. 640,000 employees should be able to be managed by fewer than 5,000 managers which would still be higher than our country's national average.
If the Usps was able to lay off 35,000 of their highest paid employees, not only would we be in the "Black" instead of in the red, we could, once again, make the company so profitable we could lower the national debt by $6 billion/year. When you see any Usps manager today, know that is the reason the USPS is broke.