Social Media threats-Updated September 12, 2020

[DUPED]

DUPED -- Contact the Postal Inspectors. Relate your experience and provide the inspectors with the FB and tweeter info.

-- What is the "leash law" for your state / community?

-- Inform your Assistant District Representative of you PM's lack of activity including her "It's out of my hands." comment.

-- Certainly sounds like you should be giving EAP a call for an appointment -- sooner rather than later!

-- Invite the PM over to the office bulletin board to look at the USPS policies on ZERO Tolerance, Harassment, Bullying, Threats, etc.

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.

As I noted, I know the Postal inspectors, MPOO and PM are all knowing. I have filed my grievance, I even went to our safety captain last week and he immediately sent all Tweets @ FB posts directly to District where he is supposed to send all safety concerns. The PM then chewed him out on Monday because he didn’t go through her. You can’t make this stuff up.

 

[Gotrope]

I just call them myself these days. Too many mgrs don't understand threatening behavior from their air-conditioned office. Sort of like I tell every new hire to call 911 for a dog bite, just to make certain animal control is contacted. Most supervisors will not follow through on rabies check or notification of dangerous dog. 911 has protocols in place for contacting all applicable agencies... including postal inspectors.

 

[Gotrope]

As I noted, I know the Postal inspectors, MPOO and PM are all knowing. I have filed my grievance, I even went to our safety captain last week and he immediately sent all Tweets @ FB posts directly to District where he is supposed to send all safety concerns. The PM then chewed him out on Monday because he didn’t go through her. You can’t make this stuff up.

You owe your safety captain a ?. They did what they are supposed to do. Protect the employee, damn the supervisors.

 

[DUPED]

Try proper channels first. Then go to congressperson. Do not go to media unless you want to be fired for putting USPS in a bad light. If the congressperson wants to go to the media, well then...
I know I can’t go to media.....but hmmmm. Maybe I could send a copy of my grievance, my 11 page typed statement, screen shots of all tweets & FB posts, my State Rep Congressman and Senator.
All I know is that in the end Social Media is here to stay. We, as employees should be protected to the fullest from these type of threats, slander & intimidation.

 

[RDruckus]

As I noted, I know the Postal inspectors, MPOO and PM are all knowing. I have filed my grievance, I even went to our safety captain last week and he immediately sent all Tweets @ FB posts directly to District where he is supposed to send all safety concerns. The PM then chewed him out on Monday because he didn’t go through her. You can’t make this stuff up.

Your PM is a sorry piece of work. Does your District Rep know what is happening?

 

[DUPED]

You owe your safety captain a ?. They did what they are supposed to do. Protect the employee, damn the supervisors.

I did Thank him. Even though at this point I haven’t seen or heard anything from District. When I go back to work my new Rt I will definitely remember the doughnuts.

 

[RDruckus]

I just call them myself these days. Too many mgrs don't understand threatening behavior from their air-conditioned office. Sort of like I tell every new hire to call 911 for a dog bite, just to make certain animal control is contacted. Most supervisors will not follow through on rabies check or notification of dangerous dog. 911 has protocols in place for contacting all applicable agencies... including postal inspectors.

Good to know about 911.
If ever threatened by a boss, I'm calling 911, too.

 

[DUPED]

Your PM is a sorry piece of work. Does your District Rep know what is happening?

He is aware and my local Steward has been sending things on to him as I give it to her. We know it’s going to Step 2. So he will already have everything he needs.

 

[Gotrope]

I called 911 on a mgr who grabbed me by the arm and tried to pull me out of the building. He was an absolute lying nutjob. He tried to tell the police they had no right on the premises. I asked them to stay until the feds could show up. They did and further pissed off Mr nutjob.

 

[DUPED]

As I noted, I know the Postal inspectors, MPOO and PM are all knowing. I have filed my grievance, I even went to our safety captain last week and he immediately sent all Tweets @ FB posts directly to District where he is supposed to send all safety concerns. The PM then chewed him out on Monday because he didn’t go through her. You can’t make this stuff up.

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I did Thank him. Even though at this point I haven’t seen or heard anything from District. When I go back to work my new Rt I will definitely remember the doughnuts.

 

[DUPED]

 

[DUPED]

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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I’m pretty sure they don’t know my name or where I live. I live about 12 miles away and in a different city with a larger city between us. One of the main reasons I haven’t filed a police report in their county is because they would get my name when adjudicated. I do have a good friend who is a detective in our city that made a phone call to the lieutenant in the county in which they live. They Sheriffs started increasing patrols during window of time that USPS usually delivers their territory, as well as increased park and sits very close to their home. The Lieutenant told my officer friend he was going to make a visit to their door to let them know they are aware of their activity on social media. This was last Friday. I do know these wackos have not made a post Twitter and FB pages they had been using for almost 6 days. Now that doesn’t mean they haven’t opened a new Twitter or FB account, but I have tried to do everything within my power to protect the carriers. As I told my officer friend, I won’t be back out there, but I am concerned for the safety of my sub, RCA’s & Senior RCA that was awarded my route.

 

[Diana_of_Themyscira]

I know I shouldn't be, but I'm constantly shocked by the incompetent, unfeeling, unprofessional people who populate so much of our management structure.

SPOT ON !

 

[csparks]

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Given what he's posted, he would be a decent candidate for whats called an EOD in my state. Emergency Order of Detention. A person that presents a "danger to himself or others", can be held for a 72 hour evaluation at a mental facility. Also, the paperwork can be forwarded to the DA's office. In the event the person is not determined to warrant mental treatment, the DA can decide whether or not a criminal offense has occurred.
Typically, the DA is never satisfied enough with threats to file charges without some outward act, or a proven ability to carry out the threat.

I guess those posts are still from his original outburst, but if he continues to escalate....

 

[DUPED]

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Given what he's posted, he would be a decent candidate for whats called an EOD in my state. Emergency Order of Detention. A person that presents a "danger to himself or others", can be held for a 72 hour evaluation at a mental facility. Also, the paperwork can be forwarded to the DA's office. In the event the person is not determined to warrant mental treatment, the DA can decide whether or not a criminal offense has occurred.
Typically, the DA is never satisfied enough with threats to file charges without some outward act, or a proven ability to carry out the threat.

I guess those posts are still from his original outburst, but if he continues to escalate....

BTW, Duped, can you tell me how you're finding this? When I look at the twitter page, I don't see it. (Unless this is black ops intel) Guessing its being deleted, but I know nothing about twitter.
In our state a person who presents a likelihood of serious harm to self or others as the result of a mental disorder or alcohol or drug abuse may be involuntarily detained for evaluation and treatment at a mental health or alcohol/drug abuse facility recognized by the Department of Mental Health. A 96 hour hold require three affidavits to be completed. For example an officer of the law, social worker, family member, neighbor, mail carrier, etc. After I was made aware that the “threat assessment team” was looking into these guys, I went to my steward. I told her if there is some sort of threat, don’t I have the right to know what it is? She contacted DR and he said yes so we went to PM and asked what was the threat. She read from her computer 4 tweets that were written on Twitter from an email she received from threat assessment team. There may have been more, but that’s all she read. I felt instantly unsafe, but who in their right mind wouldn’t in this day and age. Of course the PM tried to assure me that I was fine to go out and service my route as usual. My steward and I asked for them to halt mail service, have management take them their mail, etc to no avail. I asked to speak to the threat assessment team and she called them. I asked several questions, did the postal inspectors go talk to them? no, but the
MPOO called to explain to them the tort claim process and she thinks they are “calming down” So I went home that Friday and began looking at social media threads on both Twitter and FB. I had to open a Twitter account to see the tweets. I was looking under Balloon Guyz in Twitter and then I noticed on one of their Tweets someone had commented. This TaLoN character had the same or similar profile picture of the dog. So I clicked on that and that’s when things got real. It gave me chills. Not only as I read about the dog rants but I was able to get a glimpse into the man prior to the dog incident. I knew before the weekend was out that I would never go back on my route of 10+ years if I had anything to do with it. Of course there was more on FB in business thread. I was able to see through normal search and with help I was able to retrieve posts from his personal FB Page through someone that happened to be on his friends that I knew. This person had went to grade school and highs high school with him and told me he had sent a friend request to her many years ago and she accepted it even though she always thought he was crazy, thinking maybe he had changed as she had not seen him in 30 years. She said she had to block his posts from her timeline because of the vulgar, bizarre things he said not too her but just outwardly daily things. She said she had never officially unfriended him because she didn’t want to piss him off. This was before I told her anything about my situation. Anyhow, the guy is clearly unhinged as far as I am concerned. I must have been one hell of a mail lady for the ten years I serviced his box because I never had one single time that he complained about anything. I had never even laid eyes on this dog. It was always indoors or on the gated porch, yapping. If the guy ever had a package he or his partner would come out and meet me to retrieve it. Even the day it got under my tire in LLV, I never saw as I was approaching the row of 3 mailboxes. I’m pretty sure it darted towards the right rear tire and misjudged how close it was to me?

 

[DUPED]

35 years and counting. Good news is, there's usually a different PM in a few years, maybe you'll get one based in reality sometime!
I figure those two bozos may get locked up for cooking meth.

Hopefully for drugs and not hurting someone. They have this Balloon Guyz, little business out of their home and they are around children and do community events that are focused towards kids. Knowing what I know now makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[DUPED]

Trying to type on my phone?

 

[Sprocket]

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.

I said before. Call the PI directly. Call your Poom. Call the police. Call the District Manager. send a certified letter to the PMG.

CALL THE MEDIA / PRESS.

Seriously, you have let this go too far.

 

[EthelAnne]

Hopefully for drugs and not hurting someone. They have this Balloon Guyz, little business out of their home and they are around children and do community events that are focused towards kids. Knowing what I know now makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah their Twitter feed is really delightful--full of violent fantasies and recreational pot. Seems like a real charmer. The jerks on my route don't seem so bad now . . .

 

[DUPED]

I said before. Call the PI directly. Call your Poom. Call the police. Call the District Manager. send a certified letter to the PMG.

CALL THE MEDIA / PRESS.

Seriously, you have let this go too far.

I have let this go too far?
With your comment I would like to think you meant management

I said before. Call the PI directly. Call your Poom. Call the police. Call the District Manager. send a certified letter to the PMG.

CALL THE MEDIA / PRESS.

Seriously, you have let this go too far.

I would like to think you meant management has let this go too far. Or you just haven't read my entire post. My husband wanted to go confront them the same day I found out. I wouldn’t let him because I would like to keep my job & husband. If you read the entire post, the Postal Inspectors are aware. I have spoken to a dear friend who is an officer of 40 years. I don’t want these people to have my name & they would if I file a police report. He is working on the backside to help ensure the safety of USPS employees to the best of his ability.
I had no knowledge of how truly irrational these men were until July 12th. I am in a safe place and I have bid a new Rt that I will start next PP. I have spent countless hours doing my own research trying to collect their disgusting tweets and FB threads before they disappeared.
I had to go to Dr. and get FMLA papers filed to ensure my own safety because my employer wouldn’t. Reached out to safety captain.
I have already filed my grievance for management failing to ensure me with a safe work environment. As well as a 12 page typed statement of every last thing that has occurred since June 18th.
I can not reach out to the media....that is if you would like to see me stay unemployed. I hope to God no other carriers go through this, including you.