old salt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:38 pm
CU77 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:38 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:37 pm
DeJoy just started in the job. He hasn't been there long enough to make significant changes.
False. New policies introduced by DeJoy include cessation of overtime, "work to rule" policies such as not picking up mail from boxes on a route once the time allotted for pickup has ended, etc etc etc.
It is these policies that are causing the backups.
Has that overtime policy gone into effect yet ? "work to rule" = picking up & delivering the mail on time.
Have the proposed rule changes been approved & implemented yet ?
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/29/usp ... atization/
Covid sick days & isolating contacts + increased covid package volume are causing the delays.
You have to remember the continuum here. The USPS handles literally millions upon millions of mailpieces every day irrespective of changes in overall seasonal daily volume. The reason they do the overtime to clear the floor of mail every day is there is a ton of new mail that comes in subsequently every night. So if you leave it you create essentially a permanent backlog that eventually, depending on daily volume, that you never clear of that takes up space in your facilities and then clearing it further delays incoming mail. This illustrates the risk of bringing in a "business" expert to handle essentially a public service function. The problem is exacerbated when you also can all the USPS staff who understand this and replace them with same type of otherwise clueless business "experts".
As we have seen over time - running government is not like running business - prima facie evidence of this is the DOPUS. It is a double whammy as he managed to bankrupt his private business multiple times. Replicating this with your pals and donors only multiplies the incompetence.
Also contract rates for package delivery and bulk mail are required by statute to be profitable before you can finalize a volume special rate so the DOPUS lie that they lose money on Amazon is fiction. The reality of this is that large bulk mailers often sort and deliver mail to carrier location already sorted in carrier route sequence so the USPS can delver the "last mile". If the backup occurs here, there is literally no place to store/sage the backlog and, hence, another reason for the OT rule to clear it every day.