Post copied from Nextdoor about Huntsville USPS
10 hr ago
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Here's the real raw picture for the mail in Huntsville: How would you feel if your employer told you on the Monday before Thanksgiving that you suddenly had to work Thanksgiving Day? How would you feel if Christmas, New Year’s, birthdays, weddings, funerals, your child's graduation, Mother's Day, Father's Day, your child being sick, or even the birth of your grandbaby could all be ripped away from you at the last minute because management demanded you come in or face discipline, loss of pay, or write-ups? How about your planned vacation canceled? Or if you are a rural carrier, no vacation or time off approved for over a year? Or how would you feel if your job put you in the emergency room for a near heart attack and they are calling you asking if you be back at work? That is the reality many Huntsville postal employees live with constantly. People are exhausted. They are overworked, understaffed, and burned out. Many work extreme hours for days and weeks at a time. Some miss major life events because they are terrified of retaliation if they say no. And when employees try to report what’s happening to the people above the local Postmaster, nothing changes. Complaints disappear into silence while conditions continue getting worse. The public sees delayed mail. What employees see is: not enough carriers not enough clerks supervisors stretched beyond capacity constant turnover and not even enough mail vehicles for fully staffed offices to deliver mail People move to Huntsville thinking they’re starting a better life and career, only to realize how severe the conditions are. Many leave as quickly as they can. Others transfer elsewhere and immediately start calling former coworkers saying, “Get out if you can. It’s so much better here.” And that reputation spreads. Employees who leave Huntsville tell people in other states how bad conditions are here, which means fewer experienced workers are willing to transfer in. Word travels fast through the Postal Service. People hear about the mandatory overtime, constant chaos, lack of staffing, lack of vehicles, and burnout, and many decide they do not want to come to Huntsville at all. They had to offer incentives to get people from other states to come work in Huntsville temporarily for the month of December. Those poor workers were mortified at how this city's postal service is ran which means this is a Huntsville problem. That makes the staffing crisis even worse. And because the system is built on layers of management protecting metrics, employees are often pressured to “stop the clock” on packages so upper management sees clean reports instead of operational failures. That means scans like: “delivered” “no access” “mailbox obstructed” “customer unavailable” can sometimes be used to prevent failures from appearing in reports — even when the real issue is understaffing, impossible workloads, lack of vehicles, or management pressure. The public deserves the truth. Postal workers are trying to survive inside a system that is breaking them while leadership continues pretending everything is fine. Btw, local Station Mangers and Supervisors are constantly out delivering the mail instead of managing the Post Office. Please, contact Dale Strong. Burn his phone and email up. Stand up for your post office and your delivery that is important to you. Enough is enough. Stop the cover up! Stop upper management's bonuses for making it look like your mail got delivered off by the poor people they don't pay enough and abuse them like slaves. PS. If you knew how many fines they paid out constantly, you'd understand why the post office is bankrupt.