Reply #20: A created disaster [View All]

[PATRICK]

despite whatever rationale they use and this one seems eager to open the door for layoff options forever.
Most of what postal management says and does is as crooked as a corkscrew. Hence, after decades of "modernization" they are not prepared in any way for a predictable confluence of problems. The automation
is dependent on the already reduced workforce. Despite mail volume slowdowns, ALL of the mail could be delayed by workforce reductions and overtime IS increasing already based on their counter productive panic moves. They also favor work methods guaranteeing the most hurt employees leaving more productive, labor saving devices idle and reviving cramped manual operations, poorly jury-rigged.

What is interesting is how many bosses have low seniority. They would be critically reduced(in management's eyes at least though they get not a scrap of work out of the building) if the unions get their way in insisting their positions be included in the mix. Non union members in no man's land would seem an unsympathetic bunch and they usually are but it might set a precedent for skipping management or goading them to take supervisory positions..

If they didn't try to cheat the workers with the way the early retirement packages were crafted... Well there are countless what ifs. The place was set up to fail and hand over to privatizers as in ALL RW led countries. The real failure comes when the jobs are privatized, downgraded into abusive poorly paid jobs, and never deliver the mail as well as the old USPS..