Reply #23: They are working to kill off [View All]

[PATRICK]

window service which may be a win/win step to closing local small post offices the politicians have kept open forever. The delivery mail carriers are already reduced by the modernization that cannot cope at all with crisis and inside the machines can't work at all without people to man them and run unprodcutively and slow with reduced staff. They have one person or two run around an entire machine which of course must stop entirely at times and more things just go wrong. The clunky old manual system meant many workers, simple attrition, adjusting of man hour. The new system stands or falls on automation that depends on a reduced work force with less flexibility and the narrow system MORE dependent on them.

RTo make the system appear productive and workable they have already reduced the work force and depended too much on overtime. Overtime is not fat on the system and if instead you trim the workforce you will fail even as you try to increase overtime for the survivors. That has happened very much in the less automated past when hiring freezes were in place too long.