The perpetrator of this act previously made verbal threats to other employees, male and female. She also caused one employee to lose his job because she threatened him. He was fired for not coming to work. So essentially, we can draw the conclusion that all of the big talk that we have heard come from USPS HQ and all of the joint statements from Management and the Union, none of the safety and stress videos that they have paid us to watch, has any meaning at all when push comes to shove, if you will pardon a small pun there. You can imagine the laughter that ensued.
Carriers also note that customer complaints about misdeliveries and non-deliveries go unanswered.
Union official Dennis Drew said the plan calls for doubling the routes of letter carriers. According to sources, a route inspection team has been busy for months checking routes and will continue to do so until the summer months. Television network's CBS Channel 11 affiliate reported on the story of John Patrick Rose, a mechanic at the Dallas Post Office, who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tools, tires, engine parts, engines, and other items from and through the Dallas Post Office. Items included a 350 Chevrolet engine that coincidentally fit his Chevrolet Suburban vehicle. The alleged thefts occurred over a five year period, however, local postal officials declined to answer reporter questions about the perceived lack of safeguards or how long the postal service had actually known of the thefts.