"I have no reassurance for [customers] either," Chris said. "All I can say is that when we get what they are waiting for, we get it right out to them."
This has never been the case. In my years at the post office, a 40-hour work week is unheard of during the holidays. Usually the month of December is filled with 60-hour work weeks. My local management's hands are tied. My office supervisors and postmasters know very little outside of the same thing they keep being told and relaying the message that "we can't keep up with the volume." They don't have any more information than we do. The packages get sent and just get stuck somewhere in the middle. We haven't limited the workforce, so there's plenty of people to deliver the mail.
Not sure where he worked, but the Kentuckiana district was hit hard by staffing issues due to Covid. Every craft position was hit hard. Staffing shortages were commonplace everywhere. 8 hour days still weren’t happening, it was common to work 10-12 hours everyday.
KatCapps Took 3 weeks for a 1st class letter to arrive. Contained a check from one of my clients. Two other checks from clients took 15 days. Fortunately, that didn’t cause us any problems. But what if I had been counting on those checks to buy food or pay housing expense? Inexcusable!
Trump and his administration did this. They did this to keep mail in ballots form getting counted. They have intertidally sabotaged the system multiple times. As well as putting unqualified cronies in positions they shouldn't hold.