What would we do without these dedicated union drones? I guess we need to rework the famous description of our noble letter carriers:
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, but bending over is out of the question.
Are you tired of getting bent over by government union workers yet?
Hat tip BostonBob
Postal Service Halts Deliveries to Low Mail Slots Forcing Workers to Bend Over
The postal service claims the slots are dangerous for their carriers and, as a result, the residents have to stand in lines an hour long at the 51st St. post office, many of them trying to pick up badly-needed medicines or their Social Security checks.
The residents of 46th Street were alerted to the change in their service by a letter from a postal service customer service manager arriving on August 21. The manager wrote, “My carrier has brought to my attention of his safety and I can’t afford for him to get injured. We are not trying to cause any unnecessary expense but we need this corrected.”
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Borough Park) was furious, calling the halt in service “insane.” Hikind asked, “Whatever happened to the post office delivering your mail in snow, sleet, hurricane?” He joined other elected officials to urge the USPS to resume its normal activities.
One 35-year resident of the neighborhood, Necha Altman, said she never had a problem getting her mail before through the slot at the bottom of her door. Once she got the letter warning of a change in service, she put new mailboxes on the wall, but the mail carrier balked because the new location required him to walk up nine steps. Altman said, “He’s not thinking of us. He’s thinking of himself.”
Dr. Hemlata Parmar joined her neighbors to discuss the issue with their postal carrier, but the carrier was apparently quite upset. Parnar said, “He started screaming and yelling at me.”
“He’s not thinking of us. He’s thinking of himself.”
Clearly this person is suffering from DC disease.
No cost is too high, nor inconvenience too great, to keep a gubment unionized drone from demanding we submit to their insanity.
Welcome to the very things that ‘murika’s small businesses have been vocalizing for decades.
Apparently the sheeple don’t like it when the shoe’s on their own foot.
What else is new.
Why don’t they lay down & crawl? Most are snakes any way.
A classic from Newman:
SS checks are all direct deposit now. Its mandatory.
Whaat? No onion?
Americans can be pretty whiney about having to install a new mailbox because they don’t have to directly pay the back care costs of someone bending over all day. It had to be rising health care/disability costs that led to the decision.
Don’t know about your area, but the letter carriers here in Miami, like the UPS guys, earn every dollar. You walk around in this heat and humidity at the speed they do. Most of us would be dead.
No they should not be unionized, but the post office problems are due to CONgress’s interference (what isn’t?)
The slogan “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” was not an invention of the post office–itself a big subsidy to Ben Franklin–but rather an architect who put on a new grand post office. It stuck after that.