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Postal worker distributes flyer to customers asking them to "ship all you can" during the rural mail count.

In the flier distributed this week, the postal worker wrote in part:

“During the period of March 12- March 26, 2016, I would really appreciate your help.

The USPS “counts” every piece of mail, parcels, etc. that I handle. The purpose of this 2- week sampling is to set my pay, paid time off, etc. for the ensuing year.

So please mail, mail, order, order, click and ship all you can…”

In the flier, the postal worker goes on to write: “increasing my workload during this “sampling period” might actually get me a paid-day off… What a concept!”

In response to the carrier’s letter, the USPS released this statement:

“The carrier’s note was not endorsed by the Postal Service and is against policy that prohibits solicitation of the public. We apologize to the customers who received it and assure them that appropriate action will be taken.”

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Source: USPS apologizes after carrier leaves letter asking residents to “ship all you can” | 9news.com

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Mark Pearl
Mark Pearl
7 years ago

Much of the public already believes we are paid too much and would hold back mail just for spite

Polly Gibson
Polly Gibson
7 years ago

Wow, anyone know what PO has done to carrier?

Leland Grant
Leland Grant
Reply to  Polly Gibson
7 years ago

it can be a termination action, he was blatant about why and what to do, they will act to remove i imagine.

Christy Van Inwegen
Christy Van Inwegen
7 years ago

It is sad that we can’t do this but the post office intentionally holds mail during the count and that’s fair? Smh.

Michael Volz
Michael Volz
Reply to  Christy Van Inwegen
7 years ago

Cal your union

Amanda Horn
Amanda Horn
Reply to  Christy Van Inwegen
7 years ago

They do it every year. I bet this is the time of year were our union hears the most out of everyone.

Shirley Palmisano
Shirley Palmisano
7 years ago

Somebody’s in trouble..

Terri Lawrence
Terri Lawrence
7 years ago

The carrier wouldn’t have to do this if we were paid fairly in the first place.

Michael Volz
Michael Volz
7 years ago

I done that. But not on paper. Went to k-route.

Francine Reilly
Francine Reilly
7 years ago

Can we say fired?

Jen Ogrodowski
Jen Ogrodowski
7 years ago

That was really stupid.He will probably get the time off he wanted.

Brenda D Wren
Brenda D Wren
7 years ago

hahahaha

Lee Neilsen Shelly
Lee Neilsen Shelly
7 years ago

I don’t know about this carrier, but I had a customer that was having package delivery issues because they didn’t have a box. All’s I did was suggest they put up a box to solve the problem. I got a verbal, for soliciting business. SMH

Christie Princess Bryant
Christie Princess Bryant
Reply to  Lee Neilsen Shelly
7 years ago

They have to have a box in order to get packages…you shouldn’t have gotten in trouble for getting a box added to your route.

Lee Neilsen Shelly
Lee Neilsen Shelly
Reply to  Lee Neilsen Shelly
7 years ago

They said it was “soliciting” business. PROHIBITED! I countered it was “educating” the customer, lol. The customer did put up a box & problem was solved & no further action from “leaders” was taken. So (shrugs shoulders) I’ll take it! 🙂

Pam Renshaw Ross
Pam Renshaw Ross
Reply to  Lee Neilsen Shelly
7 years ago

Yet we can solicit for the PO by doing Rural Reach…smh

Lee Neilsen Shelly
Lee Neilsen Shelly
Reply to  Lee Neilsen Shelly
7 years ago

Pam Renshaw Ross also one of the points I made!!!! I had recently just acquired a business in that program as well. Ha ha on them!

Kurt Kreiger
Kurt Kreiger
7 years ago

They can order all they want….its mail count…itll be 2 weeks late

Cynthia Berry
Cynthia Berry
Reply to  Kurt Kreiger
7 years ago

Unfortunately, we’ve been going through the pre count purge for the last 2 weeks. It’s so obvious and the union does nothing.

Jamie Nielsen Deiss
Jamie Nielsen Deiss
7 years ago

And that is how you get fired. We had a carrier get fired just for removing rubber bands from collection box mail. They don’t f around at count.

Elaine Giglio
Elaine Giglio
7 years ago

I think solicting for business for the whole year is ok but looks dishonest for just count…imagine if you were your own customer during count …living on your route…

Tina Nichols Ransiear
Tina Nichols Ransiear
Reply to  Elaine Giglio
7 years ago

I was…not a thing they can do, especially if the parcels are in your husbands name

Kristin Deeds
Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

Meanwhile in offices around the country everyone is drowning in flats and box holders this week!!

Teri Slavik
Teri Slavik
Reply to  Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

Sure! Have to clean out the plant.

Tracy Sheffield Carter
Tracy Sheffield Carter
Reply to  Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

Yep. Had farmers furniture boxholders today and flats out the ying yang!

Kristin Deeds
Kristin Deeds
Reply to  Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

Ugh!! And I have no choice, I have to count my route because I went regular Feb 20th… One freaking day after the opt out ended!

Helen Seravalli
Helen Seravalli
Reply to  Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

All kinds of pizza stuff and other coverages every day

Linda Jolene Jones
Linda Jolene Jones
Reply to  Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

True

Theresa Q Smith
Theresa Q Smith
Reply to  Kristin Deeds
7 years ago

It’s been nuts with all the bulk flats

Vera Agostino Pagano
Vera Agostino Pagano
7 years ago

Did everyone share the article? ?

Rhea Grainger
Rhea Grainger
Reply to  Vera Agostino Pagano
7 years ago

I did!!!!!

Nicole Kinney
Nicole Kinney
Reply to  Vera Agostino Pagano
7 years ago

It crossed my mind ?

Joe W. White
Joe W. White
7 years ago

So……obviously he will be getting a whole lot of UN-PAID days off!!

Chris Torick
Chris Torick
7 years ago

Haha just tell them verbally

Nena Bowers
Nena Bowers
7 years ago

That was a very foolish thing to do. The carrier could be accused of trying to influence the count, which is a fireable offense.

Melissa Simmons Canady
Melissa Simmons Canady
7 years ago

I would like to share this article! !!

Kyle Stoner
Kyle Stoner
7 years ago

Yikes

Jennifer Haynes Leach
Jennifer Haynes Leach
7 years ago

Do anyone know where this happen at?

Cynthia Favalora
Cynthia Favalora
7 years ago

Question…in each of our area that we live and work, what better paying job can you get with your education and background, than your PO job….I know it’s a hard job, but that is why it is called work…and I know management will screw us over if they can but just do your job right the same way every day

Kathleen Eckert Harsh
Kathleen Eckert Harsh
Reply to  Cynthia Favalora
7 years ago

True most of us are not college graduates and do make a decent salary but we work hard for that salary in all kinds of weather. What do we get in thanks for it the threat of losing part of our salary every couple of years because of a bad count. Just hard to accept that we can be working for a place for close to 30 years and still have to worry about our paychecks. I have a friend who works for another branch of the government they work from home lots of times they complain about other coworkers… Read more »

Mora Corbitt
Mora Corbitt
7 years ago

Wouldn’t Rural Reach be considered soliciting? Do we want their business or not? Or do we only want it when we don’t get credit for it

Cynthia Berry
Cynthia Berry
7 years ago

Well heck ya, its not like the union is gonna help us. Gotta help yourself.

Brandy Heston
Brandy Heston
7 years ago

This should be a “turnabout is fair play” situation surely. ?

Kathy Henderson Cook
Kathy Henderson Cook
7 years ago

We are not measured by what “they” do or what someone else did. We are measured by what we do. As for me, I’ll fight like a rabid animal for all I’m ent*tled but make no attempt at dishonest gain. No intent of religious speech, just raised on hand shake values by fine parents.

Irvin Wendy Deen Bracewell
Irvin Wendy Deen Bracewell
7 years ago

Denise Baucom

Denise Baucom
Denise Baucom
Reply to  Irvin Wendy Deen Bracewell
7 years ago

What ah DA…. GEEZ

Irvin Wendy Deen Bracewell
Irvin Wendy Deen Bracewell
Reply to  Irvin Wendy Deen Bracewell
7 years ago

that’s what I thought!!

Mark Pearl
Mark Pearl
7 years ago

I would be happy to just get what we are supposed to get, but we are always doing more and more for free

Kathy Williams Marlow
Kathy Williams Marlow
7 years ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if the PO DIDNT SEND out some type of letters to customers encouraging them NOT to mail during this time. But this would be OK

Mark Pearl
Mark Pearl
Reply to  Kathy Williams Marlow
7 years ago

There are more stories on the news about mailbox theft right before count, coincidence?

Mark Pearl
Mark Pearl
Reply to  Kathy Williams Marlow
7 years ago

There are more stories on the news about mailbox theft right before count, coincidence?

Ruth Krause Wilson
Ruth Krause Wilson
7 years ago

We can’t win…….

Tracy O'Hara DiGeorgio
Tracy O'Hara DiGeorgio
7 years ago

I hope he was smart enough to at least put a stamp on all those flyers. That would be where the PO could nail him.

Vera Agostino Pagano
Vera Agostino Pagano
Reply to  Tracy O'Hara DiGeorgio
7 years ago

He signed them

Harry Paul
Harry Paul
Reply to  Tracy O'Hara DiGeorgio
7 years ago

He could get nailed for influencing the mail count, regardless of if he used postage.

Maria T Roesch
Maria T Roesch
7 years ago

o*g. Sad. Really, but this is our burden. I

Kelly Hayes
Kelly Hayes
7 years ago

Unfortunately the powers that be in the USPS will seriously try to fire this carrier.I hope not.We know they cheat us as much as possible.

Rayeann Reeves
Rayeann Reeves
7 years ago

He should be fired.

April Brown Graham
April Brown Graham
7 years ago

SLAMMED ALL WEEK! This is our spring break week for our area, several will be on hold so not as many packages will be headed this way.

Maria T Roesch
Maria T Roesch
7 years ago

I totally can relate to this person…it’s wrong our pay is determined for an entire year over a two week period when the mail is at it lightest and the po can manipulate the flow. I did not count even though I know I’m bigger than a 41k because I have lost faith and trust in the po to give me a decent resulet. It was more important to me to live the next two weeks unstressed then the hour or two I would have gone up…the system is flawed and needs to change desparetly.

Joanne Crockett Lambert
Joanne Crockett Lambert
7 years ago

lol

Linde Grisham
Linde Grisham
7 years ago

Of what about p o giving discount to mailers if customers can wait a month

Ray Lambert
Ray Lambert
7 years ago

Agreed

Bryan Landers
Bryan Landers
7 years ago

They know exactly how much mail we deliver. Every parcel has a scan now. Why count our mail? Just average it out for the whole year!

Tom Newman
Tom Newman
7 years ago

Hmmm the P O wants us to solicit our services with rural reach to take business from UPS and Fedex so the P O can make $$$$$ but when he tries to solicit for himself and the P O he can be fired? Thats screwed up.

Roxanna Bryant Webster
Roxanna Bryant Webster
7 years ago

Rut-ro

Eileen Fletcher
Eileen Fletcher
7 years ago

I have sometimes just plainly said… support your local post office. mail a letter instead of an email for a more personal message to a loved one. just something generic lol but never mention it due to the count etc before. that’s a little bold

Molly Hatchet-Kuipers
Molly Hatchet-Kuipers
7 years ago

mail gets held back for count, so I guess this is “all’s fair in love and war”

Andrea Stanley
Andrea Stanley
7 years ago

I’m not condoning what this carrier did but what I will say is….it’s no different than their blatant ways of doing the count when we have no mail. They couldn’t even count us the1st-13th to get all the 1st of the months flats. They made sure to wait after the election. We’ve been hearing that our subs have been delivering Priority along with Amazon on Sunday…We really need a better system. And WHY do we have to be re-measured everytime count happens if there are no changes….everybody measures differently…. Just pay us for what we do, thats all we want!… Read more »

Rayeann Reeves
Rayeann Reeves
Reply to  Andrea Stanley
7 years ago

If they are delivering those priority on Sunday other than the holiday period that this is supposed to happen you need to contact a steward. Amazon pays for this Sunday service and they should be the only ones getting their packages delivered on Sunday. It should not be our place but unfortunately it is our place to make sure things are done correctly. Those packages could be the difference in someone going to the next hour during a mail count.

Andrea Stanley
Andrea Stanley
Reply to  Andrea Stanley
7 years ago

Yes, well aware of what to do, thank you though 🙂

Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
7 years ago

Like it BUT don’t do. Against the rules, we can not solicit deliveries.

Angelia Perez Wright
Angelia Perez Wright
7 years ago

Someone is probably going to get in trouble for this.??yikes!

Bradley Morrow
Bradley Morrow
7 years ago

No different then them pushing all the mail out before and after count . It’s just a bad system no one cares to fix.

Jodi Dunnack Ouellette
Jodi Dunnack Ouellette
7 years ago

What I f up systems never. Gonna change sad sad sad

Margaret Smith
Margaret Smith
7 years ago

Being forced for the THIRD year in a row…..even when they do screw you, they want to do it harder. I can’t believe they have the nerve to claim they don’t hold mail back. 1st thing I said when I walked in and saw the heaping stacks of mail -“bet you would never believe that count starts Sat**day “. What a joke! Better get more Vaseline. …