I'm a postie from CUPE 548. The corp is under ongoing investigation from the union for delaying mail to cut costs and manufacture a crisis during the CIRB investigation. The "SSD" system they implemented here a year ago generally delays mail already by up to 5-6 business days as is. - ThreadSky

karlbarn.bsky.social • 23 days ago

I'm a postie from CUPE 548. The corp is under ongoing investigation from the union for delaying mail to cut costs and manufacture a crisis during the CIRB investigation. The "SSD" system they implemented here a year ago generally delays mail already by up to 5-6 business days as is.

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karlbarn.bsky.social•23 days ago

*cupw548

karlbarn.bsky.social•23 days ago

Cool tidbit: if you have mail that ran through a mechanical sorting machine, look at the back on the bottom. There will be a faint printed date from when it actually was sorted and ready to ship out from your local plant to your local depot (that shipment is supposed to be same day, generally)

karlbarn.bsky.social•23 days ago

Because we don't have mandatory forcebacks/overtime and the routes are now 50-70% larger, posties are dead tired and do what they can in 8 hours and then go home. This PDM (previous days mail) piles up and, because supervisors get a bonus for low staffing levels, relief staff are often not called in

codykinski.bsky.social•23 days ago

Indeed. Here's something that actually happened to a package of mine a month or so ago.

codykinski.bsky.social•23 days ago

(The blurred part's my location.)

karlbarn.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oof! Yeah, the US postal system is well on its way to privatization with that hub and spoke inefficient system. What did Noam Chomsky say? Something like "if you want to privatize something, mismanage and underfund it so it doesn't work anymore and people hate it. Then you manufacture consent to $"

codykinski.bsky.social•23 days ago

It seems very clear that internationally there's a major drive to privatize any public services that can be monetized. The oligarchs are eager to take advantage of everything they possibly can, and circumstances are certainly in their favor at the moment.

codykinski.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yep. For years a package would track to Springfield and I could depend on getting it the next day. This is just the most extreme of recent delays. Trump's appointing DeJoy (with his financial interests in private delivery systems) has been an efficient way to make private services seem preferable.

chestercat.bsky.social•23 days ago

Following you now, just because I have a lot of respect for CUPW workers.

chestercat.bsky.social•23 days ago

And since our family lives in other provinces, we rely on Canada post for so much.

karlbarn.bsky.social•8 days ago

Just seeing this now. Sorry! I love to hear all that. Call me a huge softie but personal letters and packages are my favorite thing to deliver. Especially when people draw cool art or put little notes on em

chestercat.bsky.social•8 days ago

I did mail our son a real Lunenburg county Christmas tree the first year he moved away. I am not so sure that the Oshawa letter carrier was happy about its bulkiness.

karlbarn.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ha ha ha
That's awesome! I wouldn't worry. They probably put it up for some overtime because it's a 2-person lift

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