My local postie/PO! rant!

[magohaydz]

well, being a postie myself, the problem is usually the aussie post criteria, not the postie.
when you rock up in the morning you have your mail counted, they then give you a time sheet in what time
your expected to finish sorting the mail and what time you get it all delivered.
so for example, I start 6am, I do just one street in the city.
usually i'm finished sorting around 9am and they'll give me a stupid time like, be back at 11.24
based on my mail that day, but they don't know how many regies i have, so if i got 15 regies, i have to deliver to get signed.
sometimes i can stuff around for 10 minutes for one letter, waiting for some knob to get out of the shower or something, add it all up and my times are totally stuffed, you then get pressured to explain why you got back 32 minutes later then the computer calculated, and believe me, some posties almost get suicidel from the pressure.

also there can be many other reasons, like if the package is a bit too big and should of been delivered as a parcel in a van, posties can't carry it so instead of sending it back through the system, they will write a card and have it delivered to your local post shop.

oh, another crappy thing now days is aussie post delivers junk mail, which also doesn't get counted that well.
so instead of delivering to just houses with letters, you need to hit every single house just to put in junk mail.

I'd imagine your postie is under pressure to deliver on time, give him a break hey.

fair enough, but everyone has pressures in their job - doesnt mean you can take shortcuts. I build houses. At the moment I have 23 houses under construction. Naturally, we have dead lines. We also have clients eager to get into their house. Yes, there is immense pressure there from my bosses, the clients and my tradesman (making sure they have a job to go to next week). Doesnt mean I can take shortcuts. I still have to build the house properly. Some of these houses are almost half a million dollars (not including the land). I cant afford to **** it up. My point is there is no excuse to not do your job properly and efficiently - if you need to find excuses, maybe you should be looking for a different line of work.

 

[_Rob_]

I just went out the front of my house (time-out in Heat vs Celtics ) to check if there was any mail or a note as I'm expecting something via registered. There was nothing in my letter box so I just stood in my front yard for a while looking around and then hear the postie coming and I thought sweet mail time! Collect it and doesn't seem to be anything for me in there and as I flick through it I notice collection slip. They didn't even come to my door to knock they just leave a slip in my letter box! and this always happens!!! It pisses me off!!! :fist:

End rant!

Did you know they are not allowed to do that? My Post Office told me this and that they HAD to attempt to deliver it.
They also said to ring Australia Post and report them.

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

All it takes is a gate they can say might be locked or a dog might be in there and they can get away with leaving the pick up slip