KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tia Yates feels like she’s been screaming from the rooftops about issues inside U.S. Postal Service.
“I’ve contacted everybody,” she said. “Nothing ever happens.”
Yates worked at the Kansas City, Missouri distribution center for 11 years. She was what you’d call a “career” U.S. Postal Service employee.
“It’s heartbreaking because the job is a great job and it’s fun,” said Yates.
She said one of the reasons Postal Service customers are seeing their packages bounce around the metro is the same reason she no longer works there after more than a decade.
“It’s a management problem,” she said. “I’ve literally been one of the people who have actually done the count in the yard and saw that there were trailers full of mail that had already been processed but had been sitting there because management forgot that it was on the lot.”
She said it’s so disorganized inside the Kansas City, Missouri distribution center that at one point, she could barely walk because of how overloaded with packages it was.
This is funny. 80 federal agents to arrest a few postal employees. While the USPIS thinks armed guards with no arrest authority or training will be effective. Everyone in the Postal Service has given up on even trying to make sense.
She said “Great and Fun job” Don’t know
what she does, but I have never said that about
my 28 years at USPS???
11 sounds low to even complain???
USPS and USPIS leadership is running a circus: law enforcement raids as spectacles, photo-op arrests, useless armed guards as theater, and blame-the-customer campaigns while ignoring real security. Instead of restoring Postal Police or hiring qualified employees, USPS blames “labor costs” to justify non-career staffing — many of whom conspire to steal mail. They’ll spend millions to hide mismanagement and incompetence but won’t spend a dime to actually protect the mail or postal workers.
It’s not just Kansas City either folks. This is by design to cut work hours, pure and simple. Steiner and company lie about the scores anyway, and he’s constantly talking about how they’re improving. This is a disaster of epic proportions and it’s a given Steiner knew nothing about it. I don’t think it can be emphasized enough how embarrassing this is, to have a large scale police action at a plant, searching people and vehicles at random. We can thank radicals in labor for this also. They’ve been on a mission for years to correct past perceived wrongs by hiring undesirable and unethical applicants without even drug testing them, and now the country and the service is paying the price. It may never be known, but it’s likely that they didn’t even inform Steiner or Tulino. Why would they? These two buffoons are totally checked out, collecting bonuses for failure. It’s also likely that the plant and district manager here also got bonuses. This whole fiasco is a disgrace and if this won’t get Steiner fired, nothing will short of theft, which he’s already doing via bonus.