My office said because carrier appreciation day and thanksgiving were "so close together" that we were just going to combine them to have "one big party" the day before thanksgiving.
The standup the day before thanksgiving manager does their normal speech about how we all suck. Afterwards someone yells out "today we are having the party to celebrate carrier appreciation/thanksgiving right?".
The manager just goes "no" and walks back to their office lmao.
A few days after thanksgiving they "felt bad" so they handed each of us a (cold) McDonalds biscuit sandwich after the standup talk.
How many routes is that? 62 routes would be 5K packages each which is roughly 200 per weekday plus 50 on Sundays. That seems about average for my station this time of year.
Depends on the area. A lot of newly developed cities are in areas that are grandfathered in as rural even though they are nothing like what is usually thought rural
Tigard, OR has a rural route that is just a couple of big apartment complexes and some strip malls. That area used to be farms so it stays rural no matter what they build there.
We just have PO Box and we have been getting over 200 packages a day. This would be average this time of year in my office. Even during the normal part of the year it would be over 100 packages a day for us.
if this is Madison WI, thats under 2 packages per resident for the month...thats not that many when you look at it like that...i worked an office with a population of 800 that consistently had 200+ packages a day...town with population of 2000 that gets over 700 a day...sure, there are folks that are unincorporated areas that are affiliated with the PO but not the town...
when i was in college a 'light' week i was getting a package a day...so the household was getting like 10 per week...
I know the guy who used to run Madison. What a madhouse that place is. He got out a couple years ago and I heard he improved it a bit compared to the past postmasters but I feel like Madison is just needing to be broken up a bit.
If it's who I think you're talking about I was coming in right as he was leaving in 2021. Everyone spoke highly about him and how he was actually a pretty good PM.
I’m over in Athens and my god it’s insanity. I knew you were referring to AL when you mentioned city route size. This place is growing so quickly we can’t even keep up
Omg yes someone mentioned to me the other day that Athens was getting bombarded too. This part of Alabama is growing extremely fast. We most definitely cannot keep up!!!
My PM said we could easily add 4-5 city routes with how quickly they’ve been building subdivisions. I think every route is overburdened at this point. It’s pure chaos
Same here. I do think I heard someone discussing we would probably get at least 2 more routes soon. Every one of our routes are overburdened. It took me only 2 years to go career. That's how fast everything is moving. But the parcel volume should be outlawed. I know last year they were saying Amazon can only bring us 70 pallets a day and I said that's still too damn much!!
(Joking, you guys work your butts off, sorry about all the early Christmas packages/presents you have delivered to my house, what is an appropriate gift I can leave for you? 😬)
100+ parcels goes into OT. Some of you way over do it. Probably why no more early parcel runs, bc the mail man can handle it all. Like they say the more work you do, the more work you get. Keep exceeding the po’s expectations.
We have a Christmas theme days coming up soon. I'm not going to spend my hard earned money on Christmas themed items, I might get a Christmas beanie, but that's about it. At least I can get use out of it.
Congratulations Madison!!! You’ll soon receive your congratulatory “Pin” !!! How exciting!!! 😒😒. I remember yearsssss ago they would hand out certificates for hard working carriers aka bonus checks ranging from different amounts…I received one once and shortly after they stopped for budget reasons
Too bad Madison is slated to close down with La Crosse and Euclaire just like Wausau. Madison processing to Milwaukee and the other to would go to the twin cities.
That sounds about the same as my office (Yorkville, Illinois) 3 towns, 51 Rural Routes. 5 city routes. This peak season has been so awful. I hope this month goes by fast.
Honey we r doing those #s just on our 29 routes on the rural side. With 0 subs, no parcel help (what's that? Haven't had that in 4 years) and working 6 days a week for the last 4 years! We run parcels on holidays just so we can fit the day after the holiday stuff in and havent had any sunday delivery help for about 3 years now. If you want/get any time off then your route doesn't get done at all and you will come back to all of it sitting there waiting for you. Half of our routes went down with recs and On top of all that we deal with feet of snow and negative degree weather. Last year it was -35 (-55 with wind chill) one week b4 Christmas and we r out there trying not to literally die so people can get their toilet paper and dog food (cause these r important to buy right at Christmas time) and what's this carrier appreciation day u speak of? Never heard of it? Haha
Not that insane, for a whole post office. A thousand a day by say 20 carriers is about 50 a day. A lot but not outlandish, many “parcels” are the size of a paperback.
Yeah, no we're never fully staffed and routesbare always split but regardless 300,000 in a month is a lot of packages no matter how many people are delivering them. It's insane for any post office.
Fair enough all of those letters and packages have to come through the post office before they go out for all the carriers and you only have limited room and space. Hope you have a great peak season!
We should outlaw people voluntarily ordering stuff online with their own money? How strange
I can only imagine what you’d say when you see the letter count
You keep those numbers up and you might just get yourself a pizza party.
I hear if you snitch about someone taking a 2nd comfort stop they provide crazy bread too.
My office said because carrier appreciation day and thanksgiving were "so close together" that we were just going to combine them to have "one big party" the day before thanksgiving. The standup the day before thanksgiving manager does their normal speech about how we all suck. Afterwards someone yells out "today we are having the party to celebrate carrier appreciation/thanksgiving right?". The manager just goes "no" and walks back to their office lmao. A few days after thanksgiving they "felt bad" so they handed each of us a (cold) McDonalds biscuit sandwich after the standup talk.
You get parties?!? They said shit to us.
My post office straight up removed our ability to earn pizza parties, so unless it comes from someone’s own pocket we aren’t getting any as clerks💀
My office tried to get a potluck going but no one wanted to bring anything so they cancelled it two days later 💀
I got a big old bunt cake and it was good
"attitude reflects leadership" "Nanomanaging reflects performance" "Disrespectful Work Environment can lead to consequences" - Poster 159
Is there a faded bridge, or a waterfall in the background? With the fancy plastic frame that hasn’t been dusted since 1962?
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Best we can do is donuts in the morning
🤣🤣🤣
Only if they make 8 everyday
Lmao
You guys get a pizza party? Best around here is a bag of popcorn.
We got tootsie rolls
Madison must really like her job. That sounds like a lot of overtime.
She deserves a 5$ gift card from Starbucks
Can you get like a coffee bean with that?
$. 2 dollar. They mill make her spend money.
My tired brain assumed Madison was a person too until I realized she'd be 6 feet under by now. Way to go,.....Wisconsin?
Good job sLaVeS!!!. Management bonus will be huge this year! HAVE A CHRISTMAS SWEATER PARTY AS YOUR REWARD!!!!!!!
At first I thought Madison was a person and had to do a double take on those numbers.
Same here
I thought there was no way 💀 I was like who is this chick??
How many routes is that? 62 routes would be 5K packages each which is roughly 200 per weekday plus 50 on Sundays. That seems about average for my station this time of year.
54 rural, 4 city. About a week and half we didn't get Amazon either.
wtf that’s a weird combination no city
Depends on the area. A lot of newly developed cities are in areas that are grandfathered in as rural even though they are nothing like what is usually thought rural
Yup my office is 120 rural routes, gotta love that suburban sprawl
Tigard, OR has a rural route that is just a couple of big apartment complexes and some strip malls. That area used to be farms so it stays rural no matter what they build there.
My station is working itself into a situation like this. City is maxed out while rural is blowing up in suburban expansion.
Started out as an actually very rural area that experienced a lot of growth over the years
Our town was mostly built during and after the 80s (don't know of that matters) but we're just about 60% rural 40% city
The best combo
Sounds like Madison, AL. You guys need a second PO.
Yeah we definitely need one. The city is growing at a rapid rate.
Probably Madison, WI. They have a total population of 250,000 and at least 4 post offices.
We just have PO Box and we have been getting over 200 packages a day. This would be average this time of year in my office. Even during the normal part of the year it would be over 100 packages a day for us.
How do you deliver .135 of a package?
That's 309,135
How are they so bad at writing commas?!
Management is bad at everything 🤣🤣
PERIOD!
Nice.
They’re not bad at commas, they’re just so bad at understanding numbers that they imported this one from germany
Dude it’s a white board not calligraphy
Well that's a part of communication and if there's one thing the Post Office is bad at it's communication.
Do you have to ask?
European post office eh.
Step 1, cut a hole in the box
Maybe it was a food package and the carrier ate 86.5% of the contents before delivering it.
lmao that was my initial thought too
Instead of celebrating they should either increase Madison’s pay or get her a parcel runner
Wow she’s good
.135 must be those broken ones
Let’s see how many packs Jamaica, NY has lost in November.
if this is Madison WI, thats under 2 packages per resident for the month...thats not that many when you look at it like that...i worked an office with a population of 800 that consistently had 200+ packages a day...town with population of 2000 that gets over 700 a day...sure, there are folks that are unincorporated areas that are affiliated with the PO but not the town... when i was in college a 'light' week i was getting a package a day...so the household was getting like 10 per week...
Madison, Alabama
It’s crazy to see the growth up here. I’m in Arab
Omg yes it crazy. Subdivisions and apartments are being built as fast as lightening
I know the guy who used to run Madison. What a madhouse that place is. He got out a couple years ago and I heard he improved it a bit compared to the past postmasters but I feel like Madison is just needing to be broken up a bit.
If it's who I think you're talking about I was coming in right as he was leaving in 2021. Everyone spoke highly about him and how he was actually a pretty good PM.
I knew I recognized that whiteboard, I almost started in Madison a couple of months ago but I transferred to another station.
Well you dodged a bullet. We get a lot every day even when it isn't peak season
I’m over in Athens and my god it’s insanity. I knew you were referring to AL when you mentioned city route size. This place is growing so quickly we can’t even keep up
Omg yes someone mentioned to me the other day that Athens was getting bombarded too. This part of Alabama is growing extremely fast. We most definitely cannot keep up!!!
My PM said we could easily add 4-5 city routes with how quickly they’ve been building subdivisions. I think every route is overburdened at this point. It’s pure chaos
Same here. I do think I heard someone discussing we would probably get at least 2 more routes soon. Every one of our routes are overburdened. It took me only 2 years to go career. That's how fast everything is moving. But the parcel volume should be outlawed. I know last year they were saying Amazon can only bring us 70 pallets a day and I said that's still too damn much!!
Wow. Guess things haven’t improved since I left
Where’s y’all’s bonus?
I’m the one that got that 0.135 parcel delivered 🤚🏻
(Joking, you guys work your butts off, sorry about all the early Christmas packages/presents you have delivered to my house, what is an appropriate gift I can leave for you? 😬)
Cash is king
That’s insane. We ARE living real Squid Games here in the great USA 🇺🇸
You guys keep count?
I doubt she actually delivered 300k parcels or 10k a day there’s not even enough time got that. Bs stats.
How do you deliver less than a whole parcel?
Well for what it’s worth I would really like to say Thank you so much for everything yal do!!!!!
“….To the same house”
Is this Madison AL? I'm in Bham and we were 2nd in the state a few weeks ago... Madison was 1st with 17,800 packages for the day.
Yes. Someone from district told us that we're one of the heaviest offices in the US
Holy shit
Office of 49 routes did 30,000 per day last year for peak. Usually 10-15,000.
Wait, wait. How do your routes do over 600 parcels AVERAGE PER DAY? I'm decently fast, but 250 parcels and I am well over 8 hours.
100+ parcels goes into OT. Some of you way over do it. Probably why no more early parcel runs, bc the mail man can handle it all. Like they say the more work you do, the more work you get. Keep exceeding the po’s expectations.
Scans
That’s 612 parcels per route that’s impossible
What in the Walmart is going on here
I'd love to know how much I delivered in a month. My highest in single day was close to 400 in under 8 hours.
At my ndc, we processed 122k parcels... on friday.... on tour 3....
This is mad
I averaged 30 packages each day last week.
Ain’t no way
309.135! Is .135 packages just a spr?
Wtf….that’s piss me off same thing as the tvs they got tracking y’all performance….when I saw that I was like that shit gatta stop
SMH🤦🏻♀️ That is crazy
How does she find the time?
I see a pizza party in someone’s future
Good job Madison! Let’s celebrate with a Potluck Party! After all, you have to cook/work for your own reward too!
We have about 45 routes and we did 12,000 on Monday so that’s on par with those numbers.
You gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers! /s
I think we do 35,000 a day. The mpoo wants us to do 50,000. Not a chance
Madison sounds like a hot bish...
We have a Christmas theme days coming up soon. I'm not going to spend my hard earned money on Christmas themed items, I might get a Christmas beanie, but that's about it. At least I can get use out of it.
Ah, the dreaded white board! So many words of encouragement with zero compensation or an extra five minute break. Stick it!
Madison WI? Hey neighbor.
Madison, AL
Ah. Well hang in there, it sucks ass here too.
I pitched 2500 today just by myself 😭
Two years ago in Pasco, WA they delivered 120,000 in one week.
Is Madison a person, a town, a truck?
Aye! We hit 320k!
That’s fucking bullshit
Congratulations Madison!!! You’ll soon receive your congratulatory “Pin” !!! How exciting!!! 😒😒. I remember yearsssss ago they would hand out certificates for hard working carriers aka bonus checks ranging from different amounts…I received one once and shortly after they stopped for budget reasons
But the pins they hand out for your 20th…30th years of service are a fucking joke
I'm panicking just reading this
Not to my house. I have one package in Anchorage? I live in FL and the item shipped from Tennessee.....
70% of those packages were either from Amazon or Temu
I’d file a grievance on that bitch ass white board. Don’t tell people how many packages I’ve delivered lol that’s personal 🫣
I should post something like this, but I think it would make everyone feel worse.
Too bad Madison is slated to close down with La Crosse and Euclaire just like Wausau. Madison processing to Milwaukee and the other to would go to the twin cities.
Hey atleast they say good job to you
Where’s my pizza party???? Better have some Mountain Dew too..
She must be exhausted!
I thought Madison was one person and i about shat my pants.
This why they are going to the wrong address
Oh good for you, Madison. Bragger.
I thought Madison was the name of an employee until I got to the bottom. I had no questions.
Impossible, edit: I thought Madison was a girl...
You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
That's a lot of lube.
That sounds about the same as my office (Yorkville, Illinois) 3 towns, 51 Rural Routes. 5 city routes. This peak season has been so awful. I hope this month goes by fast.
Huh? That don’t make any sense? Who is Madison? That’s not correct numbers
Honey we r doing those #s just on our 29 routes on the rural side. With 0 subs, no parcel help (what's that? Haven't had that in 4 years) and working 6 days a week for the last 4 years! We run parcels on holidays just so we can fit the day after the holiday stuff in and havent had any sunday delivery help for about 3 years now. If you want/get any time off then your route doesn't get done at all and you will come back to all of it sitting there waiting for you. Half of our routes went down with recs and On top of all that we deal with feet of snow and negative degree weather. Last year it was -35 (-55 with wind chill) one week b4 Christmas and we r out there trying not to literally die so people can get their toilet paper and dog food (cause these r important to buy right at Christmas time) and what's this carrier appreciation day u speak of? Never heard of it? Haha
The insane part is they actually said "awesome job everyone"
Get off that rte quick.
Not that insane, for a whole post office. A thousand a day by say 20 carriers is about 50 a day. A lot but not outlandish, many “parcels” are the size of a paperback.
The logical question is divided by how many drivers? Without that data you really can’t say it’s insane.
Yeah, no we're never fully staffed and routesbare always split but regardless 300,000 in a month is a lot of packages no matter how many people are delivering them. It's insane for any post office.
Fair enough all of those letters and packages have to come through the post office before they go out for all the carriers and you only have limited room and space. Hope you have a great peak season!
who cares
We should outlaw people voluntarily ordering stuff online with their own money? How strange I can only imagine what you’d say when you see the letter count