Saturday, March 9, 2013

Letter to the Editor....About Postal Clerks

   Dear Editor:

   A lot of problems have been brought to light about postal clerks' mental health and inability to handle the job in the past few years.

   Having worked around many in the past, I want to give my two cents about this, and you may not agree, but at least hear me out.

   The fact is, that being a postal clerk is not a fun job. In fact its a boring and repititious, and I believe it causes mental health issues.

   No one goes to work for the Post Office by choice. It's usually because you can get a job. It is also an easy way for ex-military people to get employed when no one else will hire you.

   The post office management people do not know how to deal with the mental illness of its employees, for another thing.

   As we have read about in recent years, sick people are allowed to go on and on without any forced treatment or correcting the situation.

   Then, as we have seen, the post office covers for the acts of those under them for fear it will reflect on them or their next move up.

   As we all know, this is not a new problem and the term "POSTAL" is well deserved, as the violence we have seen in post offices by employees for decades shows!

   The postal service is aware of these serious problems and simply doesn't know what to do. It will take an act of Congress to change that; and we all know what they do--NOTHING!

   Well, I've had my say. 

   Hopeless and hapless postal worker. 

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