Letter carriers yesterday blasted top officials of the U.S. Postal Service for defaming them while calling for the replacement of old apartment-house mailboxes with larger ones.
The comments were made in a series of unsigned e-mail letters to DIRECT Newsline less than a day after it reported postal officials indirectly admitted that Standard A (advertising) Mail is not being properly delivered to the nation’s apartment houses.
Absent any comment whatsoever from postal officials or any of the major postal worker unions, the American Postal Workers Union or the National Association of Letter Carriers, about the report, one letter carrier wrote asking how many postal officials “actually delivered mail to an apartment [mail]box, or deliver[ed] mail at all.”
Noting that “all the parties involved, except the [letter] carriers are so out of touch with reality,” the writer said that many of the mailings handled by letter carriers “are odd-sized or inserts [that fall] all over the place.”
Another letter carrier who didn’t give a name said letter carriers were “dedicated, devoted and professional” and that the Oct. 7 Postal Bulletin directive that “postal employees need to deliver the mail properly” was “insulting, inaccurate and politically motivated,” but didn’t offer any explanation.
While calling for new and larger apartment-house mailboxes another unidentified letter carrier criticized postal officials for giving what was described as “contradictory” instructions about placing oversized mail in a receptacle by the apartment mailbox. “In many cases the designated location is the floor,” the writer said.
And a letter carrier identifying himself as “Dan Daley,” with more than 27 years on the job, said that while he always sees that Standard A Mail “gets delivered,” delivering first class mail “is a real challenge” because of the vast number of old-style apartment mailboxes.
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