The Postal Community

The Post Office is a community.  What makes us a community is how we need to stick together so that management cannot crush us.  Everyday it is a fight.  Constant micro-management and threats of discipline create a bond of  rural carriers that need to be together to remain sane.  We all share the desire to serve our customers and get them their mail everyday, no matter what.  We help each other when needed, from something as simple as getting a form for another carrier to delivering part of their route if they need the help.  There are tensions between us.  The most common ones come from the contract.  The strength of a Union is in its ability to have the members stand together and fight for their rights.  There are some carriers who just do what management wants to avoid the conflict.  This causes management to try to require the rest of us to thinks that we are not suppose to do, causing resentment between the ones who do it and the ones who refuse.

I really do like my job and the carriers I work with, management is the problem.  I guess they are like the bad neighbor in a community that you want to move away!