Well one of the BIG reason the rural route delivery quality is dropping is the pay and benefits the drivers now get. The rural delivery route jobs used to be a well paying job with great benefits. Now it is not a very good paying job with poor benefits. Forget getting the government retirement. They have the deck stacked so that the drivers rarely get enough time in to retire.
The post office is losing money. So like many big businesses they cut the front line troops pay first. The high ups still make good money and have full benefits. So they waste money else where and make the delivery route job be a poor one.
Our route driver will retire this year. He is the last one, at our office, that is under the old pay scale and retirement system. His replacement will make half the money he currently does. Sub drivers have it even worse. Used to be they received work credit base on the years they subbed. So even if they only carried the mail twenty days each year they still received a years credit towards retirement. Now they only get the actual time worked. So if that is only 20 days at 8 hours per day then they got 160 hours credit or basically 4 weeks. So you could sub for 10 years and still not have a year of retirement credit.
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