22 Feb 2012 2:15 pm
White Bread
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Shows how much you don't know.You don't get paid overtime for working weekends Bunkey. Those were regular work days for me.You have to work in the Post Office for many years before you have enough seniority to get a job with weekends off.Yes you get paid a little extra for working nights, but try working Midnight to 8:30 AM for years on end, and tell me you don't deserve a little extra.Did you get 2X for Holidays?Pobrecito. Ten whole weeks? ROFLMy husband worked on the tarmack for 30 years, not 10 **** weeks.The difference between me and you is that I would never begrudge you a penny that you made for working hard under those lousy conditions.You don't pay my salary, why should you care? But I pay YOURS, so I do care if I'm paying for a non-cempetitive dinosaur that should have been privatized a hundred years ago.Once again, like Clem you display your ignorance on this subject.Maybe you can provide the proof (which Clem could not) that the Postal Service received all these supposed bailouts, in your words, 'about every year' of it's existence?I did a little digging and will modify my comment. The USPS was directly subsidized until 1982, but still maintains its postal monopoly through regulation. That, in itself, is a type of subsidy.I see. So in the 'Free Market' it's okay for Hedge Fund managers, Speculators or Wall Street CEO's who actually do game the system, to make obscene amounts of money, but people who do actual work, should do it for a mere pittance and be grateful at that.Your making red herring arguments now. I never argued in favor of financial speculators. In fact, I'd like to see many of those hedde fund managers in jail for fraud. They certainly didn't do due diligence when they were handing $Billions to Bernie Madoff, that's for sure.Free Market my ***.BTW if you think that 'public servants' have it made in the shade, there's nothing stopping you from getting one of those terrific jobs, is there?You sound a little jealous.Two reasons why I wouldn't.1. I abhor unions.2. I couldn't stand the pay cut.You know I didn't run the place right? Here's how inefficient I was, Bunkey.I know you think I slept for 8 hours on the job.For years I worked on a letter sorting machine (before the days of optical scanners), where 60 letters a minute passed in front of me, and I had to key in the zipcodes on a keyboard. That's one letter every second.I did this from Midnight to 8:30 AM, with a 15 minute coffee break and a half hour (unpaid) lunch. I did that day after day, year after year for many years, most times on very little sleep.We were audited regularly, and I always managed to maintain a 99% accuracy rating.See I actually cared if people got their mail.Proof of how inefficient the USPS was. Look at the number of USPS centers that have closed down and the number of employees displaced by technology over the years without service getting any worse. How many years did you work before retiring?What are your benefits compared to the average private worker?