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United States Postal Service

Through rain, sleet, and snow – in a crappy jalopy mail truck

May 21, 2011

Has the mailman been here yet? I am not sure anyone even cares that much if the letter carrier is on time anymore.    I don’t need probably 95% of the mail I get today. One of my old employers, the United States Postal Service is in serious financial trouble.  They are bleeding money, reporting a [...]

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Getting a full body scan may soon be a union job

February 5, 2011

Transportation Security Administration employees win right to form union, bargain collectively Federal labor relations works differently than private sector labor relations Way back before I started working in Human Resources, I worked for the United States Postal Service as a letter carrier from 1979 to 1986.  I learned one helluva lot about bad labor relations [...]

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Starting my first job in Human Resources

January 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Time flies when you are having fun Today is the anniversary of the beginning of my HR career.  It marks the beginning of the 25th year that I have been doing work in this crazy confusing field. It is also the calendar day anniversary of  the first official Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

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I learned everything I need to know about people management at the Post Office

August 28, 2009

Punk Rock Postal Laurie Ruettimann is mad because so many people are haters of the U.S. Postal Service.   She’s got a point. They do a hell of a job delivering mail to the all the god-forsaken places that people live across the country for only forty-four cents per piece of first class mail. And it [...]

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