A USPS employee provides this pic of a sign "that just went up in the Portland, Oregon plant."

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[Hoyt]

1. Guess I read that differently from those who said trucks have to leave

“on time,” even if empty.

[dflprincess]

7. I think you are correct on that

and I've heard/read that has been happening at some sites (and not just in this tweet).

[Cha]

2. What does that mean.. "No Holding Trucks"?

On a side note.. I was surprised today to see our Mailwoman out there putting mail in our boxes on Sunday!

Hadn't seen that since dejerk came on board.:storm

[Flaleftist]

3. Nice sign. Are the labor hours being allotted that would make it possible?

[Midnight Writer]

4. I used to dispatch trucks for the Postal Service. "Holding" was common.

No sense in sending out an empty truck, or leaving mail on the dock.

Most holds were no more than ten or fifteen minutes.

Schedules are important, of course, because a delay in one office can affect the mail on down the line.

But there is some wriggle room built into the schedules.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[groundloop]

17. Of course what you're talking about takes just a little bit of common sense.

Doesn't seem like common sense is tolerated in this administration.

Also, this kind of bullshit is so very insulting to employees. It kills motivation.

[SheltieLover]

5. Likely why my mail is 3-4 hrs earlier every day

For the past 5-6 weeks or so.

Yet packages sit at USPS for over a week.

[Walleye]

8. That is the fascist mentality on display

[Captain Zero]

12. At least Mussolini made the trains run on time. With

Passengers on them.

[Walleye]

16. Yeah the purpose of this shit is to slow the mail down

[Mersky]

9. tRump humper screed made official through signage

What, they couldn’t clip art some Wingdings and smiling alarm clocks on it for good measure? I mean STOP, but don’t STOP the trucks kinda muddles the message, amirite? And just had to add pictures of mail trucks, lest it was meant to do anything other than demoralize and demean postal workers as idiots deserving abuse.

It actually reads: Do not hold a truck - no more holding trucks... Is a screamed reiteration of a stupid idea that was printed to vinyl. Would make more sense in an ignorable pResidential tweet. And who got the contract to produce that shite? I’ll bet ten dollars it was no-bid.

The font is in four colors and like seven different sizes, y’all...

[totodeinhere]

10. I'm confused. Is holding trucks a good thing or a bad thing?

I never worked for the Postal Service so I am ignorant on this topic.

[obamanut2012]

23. A very good thing n/t

[totodeinhere]

25. Thanks for clearing that up for me. n/t

[Throck]

11. Leave empty, waste fuel.

[Captain Zero]

14. The logistics contractors calculate fuel into

Their cost and contract. So it is wasting fuel but the money it costs is already in the contract. It may save the contractors overtime for drivers, but DeJoy's personal finances don't show any losses.

[PSPS]

13. "he made the trains run on time"

[captain queeg]

15. It's been my experience that those at the highest levels who don't really know how things work

Should leave it to those who do. Not saying I know the details of this, but I kind of doubt whoever ordered the sign really knows either.

[ItsjustMe]

18. Here In California

Bags of mail are dumped In parking lots and alleys.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/caught-on-camera-bags-of-mail-dumped-in-glendale-parking-lot/ar-BB18IUfC

“Of course it’s suspicious,” she said. “You start thinking, ‘OK, something is going on,’ because no one has access to all those boxes and packages.”

Glendale police said just before the bags of mail were discovered in the salon’s parking lot, they were called about several bags of mail tossed in an alley about half a mile from the spa. It was not immediately clear if the same truck was linked to both incidents.

[Hoyt]

20. Dejoy and his MFers aren't the ones dumping bags. Hope this gets corrected.

[captain queeg]

21. You hear about this stuff every once in awhile

There are a few mail carriers that have been caught doing this. Lazy, so just dump mail. I think it’s pretty rare but hope they figure out who did this.

[Hoyt]

22. I worked for State Government decades ago. The sewers got backup because the Salvation Army folks

were throwing all their War Crys (little religious magazine they gave away monthly) in the sewer rather than distributing it to us heathens.

[moonscape]

24. Back in the 70's in NYC, I read an article about

a new employee in a bank job that was known internally for being a rough ride. Overworked, too much passed through that post and they had trouble keeping employees in it. The new hire was impressing everyone by always having a clean desk. Then things started to go wrong.

Turned out at the end of the day, whatever paperwork she had not processed or dealt with, she put in the trash. Voila!

I remember that story because it became a recurrent fantasy at the end of every work day

[jmbar2]

19. Arbeit Macht Frei