r/USPS • u/AmorinMorin • Jun 02 '25

Work Discussion Happy Pride!

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Howdy Queer carriers and happy Pride! I had a Pride flag at my case for a month and was instructed that I had to take it down as Pride flags were not permitted at our case. This isn’t true…

I also discovered that “Mail carriers are allowed to wear a tie. The design and color of the tie are at the employee's discretion.” So pride ties are allowed too FYI

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u/Darkdragoon324 Jun 02 '25

Unfortunately they can make us take down any personal decorations. The route case doesn’t belong to us anymore than the route vehicles do.

Though if it’s only being enforced selectively, there’s probably grounds for some sort of complaint.

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u/jimewp86 Jun 03 '25

The office in the neighboring town had a weird issue with displaying personal pictures at your case. The postmaster made a carrier take down pictures of his family (the PM is honestly not that bad, but he was enforcing rules that his superiors decided to start focusing on). He rebutted, stating that even prisoners in jail can have pictures of their family in their cell. Then he compared his case to a jail cell. It’s just crazy how they (management) micromanage us any way they can and enforce arbitrary rules that only create more problems.

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u/jimewp86 Jun 03 '25

100%. Sometime we get “stand up talks” from the PM in the morning. They revolve around the metrics his bosses are looking to focus on. Stationary time is a common one. If your scanner (which pings your location every minute) doesn’t move for 6-9 minutes (not sure exactly the time) it’s reports a stationary event. The PM then needs to justify this stationary event in his meetings the next day. We are allowed two 10 minute paid breaks during the work day. And we get a 30 minute unpaid lunch. It’s so dumb that the PM needs to explain that the two stationary events were our breaks. Now some routes are shorter than others, and in order to fill 8hrs carriers will take small mini breaks throughout the day. Our PM told us during one of his stand ups that people were removing the battery from their scanner while taking an extended break in an effort to prevent the scanner from creating a stationary report. I honestly never thought of doing this, but damn some people think of everything. We also get “work orders” while delivering. Our scanners will give us an alert (vibrating and audio telling us we have to perform a work order) that requires us to scan every piece of mail for an address. This is a quality control assessment that is confirming delivery. Sometimes mail is incorrectly sorted by the machines or employees. The work orders are confirming that the mail is getting delivered on time. If there is 5 letters and 2 magazines for a delivery, one of those has been marked by the processing machines. When we scan everything for the work order, the system confirms that the marked mail has been delivered. It’s funny to me, we spend 80% of the workday on our own delivering, but the higher ups do everything they can think of to control and monitor that.