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Show t The bait take Irtbuite, Mimuy. June Common Carrier r laid W. S . , - I , , , a .r S r- - - - t ' . . , . ' - Z; 1 v "VU) .1.4'., fV - t. n Vs . .4 Postal Employes Still Not to Blame for Poor Service, Writer Avows Editors note: Today's Common Carrier article was submitted b Pondlin Defa, 1SS7 S. West Temple, president, Branch No. Ill, National Association of Letter Carriers. nt necessarf-lViews expressed in Common Carrier d refWt those of The Sail Lake Tribune or the Common Carrier board of lax editors xthlch works Independent!) of Tribune reportorial and editorial policies in making iis article selections. x Representatives of recognized organizations and Interested Individuals are invited o submit statements to Common Carrier. Articles need not be expertly written hut should be short (four pages, double-spacetypewritten), to the point, have a central theme, promote dialogue, be timely, pertinent and pertain to the social, political and of the Intermountain Area. economic Mall articles, including home address ana phone numwell-bein- g ber. to Common Carrier, The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, I tab Milt. and sometimes one on the route. But the mad comes fiiot There is no delay m delivery of the mail due to a coffee break. You get up at 4 30 a m. W hen ycu see a earner m a coffee without them all that paint and glitter won't deliver one am well acquainted letter. w ith the Orem post office carriers. They are a great, dedicated group of men and as Pondlin Defa This statement is in response to the two Common earner articles published in The Tribune on April 22 which pertained to my previous article ("Dont Blame the Postal Employes for Inefficient Mail Service), which ran in this department April 8 I did not intend to start I did stir up some postal officials Clyde Weeks, postmaster of Orem, Utan, and K. E. Franzen, retired postal inspector. 1 knew 1 was going to wake up somebody. You see, it has always been the letter carriers, on ttie national and local scenes, that do things to wake people up when they feel some attention should be focused on conditions that reflect on us who wear the postal uniform. If Mr. Weeks and Mr. Franen were out in the public wearuig a uniform, they would know what I mean 1 six hours. So, if you follow him all day, you wdl know he has done an eight-hou- r job. The carrier is inspected at least once a year, sometimes twice. He is accompanied on his route by a route inspector, lus mad volume is counted, measured, walking distance tune consumed recoi ded, elc , r to see that he has an routes These assignment are set up on their figures So where have you witnessed all this slack time Where Mr. Franzen mentions I am not speaking for ail letter carriers m regard to the curp . then he should find out I some of my background have been a member of the national staff since 14. I have serves on many national committees and am still on some. I was on the committer that decided on the corp. To go into dot ad would take several pages of newspaper Space. We would have to go through all the congressional committee records. 1 was in it all the way I was in Washington when Congress made the eigbt-hou- Sail Lake City has the highest production per man Ir the country, so if all these tilings are not true someone must be mistaken goof-off- this letter has been, they do not ask them. Mr. Weeks and Mr. Franzen are nght in bragging that the postal service is moving 87 billion pieces of mad and I brag along with them. billion they think is moving Weeks mall? Mr. of pieces went into detail In his Common Carrier article about many figures, rug laying, painting, etc, I also know all these things but they dont mov e the mail. Employes primary function is to move the mail and get it delivered to its rightful owner. So I omitted all those figures in my previous article. If the public is interested in ail those things, they have now been revealed. L am glad that Mr. Weeks did reluctantly mention his employes because 87 In closing, I want it known that I did not intend to wnte tins article but the many about the postal corp up to and including the strike and everything else that has happened (And, by the way, if he says I'm not talking for all the carriers. I found out from phone calls hes not talking for all postal inspectors, either phone calls from my many fnends m and out of the post office, including some members of management, have made he decision for me. If, as Mr Weeks and Mr. Franzen say, the employes were drinking coffee and reading patrons magazines, why didnt he do .something about it? If these problems weren't they exist, why settled on the spot instead of making a big public statement about it? ) in And. regard to the remarks Mr. Franzen and Mr. Weeks made of how good the Postal Service is. I'd like to ask. if it is so good, why would Congress call for a cial investigation spe- They said that they are When sw am ped w it h complaints from their constituents complaining of the service. Maybe you should call the congressmen and tell them how good things are and that all the delayed mad is stored in my letter case. it comes T .' V to doing a fair days work for a fair pay, postal employes do not have to apologize to anyone. As I stated in my earlier article, dont blame the postal employe for the inefficient mail sen ice. days Pondlin Defa Praises Employe Work v- - cEHIETIH! 41 L wsee V .a o Ml k - if. ' f U f? Wfvr oEiaa a 4. j M ii mum r nerve-rackin- My only question is who do nzr. .J! FAMOUS BRAND m iivfli stir-craz- FOUNDATIONS SALE Kun i, fft Mall Comes First As for the earners and all their coffee breaks, I dont know in what office this takes place. In our office w do have a break in the morning MAIDENFORM Ihvam lira in 3 Heuidaro.OO eulir. Trieol Cnnln lioii Bra. Bin Trie-I Bra in liitc. Kegular 5.00 (arterli- - Brief in 2niur. Beg. 5.(8) W 7 .... ( .i m lei-- 1 ina .nl (.irdle. K.U. 11. 00.... (.oiiei-lin- II a (irdle. fililVsslljffe 1 J Ban Maliliiug 1 1.00.. Keuular O line (.niltour Bia, H'? - 'feZTrr'' Be;idar4.50 i'fUSHA izS - Hi' V s Here again, there are 87 billion pieces of mail and who in the world ts moving it? Im not going to try and answer for the clerks. They should do that themselves. Bui as close as I work with clerks, I have never witnessed all the things that he described. They have tedious a very job, reading thousands upon thousands of addresses and numbers. Every couple of hours they must have a break to help them from going Even a machine needs attention periodically. To keep it from burning up it must be oiled, adjusted, etc. Like I said in my other article, only the people working here know what it is all about. So, if Mr Franzen cares to look me up, I w ill tell him all lf0l needed. He goes o. to te ill the mistakes I made in describing the Postal Service I know It isnt a private corporation. I said it was to be operated simuar to a private corporation. There was a misprint and that isnt going to help move the mail either. But in describing the true postal picture he has Indicated that the postal employes are a with carbunch of riers spending all their time on coffee breaks and clerks reading patrons mail. Where Has It Been? ask us where believe what people should do is go out with a carrier w tide he is making his rounds I tong as they are theie. patrons will receive their mail promptly. True Picture Needed Mr. Franzen stated in his article a true postal pictrr Is mud-slingin- g People decision to adout the briefly describe. We had not had a pay raise in two years, ai' tough two small raises had been voted on by the prev lous administration, but the Congress would not vote the funds. The entire postal department was at a standstill. I was in the House gallery when one of our good friends in Congress made the final speech He said the post office is sick, sick, sick, and I am not going to vote another dune into it untd it is changed. He also said the only reason there is any kind of sen ice at all is because of the determination of Ihe dedicated employes working under unbearable conditions. They are forcing the mail through, he said. What other choice did James H. 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