Fellow Leaguers

On the minds of many Postmasters right now is retirement.  The work load is getting heavy and there are Postmasters that will not regain a clerk if any leave, retire or are transfered.  How does one cope in the face of mounting pressures. How's does one cope with the situation?

Honestly, I just do my very best and I think so does everybody else that got caught in the system. Through out the course of my 18 years I have seen almost everything.  During my first few years working for the Post Office the mail volume was so heavy that there were 12 clerk and the postmaster that worked at Unalaska and Dutch Harbor post office.   With that much help we could not even finished the job.   But then again the postmaster didn't work as hard as I do. Now as you can see the volume of mail dwindling down because of so many factor that affecting the market. Online ordering, online bill payment and so many others. When a clerk quit or got transferred they will never be replaced and this is true in every sense.  I'm not going to talk about another Post Office, but I will definitely talk about Unalaska, my own post office. I’ve been the Postmaster since Oct. 15,2005. For almost three years I been trying to cope with the big changes at the post office. I'm proud to say that I'm a hard worker.  But now that I'm the one running the show and got caught will all the changes, cutting back the spending, not replacing most of the lost employees I can say that I'm working triple hard than when I was a clerk.

That's it, postmaster work 100 times harder than it use to be.  Not only us (postmaster) but also our employees, probably as well in big post office, but here I have clerks who are team players, they get in and do their very best to finish the work.  They put a lot more effort into finishing the job.  Now even are MPOO are not being replace (correct me if I'm wrong) Isn't it right that Bob Churchill’s position has not been filled.

So that's what we do, Postmaster/Clerk/MPOO, we do our best to keep the Post Office surviving, in this day and time.  Hopefully one day it will go back or the wheel will turn and will be back up there again on the top.

Work, work harder, 100 percent harder or more.  It comes with the job title.