Niles post office launches pilot test

Published 8:24pm Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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The Niles Post Office is one of several post offices across the nation participating in a pilot test for a new process of delivering mail.

Sabrina Todd, of postal service public relations, said the test would last six months and begin sometime in February.

For the pilot test, mail carriers will no longer case the mail. Instead, another person will take the mail and put it in the order of the route in which it will be delivered.

The carrier would only have to pick up the mail, which had already been cased, and deliver it.

Todd said the post office would go back to the original process after six months and assess all aspects of the pilot test.

“In our economic situation we are looking at all aspects of economical efficiency and delivery efficiency and this goes in line with the efficiency process we are putting in place,” Todd said.

Todd was unable to say how the change would affect worker hours at the post office.

Niles postmaster Fred Bergman said he was not allowed to speak about the pilot test.

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  1. February 1, 2012 at 10:53 am <Link>

    Get rid of saturday delivery!!!!!!!

  2. February 1, 2012 at 7:42 pm <Link>

    Imagine a struggling restaurant that decides to fix itself by replacing fresh ingredients with canned ones. The cuts only expedite the demise. Now imagine the same struggling restaurant that decides to quadruple the amount of bus boys (managers) waiting tables and sells half the tables and chairs. Like most decisions made out of financial panic, all of these are recipes for making a bad situation significantly worse. This analogy is what the Postal Service is faced with today. I say it’s about time we fire the bus boys and hire more chefs. The chefs are the ones doing the work and the bus boys are the ones hiding the tips from the customers. Management failed at this same plan 10 years ago. “FIRE DONAHOE”

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