Silly Rules

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Silly Signs, Silly Rules –- Know Any?

Workplace rules exist for a reason. Some rules are designed to protect employees’ rights and their safety, while others protect the employer and workplace. Then there are some rules that are just plain silly, and we ask ourselves why are they even are in place.

Sometimes the best way to find these rules is to ask. Last March, Major General Michael Oates of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division asked for information on the stupidest rules or policies in the Army in his Mountain Sound Off blog. Soldiers commented on everything from uniform regulations to policies on leave. FederalTimes.com borrowed the same idea and asked its readers, “What are the dumbest workplace rules affecting you?”

Since we know you aren’t shy, we thought we’d ask you the same question about the Postal Service. What Postal Service workplace rules are hindering you from doing your job? Are there rules or processes in place that no longer apply or need to be changed to meet today’s business needs? Let us know what you think.

This blog is hosted by the OIG’s Risk Analysis Research Center (RARC).

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    jonspr Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    How about the rule that they run the City Carrier mail first? Rural carriers drive more miles, farther away from the post office, carry more mail and do not curtail bulk and we wait for DPS in our office constantly. Management is bringing the clerks in half hour later and sending some of them home before rural DPS is even complete. The city carriers are ready to leave for the street almost before we get in at 8am, they start at 7 am, so any missort mail in the DPS now has to be run outfor delivery or to the city carriers by the janitors! We were told by management that the 8 am start time is “unacceptable” but we cannot change our start time and waiting nearly an hour for as little as three trays of DPS is mind boggling. One could almost understand the wait if they were buried in DPS but three trays? It is dark here by 4:45 pm and most of the Rurals in our office have evaluations that including lunch keep them out later than that, isn’t safety a consideration either, now that daylight savings is over? Once the weather gets bad it will be even worse.

    On another note, they put in larger DPS machines a few months ago to help put an end our wait time and what is even more mind boggling is that the older, shorter ones that they removed sat on the back of Postal property in the rain for about a month before they brought in a dumpster and carted them off as scrap! Was there no outlet to sell these machines? How about using them for parts? Something! We keep hearing about the dire straights the USPS is in and then we see this waste?

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