Okay the post office it self is an amazing place to work. The benefits and raises are off the hook. But i am writing to talk about a particular facility. MT.HOOD DDC in portland oregon. Where to begin I took the job cause supervisors and other employees told me it was a family friendly place. Yeah right I am a single parent. I thoroughly expressed my situation to management that I need notice when my schedule would change or when overtime was to needed. Now I am or was a PTF. So I know they get treated like crap basically. That's why I voiced my concerns and situation to management before hand. Crazy thing they agreed with everything like "notice no problem". I went through 5 babysitters, cause they would change my schedule and not even tell me, they would call overtime as I was clocking out. Now that was my career or was supposed to be. So I would stay and do what had to be done. I would come in like everyday and remind them I know I am no more special then anyone else but please work with me. I am trying. Immediate supervisors wouldn't listen upper management didn't care. I put up with it that was my career.
The move they made that made me stop biting my tongue and holding back was this. In May I asked one of my supervisors for a day off in August. Yes she said and. Then in June I asked another supervisor for the same day off just to make sure. He said oh yeah you got it. So August comes and the schedule for that week comes out. I see that I am scheduled to work on the day off the I asked for months in advance and another coworker of mine did get it off and she asked for that same day in July. I was heated so I toke the day off. Now I am in the process of being removed. I know I was wrong. So I talk to my union president. He tells me people have done this before and the situation is blown way out off proportion. So I should have no problem getting my job back. He didn't put up much fight for me. I pay my dues just like eveyone else. I admitted my wrong doing and even apologized. But, I got nothing. NOTHING. And really I am lost now me and my daughter. I was only there for a year. I was a casual for one and a half years prior in a different facility. I am not a bad, spiteful person. Well until now. I am tired off them walking on me and I refuse to let my future go just like that. I see I am in this alone not even help from my union. MT.HOOD DDC IN PORTLAND OREGON IS A HORRIBLE PLACE, MAN IT CAN BREAK A PERSON. oh yeah and the union SUCKS.

Today before I went to school, I made my trip to USPS that is not too far from where I live. I knew this location has my textbook because I picked up my previous order of textbook through online at here. They were suppose to open customers' entrance at exactly 0800 today but they opened the door at 0807. First of all, they ignored the customers who were waiting outside their door. I was able to see the asian woman employee standing at the booth (or whatever you call it) but she did not do anything but just standing there.

Second of all, I knew they had it because I checked my order from online tthrough USPS track & confirm link this morning before went to that specific location. When it was my turn to process, I showed the employee (Asian dumb woman) my license and my tracking number that I printed out the day before. Guess what she did??? She put it aside and called next customer. I was like 'WHAT IS GOING ON??? WHY IS SHE NOT LOOKING FOR MY ORDER???' Turned out, she did not even bother to look at it.

She called her supervisor and sent him off instead when it was not that even busy. The supervisor (very idiotic stupid white guy) came back with my license and saying that they do not have the textbook that I ordered from online. Turned out, he only checked the name but did not even bother to check whether it was same address or not.

My previous order took about almost a week. For this order, it did took about almost the same time. The supervisor basically lied to me that there were no textbook order for me to be picked up.

I was so pissed off this morning at the stupid asian employee and the supervisor. After I got home from my class, I found my textbook at the doorstep of my house. When I saw my order at my doorstep, that even made me way more pissed off.

USPS has either full of dumb employees or people who never pay attention at all. After this experience, I wonder who could provide better service than USPS because they really suck and the people who work there are all full of cr*p.

This post office have cause me so much headache. In the last month it lost three of my packages, two of them with tracking numbers which stated 'delivered' when I never got it and there is always someone here at home to receive packages. I tried to follow up on this and all the supervisor was telling me is they will investigate and call me for updates. They never called back (as I predicted anyway) and when I myself called them already, all they can say was that the mailman wasn't sure what he did. Why just blame the mailman? This is supposed to be a collective afford in tracking. And, if the mailman wasn't sure of what he/she did, who the hell would update the status to delivered?! What's so maddening thing is the delivery confirmation service bought for these packages were useless & infuriating because it stated delivered when I never got it!

So, apart from their joke delivery confirmation service they lost my $100 worth of ebay purchases. UPS, DHL and FEdex tracking & shipping service is galaxies away from this trashy USPS service. If you live in Torrance and know that this is your main office, have your package delivered by the other couriers because this post office doesn't know what it's doing.