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Channeling: A New Product Line?

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Do you believe in channeling? You know, where a person communicates with spirits telepathically? Well, I think I had an episode yesterday.

I received an email from one of our Hawaii postmasters. He said he felt the district was getting out of control with teleconference meetings.

He was on a telecon on Monday because his office missed two scans on Saturday. For a grueling, mind-numbing 90 minutes, he listened to scan offenders being put through an intense debriefing. They had to explain why they had missed scans and how they were going to correct it.

Finally, just before it was his turn to talk, the MPOO stopped the meeting because they ran out of time. She said she would speak with him on Tuesday. The postmaster was fit to be tied—and scanned. Why? Because he’d have to go through the whole 9 yards all over again on Tuesday, listening to all the scan offenders from Monday’s missed scans.

To make matters worse, while he was on the teleconference, he got a call from the district. The WTIL monitor observing his lobby line said he failed WTIL. His line was out the door, and he was glued to the phone.

The postmaster said that this meeting madness is over the top. It’s not even mid-week yet and he’s already got nine telecons lined up for next week. When do you do your work?

He asked if I could contact the district and see if we could limit the number of meetings postmasters had to attend. The meetings were getting in the way, preventing postmasters from doing their job.

It made sense to me. So I started composing a letter to our MPOO. Then it struck me. Postmasters are spending so much time on telecon meetings about customer service, that we don’t have the time to actually do the work that’s needed to improve service.

I kept hearing management’s mantra about “doing more with less” in my head. But doing more with less doesn’t mean doing more meetings with less time for our job.

Now this is where the channeling part comes in.

When I got home yesterday and checked my email, I noticed a message from my friend in Nebraska, Postmaster Bill Krejci. He sent me the Dilbert cartoon you see above. (shown below in this website)

When I told Bill about my email on doing more with less, he said “What I can say...I really should quit hacking into other people’s emails :)

I don’t think that’s the case at all. I think I had channeled with both Dilbert and Bill.

Now if I could only parlay this new found talent into Postal Psychic Messaging, we’d really have an innovative product line.