The Jmu Mailroom Case

THE JMU MAILROOM CASE If you expect your dismount to get down with the same speedy auction pitch made touristy by dismountman Mr. McFeeley of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, you may be disappointed over the next few weeks. While mail delivery is not drastically slower than normal, employees in the JMU postal assistance store can pass several reasons why they be having trouble delivering mail as promptly as usual. The majority of the five-member pack who work in the store, now located on South Main Street across from Dukes Plaza say they are upset because postal service management did not put forward their opinions into neb before throwing changes at them. We were consulted, tho they didnt take some(prenominal)thing we utter into account, verbalise Eric McKee, a postal service employee who works in the warehouse. Changes have included sorrowful the warehouse to a building 10 minutes from campus which consists of a basement without running water or bathroom facilities. Employees must walk outside to the present of the building in order to use bathrooms. McKee, on with another delivery employee who wished to retain anonymous for guardianship of losing his job, complained of the great somatogenetic stress involved in carrying the large tubfuls of mail instead of carrying mailbags that can be thrown over the shoulder.According to another employee who wished to remain unnamed, in addition to the physical stress, the tub-delivery outline slows up mail delivery considerably. The employee said by cast mailbags over the shoulder it was easier to carry large load of mail, something nearly impossible with the tubs. According to Terry Woodward, theatre director of postal go, the change from mailbags to bins came the day after the warehouse change location. The changes were brought astir(predicate) to accommodate the growing tawdriness of mail that has come as a direct of the increasing numbers of departments and students in the university, Wodd ward said.Delivering the mail with the tub system instead of a bag system reduces steps, Woodward said, thus speeding the delivery time. While Woodward declare that the changing system is the cause for mail slowdown, he said he expects delivery to speed up as employees get use to the new system. The warehouse used to be located in a trailer behind Anthony-Seeger Hall. The new location is a five-to-ten minute drive to campus, which employees say slows down their delivery time substantially.One delivery worker said the move has brought about new obstacles, such as having to wait 10 minutes for a retard to cross in front of him. The facility was labored to move off campus Aug. 3 when the Facilities Management division took over the trailer postal services used to occupy next to Anthony-Seeger Hall, Woodward said. Woodward said he pass judgment initial protection to the changes by postal employees, but hoped the workers would keep an open mind while free the new system time to sm ooth out. theres certainly been some resistance, Woodward said about postal employees reactions to the changes.One such case of resistance may have brought about the firing of troy weight Munford, a summer postal service employee who said the new system is unmanageable. Munford claims he was fired for defiance by Sonja Mace, operations manager for the postal service, when he told her the system wasnt working and tried to pitch a meeting between the heads of postal services and the employees. Munford said that after he told Mace you promised to go through us your best and obviously your best wasnt good enough, Mace stomped her foot . . . nd said, youre fired. Due to Munfords firing about both weeks ago, some employees were unnerved to speak out or have their names printed in the paper for timidity they may also lose their jobs. By devising the changes, Mace has doubled, if not tripled, the workload of the employees, he said. Im just concerned for the people who are still h ere, Munford said. He said he is afraid some of them will hurt themselves eventually, due to the physical difficulty of the job. Mace refused to comment on any personnel issues regarding the change.