The Jmu Mailroom Case

THE JMU MAILROOM CASE If you expect your brand to tell apart with the same swift auction pitch made popular by ring armorman Mr. McFeeley of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, you may be disappointed all everyplace the next few weeks. While mail delivery is not drastically slower than normal, employees in the JMU postal renovation store can completeer several reasons why they are having trouble delivering mail as promptly as usual. The majority of the five-member crew who work in the storage warehouse, now located on South Main Street crossways from Dukes Plaza say they are upset be cause postal aid management did not take their opinions into account before throwing changes at them. We were consulted, barely they didnt take anything we said into account, said Eric McKee, a postal service employee who works in the warehouse. Changes have included moving the warehouse to a twist 10 minutes from campus which consists of a basement without running urine or bathroom facilities. Em ployees must walk outside to the front of the building in order to use bathrooms. McKee, along with another delivery employee who wished to stick anonymous for vexation of losing his job, complained of the great physical stress involved in carrying the large tubs of mail instead of carrying mailbags that can be thrown over the shoulder. jibe to another employee who wished to remain unnamed, in addition to the physical stress, the tub-delivery arranging slows up mail delivery considerably. The employee said by slinging mailbags over the shoulder it was easier to carry large loads of mail, somewhatthing nearly impossible with the tubs. According to Terry Woodward, director of postal run, the change from mailbags to bins came the day after the warehouse change kettle of fish. The changes were brought about to accommodate the growing volume of mail that has come as a result of the increasing numbers of departments and students in the university, Woddward said.Delivering the mail w ith the tub system instead of a bag system reduces steps, Woodward said, consequently speeding the delivery conviction. While Woodward acknowledged that the changing system is the cause for mail slowdown, he said he expects delivery to speed up as employees get used to the radical system. The warehouse used to be located in a trailer behind Anthony-Seeger Hall. The impudent location is a five-to-ten minute drive to campus, which employees say slows down their delivery time substantially. genius delivery worker said the move has brought about new obstacles, such as having to wait 10 minutes for a check up on to cross in front of him. The facility was forced to move off campus Aug. 3 when the Facilities Management Department took over the trailer postal services used to occupy next to Anthony-Seeger Hall, Woodward said. Woodward said he expected initial resistance to the changes by postal employees, but hoped the workers would keep an open headland while giving the new system ti me to smooth out. at that places certainly been some resistance, Woodward said about postal employees reactions to the changes.One such case of resistance may have brought about the electric arc of Troy Munford, a summer postal service employee who said the new system is unmanageable. Munford claims he was fired for insubordination by Sonja Mace, operations four-in-hand for the postal service, when he told her the system wasnt working and tried to tack together a meeting between the heads of postal services and the employees. Munford said that after he told Mace you promised to give us your surmount and obviously your best wasnt good enough, Mace stomped her foot . . . nd said, youre fired. collect to Munfords firing about two weeks ago, some employees were afraid to direct out or have their names printed in the paper for fear they may also lose their jobs. By making the changes, Mace has doubled, if not tripled, the workload of the employees, he said. Im just concerned for the volume who are still here, 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 translation on any personnel issues regarding the change.