USPS: No wonder they're going broke...

[Tenzing_Norgay]

I was working at a commercial shopping plaza today when I noticed the postman pull up to the business. He exits his mail truck and waits for a woman who was following him in another vehicle. She has a clipboard and one of those orange measuring-wheel thingies. She walks up to him and says "OK, let's go". He walks into the business to drop off the mail at the sales desk, as the woman follows him measuring the distance. She follows behind him on the way back to the truck, measuring the whole time. "OK" she says "...that was 191 feet" and writes some notes down on her clipboard.

The mail truck drives to the next building and from what I could see, they repeat the process.

I'm guessing she was some sort of efficiency expert(?). God only knows how much the USPS is paying her.

Perhaps I should submit a gov't purchasing proposal for F'ING FIT-BITS, YOU INCOMPETENT IDIOTS!

[N4KVE]

Seen the same thing 20 years ago with the UPS driver, except the “efficiency expert” drove in the big brown truck with the driver. GARY

[dammitgriff]

They’re probably gonna use the data to start charging by the foot for deliveries.

[photohause]

First a fuel tax with UPS, now a shoe tax with USPS...

[wjbarricklow]

Been there done that, doing work for a BellSouth contractor. Worked really slow that day.

[krimmie]

I don’t know about Usps, but ups uses the info as part of the time allowance given to the route. It’s all about driver production(stops per hour).

[Tenzing_Norgay]

It’s all about driver production(stops per hour).

Correct, but you can track a driver with a $35 wristband vs. paying a six-figure "efficiency expert"...