So glad these intelligent people work for our government.

I lean toward nonfiction podcasts, came across this one and haven’t missed listening to an episode yet. The hosts do a great job with interviewing their guests, providing facts and providing entertainment. A few times, I have shared what I learned (their impact on progressing the advancements in transportation, trainings, stopping scammers, etc. …). Good job!

As a Carrier and previous Actor for over 20 years, I can tell you that there are better ways to run this podcast that can make it both informative and exciting. It can relate to civilians as well as those in the craft. It can feel relatable and upbeat. There’s a lot of information to put out there, it just needs to be entertaining! It’s a podcast, competition is steep! The audience is there, but this podcast needs a revamp.

Let’s stop pretending it actually cares! What they have done with the new RRECS system is robbing carriers of their earned income, many lost over $10k (some committed suicide) all because of “time management “ carriers cannot speak to each other anymore while working, carriers cannot speak to customers unless it’s for a lead. The routes have stayed the same but income has been decreased. Dejoy needs to be fired. This all a show and it’s playing into corporate greed. He wants to ensure that we don’t succeed so he can have us privatized.

Be consistent with content

As a 5th grade teacher, I love learning the history of our great USPO. Thanks, all!

I can’t believe how much I’m enjoying this podcast - who would have thought the postal service was so interesting?! I especially enjoyed the episode with the letter carrier. She was such an inspiration.

Love the employees stories. It’s nice to know so many take pride in their jobs. I always learn something during the “Did you know” segment.

On this week’s episode we discuss how the road that “ upper management “ is taking us is all downhill. We discuss unimprovments like slower than a snail first class mail delivery, because if it doesn’t say Amozon we don’t care. Trays of DPS letters missent to who knows where on a weekly basis for over two years. Email after email sent and nothing is done. Even flow of mail is just a dream for the customer and carrier especially when they hold the star route drivers on a daily basis making him late by several hours. which puts the carriers on the street after dark ( which is really safe in the world we’re living in) because he has three days mail in one day. Then he has his customers (the most important people in this equation)asking why I don’t get mail for two days and the next day I get a pile. The 10 year plan to horrible customer service and complete destruction of the postal service is right on track. We will also discuss the absolute disgrace that is the Rrecs system. I’m sure you will be interested in hearing all about it since we been trying to implement it since 2015 and it doesn’t work, and we’ve never trained our carriers or our supervisors about any of it except the big 6. Don’t worry we’re going to shove it through even though two thirds of the rural craft will take large pay cuts. It’s a great way to pay for the 10 year plan. Straight off the backs of our employees and destroying our customer service. We just can’t get to all of the highly educated decisions being made by people who have never seen a mail route in one episode. So please continue to listen to people getting paid to do a podcast about how great of a job management is doing. Solving huge management made problems on podcast at a time. That’s what I call mailin it……in

During the pandemic: We had zero ppe. No masks, no hand sanitizer, no gloves. Our PM got masks that she made and demonstrated them by placing them over her own mouth before handing them out. It was 5 months in before we got sanitizer and only because our custodians made some. When we got Covid our supervisor wanted us to keep working because he didn’t think Covid was real.

Let’s be real and discuss : how it’s truly like to be a mail person. In certain areas we have been mandated for the past 3 years. How we are robbed at gun point. Do not forget the oversized Amazon packages that need to be taken to the front door. The unrealistic amount of work expected from us due to staff shortages. Do us a favor and go back to carrying mail. Ps get rid of De Joy.

I’m a craft(carrier) employee at the USPS. Is there appetite for heating from the ground level about the issues that plague the service?

Hosts have no understanding of residential customers. For instance, a recent episode (Small Businesses) extol the ability to get business advertising into customer mailboxes. I just want to know how to STOP getting such deliveries. Another episode (Customer Care) lauded the Customer Experience but gave no info on how to reach that team. The “Contact Us” page gives no such info either unless the inquiry falls into a few selective concerns. The Informed Delivery episode was a classic in glossing over all its failings. Please add some residential costumers to the program for balance.

How about a podcast on the new Postal Service Reform Act and what is means and does for employees, retirees and the general public!!

Love the range of topics and depth of information provided in this podcast. So many times I was blown away by the information presented in different episodes.

it’s time to fire dejoy

I chose one star because 0 stars isn’t an option.

No one wants to sit here and listen to mailman talk about mailing when they should be outside doing their job by mailing! Stop trying to be mainstream and just do your job

Louis DeJoy is bad for postal worker morale, the environment, and America.

I haven’t listened to this yet, but think it’s super cute that it exists. Love the title too.

Pravda at it’s finest. At least we still have TLE

TLE is a far better podcast. I can’t believe they actually paid tax dollars to produce a podcast. This is your tax dollars at work. If the post office went away tomorrow we’d just get our letters delivered by Amazon or fedex for probably like 10% of the cost of a stamp. The government proves its uselessness once again.

NEVER FORGET that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy spent his time disenfranchising voters since his appointment of May 2020. He budget cutting not only endangered voting rights but also American lives given the millions of prescription medications that the USPS deliver daily that were horrifically delayed. This man needs to resign

The postmaster general is a right-winger who slowed the mail to a crawl during the 2020 election, and is now trying to engage in a marketing campaign to make sure that the post office is ready to do its part in the next major election. This podcast is fun and interesting, despite the postmaster general being a right-wing stooge eager to use his unearned office for political gain. Yasmine and Dale are incredible.

Louis DeJoy you are not fit to be postmaster general

If this podcast has any hope of success it needs to talk about what is happening to its workforce. Discussion needs to take place about Amazon undermining postal operations and morale! If you don’t care well then just keep droning on about all the talking points De joy gives you. Everyone should be fighting against privatization!!!

Delightful and enjoyable and informative.

Pretty high probability the 5 star ratings are either USPS employees or individuals friendly to print and/or delivery services. I thought this would be an interesting podcast talking about real issues facing the USPS. It’s one big sales pitch to keep printing and delivering stuff to keep USPS relevant. One of the podcasts I recall someone was on saying how great it is to get a printed financial statement in the mail versus being paperless. I guess it takes over 30 days to receive automated Email/SMS notices or log into your bank’s secure portal/app. Unfollowed.

While scripting podcasts are not uncommon, and not new. I can tell it’s all written for the people announcing this podcast. I think it’s a good podcast to know more about what happens after you click n ship, and buy the stamp, and shows how the millions of postal workers keep our mail moving.

I feel like there is a LOT more potential in this! I think the facts and actual information is GREAT but i think its delivered very dryly, super scripted specifically with the hosts. My favorite is when you both get less robotic and more fun!

Since the pandemic, I have begun to heavy rely on the postal service. I do my best to stay home and avoid large gatherings. Living far away from family and friends has been difficult but I am grateful to be able to stay connected via snail mail. I found joy in decorating envelopes, learning calligraphy and hand crafting cards for my loved ones. I am obsessed with stamps and ways to make my mail more cheerful. Since I use the postal service so much, I gave this podcast a shot to learn something new. This podcast is good if you want to pull away from reality and listen to interesting facts about our postal service.

Shame to see so many hostile reviews. The post office is one of the US’s oldest and most important institutions and a podcast which explores the institution is a fine idea.

My dad passed on a love of stamps to me. And now my business relies heavily on the post office. I found the zip code and stamps podcasts were really interesting. And I never thought about the USPS being in law enforcement! The only thing I don't like is it feels a little too scripted and edited. I wish it was more of a conversation between two friends. Overall I will keep listening as the topics are interesting.

It’s amazing that the usps thinks this is a good idea during their worst performance in history. The post office is slow, full of inept employees, and completely unaccountable for their horrible service. I look forward to the day when mail is privatized and this podcast will be a relic of a horribly misguided era during the swan song of the usps. By the way, I’m still waiting for that package you said is “in transit”.

Why do this? Who’s this for exactly? A podcast by organization that’s been sabotaged and not addressing the systemic issues that are plaguing it just reeks of a cheap publicity stunt. Write your U.S Representative and tell them all about what the USPS is up to and that they need to fix this vitally important and historic part of a our country.

I just found out that USPS has a podcast, the last thing I want to listen to is an interview with DeJoy :( Can’t wait for him to be removed and the USPS can continue to work on being a federal service and not a private enterprise which he would profit from!

If the Donner party had access to this podcast, they might not have eaten on another!

Why are we celebrating a institutional failure? I listened because curiosity... and it’s not that interesting. 🤷‍♀️

Louis DeJoy is systematically dismantling the USPS. His interview here is a feeble attempt to humanize a man who was appointed solely to destroy a historic American institution so that private interests could benefit from the gap in USPS service that has emerged since DeJoy was appointed.

My mail hardly ever arrives in the right location which I can tell because they prescan before delivery so I tried listening to this to see if there were clues. Apparently they took our tax dollars and made this propaganda. This is basically a state run media podcast to save face for Dejoy and yet I’d like some revenue off this garbage I pay for

Highly informative and interesting!

Good details, except it left me wanting more and I prefer podcasts over other forms of learning

I hope my tax dollars are not paying for this?

The US Postal service has a rich history and it’s role is unsurpassed.

I’m a huge supporter of the USPS, I collect stamps, and send cards, letters and postcards on a regular basis to friends around the globe. So, I feel I’m the target audience of this show. I do really like the information that’s being presented. I find it truly interesting. However, unlike most podcasts that I listen to where the format sounds like a natural conversation, the overly scripted delivery is just off-putting. Maybe with time, the presenters will sound more natural, but so far, it’s been a challenge to listen to the scripted, fake banter.

The idea of an official podcast that teaches you several aspects of the USPS, its history, and services they provide is useful and educational. Anyone who is into that stuff, go ahead and listen. The problem I see is that it comes off as non genuine. Every episode is in the most basic sense a half hour long ad with guests who are far removed from the day-to-day action letter carriers and clerks deal with everyday. I’m probably not the target demographic, but who is? Because it sounds like this would be more helpful for an elementary or middle schooler’s project than a commuter.

The woman's voice is unbearable. As Terry Gross puts it, young women these days "talk through their noses." Others say young women these days sound like teenage cheerleaders or munchkins. My tolerance for the horrible sounds young women produce is now all used up.

So the money saved from removing the Informed Delivery app and slowing down delivery times went to fund… this podcast? If the USPS was trying to save money, how’d this get approved? I’d love to know who thought this added value to the Post Office compared to the above 😒.

🙂 good

Interesting podcast.