Staff issues impact post offices
(CNS): With a number of members of staff who are vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus or have childcare challenges still working from home, the Cayman Islands Postal Service is not able to resume normal service. Postmaster General Sheena Glasgow said the main post office in George Town is still only open for one hour per day and others are on short hours because some counter staff are not able to return to work.
“In order to reopen all post offices, I need counter staff to serve customers. I still have a high number of counter staff who are home because they are high risk for their own personal health reasons, they are vulnerable, or are citing childcare issues which delay their return to work,” Glasgow told CNS in response to inquiries.
“Until I’m advised by officials higher than me that such officers must now report back to the physical workplace in this COVID-19 environment, I’m limited in the availability of my counter staff to serve customers,” she added.
Glasgow explained that the CIPS had notified all of its postal partners through the Universal Postal Union, which has 192 members, that from 6 May the Cayman Islands could again receive mail and how to get the mail here, which included Royal Mail, the USPS and Canada Post.
But she said it was the responsibility of the country sending the mail to deal with the transportation logistics. The local post service has no control over that.
“This outbound transportation responsibility makes sense if you consider that the sending country also collected the postage paid by the customer and the postage is meant to cover costs, including transportation to Cayman,” Glasgow said.
Many people here in Cayman are still desperate to get mail from the US, but Glasgow said that the USPS tenders its mail transportation contracts annually.
“The airline contracted by the USPS to bring mail into Cayman, American Airlines, is not yet allowed access with Cayman’s airports still officially closed,” she said. “As this is a USA contractual matter, the USPS is taking some time to get alternate transportation arrangements in place.”
Glasgow said Cayman was not alone in feeling the delay over incoming US mail. “During a virtual industry meeting last month, the USPS verbally advised postal administrations that it was unable to send mail to some 100 countries, and has serious airlift issues to an additional 20 countries.”
Meanwhile, the Royal Mail has been sending UK post via sea freight and the BA air-bridge flights to Cayman.
| Post Offices | Current post office hours: | |
| Airport Savannah West Bay | Tuesdays to Fridays | 9am – 3pm |
| West End | Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays | 9am – 1pm |
| Little Cayman | Mondays – Thursdays Fridays and | 9am – 1pm 9am – 1pm 2:00 – 3:30pm |
Little Cayman Post Office is closed this week as the officer had a personal medical emergency off island.
All other post offices are only open for one hour on the respective “open” days to facilitate access to general delivery mail and in the case of the General Post Office, access to the inside post boxes.
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Fired them who won’t work at post office. There is plenty other people looking for work! WTF!
Quite right.
For those old enough to remember in December 1969 there was so much incoming mail the post office could not deliver it by xmas day. To alleviate any disappointments the chamber of commerce deployed its members to assist with sorting the mail. Although the mail bags were stacked to the ceiling it was all sorted one Saturday. To the bemusement of those opening their boxes they were told to return several times otherwise their boxes would be full.
This was not untypical of how people acted in those beautiful times.
How do I know all this? I was there! So no thumbs down please.
Wow! I wish I could just blow off my business because I don’t have child care. How nice to screw an entire country and al of its people because someone doesn’t want to pay for a helper?
And how did those staff cope last year during the summer when schools were closed?
It is past time to organize the implementation of stamp machines. Why do I have to go to “counter staff”?
Have you tried to pay for parking at the airport?
Yeah, it’s easy.
To be fair it does (did) now work. It didn’t for nearly a decade though!
Time for ex-pats to take over and get things functional again.
We have already been taken over by expats. The fact that you do not describe persons from the big island to our east as expats is indicative of your lack of understanding of what is really going on.
Plenty of useless expats too. Let’s just open it up to eager Caymanians willing to show up for a day’s work. That shouldn’t be a very high bar.
Re 12:44 pm. Yes, I agree with you. Get people that we can depend on not our own who feel they should be paid to stay home.
Expats get it functioning again? What a joke. You all are a major part of Cayman’s problems.
Worthless sods
Hilarious!!! Without expats you’d be a hopeless, economic desert run by incompetent wannabes with no experience, no education and absolutely no work ethic, (as seen in the CI Postal Service and almost any Caymanian populated organisation).
A hopeless lot who pay more and commit more into this corrupt society than the ‘local’ community, and who generate the very funds that support idle local workers on furlough. How many of those ‘hopeless lot‘ stood up and served these islands whilst the rest hid away petrified in fear?
Store workers, garbage guys, nurses, doctors, police and other law enforcement officers, and thousands of others that kept your asses safe whilst you think we’re the problem.
You couldn’t make that ignorant s##t up.
Epitomizes the CAN’T DO attitude of the CS/CIG.
Reading this article, I might just go postal.
I love living in the Cayman Islands and find everyone here helpful, freindly and efficient – except the Post Office. It is a standing joke. Mention it to anyone, Caymanian (except perhaps PO workers) or not, and you get a laugh, a groan and a roll of the eyes. It is truly, truly awful, and for the sake of my blood pressure I make every effort to use it as little as I can. I can only think it’s where they send the naughty civil servants, instead of firing them.
Why does the deputy governor ignore complaints like these? He must know what people think.
Poor old Mr Digby. Yes, I still remember him too…
WHAT A JOKE.
What do they do in summer with the children?
Camps are on!
This is nothing more than an excuse to not go to work!
Enough is enough! We have thousands of people unemployed, Covid is more under control here than almost anywhere else on the planet and these people are unwilling to go back to work! Seriously!!
The government is completely out of touch with the mood of the general population here. We get people are afraid but the Postmaster General’s job is to get the post office working, not accepting lame ass excuses about why people should remain at home – doing nothing!
If she isn’t willing to lead then find someone else who is!
If the electricity wasn’t working or the Internet was down in these people’s homes, they would be the first to complain! The post office is an essential service. Private sector essential services have either been running throughout or at least for months. They found a way of making it work, while keeping their people safe. Deaths from essential service workers has been…. wait for it…. zero!
The Premier needs to step in and start getting these clowns back to work. Enough is enough!!!
Is Cayman Post office a function of Cayman Government? If so, how could it possibly be in such a dismal state? The words coming out of Ms. Glasgow mouth are getting more bizarre.
If Postal Service employees are illiterate and untrainable may be sending them to other jobs where use of brain is not required, retire them, send them to learning disability specialists to identify deficiencies and start rehabilitation/training?
Even a bear can be trained to ride a bicycle and an elephant to stand on one leg.
The cruel animal trainer uses punishment if they don’t perform; the kind one reward when they do. Glasgow rewards them for not doing The task – paid to stay at home. Hell, even part pay on furlough may be enough to get them off the couch – full pay until the virus has been completely extinguished in the islands sounds like retirement on full pay.
world class laziness and incompetence….
yime for more awards franz
All these goverment workers have been using the Covid as an excuse to not go into work but “work from home”. Because they have a guaranteed pay check they can do this while in the private sector we have to suck it up and press on. Some one “higher up” needs to boot all of these jokers in the butt and get them back on the job and quit using all these lame ass excuses. If they don’t want to work then let them go and hire new people.
The Deputy Governor literally said they were not sending all civil servants back to work straight away so no one is doing this on their accord.
Private sector employers who have required their staff back to work are protecting their $ first. It is what it is.
Aww someone’s jealous. I like your logic.. sh*t all over something that someone else has to reduce the envy you have for it.
When I get to pay for them to sit at home, yes.
Remind me again why Caymanians get passed over by the private sector.
there you go!!!
Way to generalize. SMH.
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Staff issues have been impacting the Cayman Postal service for years. Don’t blame COVID.
Staff issues plague every entity anywhere in the world, especially with the current crisis. Stop buying into the sensationalist anti-Caymanian racist, prejudicial hype. And BTW it’s not only “Caymanians” that work at the post office or anywhere on this island for that matter, so any reports of staffing issues encompass all groups, Caymanians, status holders, work permits holders and permanent residents. Nowhere in the article did Mrs. Glasgow refer to her staffing problems being a Caymanian employee issue. She also went on to say that during a virtual industry roundup meeting, the United States Postal Service is facing similar challenges. Stop the discrimination, stop the hate.
Nope. USPS never closed and continues working efficiently and effectively. Mail trucks deliver daily mail to residents and businesses, post offices are open regular hours. .
1: we have flights in and out of Miami. Get our mail. 2: nanny’s and daycares are allowed.
3: another incompetent civil service department. Many are willing to work, use them instead if the same slow and unhelpful usuals.
Postal service in Cayman is a joke and has been even before the COVID crisis.
Sheena Glasgow’s comment that until she is “advised by officials higher” than herself that her staff should return to work, is totally indicative of the Cayman Islands Civil Service attitude and practice since the first Jim Bodden Government took over and hijacked the CS in 1976! It has gone downhill ever since.
Departments Heads (who ideally should be the “trained professionals” in their respective fields) should ADVISE/RECOMMEND UPWARDS to Chief Officers and likewise they ADVISE/RECOMMEND upwards to Ministers who make the DECISIONS, hell or high water, with appropriate consultation and coordination expected. The Minister is the person directly and ultimately responsible to the people!!
Instead the cart is upside down as, for the most part, inept Dep. Heads and COs wait on orders above from inept Ministers who won a popularity contest and don’t necessarily have ANY clue about the functions and processes over which they “minister”!!!
What a clusterf**k!! The present head of the CS doesn’t get and neither does anyone else. Appalling!! Forty plus years and no one in the “system” (it’s not even close) gets it!!! How the hell can they ever fix it if they don’t even understand how it’s supposed to work???
Goodness, it was working that way when the CS was really cohesively “formed” in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But how can 5 years of correctness return after 40 years of bullshit!! What a mess!!!
The definition of incompetence.
I too work at a bank and worked through the covid-19 I also have 2 children and also have pre existing condition. I too not dare say i could not come to work. i had to get up show where a mask and work.
Well that was your choice to put to your family at risk for the sake of your employers bottom line. Doesn’t make you a hero or a hard worker.
Well then would you give money or somewhere to live when i dont have a job?
All those people who was out there working there ass off on the front line during the hight of covid was to ensure you dumb ass never go hungry, still could do your transaction at the bank, still could get medical care and every thing else.And by her risking her life YES that makes her a hero. You is just as sick as how you think.
Thank you for giving your time. God Bless you!!
Will this have any impact on their chances of winning a Silver Medal at the World Postal Games in Dubai later this year?
They’ll still get their participation trophy.
Didn’t you hear? They are a finalist again this year.
You can’t win if you don’t buy a ticket!
Covid-19 requires strong leaders at this time. While some heads of company and department are good, sometimes they are not suited to lead an organization in such a time. And so what some companies as well as govt institution may want to do is use the stronger leaders at this time. I cannot imagine staff expect to get paid and they are needed to make money to pay them.
I am willing to work. Lost my job due to the tourism industry. Have applied and taken the test and passed already. I am very low risk and a hard worker.
And if past experience is anything to go by, you don’t even have to put the mail in the correct box, any box will do.
This is the best and most accurate comment yet!
Lesha, good luck to you. I hope a new opportunity opens up for you soon.
Hire this lady!
they will probably eat her up
And yet my yearly P.O. Box charge is coming up! I’m not paying for the months lost.
I thought that the Box charge paid at the end of the year was to cover the following year.
Who even knows, it’s a joke
Yes you are, or you lose it
Let’s be honest, there is no indication from the article that mail that is not being delivered when it is received from overseas. Limited hours and locations does not translate to non delivery. And when did we become so privileged that we can’t drive an extra 2 miles to conduct postal services at a centralised post office. Why do we need all of the post offices anyways?!
Cayman Brac has 5 post offices alone! For what?!
If you think the Post office is in a mess, wait until you try to deal with WORC in getting on Jobs Cayman portal.Not a one of them dealing with the help line know a thing about it and can’t help the poor people trying to register for jobs. Sorry for the little business man trying to get started again after being closed for over 3 months.This is the most stressful exercise for all businesses. CNS, please do a special on another incompetent brain child of government.
It’s not only the Post Office. Try General Registry who claim to be working but don’t respond to phone calls e-mails or online requests. There’s going to be a lot of births & deaths not properly recorded and good luck with requesting certificates.
There was a Front Desk training for caymanian at the Marriott and the only place it was being advertised in on Jeremy Scott Instagram. (Must be for only him and his friends and family). Someone who uses Insta saw it took a picture of it and send it to me. No advertisement on the radio, news paper or nothing. What a mess
For makework jobs.
They can’t get a letter posted in GT to North Side within 4 weeks. This incompetence and sheer stupidity. Stop making excuses for mediocrity.
Unbelievable. I work at a bank, and have worked straight threw this COVID19 mess. I didn’t dare say I couldn’t work or I wouldn’t have a job. Government need to put their feet down. They are paying people and life must go on.
Did you not read the article:
“The airline contracted by the USPS to bring mail into Cayman, American Airlines, is not yet allowed access with Cayman’s airports still officially closed,” she said. “As this is a USA contractual matter, the USPS is taking some time to get alternate transportation arrangements in place.”
If you’re so desperate, go back to the US then and collect your US cheque!
Do you actually understand what you have written? You must be working at the post office.
The international courier services are running as are the shipping companies. Postal services should adapt.
Time for the Cayman Islands Postal Service to be abolished. A dinosaur needs to be put down.
A cargo plane arrives everyday. On board is Cayman Airways cargo, and all the couriers use this.
How many phone calls would it take to have the mail, on a temporary basis, subcontracted from AA to Cayman Airways?
They certainly step on your toe….LMFAO.
A company like UPS need the whole of 4/5 months to get their business sort out. OH PLEASE. Come with a nother story.
This is what happens when the majority of your staff are over 65 and can’t use or barely use a computer. What is this outfit, a retirement home hobby shop?
In other news the Royal Mail was fined ￡1.5M last week by its regulator for late delivery of first class mail and overcharging for stamps.
I would imagine if you cut their pay they would manage to come to work. What a joke!
Bit of an ageist comment there, I am 62 and been writing computer code since the eighties. I am still writing it and could give gen X or millennials a whipping when it comes to computers.
The problem with postal workers is not using a computer, it is their lethargical and languid attitude to a job they seem to hate.
At 62 You’re still young in my estimation I agree with you in part but I’ve seen this problem elsewhere in the civil service. Some bosses are technically deficient and computer phobic so are not so enthusiastic in implementing online services. My 90 yr old father knows his way around computing more than some of these civil service staff. You add what you mentioned to what I’ve stated and it follows that we have lacklustre service throughout the backbone elements that make up our civil service. Young recruits have no option but to conform to the broken system. I’ve also seen young, bright super enthusiastic Caymanians get stonewalled and their talents wasted due to the cronyism and nepotism endemic in the system. There is no solution except to put the management on notice and give them a pink slip if they don’t perform and adopt new technologies.
I lost my job in the tourism industry. I’m willing to work at the post office and low risk! I’m sure there are 50 others as well. Maybe the government should place out of work hospitality professionals( customer service back grounds) In the post office and re shape and revamp the postal service?
Lol. I didn’t even know we had a postal service. Why even reopen it? Just fire them all, problem solved.
The mail from the US MUST BE RESUMED immediately. When received the mail is received, it must be sorted immediately. Many, many people are waiting for pension checks to live off of, which cannot be deposited online to CI Banks. This is our elderly community that relies upon these checks for day to day living. Why can’t the CI Post Office coordinate directly, using Cayman Airways as an alternative to AA? Emergency flights to the US are happening at least twice a month..why can’t the mail be place on these flights? People are suffering without these checks. Please people use your heads and get the system up and running again. Not everyone is a Civil Servant and has the luxury of guaranteed paycheck!
Seriously? I don’t think I’ve used a cheque since the 90’s!
Well you’re obviously not an elderly pensioner, are you?!
What difference does that make?
If I were, that would be even more reason not to use such an obviously flawed system to receive money. It’s only a matter of time before a pensioner can’t run around collecting and depositing checks at which point they will need help. Use that help now to open a us account, or borderless online account and have payments paid electronically.
Very well ‘down vote’ ignore the advice and continue to request checks, pay foreign checking fees and live at the mercy of the postal system. Your choice now (Ps don’t expect aa to resume flights before December!)
The point is there was no reason to be using checks even 25 years ago when said ‘elderly pensioner’ retired let alone for 25 years since!
I am unable to get my pension funds transfered on line to my Cayman bank. Haven’t been paid for 4 months. I can only imagine the fit they would have if this happened to them!
You need another account to act as an intermediary. If you ever travel to the us opening a us bank account for a non resident is easy enough. There are online (borderless account) alternatives for the immediate future but you really need a us account long term for your financial security.
In grownup land, there is official stuff that comes by mail. Sometimes, registered mail. HM Customs Parcel pickup notices, anything involving CIG applications, outcomes, planning notices(when PLA bothers to send those out). School notices/bills. Replacement credit cards, more bills, mortgage, utility, and credit card statements (much of this should be online but isn’t). Christmas and birthday cards. Catalogues, club and alumni newsletters. Sometimes other commercial junk from realtors and Dart media affiliates they ram in there that nobody asked for…and often: mail addressed to other people!
No one else cares.
Did you not read the article:
“The airline contracted by the USPS to bring mail into Cayman, American Airlines, is not yet allowed access with Cayman’s airports still officially closed,” she said. “As this is a USA contractual matter, the USPS is taking some time to get alternate transportation arrangements in place.”
If you’re so desperate, go back to the US then and collect your US cheque!
Negotiations can be had with the National Carrier, Cayman Airways, to bring the Mail. Obviously you didn’t read the article or understand that although American cannot fly here, Cayman Airways does and could be the alternative needed. Your lack of empathy is exactly what is wrong with society by the way. Why don’t you go four months without a payment and see what happens to you. A solution can be found but only if everyone works together. The first step is getting the mail on Island. Negotiate using Cayman Airways, goodness knows the Government negotiates on other matters.
Negotiations can be had with the National Carrier, Cayman Airways, to bring the Mail. Obviously you didn’t read the article or understand that although American cannot fly here, Cayman Airways does and could be the alternative needed. Your lack of empathy is exactly what is wrong with society by the way. Why don’t you go four months without a payment and see what happens to you. A solution can be found but only if everyone works together. The first step is getting the mail on Island. Negotiate using Cayman Airways, goodness knows the Government negotiates on other matters.
Are you serious? This is your interpretation of what is written?
@4:51PM did you not read the article?🧐 the issue with the US post is something for America to sort out? America has a contract in place with American Airlines!! Our airport is closed to America hence no mail!! Cayman post office cannot use Cayman Airways!! The US needs to make such arrangements not the CI Post Office!
You posted several comments but have no idea what you are talking about. In fact your train of thought is so unique that it left me wondering why do you think the way you think.
Let me use different words, may be you’ll get it.
You live in a village that gets weekly delivery of supplies by a truck. You barricaded the village due to virus. Supplies delivery truck is loaded and ready to bring it to you, but you won’t open the gates because the truck is coming from a country where the virus is rampant. You refuse to load supplies into your own trucks that do come from this country and allowed into your village. The village is running out of essential supplies, but you blame the shipper of the supplies saying they must find a different truck to deliver it. But we won’t allow any trucks from this country to enter the village either. So whose fault is that that supplies are not delivered into your village??
DO YOU GET IT NOW?
How about this… You bought a bus ticket and half way to your destination the bus had a flat tire and can’t be repaired for a month.
All the other passengers hitchhike or take other buses to your destination, but you wait on the side of the road because you made a deal with that bus company.
Ms Glasgow repeats the mantra “incoming overseas mail is the responsibility of the country of origin”. i.e even if airmail takes 3 weeks from Miami in normal times we do not make any effort to complain to the USPS but sit back and say “tut tut”.
We have numerous airbridge flights arriving from London, how about Ms Glasgow getting out of her armchair to inform the UK postal authorities in advance when these flights are scheduled, so they can ship our mail.
US post service says it takes 6-7 days for mail to get out of this country and the rest of the wait is what happens on the island. Not sure who is right, but that is what we are told up here re: mail going to GC and the 3 weeks + for it to land
When someone would say enough is enough!?
2007
Mail problems plague post service https://www.caymancompass.com/2007/05/30/mail-problems-plague-post-service/
2015
Auditors issue scathing review of postal service https://www.caymancompass.com/2015/01/07/auditors-issue-scathing-review-of-postal-service/
2019
Postal officials working on quicker package notification
https://www.caymancompass.com/2019/06/24/postal-officials-working-on-quicker-package-notification/
2020
“…a number of members of staff who are vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus or have childcare…”
Simply embarrassing!
https://www.caymancompass.com/2012/12/10/lavish-hotels-mark-deputy-premier-s-42k-qatar-trip/
Need a new post master general ASAP
Her excuses are always lame. Remember she was saying that a wrong person was grabbing something from a printer and that is why mail notifications weren’t sent?
How in the world “a wrong person” can #1 be present at the post office #2 grabbing papers from a printer??
She is most certainly “connected” to someone in a position of power. Because it is freaking IMPOSSIBLE anywhere else in the world including third and forth world countries to run postal service the way it is run in The Cayman Islands. The world’s financial center my a$$!
I am flabbergasted by the fact that she is even ALLOWED to make such statements, as if it is normal and customary to run a post service of a COUNTRY (well, a territory) as a mom-and-pop shop.
The Post office is a place which employs the unemployable.
Correct. So what else would you like to do with them and the customs officers and fire officers? Is your law firm going to employ them, Mr 4:44pm, living in Vista Del Mar or Yacht Club or etc etc etc.? You don’t give a damn do you?
Thousands of other jobs are available, including many of those presently filled by unskilled foreign nationals.
Are you kidding???? Train them.. Even a bear can be trained to ride a bicycle and an elephant to stand on one leg.
If they’re so illiterate and untrainable may be send them to other jobs where use of brain is not required, retire them, send them to learning disability specialists to identify deficiencies and start rehabilitation?
Is Cayman Post office a function of Cayman Government? If so, how could it possibly be in such a dismal state? The words coming out of Ms. Glasgow mouth are getting more bizarre.
This is embarrassing! Find other persons who are willing to do the work. This is not protecting the work force, this is the work force freeloading on tax payer funds!
How can a postal worker do any productive work from home? Any work at all? Are these individuals still on full tax payer salary? Per child care – what did these individuals do over the summer with their children before?
This is ridiculous as the Minister responsible needs to step in to direct mandatory return for all workers as the Government and in turn the public is being taken for the quintessential “ride”!
Hear ya again!! Yes Franz Manderson, the Civil Service can work ‘equally well from home, we may consider it’. Perhaps you should stay home – permanently. Consider that!!
A true wonderland where work is optional but paycheck is guaranteed!
If they could even just get the LOCAL mail delivered!!! Jeez!! wth
Not going there but it is past time that the P.O. is opened. This is an essential service and staff should not be allowed to use the conronavirus as a excuse to stay home.
CIG here’s a thought…why don’t you move the staff from the entities that receive millions of dollars in subsidies every year (but not operating fully at this time) and put them at the Post Office i.e. Cayman Turtle Centre, Cayman Airways, Pirates Week, Museum, Pedro Castle, etc, etc.
Ms. Glasgow, as Postmaster General, you should come up with solutions not with excuses. This is disgraceful.
Could not agree more!
Bull shit, the P O should be opened 5 days a week at least from 8:30 to 1 pm, the P M G is only forming excuses for her workers like herself to stay home an get payed full wages
World class
CNS can you please find out if mail can now be sent to USA?? Not everything important can be done online.
Long time friend, which rock you been under?
Yes, it can. In fact the CIPS has been accepting outgoing mail going to USA since May. As air transportation is limited, both to the US and within the US, delivery times may be longer than normal.
Yes. The CIPS has been accepting outgoing mail to the USA since May. As air transportation is limited, both to the USA and within the USA, delivery may be delayed.
Thank you Sheena for looking out for the safety of your employees. It easy to cast stones when you don’t realize the dangerous nature of this virus.
If the CIPO are employing people who are incapable of sitting behind a full plexi-glass or ballistic glass window whilst wearing a mask and having their workplace constantly disinfected, then they need to review their recruitment criteria. There are plenty of younger, healthier people out there who need secure employment, employ them and get this ridiculous and embarrassing sham of a postal system doing its essential service.
100% of mail and packages could be sent through a UV sterilization conveyor…like everywhere else on the planet.
Yea and expose staff to cancer causing uv rays.
If they wear their tinfoil hats they’ll be fine.
a good one, thank you for pointing!
But the people who manage the bank accounts of the staff, and maintain their vehicles, and pump their gas, and operate their grocery stores, and clear their yards, and generate their electricity, and operate their healthcare facilities, and pay the fees to government on which their staff’s salaries are based, all have to go to work, right?
Another excellent comment!
???!!! We are at the lowest level of suppression!
Why are we allowing the tail to wag to dog? When people talk about the inefficiency of government this is the kind of thing they have in their minds!
The post office is an essential service. We have planes coming in from the USA once a week. We have a cargo plane coming in every day from Miami. We have a BA plane at least once a month. We have to be better than this where government just shrugs its shoulders and says “whatever….” We have to make mail work so people can function.
If they don’t want to work then put them on a 75% pay cut or force immediate redundancy. Then see how many come back to work!
If only, it is the Government we’re talking about here.
The CIPS has no control over the mail leaving the US, UK etc. That is at the discretion of their postal service. CIPS has been sending mail out on every available flight.
This is embarrassing! Find other persons who are willing to do the work. This is not protecting the work force, this is the work force freeloading on tax payer funds!
#defundthepostoffice
#lettersmatter
Send them all a pink slip!
In the mail!
These people are not serious, I did the test earlier this year and got 85% and I still haven’t heard a word from them…they are not looking to hire they are only making excuses.
the COVID-19 test? You aced it!
Ms Glasgow if you have all these staff who cannot return to work, there are plenty who are out of work and not sitting at home on full salaries that would love to operate the counter positions and earn some money. Please get real, we are not all civil servants.
12.55pm Available, willing, able and would do the job with a smile on my face!
LOL, such a thought has never crossed her mind
I will be glad to help!! I also know of MANY ambitious Caymanians who need PT positions.
I can’t believe what Iam reading…
I always said the “lazy” Caymanians were the ones who had jobs and didn’t do anything. Here’s the proof.
And there, in one perfect cluster, is the difference between the private and public sectors. If you can not access the staff at least open each post office for 1 day a week, on a rotating schedule!
In any ever, their services are largely becoming redundant. It may be that as part of necessary cost cutting, some of them should never reopen.
At risk to Covid and child care issues…these people really don’t want their long term paid vacation to end! Or wait…weren’t they re-purposed or “working from home”? Oh that’s right, it turns out that while a few hundred public servants actually did some work the rest (approx 80%) of the public service stayed at home and binge watched Tiger King…Fox News likely plays a close second fiddle.
Childcare issues? So the post offices will be closed every summer going forward?
No. Children will be outlawed. They prevent they operation of core government services.
This is a joke and they should all be fired.
Made redundant. They have proved we can live without a postal service.
We can live without nail spas and stupid salons employing foreigners too.
No argument from me.