Letter: Postal service is top-heavy

One problem with the U.S. Postal Service is that the payroll for postmasters, management and supervisors is so high.

At the post office where I work, we have one postmaster and four supervisors, or one supervisor for each letter carrier. There are only two chairs on the workroom floor, and when one supervisor gets up, another jumps in the chair. What a waste of money on supervisory staff. The supervisory staff does nothing but harass and hand out disciplinary infractions.

We letter carriers pay for health benefits, life insurance and toward retirement pensions. Postal employees are a hardworking and efficient workforce that if left to do its job would make the operation profitable.

Do I do a good job? Ask my customers. They get their mail in hurricanes, blizzards and more. If we depend on technology for mail delivery, what will we do when we lose electricity during storms?

Raymond G. Guariglio, Baldwin