Rob,
The new district Mgr who is a woman. came up with this new rule. I do understand if one of us got hurt by listening to music or talking on the phone. 99% of us only wear the ear bud in one ear so we can hear traffic & what's going on around us. so we don't get hurt. She made all the Postmasters in her district Providence being the third 0argest outside of CT & MA they make approx $125,000 a year & they were driving around checking to make sure the carriers did not have bluetoorh or music ear buds. So they don't have anything better to do then waste the money having Postmasters checking on us. We have had in the last three years 2 carrier bosses go out with heart attack from stress. & those two bosses were of the quality kind. They always treated us with respect & we did more for them. We carried more then we should have by that I mean very heavy loads of crap catalogs to help their numbers. They help us & we help them. Good thing both are back at work. They wouldn't do what the Postmasters & District Mgr wanted them to micro manage us & to try to intimidate us to carry more in less time. Their really is a reason they came up with the saying "going postal" If you notice it's always going after others in the PO not the general public.