Forum:Rural Letter Carriers

To find out if a wiki that can be used for rural letter carriers can be developed.

I am lost from what I have read before so I’m starting with this page in the hopes that I will get some advice on how to pursue my goal.

I have almost no experience with wiki’s. I have done some writing on Wikipedia in the rural letter carrier and Star Route sections. I also have a failed attempt at setting up a wet paint site. I could not draw the writers to make it work.

At this time rural letter carriers have some active bulletin boards. There may be 50 truly active posters between all the rural letter carrier bulletin boards.

However, our bulletin boards seem to have caused the rejection of the proposed contract for rural letter carriers. this is the first time that a Postal Service union has had a contract rejected by its membership in 30 years. Online activity was the only true opposition. approximately 30,000 people voted in this election the difference between approval and disapproval was 86 votes.

The above shows us that these online boards have been indirectly reaching quite a few people. However, I still don’t know if this is large enough audience for this wiki group to be interested in. I don’t know if there is already a wiki for Postal Service employees that we could hook on to.

I do know that postalmag.com seems to draw a reasonable sized audience. It is aimed at Postal Service employees.

we discuss many subjects online. We also have some very hot debates. still, we have not built any type of information base from what we have discussed. Because of this we are constantly repeating ourselves and not benefiting from what we have already done.

I’m hoping that a wiki would be the next logical step in our online community growth.

I am hoping to get some help: 1) to find out if there is already a group that will serve my needs. 2) to get a general idea of building a group that has appeal if there is not already a group. 3) to get advice to test the ideas in Scratchpad Wiki Labs