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At the promotion review board the District Manager of Mail Processing read me the evaluation that Gary Packer had written on me. It was worded in way that I came across as a blathering idiot unfit for even a custodian's position. I remained calm, but offered to answer the evaluation, I was told it wasn't necessary that they knew me. Jim Jellison came to Colorado Springs, and when Pat Warner told Jim, who was now the number three person in the service, what Packer had done, it was one week later that Packer was moved from Denver to Flagstaff, Arizona, the Siberia assignment for Postal Managers. Jim Jellison visited Colorado Springs while I was on detail to the Denver Area Logistics Office as a trouble shooter on the new system for tracking air mail developed by Digital Equipment. I had completed that assignment and was working on improving the flow of mail into and out of Colorado, I couldn't resist giving my former Denver tormenters a little shake by the scruff of their necks. The positions had all of a sudden been changed and they were dancing to my tune. In all rights, I should have taken the mail volume that I was going to away from Denver and given it to the Colorado Springs office, in essence creating a second state distribution center, Pat Warner's productivity, which was terrible at that time, would have improved dramatically, and he possibly wouldn't have gotten into the no win situation that he ended up in. Instead Pat said he wanted me home, and I let the project die on the vine. Shortly afterwards, I was in Wichita, Kansas working on a District project when Vernon Smith showed up on the day that I was to fly home. He took me to the airport and we chatted about what I was doing now. I told him that we had just gotten Autocad and that I was building a furniture and equipment catalog of drawings, to be used in facilities and layout planning work. The spin off of that conversation led me to being assigned to U. S. Postal Service Headquarters, Office of Industrial Engineering, as manager of a test and development center at Colorado Springs. My last 15 months in the Postal Service were in that function. I suppose that if any one thing passed through the generations from Stephen Bachiler, it would have been the trait that made a Bachelder unwilling to back away from an unpopular and minority stand, let the chips fall where they might. I don't know that it has hurt any of us in the long run. I don't apologize for being 'Bachiler'. There is some body of evidence that Steven's parents were Phillip and Ann Bachiler. Phillip was born in France in 1535. This thread is under study at present. If he was born in France was he Norman? If anyone has insight into this area please e-mail me. Thank you. 02/25/2003 The Lane Memorial Library states that there is no proof for the claims for Philip and Ann as Stephen's parents. That's good enough for me for now. -26-
