The negative reaction you're getting is to your tone and tactics, not your news flash.
Sorry, but *my* negative reactions are based on DP people who say: a) That there is no problem having books stuck on queues for an average of 3.5 years now. And/or b) Offer "solutions" which will not in fact reduce the size of the queues and how long books sit there. Again: a) There IS a problem with having books stuck on queues, including that fact that 1/3 of the volunteers' time and energy is being wasted currently. b) Any proposed "solution" has to in fact act to reduce the size of the queues and how long books sit there. And it needs to do so without chasing away any class of volunteers including P1s -- since P1s represent the future of DP. One simple suggestion to start with would be to start by changing the stated "Goals" for P3 and F2 and PP to be larger than the Goals for P2 and F1. To do otherwise is to have DP suggesting that they want the queues to be even longer than they are now. Right now the stated goals for P2 and F1 are larger than the stated goals for P3 and PP -- which will only make the queuing situation worse. The fact that the "Goals" are inverted would seem to imply that the powers that be do not understand the nature of the problem -- in which case how can they fix it?