NOTE TO 2020 high school grads: If you’re looking for a job from which you cannot be fired for any reason apply to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
You’ll be protected by Civil Service (even if YOU are not civil to the people with whom you interact) and by a union.
If you become a letter carrier, you don’t have to deliver the mail if you don’t feel like it.
If you are color blind to the color red, that’s OK; those raised red flags on mail boxes don’t mean you have to collect the mail from the box. That will be your choice.
You may refuse to get out of your vehicle to deliver an item too large for the mailbox to the customer’s door. After all, that’s a walk of, perhaps, 10 yards each way. Take it back to the post office and report that you tried to deliver it but were unable to do so. Never mind the lie. You’re a USPS employee and above the truth.
If you don’t want to deliver a certified mail piece, simply mark it “No one available to sign.” Never mind that there WAS a person in residence all day the day the certified letter was to be delivered. Just another lie in the life of a protected letter carrier.
Why this rant?
The regular letter carrier on my route on more than one occasion has failed to deliver the mail that, according to Informed Delivery,® should be in the mailbox.
She also
I was told by a supervisor that the mail pieces shown in Informed Delivery are scanned in another city and the mail may not arrive in my town the same day. My town is less than 25 miles away from where the “mail pieces” are scanned.
If the day-late delivery was consistent, I’d believe what I was told.
But it is NOT consistent.
Yes, Virginia, the red flag WAS raised and yes, the letter to be picked up was put into the mailbox early in the day.
- Never put payments into a curb-side mailbox; the raised red flag, while it means nothing to some letter carriers, it is an invitation to thieves to pilfer the mail.
IN OTHER WORDS, the letter carrier NEVER CAME DOWN MY STREET.
The “regular” letter carrier on my route works a five-day week. Sunday is off and one one other day an alternate carrier delivers the mail.
We always know when the alternate delivers the mail: it arrives before 7 p.m.
According to the route supervisor, there may be reasons why the mail delivery is to late. A slothful carrier is one reason I would suggest.
Don’t bother to complain
I have complained, to no avail, to
- The carrier’s supervisor
- The USPS Inspector General
- My two senators in Washington
The USPS IG said there was nothing to be done.
The senators “acknowledge” my communication with a form letter of no consequence. (I won’t vote for them again.)
My local congressional representative has proven time and again to be totally useless for anything unless the person is a “Major Donor,” which for this person I am not.
The USPS supervisor, having no support higher up, has her hands tied.
Internet, UPS, DHL, FedEx options
The USPS often is heard complaining — usually when raising the price of postage — that people are not using its services as they once did.
Given the level of “service” the letter carriers provide, is it any wonder?
I live in a printed document world. I don’t want “he said-she said” confrontations. Put it in writing.
I can print emails. I can print WhatsApp exchanges. I can do a screen capture of anything I can show on a computer screen. Do I REALLY need USPS?
Yes. I still want to see paper bills and statements.
I still occasionally want to send a letter to someone I care about — email, et al, somehow lacks the “touch” that only a “real” missive conveys.
But when USPS so disregards its customer base, when USPS protects employees who disgrace its name and former reputation (Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. 1) why bother to complain. Apparently no one cares if the mail is delivered or if there remains any "service" in "United States Postal Service".
Is this the new "American way?"
Sources
1. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
This is commonly misidentified as the creed of our mail carriers, but actually it is just the inscription found on the General Post Office in New York City at 8th Avenue and 33rd Street.
https://www.infoplease.com/askeds/post-office-motto
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
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