Misc 13 Things Your Mail Carrier Won’t Tell You - Page 17

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 09:49 AM

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1. Maybe your dog won’t bite you. But in 2009, 2,863 of us were bitten, an average of nine bites per delivery day. That’s why I wince when your Doberman comes flying out the door.

2. Remember this on Valentine’s Day: It takes our machines longer to read addresses on red envelopes (especially if they’re written in colored ink).

3. Why stand in line? At usps.com, you can buy stamps, place a hold on your mail, change your address, and apply for passports. We even offer free package pickup and free flat-rate envelopes and boxes, all delivered right to your doorstep.

4. Media Mail is a bargain, but most of you don’t know to ask for it. Sending ten pounds of books from New York City to San Francisco through Media Mail costs $5.89, compared with $16.77 for Parcel Post. Besides books, use it to send magazines, manuscripts, DVDs, and CDs; just don’t include anything else in the package.

5. We don’t get a penny of your tax dollars. Really. The sale of postage, products, and services at our 36,000 retail locations, and on our website, covers all of the post office's operating expenses.

6. UPS and FedEx charge you $10 or more for messing up an address. Us? Not a cent.

7. Paychecks, personal cards, letters—anything that looks like good news—I put those on top. Utility and credit card bills? They go under everything else.

8. Sorry if I seem like I’m in a hurry, but I’m under the gun: Our supervisors tell us when to leave, how many pieces of mail to deliver, and when we should aim to be back. Then some of us scan bar codes in mailboxes along our route so they can monitor our progress.

9. Yes, we do have to buy our own stamps, but a lot of us carry them for customers who need them. If we don’t charge you, that’s because we like you.

10. Use a ballpoint pen. Ink from those felt tips runs in the rain.

11. Please dress properly when you come to the door. A towel wrapped around you doesn’t cut it. And we definitely don’t want to see you in your underwear!

12. We serve 150 million addresses six days a week, so we’re often in the right place at the right time. We pull people out of burning cars, catch burglars in the act, and call 911 to report traffic accidents, dead bodies, and more.

13. Most of us don’t mind if you pull up to our trucks while we’re delivering and ask for your mail a little early. But please get out of your car and come get it. Don’t just put your hand out your window and wait for me to bring it to you.

"We don’t get a penny of your tax dollars. Really. The sale of postage, products, and services at our 36,000 retail locations, and on our website, covers all of the post office's operating expenses."

This is true. The post office is one of the (if not the only) government agencies that is 100% self-sufficient. They do not get tax dollars or money from the government. Whenever postage goes up, it's typically because the cost of technology used, gas, cost of benefits, or wages have gone up.

Anyway, I just thought I would share this. I know my dad has told me several of these, but I didn't know if everyone was aware.

**Saulbadguy** · 02-04-2011, 02:06 PM

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And it's either sit here and keep you all entertained or stop procrastinating on cleaning out the litter box and taking the trash out.

That sounds like more of a challenge than the average mailman has to deal with every day.

**notorious** · 02-04-2011, 02:07 PM

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Did you know you can get carpal tunnel from delivering mail? And carriers don't have asses to kiss? You think all people everywhere are pleasant? Can you imagine having to deliver to the people that post on here? Man.

I wasn't taking a shot a postal workers, Luv. These guys have got you worked up.

I was simply stating that it's all relative. There is not an easy/hard job that covers everyone.

I moved 2 tons of wood floor (by carrying it) into a house a few weeks ago. I found it easy to do, but a lot of people would have thought it would be pretty darn hard.

Delivering mail is no different.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:10 PM

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I wasn't taking a shot a postal workers, Luv. These guys have got you worked up.

I was simply stating that it's all relative. There is not an easy/hard job that covers everyone.

I moved 2 tons of wood floor (by carrying it) into a house a few weeks ago. I found it easy to do, but a lot of people would have thought it would be pretty darn hard.

Delivering mail is no different.

They do have me worked up...lol.

Talking to a friend of mine who keeps trying to stand up on a sled and getting hurt somehow. I told him the sled is bigger, so it should be easier....lol.

**notorious** · 02-04-2011, 02:11 PM

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They do have me worked up...lol.

Talking to a friend of mine who keeps trying to stand up on a sled and getting hurt somehow. I told him the sled is bigger, so it should be easier....lol.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:11 PM

I am guessing they have to be able to operate some sort of technology. The OP states how it takes longer to read writing on red envelopes, especially if written with colored ink. Sounds like they use a scanner of some sort somewhere in the process.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:12 PM

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He informed me that you strap into a board, making it easier to steer.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:13 PM

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That sounds like more of a challenge than the average mailman has to deal with every day.

It's overdue, so.....yeah.

**Saulbadguy** · 02-04-2011, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by luv

I am guessing they have to be able to operate some sort of technology. The OP states how it takes longer to read writing on red envelopes, especially if written with colored ink. Sounds like they use a scanner of some sort somewhere in the process.

Meh. Nice try.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:19 PM

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Meh. Nice try.

I'll think of something, dammit.

**Saulbadguy** · 02-04-2011, 02:19 PM

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I'll think of something, dammit.

They have to risk getting shot at.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:21 PM

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They have to risk getting shot at.

I already tried that angle...delivering in parts of town any normal person wouldn't risk going to. Or maybe I only thought I did. Ugh. I guess I need to stop procrastinating.

**Saulbadguy** · 02-04-2011, 02:23 PM

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I already tried that angle...delivering in parts of town any normal person wouldn't risk going to. Or maybe I only thought I did. Ugh. I guess I need to stop procrastinating.

No, I meant by other postal workers.

**Bwana** · 02-04-2011, 02:25 PM

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You're comparing them to Walmart workers. What do walmart workers carry?

Trailer park meth heads, when they drop like a sack of rocks in the store.

**notorious** · 02-04-2011, 02:26 PM

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Trailer park meth heads, when they drop like a sack of rocks in the store.

Some of them would be lighter then a Mailman's bag.

**luv** · 02-04-2011, 02:34 PM

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No, I meant by other postal workers.

Okay, now I do feel stupid...lol. Duh. I guess I am just so used to the people I know that I don't think about the "postal" postal employees.

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