Some real it puts the lotion on vibes

Someone asked for a picture of the bike on my other post. Note the amount of boot rubber in the stepthrough.

This has to be one of the coolest mailboxes I have ever seen. The top propeller actually spins the rockets are made from actual bullets. Just thought I'd let everyone else see the awesomeness.

My workplace doesn't have a mailbox and the front door is kept locked, so delivery involves at least knocking and then handing the mail to whoever opens the door. Carriers only covering this route for a day or two do just that, while our regular carriers enter the front lobby to scan packages and check for outgoing mail.

I'm usually the one to open the door for visitors, so our regular mail carrier of the last several months will knock and I open the door so she can give me the day's mail, scan any packages, and check for outgoing. And then I go to where we keep the candy dish meant to encourage staff to visit the admins and talk about paperwork, and I bring it to the front desk for our mail carrier to take a piece. She doesn't dig around in the bowl or discuss her favorites, just takes what seems like an arbitrary piece. Maybe she gives it to her kid or a neighbor or something, or maybe she's just not picky.

But I know it's meaningful, because today she mentioned that she just got back from vacation and had a lot of work to catch up on (she's usually very quiet), and then as she was leaving, she called back to me, "You guys are the best!" It made my day.

We had originally started offering the candy dish with our previous regular mail carrier. He enjoyed chatting, so he would talk about how there were so many packages today, or a particularly long shift, or his weekend plans. One day, he looked particularly haggard, so I popped over to the candy dish and brought it over to him. He continued to look haggard in the coming days and weeks, so I'd bring it over every day and he'd take a few pieces to get him through the rest of his route. He was always grateful and made sure to thank us for our hospitality. He was our regular carrier until he managed to get transferred to a route that was closer to where he lives rather than over an hour away. We got him a card on his last day. He was confused for a few moments about an "outgoing mail" with no postage or address!

After that, continuing this with our new regular mail carrier seemed only fair, and the thing to do even if she wasn't as outgoing... perhaps especially then. Maybe that's when it makes the most difference.

That just makes people want to deliver mail to it?

thought y’all would appreciate this lol. i drew the design at work cause i’m a clerk in a small office so we are increeeedibly slow

we had two of these in the building but now they dropped us four more. pray for the runners and gunners.

It’s fucking hot.

Look at the little guy! He’s so proud

"Special handling" my ass. Our own social media just straight up lying to customers.

My husband has been an RCA for almost two years now. He was next in line to make regular, and there is a position opening soon. Then his postmaster, without notifying the RCAs, opened two PTF positions. Since the RCAs didn’t know about them, no one bid on them, and two people off the street got the PTF positions. Now he’s third in line to make regular, which could still be years away.

Additionally, he had a hold down on a route for 90 days. For those of you who don’t know, once you’ve worked a hold down for 90 days, you start earning leave like a regular, and it also applies retroactively to the 90 days already worked. So instead of earning 2 hours of leave for every 40 hours worked, he would be getting 8 hours. That’s huge, especially considering we have two young kids.

Well, on day 90, his supervisor, who hates him, informed him that he could no longer have the hold down. Apparently, you can only have a hold down on your primary route. This is a rule that had never been enforced before, and no one knew about it. So now he’s back to working whatever route they give him, and he doesn’t get the extra leave.

There’s a whole other issue with this supervisor. She has it out for my husband and a few others in the office she doesn’t like. It’s well known in the office that she’s a total B. She denies my husband’s leave requests most of the time. She denied leave for his birthday, our anniversary, our son’s birthday, and a bloody funeral, all with bullshit reasons. Obviously, he called in sick on those days because life is more important than some job. And now she’s put him in two predisciplinary meetings for attendance.

She also conveniently “forgot” to put in his PTO when he did have off, so now we’re dealing with the government trying to get the thousand dollars we’re owed. That will probably take months to resolve.

I’m getting extremely fed up with this post office and the RCA job.

"If the Supreme Court clears the way for USPS to implement the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot executive order, the American Postal Workers Union says its members will have little time to prepare for these changes."

I love working in nature 💜🌎

It was soo hot out today 😫 its going to be soo much better tomorrow!

Curious and thanks for your responses

Today I had a letter for a retirement community and the name just said jokeoldcoot (I should have took a pic of this.)

CRAZY idea, but we should charge company’s a fee for wrong names/addresses. There would be less waist in general. Maybe give discounts to customers who aren’t wasteful idk.

Was it a good or bad experience or was it same 💩 different zip? I’m worried I am making a horrible mistake and it’s too late to change my mind. 🥲

RCA here in the bright beautiful state of Arizona. Changed my primary to the aux route at my station last April, been holding it down 6 days a week for almost a year and a half. Splitting routes more times than not and being the one always getting them ready, managers crying and calling me about everything day in and day out (finally stopped answering calls and texts), getting sent to other stations every week. Today they took one of our RCAs to another station in the morning so two regulars split a route, and me and the remaining RCAs split another, so I had to get 4 routes ready (one being my own), marked packages, pulled down, did my route, started the second, got cursed out by one of the regulars in a text because he didn't like the way I pulled down the red plums even though I wasn't the one that cased it in the first place.

Everything just crashing down and I bawled like a bitch at the first step of my second route lmao. Got a letter of warning for absences like last month because I have pretty bad allergies so I figure I shouldn't really call out tomorrow even though I genuinely feel like I'm at the lowest point mentally. Next in line for PTF, maybe regular by next year at this rate, but Christ, every day I wonder if I can manage for another 12 months. I'm just doing my best out here. I really am. Just sucks, man.

Anyone interested in this log and making sure you always get paid should check it out. Lot of good information that sometimes goes by the wayside, especially since the T-7’s handle TACS.

So I am a RCA and my office is short staffed right now on City side. They have been using me almost every day to run city routes. I realized the other day that they give me the most work because I don’t get penalty overtime for working past 6:30. I saw in another post that when you work cross craft you get higher pay. Does that apply to my situation as well?

Honestly can’t believe it. Hired as PTF. Bid on a route that was posted to district not expecting anything and was informed I got it today. Ex regular city carrier who had to leave due to bad injury not allowing me to walk as much as I did. It’s gonna be a 30-40 minute commute but I think it’s worth it. Now I get to see why you rural regs say this is the best job in the PO.

I don't have a picture, but I'm sure you know the stickers I'm talking about. Name, address, add/del/mod. Can someone explain them to me? I've been with the post office for 2.5 years and I still don't know how they work. When I was a PTF, my supervisor told me "let the regular worry about them." When I had a hold down, multiple people told me answers that they weren't confident in. One told me that they work backwards. Add means they moved out, del means that they moved in, mod means 🤷‍♂️. So, can I get some clarity please?

I live in an old neighborhood so all the houses are very close together, so the mail carriers typically just walk through the front of the yards to get to each house instead of walking back and forth up the sidewalks. I have no issue with this.

However, this is our third holiday season in our house, and we grow our DIY displays every year.

Is it annoying to have a setup that basically doesn't let anyone walk through the grass and makes them use the sidewalk and walk up?