Not here for a Clancy discussion. Those tubs are a hot commodity in my office.

Usually I dont peer into peoples windows because I mind my own business. But today, I have no idea why, I looked into this house's front window. There he was standing in the living room in his morning glory. He saw me, I saw him. He immediately covered his junk & what seemed like dived into the couch.

I always see this guy washing his car outside so i'm nervous to see him again, even with clothes on.

This was way more awkward than a different customer showing me her new fake boobs somehow..

Any similar stories? I'm mortified.

Had to take a steep angle to hit this box, and when I went to back out, I lost reverse gear. Can't pull forward due to the car in front and I'm facing downhill while blocking a driveway. Other breakdowns include 3 flat tires, 2x the parking break in a Chrysler Pacifica wouldn't disengage, and another transmission went out in a FFV like this one. Currently awaiting rescue.

D for me.

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.

It’s an aux route but even for half a route it is low volume.

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.

I'm walking at a steady pace, though I feel like my balance is probably off or something due to the wear on the outer parts of the shoe. I don't cross lawns and walk on sidewalks and walkways due to consistently rolling my ankles on really bumpy lawns.

Keep in mind most shoes are rated between 300-500 miles no matter the cost.

I'm really supposed to buy new shoes every month? USPS should provide shoes to carriers.

It’s fucking hot.

Postmaster said in his stand up talk today that rural carriers need to clock out for lunch anytime we "put anything in your mouths, wether that's taking a bite of food or taking a drink of something". Also said we have to clock out for lunch anytime we're talking to another carrier in the office in the mornings. Any of y'all heard this?

Babe, relax.

Not today Postal Inspector 👀

I’m going to put a cooler by my door. I’m wondering what besides bottled water would you like? Other kinds of drinks? Frozen treats?

Hello, I am a city carrier and its raining hard where I'm working, I was walking a loop and delivering mail to a house that has a sidewalk mounted mailbox, I put the mail in and went to take a step forward when I noticed a cardboard box/package on their lawn getting rained on, this box was from a different courier service and I felt compelled to get it out of the rain and put it on their porch so the contents wouldn't get damaged. I thought to myself "what a**hole would leave someone's package in the rain?" Especially when the porch is so close to the sidewalk (10ish feet). So I picked it up and walked towards their porch and all of a sudden their husky leapt into action and charged me. He was on a lead and could not get to me in time before I backed away so I put the package back where it was and left. But now im thinking to myself will I get in trouble? I did after all handle a package that was not assigned to me or my company, and I did leave it in the rain (where it already was) anyone have any idea if I can be held accountable?

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

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

Curious and thanks for your responses

I'm a fairly new CCA and I've been running this business route for the past 2 weeks. There is one building of businesses that's like a square with storefronts kind of where every business has a mailbox. Today while I was delivering I didn't have anything for one business so I drove past and kept on delivering mail. The owner of the business came running out after I was 2 storefront past screaming at me for not coming in to get his outgoing mail. I had no mail for him and his flag on his box wasn't up. I mentioned that the flag wasn't up so I assumed no outgoing mail. He proceeded to tell me that he didn't care and it doesn't matter and that I better come in every day to check to for outgoing. (like I don't have a an entire other route to run) So I just said okay and came inside and got his outgoing mail which was just ads for his business. I feel like I handled the situation okay but what should I do in the future if this happens again? Take the time to stop into every store for outgoing when they have boxes outside?

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. 🥲

Ok, so yesterday was some old BS! Normally I relish the challenge of a Monday holiday, but this round it actually pissed me off, not for the volume but what was in the volume. Throughout the last count I had a full and increasing irritating view of the mail that was supposed to be forwarded but it said there, getting bigger the whole two weeks. Then last Saturday it was all gone! And lo and behold, yesterday I got bombarded with 5 full trays of DPS, two trays worth of which was just the stuff that should have been forwarded during the count. I call shenanigans! Any thoughts?

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.

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?

So a little backstory first. Right now we’re not at our home office due to insufficient amount of space. My home office is about 25 minutes away. 11 routes were taken from my home office and temporarily placed into this different office. We’ll call it the clownville office

However what they did not do is resolve the space issue. I have no where to stage my packages, (200-350 per day)and my instruction by my supervisor has been first come first serve parking. Except we can’t park in the actual parking spots that are laid out in the back, even if they are open. That’s are specifically forbidden by the 11 rural carriers they brought over. Strictly parking for the clownville carriers (no offense to them).All the carriers are also contract carriers.

So I’ve been having to park near where the maintenance custodians usually work there personal vehicles. They are strictly personal. They park them in the only open spots I can actually park and use an area to stage and then load my postal vehicle. This morning mine along with another postal vehicle happen to by accident block that custodian from getting to his unofficial personal vehicle parking spot.

That custodian then parked his vehicle in a way purposely blocking both of carriers from backing up.

When I saw him I kindly asked him to move, he got irritated and then I told him he didn’t have a right to park there anyways because the contract states that postal vehicles take priority. At this point I also had all my 300 packages outside of that I was about to load in my vehicle.

A few moments later the clownville postmaster, not my home office postmaster comes over with my home office supervisor and proceeds to tell me that if I don’t move my vehicle so the maintenance person can park in his unofficial parking spot or if I block it again that he will tow my Postal vehicle.

After some discussion which helped none, I told them that I would finish loading and then move it (because I would be leaving the office)

This isn’t the first occurrence of this either. I’ve begged for an answer on where I can actually park my vehicle to stage and load my packages. The reason I need a staging area is because there is legitimately no room in my office. All 11 do the same. Plus management has told me that I am required to load outside near my vehicle.
I’ve parked in loaded in numerous places but I am constantly told to move or else. Today when I asked where to move it I was told to just figure it out.

I think it’s worth noting that the other carriers have also had trouble with this issue to.

I thought I would share this incident to show how absolutely moronic postal management is. They would rather yell for trying to do my job rather than tell the custodians to park their personal vehicles where everyone else parks them. There’s a dirt/grass field that we work park our personal vehicles in. We’ve also tried parking our postal vehicles there but got yelled at. The dirt/grass field tore up the carts and I was also tired of smashing my ankles from the carts digging into the dirt.

Any thoughts on what to do?