I love our postman, Mr. White. He's black. He's been our postman for the 25 years we've lived here. He's near my age and is very wiry and skinny so that shows this daily exercise is good.
I love our postman, Mr. White. He's black. He's been our postman for the 25 years we've lived here. He's near my age and is very wiry and skinny so that shows this daily exercise is good.
I've heard two things: That the usps has gotten to be a difficult place to work, and that they have some very stoopud rules. That said, it PAYS well; it just is a bad place to work. That is what I've heard, from several sources.
Quite honestly if my workplace was that abusive, if I had no other economic opportunities I guess that's just that - economics. But otherwise, I'd wonder if there wasn't something quite wrong with me psychologically to make me stay.
Trees don't grow on money
My brother just keeps his head down and works his route. He is out of the "office" for most of the day and has a good life outside of work. They wanted him to run for union rep and he said "no way".
In the 80's I told everyone that they should try for jobs with the Postal Service. Hard work but good pay and benefits, if you were willing to give up some family life.
In the 90's I told everyone that they should try for jobs with the Postal Service. Same as above. But boy we started going through "casuals" (the 90's equivalent of todays CCA's), who quit left and right, declaring $10.00/hr./no benefits wasn't enough for what they were doing. And that was more money back then - and they were right.
In the 00's I quit telling ANYBODY to try for jobs with the Postal Service. In small incremental ways, it started and just kept getting worse and worse. I spent half my energy doing my job(s), and half my energy fighting the USPS into making them honor their contractual agreements. (and I don't say this for niggling things - I speak of things like my getting an 8-hour break from work shifts in any 24-hour period. Which left, you know, 16 hours that they could do with me what they would. Or getting a 30-minute lunch break in a 6-8-hour shift. Or getting paid for the 45 minutes they required me to drive to and show up for a 0200 shift at an office 30 miles away from the one I worked at. And the 45 minutes to get back to my home office, to start another shift.)
Of course you appreciate your carrier - but please also appreciate all the behind-the-scenes employees who are also putting up with the daily **** to get that bit of mail in your box every day. Well paid: yep. Overpaid: I don't think so.
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