MailmanDave
17 Years Experience
Long Island, NY
Male, 43
I am a City Letter Carrier for the US Postal Service in NY. I've been a city letter carrier for over 17 years and it is the best job I've ever had. I mostly work 5 days per week (sometimes includes a Saturday) and often have the opportunity for overtime, which is usually voluntary. The route I deliver has about 350 homes and I walk to each of their doors to deliver the mail. Please keep in mind that I don't have authority to speak for the USPS, so all opinions are solely mine, not my employer.
Tanya, I’m not familiar with why the prison mail would be rejected especially because you’ve addressed it properly. I know that jails/prisons have very specific rules about incoming mail to inmates. I would think that any mail rejected would explain the reason for the rejection. I don’t know that the PO will be of any help in this manner. I also don’t know how easy it’d be to reach the prison to ask for more on this subject. They strike me as being one big unfriendly bureaucracy. Thanks for your question.
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Kate, it does seem odd that you have received no mail for an entire week if you normally get at least some mail every few days. Have you asked any of the other residents in your apt complex if they have received mail in the past week? If they have received mail in the last week then it’s possible that there was none for you. It’s also concerning that the outgoing mail hasn’t been picked up. It is important that we pick up outgoing mail as long as it is visible to the letter carrier and contains proper postage. I would contact the city USPS and ask a delivery supervisor about the questions you have raised. In some areas, the USPS is experiencing significant staffing shortages which could result in erratic mail delivery.
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Lasha, I can relate to you experience. I try to communicate as best I can with coworkers the status of each possible delivery whether it is vacant or not. I use carrier alert cards. With respect to vacant apartments, may I recommend you either tape of the slot where you would deliver mail (if possible) or put a note or something obvious saying “apt ‘x’ is vacant—no delivery”. Some of the mgmt seem to not care about the quality of work as long as you show up for work and don’t get hurt and finish “on time”. I have found some coworkers don’t care either. It is disheartening but i don’t know what to do about it but clean out any boxes that should’ve been non-deliveries and discard/forward/return any of the mail. Please don’t change your attitude. We need more people who care about quality of work. Please keep in mind that we all make errors but you should be able to tell the difference between an error and ambivalence. Thanks for writing.
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All of our vehicles have heat. I don’t think we could survive in the colder climates without it. The LLVs (Long-life vehicle), which has been the majority of our delivery fleet since the mid-1990s, don’t have AC. The newer vehicles, which are likely to be coming on line in the next 2-5 years will have air conditioning. In office where I work, some carriers use Dodge Promasters which have AC as well.These trucks are left hand drive (like most vehicles in the US) so can only be used on walking routes where delivery is made to businesses or the front door of residences.
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Thanks for the info and sharing videos in a previous question/posting.
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Jeffrey, I don’t know the official answer to this question. In the post office where I work, the carriers who collect mail front the blue collection boxes generally aren’t delivering mail on any specific postal route. They probably aren’t even looking at the destination address when they collect the mail. I’m pretty sure most mail that is collected from the blue mailboxes gets sent to the a processing and distribution center. Very little, if any, local mail is intercepted and delivered without it ever leaving our local PO. I hope this answers your question. Thanks for participating in the Q and A ?
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Irrelevant comment/question.
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