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After 3rd DWI arrest, some ask why Metairie mailman was still delivering letters
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 3/28/17 | Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Posted on 04/01/2017 4:58:29 PM PDT by BBell

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To: SharpRightTurn

There are a lot of Baptist in Northern Louisiana. They have dry Parishes up there. Parishes are the same as counties down here.


21 posted on 04/01/2017 6:53:06 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Jane Long
He's just taking the "Laissez les bons temps rouler" motto to heart

And he was rollin in his little postal truck.

22 posted on 04/01/2017 6:55:36 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Jane Long

Yes, they are uniform in shape so they are a lot easier to stack than a bunch of odd sized boxes. One guy I know who is retired from the post office now told me this one guy loved it. He made lead projectiles for bullets and he loved those IIFIS boxes. It cut way down on his shipping costs.


23 posted on 04/01/2017 7:01:59 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

I assume NO still permits open containers?


24 posted on 04/01/2017 7:02:31 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Of course. I live just north of NOLA and we have an open container law but it is rarely enforced, especially during the parade season. If you act right the local LEOs don’t mess with you.


25 posted on 04/01/2017 7:07:17 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

If only they’d been doing this for the past 4 decades.


26 posted on 04/01/2017 7:12:40 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: eyeamok

Not true. I used to drive a postal vehicle and I had to periodically show that I had a valid driver’s license that wasn’t expired.


27 posted on 04/01/2017 7:16:48 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2020!)
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To: BBell

Rollin’ in and rollin’ out....right on to the ground ;-)


28 posted on 04/01/2017 7:27:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
I didn’t know that LA had an open container offense law, even if the open container was in a vehicle.

I remember a gas station in Louisiana that sold frozen margaritas. No open containers for them. They put a plastic lid on the cup, and then sealed it with scotch tape.

29 posted on 04/01/2017 7:54:45 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: BBell
Because, reasons:

#1: Paid up with the right people.
#2: Effin' the right people.
#3: Has dirt/secrets on others in his situation, who have done the same or worse, and are still employed.
#4: Protected by the postal employees union.
#5: All of the above.


Institutionalized corruption is a helluva thing . . .


30 posted on 04/01/2017 8:27:23 PM PDT by Miguk
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To: Jane Long

I saw a postal truck on my street last Sunday and wondered what was going on. Thanks for the information.


31 posted on 04/01/2017 8:41:28 PM PDT by hirn_man
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To: dp0622

Damn. Drunk mailmen everywhere.


32 posted on 04/01/2017 8:42:56 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: hirn_man

You betcha.


33 posted on 04/01/2017 8:43:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: eyeamok
Easy, You are NOT required to ave ANY LICENSE WHATSOEVER to drive a Federally Owned motor Vehicle, this includes Postal Vehicles.

Incorrect. In order to drive ANY Federal, or Postal vehicle, the driver is REQUIRED to have in his/her possession a valid Standard Form 46, which is the driver's license.

How do I know this to be a fact? Simple. During the course of my military service, one of the duties I was responsible for was the issuance of those same Standard Form 46's.

the infowarrior

34 posted on 04/01/2017 10:47:10 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: laplata

33 years, 1 month, and 12 days, and I NEVER had a drink while I was delivering!


35 posted on 04/02/2017 12:02:14 AM PDT by PeteyBoy (The wall. Build it and they won't come.)
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To: BBell

Hold muh mail.


36 posted on 04/02/2017 2:12:17 AM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: BBell

My former FIL was a mailman and he used to say the PO demands the carriers work a set amount of hours, regardless of whether they need that much time to cover their route. He used to say he could easily have finished his route in half the time, but they weren’t allowed to go home when they were done. As a customer, I’d rather get my mail in the morning rather than wait til 3 or 4 pm just because the mailman has to stretch it out. Shows how much waste there is at the USPS and how they build in slack time.


37 posted on 04/02/2017 3:31:29 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: wally_bert
I routinely get mail for a completely different street.

Yeah, so do I. Usually the house number is correct (or close), though. Makes me think that there are a bunch of English-as-a-second-language people working as mail sorters. It's gotten progressively worse over the past ten years.

38 posted on 04/02/2017 6:15:51 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

At least my important mail is usually handled by FedEx, USPS Priority or UPS and goes to my UPS Store box. Very few things come directly home.

I’ve had that box for years. It’s for Ebay, CC, magazines, and warranty stuff. The box is a great junk mail filter and cheap security.

They sign for my stuff, know me, and send alerts when anything with a tracking number shows up.


39 posted on 04/02/2017 6:36:21 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: PeteyBoy

You are to be commended. I did not mean to imply that all mailmen drank on the job.


40 posted on 04/02/2017 8:22:24 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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