Posted on 06/03/2022 7:47:58 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Labor unions ruin every type of business endeavor.
My grandmother lived with us when I was a young kid in the 1940s. I recall her using a paper clip to put a few pennies on letters for the postman to pay for the cost of the stamps.
I miss Hank Snow...
Welcome to the job market, 2022.
They don’t need to hire more mail carriers.
They need to switch to every-other-day delivery, except perhaps for high-volume commercial customers.
Half of all routes would get Monday-Wednesday-Friday delivery, the other half would get Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday delivery.
My apology for that last comment. I think I have you confused with someone else who has the posting habit I was referring to. In any event, sorry about that, and have a good weekend!
It reminds me of some of the out-of-the-way places I have been.
I could send a box of rocks to Siberia 3rd class and they would get it there overnight but if I send something important they will lose it.
Thank you. I appreciate you saying that. I have had my share of missteps, so I understand how it happens. You have a good weekend as well!
USPS will ship a coconut as long as it has an address and proof of postage. They consider it a self-contained package, and you don’t even need to put it in a box.
Apparently visitors to Hawaii send them as souvenirs, like postcards.
The amount of mail is the problem. Not enough postal workers are hired to deliver it all, so the carriers work 12-hour days, six days a week. On Sundays, they still go into work half a day.
At least the Post Office Department in the cabinet was an example of the government at Washington performing one of its actual Constitutional functions
So instead of delivering to every house every day, deliver to every house every other day.
That way they only have to work six-hour days, six days a week.
Ah, I see what you mean now. Interesting idea. That might work, especially for junk mail, although they’d still have to deliver packages every day. They say the package deliveries are what consumes so much time.
When I was growing up, we had a regular postman who came every day for many years. He always had his German Shepherd with him.
It was a nice, regular presence in the neighborhood.
My mail lady seems to sometimes work ten hour days, judging by how late she gets here in busy times/bad weather, etc.
I was a summer carrier during college and the first two years of medical school, except my summer after college which was an Affirmative Action year for the Federal government.
The only job I ever had that was 8.5 hours on the clock that could be done in 3-4 hours.
Heck, 90% of my mail goes straight into the trash anyway; I’d be fine with getting mail delivered once a week.
Kinda hard to get the address labels to stick to the hairs I would think.
I think they just write the address on them; and stamps, etc. seem to stick. (Of course, you could give it a shave...)
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