Posted on 11/15/2007 7:05:52 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Peeved Patron Plugs Postal Worker
Resident Shoots Chicago Postal Worker for Allegedly Delivering the Mail Too Late
The Associated Press
CHICAGO
A postal worker in Chicago was shot in the leg late Tuesday after a resident along his postal route allegedly became angry that he was delivering the mail too late.
Police said Denny Robinson, 31, was delivering mail around 6:30 p.m. in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood when he was shot in the thigh. Robinson was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment for the non-life-threatening injury.
Authorities said witnesses reported hearing a person yelling the postal worker was delivering the mail too late and then heard a shot.
Police News Affairs Officer Tom Polick said nobody could say where the shot came from.
Wanda Shipp of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said Robinson was delivering mail after the normal 5 p.m. quitting time because Monday was holiday, and volume was heavier than normal.
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My power company is the only one that doesn’t do online payments. All my other bills are online.
I empty out my mailbox maybe once a month to get my power bill. The mailman probably hates me. 99% goes right in the garbage.
They all get taxpayer support for infrastructure - roads, airports, etc.
None get taxpayer money for routine services.
The postal service is reimbursed by the taxpayers for some, but not all mandates - free mailing of material for the blind, overseas ballots, etc, but not, as far as I know, franked mail from politicians.
So if the person receiving the mail is a blind taxpayer, your point is well taken. Otherwise, it is not.
I’ve had the same post man for 15 years, his name is Mike. How many people get to know their post man?
My mail box is at the street and one year it got knocked down, I couldn’t dig a new hole because the ground was frozen, Mike delivered my mail to the door for a month, he didn’t have to, he could have told me I had to pick it up at the post office.
Furthermore, first class postage at 41 cents is a bargain.
Do online statements for credit cards. You can see all new charges instantly and your bill won’t get lost/late in the mail. You can also pay instantly by check and not worry if the payment gets lost in the mail or have to pay to mail it.
Late mail, shoot the carrier? I know you don't agree with that. Occasional late mail is not such a big problem You've been FR a long time, doesn't sound like the wideawake I'm used to reading.
Same here, I wonder why?
“If I receive a credit card statement or other bill that is erroneous and I don’t get it until 6:30 PM, quite frequently the creditor’s business hours will already be over by 6:30 PM and I will need to wait an extra day to rectify the situation.”
So? Is it really that hard to wait an extra day?
Our postal carrier is tortured in the section eight neighborhoods by kids and their parents running up to him asking if they have their check. It will be an ugly day when the checks stop coming.
As far as "sorting" is concerned, it is necessary for carriers to "sort" mail into their delivery route sequence, or where the mail is already pre-sorted, to insert it into the correct sequence so it is available for delivery in a workable order. They also co-sequence mail of different sizes. Recall from your cubscout tour of a major mail processing center that mail is worked as different types according to size, e.g. letters, flats, SPRs, parcels and outsides.
The consequence is that carriers have what is called OFFICE TIME, and that's where they assemble the mail into cohesive segments for delivery. They also have STREET TIME. Obviously Office Time is going to vary with the mail volume, but Street Time also varies since the carriers need to "finger the mail" to take care of tiny errors made earlier (by them, or by automated mail distribution systems).
We are getting into the Christmas Season so mail volumes ~ particularly advertising ~ is up, and Veterans Day was a regular business day although not a workday for USPS.
In effect this doubled the normal expected mail volume.
This generated additional carrier Office Time and Street Time.
That won't happen as long as tax takers out number and out vote tax payers.
Sometimes the wrong dog is blamed, or the people in the community seek to protect the dog.
Same with lunatics.
I read this to my son. He said, (after that) “He possibly didn’t deliver it.” Not a good way to make sure you get your mail.
That was shortly after USPS was set up to replace the old Post Office Department.
Turned out some people in Kansas got rural delivery on Sunday because their Senator/Congresscritter had "intervened" and convinced POD that they'd best do that or their budget would have trouble from him.
Took a good 15 years to extirpate that sort of garbage from delivery services, but now I think there's delivery only 6 days a week (at most).
“Since NONE of the people getting delivery paid for it, what, then, is the equity principle in this case?”
I think you have just discovered a revenue-enhancement tool to better pave the path to equity.
With mailboxes equipped with scales it would be simple enough to weigh each delivery of mail and simultaneously transmit that information to the USPS to then forward to the IRS in the form of a 1099 form to be added to each mailbox holder’s account as imputed income for the year in which the mail was received.
At a mere ten cents per pound it would be nearly invisible to the individual taxpayer but it would put millions of dollars in the national treasury.
Someone waiting for a gubmint check, I presume.
6:30 pm is nuttin’ in Chicago. In our Chicago zipcode last spring and summer, it was not uncommon to get our mail at 10:00 or later at night. It was not the carriers’ fault. They USPS had deliberately delayed new hiring and increased the workload. This particular zip code post office also was known as the worst in Chicago for surliness at the counter and messed up administration. The second worst is not far away.
After a lot of complaints, the USPS pledged to jumpstart hiring. And things did improve. Our mail is almost always delivered by 6:30 pm these days!
As soon as I saw Newman's mug I knew it had to be a mailmen thread.
>Since NONE of the people getting delivery paid for it, what, then, is the equity principle in this case?<
The sender paid for delivery.
LOL!
“Mail on Sunday”?
“Oops!”
Both my husband and I always thank the mailman/woman if we happen to be out when the mail comes. But, I don’t give anything at Christmas (can’t afford it).
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