I have worked at several places in my 55 years of working that should have been the best place around to have a job, but because of various things, working there actually pretty much sucked. The post office strikes me as that kind of place to work! It’s an invaluable service, and most customers are appreciative of good service, provided with a smile and a sense of willingness to please. But for some reason it’s nearly impossible to find a happy postal worker. Something about that place seems to suck the work ethic right out of everyone on the job. There motto should be, “If you’ve got what it takes, we’ll take what you’ve got!”
Has anyone, other then Newman and Cliff Clavin, ever aspired to grow up and be a Postal worker? it’s a government job with no incentive to do well and no punishment if you don’t. Kind of like communism, it is soulless.
Compare that to UPS and FedEx where employees are rewarded for good performance and fired/run off for poor performance.