You’re correct on the USPS “inside” folks.
The guy at your mailbox is just slugging along.
“The guy at your mailbox is just slugging along.”
My wife’s HS boyfriend got a summer job with the USPS delivering mail with one of those sorry-a$$ed Jeep thingies. He did his route “too fast,” came in, asked for another route to do, and was told by the Union Rep. not to make waves. So every day, he did his route then went home, parked the Jeep behind his parents home and waited for the time to pass so he could go clock out.