Your carrier isn't even supposed to leave packages,PERIOD! Not unless you give her a note authorizing this,and then you have the right to specify WHERE the packages are left. Without this note,the carrier is supposed to leave you a notification that you have a package,with a phone number you can call to either schedule a delivery time when you will be home,or to arrange to have it left without you being there to receive it.
I would think that the workload at UPS would be enough to get rid of half of the AA hires - they'd probably have heart attacks. :^)
BAD assumption! The USPS is a dumping ground for AA and communist types,and will create positions to accomodate them. All you have to do to become a member of management your first day on the job is to be a lesbian,and a black lesbian who was fired from a previous job for being a Marxist is a sure-fire bet. Anybody who is covered by EEO laws are "golden". I know of one single female black letter carrier who complained that her system was too "delicate" to deliver mail after she gave birth to her fifth child,so they let her stay in the station all day to answer telephone calls. That's ALL she did! Meanwhile,other people had to deliver the mail on her route.
I also KNOW of letter carriers who were hired despite not being able to read,and some who couldn't even speak English. Seriously. Unlike the other "new hires",they were only allowed to deliver mail on certain selected routes,and even then only after they spent a few weeks in a special shcool that taught them how to recogonize the addresses.
The carriers, tho', are outstanding, heat, cold, rain, snow, never miss a day--these guys earn their money, and my respect. And I know they are likely the exception.