MailmanDave
17 Years Experience
Long Island, NY
Male, 43
I am a City Letter Carrier for the US Postal Service in NY. I've been a city letter carrier for over 17 years and it is the best job I've ever had. I mostly work 5 days per week (sometimes includes a Saturday) and often have the opportunity for overtime, which is usually voluntary. The route I deliver has about 350 homes and I walk to each of their doors to deliver the mail. Please keep in mind that I don't have authority to speak for the USPS, so all opinions are solely mine, not my employer.
I think that is probably the case that the carrier put your name on the blue tape inside of the mailbox. I believe this is very common in apt buildings or cluster box units. The reason for this is probably so the carrier knows what name to deliver to your mailbox even though one could argue that all names should be delivered unless a known forwarding request is on file. In general I think it’s a good idea to have the current residents name(s) inside a mailbox to provide more accurate service though I know some people will disagree with me. On the postal route I deliver, there are no names inside of the mailboxes. I deliver to all single family houses.
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I don't think it's appropriate to leave packages on a sidewalk under a mailbox. I was taught that if it didn't fit in a mailbox to bring it to the front door/porch. As to whether or not it's common, I'd hope not. I do work with some lazy people so it wouldn't surprise me if this happened every now and then by some of my co-workers. We are paid by the hour so if it takes us longer to go to a door to deliver a package we are getting paid more theoretically. The only protocol that I'm aware of is that packages should be left in a safe location. It may be subjective as to what one considers safe. I'd recommend contacting your local post office and mention to a delivery supervisor or manager that you don't like packages being left on the sidewalk if they won't fit into your mailbox. You may request that the items be brought to your front door/porch. I don't know if this will solve your problem but it's worth a try. Thanks for your question.
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We deliver mail to retail stores all of the time. For the most part, the USPS delivers mail to every address in the country. I understand your question is about having it sent to an individual at the store. The letter would be delivered with all of the other mail for the day for that business. It’d be up to the business itself to get the letter to the intended recipient and that may be difficult especially in a large store
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I’m not sure what you mean about parking between houses . I guess you mean that the person doesn’t park the LLV in their driveway. It’s sad that you’ve had so many problems with your mail delivery that you have had to have your mail delivered elsewhere. I am sometimes embarrassed by the caliber of my co-workers. I’m sure other companies have similar issues. Thanks for your input. As I mentioned to someone today, I love my job and what I do, but can’t say the same for some of my coworkers and management. I’d say most are fine to deal with and do good work but the bad apples aren’t as rare I would hope.
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I don't know what advice to give you except that there seems to be a procedural error somewhere for this type of conflict to arise. I'd recommend a shop steward to assist you with this, but I sometimes don't have a great deal of confidence in their integrity to be objective if they have a closer personal relationship with the person who was of higher seniority. There has to be more to the story as to why you were awarded a route based on the bidding process and then told at a later time that something wasn't done properly and that you can't keep that route or your old route.
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It is rare that I come across anything sketchy in my deliveries. Two events come to mind. During the anthrax scare not long after 09/11/01, I thought I may have come across mail which had some powdery substance coming out of it. My memory is pretty poor of what the item looked like and who it was addressed to. Anyhow, I may have had some psychosomatic reaction and had trouble breathing and was very nervous. I don’t remember reporting it and the symptoms didn’t last at all. Fortunately, the anthrax scare was short-lived. The other incident was just items addressed to “pervert Pete” or “sexually wet babies”. Both are kind of disgusting to me. The items addresses to “sexually wet babies” I delivered because maybe the recipient had a company or something related to that name. Eventually, the resident gave them back to me and said she doesn’t know of that name. Her son was kind of sketchy so I thought the letters would be for him. As far as “pervert Pete” I didn’t deliver that mail because I knew the resident and there was nobody accepting mail there by that name. In general, it’s not for us to judge what is mailed to people and we rcv no guidance from management about too much unless a liquid or strange odor is coming from a package. Fortunately all of those situations happen rarely. Thanks for your question.
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I have never heard that before and I'd say it's not legal for a USPS vehicle to run a red light. We are supposed to follow the traffic laws like any other vehicle. I'm sometimes disgusted the way I see some of my coworkers operate the USPS vehicles. I feel we should be professional representatives of the USPS, but I see some people don't care and drive like jerks in the USPS vehicle as they do in their privately owned vehicles.
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