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.
Thanks for the info and sharing videos in a previous question/posting.
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Irrelevant comment/question.
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I have come across the same situation while delivering mail and getting a sampling request for an address that is either on Hold or Vacant. I don’t know what the proper procedure is and the management in my office has never addressed this as far as I know. I also don’t know if anybody has asked about it. If I were in that situation, This is how I answer: Yes, the address is on my route. When it asks me to scan the flats/letters, I just hit enter and “No more to Scan”. To repeat, I can’t say this is the correct procedure, but this is what I do in that situation. Thanks for your question.
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This is true to a point. There are no absolutes with regard to driving in inclement weather. I drive a Grumman LLV which is what the vast majority of our motorized fleet is comprised of. Most of them were manufactured in the 1990s. All of our vehicles have heaters and fans. They may not always operate optimally but they are equipped with them. I don’t know of any LLVs that have air conditioning. We do have some new Dodge ProMasters which have AC but they can’t be used on driving routes because they are left-hand drive vehicles. If there is any decent accumulation of snow or ice on the road, the LLVs are dangerous to operate as they don’t have much road traction. I’d be worried about driving on any incline or decline in a snow or ice-covered road. Our basic mantra is that if we feel it’s unsafe to deliver the mail for any reason we can bring it back to the PO and tell a supervisor about the reason for non-delivery. Within the next few years, we likely are getting fleet replacement vehicles. I’m pretty sure they will have air bags and AC, and hopefully a back-up camera. They will hopefully be safer than the vehicles we currently drive.
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I have yet to see that happen, though I wish the quality of service was focused on. If a customer were to complain about chronic misdeliveries, a supervisor will likely mention it to the letter carrier and ask them to be more careful. If the problem persisted, the supervisor may ask to verify the mail each day for the customer who complained about misdeliveries
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I’d recommend against doing this because Priority Mail Express Envelopes are specifically to be used for that purpose only. I don’t know the the ru!es for sure. Some postal employees, myself included, are sometimes sticklers for the correct postage being applied to go along with the type of packaging used. The supplies are provided free of charge with the condition that a certain class of mail is required to use the free packaging. While I can’t say your proposal to put a sharpie marker through the “express” markings wouldn’t serve your intended purpose, I’d recommend playing it safe and not doing that. Thank you for your question.
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Henry, I can’t actually picture what that truck looks like and I don’t know what it is used for. If I had to guess it may have been some type of maintenance vehicle that the USPS used for building or vehicle maintenance. It doesn’t seem to be any type of delivery vehicle that I am familiar with. If you want to do some more research, there is a Smithsonian National Postal Museum and maybe their research or archivist staff would know more about it. They possibly charge a fee for doing research but I can’t be sure. Their website is postalmuseum.si.edu
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