Mail Carriers

Our mail carriers are always talking on their phone when they walk up to drop off our mail. Does yours do this? Who the heck are they talking to for 8-10 hours a day straight and where do you get a phone battery capable of that kind of load????

What do you have to talk about for that long anyway?

They are probably phone sex operators as well. 2020 has been rough on a lot of people financially. Don't judge.

We have one. I filed a complaint. Talking and speeding on private street. So busy on phone was getting other peoples mail.

What really tick me off. Put the flag up for them to pick up other people mail. Was sitting there for 6 days. I took it post office to drop off. Main Rockwall. I was discussed being a government building . They had tattered flags up. They got them fixed fast.

Are they actually talking or do they just have the phone to their ear?

I'm convinced a lot of people just walk around holding a phone up so they don't have to talk to anyone. Women alone will sometimes have a phone in their hand and put it up to their ear whenever someone is near, like in a grocery aisle or a parking lot. It doesn't ring, they don't say hello or talk, they just all of a sudden put it to their ear to act like they're busy talking to someone.

I used to do this at my old job every time I walked by the managers office.

Might be your approach...

just put your phone up to your ear and start describing her, either like to another guy or like you are looking for your blind date.

look really confused, it helps.

I haven't been able to figure it out. I know it isn't the crocs and socks, because I've tried every color combo with no difference. You think it might be the jorts?

How short are the jorts?

We’ve had the same lady mail person for years, she’s good

Kinda like middle eastern convenience store workers. Who the hell they talkin to all day.

They're pretty long as far as jorts go. You can only see about 1/2 inch of pocket.

Weren't you your manager?

College kids do this all the time. They keep their earbuds in so they can avoid talking to strangers. It's hilarious. At first I thought they were just ignoring us when we'd have to get their attention when they'd swipe their ID incorrectly while trying to enter our facility. Nope. It's rare that they are actually listening to something, or talking to anyone...they just don't want to be bothered.

Not at this place.

I do this all the time. It works.

They are talking to someone.

We get decent mail service here, so I’m not complaining. In fact, we gift our regular postal carrier firmly well during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Never had it happen with any of our delivery drivers.
Every time a new driver pulls up they always ask the same question; do the dogs bite?
I always give the same answer; they haven’t bit anyone yet.

We must have the same delivery drivers........lol.

Being a mail person is not what it once was. Turn it over to UPS, Amazon, or Fed Ex. The same people may deliver the mail, but they will be held accountable. USPS is supposed to be privatized, but it ain't.

They screw up more than the weatherman. Front line hero’s my bottom

There seems to be a ton of mail delivered to the wrong addresses in our neighborhood.

Our mailman's the best. I live almost 1/2 mile from our box out on the county road and he'll drive down our driveway periodically to deliver. Anytime we have a package to big for our big box he brings it out. I have no complaints. He's even the local Pentecostal preacher and doesn't attempt to proselytize. I have no complaints with my mail delivery.

The union guys are thugs.
The contract hourly rural carriers are great.

We had a great mail carrier....then she went to work at the post office counter for several years...I think she's back delivering now, because we've actually had good luck getting our mail and the packages are back to being delivered at our door.

We are on a rural route, our mail carrier is a good guy but when he as to deliver a package to the house he u-turns in the driveway then drops it on the ground. He is better than the first one we had would not even drive down the street to deliver. We had to go to the post to pick it up.

He probably ran into the wrong dog one too many times.

I used to live on a rural route, and we had a good mailman--except during quail season. Every time he'd see some birds cross the road, he'd park and walk up the covey. His pointer even rode along in the bed of the pickup.

Rural carriers aren’t paid by the hour and most are lazier than city carriers.

Ours is good. Except he’s prone to “borrowing” my BPS catalogues and Bassmaster mags. They usually have been fumbled through cover to cover before they make it to my house.

He's gotta have something to read when he's on potty break!

I actually surprised when an important piece of mail shows up. It rarely happens around here. It's a total joke