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.
As long as you've passed the 90-day probationary period, you'd be eligible to become a career employee once a position becomes available. They usually convert CCA to Regular "career" employees in the order which the CCAs were hired. Depending on how quickly older workers retire or other workers transfer or leave the USPS will often decide how long it takes to be converted. Where I work, it has been usually less than 18 months to be converted but your mileage may vary greatly. It is very good to become a career employee because you have guaranteed number of hours you'll work each week, plus you get health insurance coverage.
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That is unfortunate that you need to move because of nosey neighbors. Your mailman should not be giving any information whatsoever to the nosey neighbors as to where you moved to. I don't have access to the new address when someone moves. I mean there is probably a way for a clerk or supervisor to access the computerized forwarding system and find out someone's new address but in general the letter carrier isn't given this information. In our office the letter carrier just gets notification via a white sticker given to us by a clerk that a certain person or family has moved as of such date and to begin submitting their mail for forwarding. I can't say for sure there is anyway to prevent your very sweet and friendly mailman from trying to internally find out that information but they shouldn't be doing that and it is a violation of our rules to be giving out that confidential information.
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Great question John. There are 2 main answers I can think of as to why you don't see letter carriers in uniform anymore. 1) There are many CCAs hired. These are non-career employees who generally don't get uniforms or a uniform allowance during the first few months of employment. CCA stands for City Carrier Assistant and are very common in urban areas that may have more turnover than suburban offices. 2) Some regular full-time letter carriers don't choose to wear a proper uniform (or any uniform at all) and the management doesn't enforce the uniform policy. In my opinion, everyone who is eligible to wear a uniform should do so and do it proudly. I wear my proper uniform daily where the one flaw would be is that they aren't too clean because it's hard to get some of the shoulder stains out from wearing a mail satchel and sweating a lot. I guess some workers don't care about looking professional and the management does nothing about it, my office included. Thanks for bringing up a good point.
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This question has been asked verbatim before. I don't know if this is a joke or a trick. I may safely pull aside when I can if it's believable. At that point I may get out of the vehicle and investigate what is being pointed out. At all times I'd be keeping my personal safety as a priority. There are times when my rear liftgate has popped open. It'd make sense if someone pointed that to me but it's never happened yet.
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I don't know of any rule against this. I haven't seen it in my office much (or at all) but several letter carriers (4 I think) live in the towns where we service.
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I'm not sure I understand your question but I'll take a guess that you want to know the three main things we do on our job. Our main job is to sort mail (a little bit in the AM) , deliver mail and parcels and collect outgoing mail in a prescribed geographic area. It is most important we do this in a safe, professional, and courteous manner and pay attention to the addresses and deliver the mail properly. It is a fairly simple job in my opinion but can be physically challenging in harsh weather and heavy mail loads. Thank you Jacob for your question.
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I am not familiar with the eReassign process and what to do if you feel you were unfairly denied a transfer to PR. That is wrong for the USPS to give you a letter which is inaccurate. Missing 5 days in 3 years seems like pretty good attendance. I don't know that the NALC or your local management or anyone in PR can assist you. I think our organization like many others has bureaucratic issues that are sometimes difficult to figure out. You could try to contact someone in Human Resources, but I don't know how to go about doing that either. Good luck to you and I hope you get your transfer.
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