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.
Tanya, I’m not familiar with why the prison mail would be rejected especially because you’ve addressed it properly. I know that jails/prisons have very specific rules about incoming mail to inmates. I would think that any mail rejected would explain the reason for the rejection. I don’t know that the PO will be of any help in this manner. I also don’t know how easy it’d be to reach the prison to ask for more on this subject. They strike me as being one big unfriendly bureaucracy. Thanks for your question.
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Lasha, I can relate to you experience. I try to communicate as best I can with coworkers the status of each possible delivery whether it is vacant or not. I use carrier alert cards. With respect to vacant apartments, may I recommend you either tape of the slot where you would deliver mail (if possible) or put a note or something obvious saying “apt ‘x’ is vacant—no delivery”. Some of the mgmt seem to not care about the quality of work as long as you show up for work and don’t get hurt and finish “on time”. I have found some coworkers don’t care either. It is disheartening but i don’t know what to do about it but clean out any boxes that should’ve been non-deliveries and discard/forward/return any of the mail. Please don’t change your attitude. We need more people who care about quality of work. Please keep in mind that we all make errors but you should be able to tell the difference between an error and ambivalence. Thanks for writing.
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Kate, it does seem odd that you have received no mail for an entire week if you normally get at least some mail every few days. Have you asked any of the other residents in your apt complex if they have received mail in the past week? If they have received mail in the last week then it’s possible that there was none for you. It’s also concerning that the outgoing mail hasn’t been picked up. It is important that we pick up outgoing mail as long as it is visible to the letter carrier and contains proper postage. I would contact the city USPS and ask a delivery supervisor about the questions you have raised. In some areas, the USPS is experiencing significant staffing shortages which could result in erratic mail delivery.
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Irrelevant comment/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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Thanks for the info and sharing videos in a previous question/posting.
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It’s not likely that the PO it arrives at will be able or willing to help you. To my knowledge, any letters that would come to your house (if it’s important it would likely be first class or Priority Mail) only arrive at the delivery Post office the morning of the day it is delivered. Even if the letter arrived the same day it was to be delivered and you went to the PO they may not be able to find it or be willing to look for it. As a letter carrier it’s very often that the first time I see a letter or handle it is when I’m about to deliver it to an address. Most sorting is done by automation at a Processing and Distribution Center. You could always go to the PO and try to get the letter, but my guess is that there are very low odds you will be successful in doing so.
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