Mailman (City Letter Carrier)

Mailman (City Letter Carrier)

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.

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Last Answer on February 18, 2022

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Hey bro, have you heard the stories about so many people getting arrested and caught with the ballots one dude had so many in his car what do you think about this? People can cheat for well either way really some say Democrats some say Republicans

Asked by Martian over 4 years ago

i haven’t heard of those stories and I believe they are few and far between. Also, I have no idea how people could get their hands on ballots and what they would actually do with them. I believe many absentee ballots need to be signed by the voter. The signature would then be (in theory) be matched against the signature on file for when the voter registered. I have full faith in the USPS role in voting by mail. There is about one month to go before the 2020 general election. It’s a bit early of course but I haven’t heard of too many major issues. The GOP, specifically President Trump, is trying to fan the flames of doubt for mail-in ballots. It is a false narrative. Voter fraud in general is rare. Multiple independent research has indicated this.

Woah! This is crazy right here! What do you think about this?! https://youtu.be/aFYYMypm8IE

Asked by Jearmy over 4 years ago

I saw this on the internet and heard about it on the radio. Unfortunately, the USPS sometimes has employees that don’t quite understand the sanctity of the mail and that they can’t throw it away. According to the article he employees was a new hire. Maybe he was overwhelmed with his work assignment, though that is no excuse for discarding mail into a dumpster. I’d hope that he gets in a lot of trouble criminally, but I don’t think they often do. Either way, it looks horrible when we want the country to be able to trust us with their ballots for the upcoming election. I don’t believe the employee was purposely discarding ballots as a lot of other mail was also discovered. I believe it was nearly 1900 pieces of mail.

Are the Jobstr guys still doing anything on this site or is it a abandoned project? I sent them a email and they said they read everything and NOTHING. I am worried once the last of you who actually still answer regularly once their gone this site is dead

Asked by Donnie about 5 years ago

I have a feeling that you might be correct about this. I have been thinking about that in the past but never decided to look into it. Maybe one day this whole site will disappear and my nearly 1200 questions answered will be for nothing. I never hear from the the siren operatoes though it never really concerned me. The sire never seems updated. I just checked their twitter account. The last posting or retweet was from 6 years ago. I certainly feel like a bit of a sucker to have continued here for so long. I’d probably have reached more people by doing a Reddit AMA. Thanks for bringing up this subject.

Why are you so anti Trump?

Asked by Sammie over 4 years ago

He has normalized lying and not taking responsibility for anything he may have done wrong. He spread so many lies about the 2020 Presidential election being stolen from him when they couldn’t be further from the truth. He incited a riot which was disrupting a peaceful transfer of power.

When he was first elected in 2016, I said let’s give him a chance. I quickly realized he was all about himself and didn’t care much for the common man. He also mishandled the pandemic response in 2020 showing awful leadership when hundreds of thousands of Americans died.

What would happen if a law enforcement officer pulled over a mail vehicle ???? and ticketed the postal worker for not having a plate on the vehicle ?????

Asked by Mike about 4 years ago

Mike, I’m not saying it hasn’t happened, but I’ve never heard of a USPS vehicle being pulled over by a police officer for missing a license plate. Each vehicle has an ID number and I think that suffices as a license plate. I imagine if I rcvd a ticket for that I would give it to my supervisor and let them deal with it. That being said, I wouldn’t mind if we got held to the same driving standards as everyone else and were pulled over for moving violations. I don’t even hear of that happening too often. I drive the USPS just as I do with my own vehicle. That means obeying all traffic rules, driving defensively, and courteously. Fortunately, I’ve never been involved in an MVA while at work, but it doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Nobody is above the law or above making an error.

I live in an apartment building with at least 80 units and there are no parcel lockers is my landlord required to install these?

Asked by Mike Newberry about 4 years ago

Not to my knowledge. I don’t know what the correct procedure is for parcel delivery in multi-unit buildings. I live in a similar sized apt bldng with no doorman to accept parcels and no parcel lockers. The letter carrier usually will leave the parcels near each unit door or in the lobby of the bldng or near the mailboxes. Package theft in our bldng hasn’t been a huge issue, but has occurred occasionally. If package theft is an issue, I believe the letter carrier will attempt delivery but then leave a notice that delivery was attempted and nobody was home to securely receive an item. At this point, a resident may sign the notice for redelivery or retrieve the package at a nearby PO as stated on the PS Form 3849. Package lockers are a great convenience but I know of no requirement that a landlord install them. Thank you for your question.

Will the letter still be delivered if there are no spaces between, city, state and zip code?

Asked by Seen Robinson over 3 years ago

It should be fine. The ZIP code is the most important part of the the bottom line of the address. Once a letter reaches the office of destination, a clerk in the office should be able to direct the letter to the proper route to be delivered by a letter carrier. If there ever was an issue, the letter would be returned to the sender as long as they have provided a valid return address.