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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Does my mailman know where
I'M moving....many nosey
neighbors!!!! thank you

Asked by PERSNICKEDY over 4 years ago

Your letter carrier doesn’t generally have access to your new address if you have filled out a forwarding order (change of address request) via www.usps.com. If you were to manually fill out a paper COA request, it’s possible the letter carrier may get a copy of it. I sometimes get a list of the current forwarding orders on file for my route. The list does have the new address for anybody who moved in the last year and submitted a forwarding order. That information is confidential and should never be released to anybody except via official summons or other legal matter. I would be confident that your letter carrier would keep that information private. Most of the time they don’t even have access to that information.

136 Votes

Why are you so anti Trump?

Asked by Sammie almost 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.

133 Votes

Hello, so I ordered live caterpillars for a kids science project and they arrived in my mailbox sooner than expected in 105 degree weather. I check the mail but they were dead. How can I ask that live perishables be delivered to my door in this heat

Asked by Nicole over 4 years ago

NIcole, I don’t know for sure about how to guarantee that next time any live perishables are delivered to your door. I do have a suggestion which could work if your letter carrier is conscientious. When you place the order for the caterpillars (or any other live animals), place a visible note (maybe on an index card) and clearly write your request. You could even note that last time the caterpillars were dead likely due to the extreme heat. If I saw that note, I’d pay attention to it and oblige. Unfortunately, i don’t have the same faith in many coworkers. I hope this helps. Thank you for your question.

131 Votes

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.

129 Votes

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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 over 3 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.

123 Votes

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 over 3 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.

122 Votes

On that forwarding issue,after 12 months been killing the mail, been doing that for 17 years! After 12 months forward expires and l UTF it, oh well

Asked by jvitto48 almost 3 years ago

Any forwardable mail should be submitted through the folding system until 18 months from the original date of the forwarding order.I don’t think it’s the end of the world that you have sent it back UTS after 12 months but that is still not the correct procedure. By that time most people have updated their address with any important organization they interact with. I know this is a subject that our management never even talks about. In fact they talk about very little that actually pertains to mail delivery and quality of work. They just want us to show up and don’t get hurt. Thanks for writing in with your question.

117 Votes

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