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.
I can't give you an exact answer because operationally and geogrpahically the delivery times and deadlines are varied. I can make some generalizations but they will be based on what I experience or read about. At the PO where I work, most letter carriers are back and "off the clock" by 5PM meaning your mail should arrive no later than about 4:40PM. This is if the weather isn't severely hot or cold, our staffing level is sufficient, and the mail volume is not out if the ordinary. Where you live, it may be a very large apt complex that receives a lot of mail, staffing at the PO may not be up to where it should be, or the worker could just be slow. These are reasons, or possibilities as to why you receive your mail about 5:30 or 6:00 PM daily. It does sound slightly late to me, but not extreme, and I don't have any information on a standard cutoff time as to when mail should be delivered. Thanks for your question.
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It depends if it is a curbside mailbox or a mailbox at the door to your house. If it is a curbside mailbox that the letter carrier must access from their postal vehicle then there are specific height rqmts and distance from the curb that the box must be. I don't have these specs here, but I imagine it can be found online by doing a search of "curbside residential mailbox requirements"
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Mikas, I think it is very likely you will receive your package as long as the clerks in your PO can figure out which street you meant to put in your address and that it isn't similarly named with another street in the same ZIP code. The ZIP code is definitely a very important piece of the address to get correct because that will result in at least getting the package to the right PO building and the staff there will hopefully (and likely) be able to figure out the intended address.
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I am not sure what will happen re :your license being suspended and being offered a CCA Position. How long do you think it will be before you get your license back? I don't believe it is legal to have you driving a USPS vehicle with a suspended driver license.
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If the mail is addressed correctly otherwise and only off by one letter, it should be delivered to the correct house. It would maybe a problem if there was another street in the same town which had a similar name or suffix (like the town had a 3rd St and a 3rd Av). The most important things in an address would be the # and ZIP code. If the street is spelled somewhat close, you'd likely have the item delivered to the correct house. Thank you for writing.
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I looked on Google Maps how far apart those 2 areas were and it said about 17 miles. In most cases, that piece of mail would be delivered the next day as long as it was put in a mailbox before the daily collection.
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I don't believe you meant this question for me as I don't work in the food service industry and am not familiar with QSC.
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