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 don't know the accuracy of the website mailbox.com. I don't believe it is sanctioned by the USPS. Either way, if you dropped a letter in an official USPS collection box, you can rest assured the mail would be picked up and sent on its way. Where was the letter going to? It can sometimes take up to a week for a letter to reach its destination but 1-3 days is the norm if properly addressed and had sufficient postage. I recommend a bit more time and hopefully the letter will reach its destination.
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Albert, your message posted 2x so I will answer it once and then copy and paste it. I currently work 7 hours a day as I am on a limited schedule for personal reasons. A regular city letter carrier can expect to work 8 hours per day (plus 30 min. unpaid lunch), 5 days per week. The 5 days may not be consecutive since mail is delivered 6 days per week. As a new hire, you will likely be a CCA (city carrier assistant) who has a very varied schedule and I'm not sure they are guaranteed any hours. I believe starting pay is about $16/hour for a CCA, with very few benefits, if any. Once you are promoted to a regular city carrier, the salary increasea to about $23/hour and tops out at about $28.50/hr after a certain amt. of years. These salaries are set in accordance with a labor agreement between the USPS and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), which is our union. You also get benefits once you become a regular city letter carrier as opposed to a CCA. If you visit the website www.nalc.org they have pay charts listed or you can probably just do a google search or look on www.glassdoor.com. Good luck in what is a pretty good career in my opinion.
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JX, what an exciting career you have. I happen to have a lovely girlfriend who is also an FA, so I can relate to you being gone for several days at a time. It is fine to put your mail on hold as frequently as you do. You probably have read online or on the card you fill out (if you request your mail to be held on a paper "Authorization to Hold Mail" Card) that there is a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of 30 days to hold your mail per request. From what you've described you are following those parameters. The only other suggestion would be to rent a PO Box if you don't want to keep putting the mail on hold. It does cost money to rent a PO Box, but there is a high level of convenience knowing that your mail is secure no matter how long you are away and you don't have to fill out a hold mail request each time you travel. Furthermore, many PO have extended hours as to when the lobby is accessible for PO Box Customers can retrieve their mail. Thank you for writing and safe travels!
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I am not really sure of the procedure that your letter carrier is supposed to follow if your specific mail slot becomes full. I understand that they probably didn't want to bring it back to the PO where it can be held usually up to 30 days before being sent back to the senders due to a full mailbox. The carrier probably felt that it was a safe environment to leave it in the junk cubby even though that area was possibly accessible to anybody. I hope that no mail was missing that you can tell. You made no mention of that so I presume you think it was all there. Technically the letter carrier should have been on the safe side and brought the mail back to the PO since you live in a multi-unit building, but I often have the "no harm, no foul" attitude meaning it's no big deal as long as nothing looks as if it was tampered with. I know that others will disagree with me on this comment. It is similar with packages to be delivered. In the area I work in, it seems to be a very safe suburban environment so parcels are left when nobody is home as long as there is no signature required. In other areas where mail/package theft may be an issue the USPS may require somebody at an address in order to release a package.
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I don't know the answer to that question. I didn't know that the USPS tracking says that a package is going to be delivered today. I have actually heard that when a package gets to the destination Post Office and is scanned "arrived at unit", maybe it's soon thereafter that it also says "out for delivery". It's possible that another letter carrier may deliver the package as part of a parcel post route or somebody just delivering a few packages. It depends how large the office is and their staffing levels if you will get that second delivery. Hearing that you are saying the tracking says your package will be delivered today I hope it was.
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Matthew, the mail being transfered from your old PO Box to your new address should just be delivered when it arrives with your new address on the envelope. It wouldn't hurt to contact the new PO to where you are moving, but isn't necessary. Whenever I see a new name at an address that I'm not familiar with, I will almost always just deliver it and if it happens to be in error, the current resident will often leave that mail out for me with a note saying "person doesn't live here". In your case it sounds like you are moving into a place that is going to be vacated by someone else. When that happens, I'm usually expecting a new name at that address so I will just deliver the mail with the new names without any advance notification of the new resident. I hope this helps. Good luck in your new home.
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The USPS help/customer service phone is: 1-800-275-8777. I don't know how helpful they will be since they generally have access to the same info you do with regards to mail tracking. I am not sure if you are the shipper or the recipient. Regardless, it sounds like it has been a long time since there have been any updates. I assume by JF you meant JFK. I guess the only advice is to wait for the item to appear somewhere. After that, I'm not sure what can be done.
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