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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 205583" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p>Area,</p><p> </p><p>Funny you should bring this up. Going a step beyond the "Goin' Postal" comment you made, I've had room mates, relatives, neighbors and co workers who currently work or have worked for the Post Office and what I've seen and heard from the '60's on regarding the USPS pretty much blows the lid off of what a sane person would consider normal.</p><p> </p><p>And in comparison, I've also come across just a few UPSers</p><p>in my many years here but nothing I saw or heard at UPS compares to the Post Office shenanigans.....</p><p> </p><p>There's lots of pressure among mail carriers because there are no replacement drivers. If one or more carrier in an area doesn't show up for work, the other carriers absorb the volume. Last winter in our area there were a lot of slips, falls and fractures among the mailmen due to homeowners not keeping up with shoveling snow and for about three weeks, in between our weekly Whopper snow storms, my neighbors and I received mail about every 3 days. The guys just couldn't keep up. We as customers understood, but that would be hateful for the mail people.</p><p> </p><p>USPS is teaming with folks having affairs with each other but I won't even go there. I could write a book about some of my Postal ex room mates and relatives and all their "goings on" but somebody would read it and have me locked up.</p><p> </p><p>I heard about incredible drug use while they worked in the mail facilities and how folks would go out to the parking lot at lunch to smoke a doobie or to continue that affair in their car...</p><p> </p><p>Any many, many suicides. I knew of one suicide (not to say there weren't more, of course) in all my years at UPS.</p><p> </p><p>My mouth would drop open a little bit more and more as time went on from what I heard. We, UPS and USPS, are both in the same industry and our facilities are much the same. And we both withstand enormous amounts of pressure. </p><p> </p><p>I'm no Pollyanna and I know people misbehave, but come on.</p><p> </p><p>Area, your question is also the same one I've been wondering about for years...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 205583, member: 8657"] Area, Funny you should bring this up. Going a step beyond the "Goin' Postal" comment you made, I've had room mates, relatives, neighbors and co workers who currently work or have worked for the Post Office and what I've seen and heard from the '60's on regarding the USPS pretty much blows the lid off of what a sane person would consider normal. And in comparison, I've also come across just a few UPSers in my many years here but nothing I saw or heard at UPS compares to the Post Office shenanigans..... There's lots of pressure among mail carriers because there are no replacement drivers. If one or more carrier in an area doesn't show up for work, the other carriers absorb the volume. Last winter in our area there were a lot of slips, falls and fractures among the mailmen due to homeowners not keeping up with shoveling snow and for about three weeks, in between our weekly Whopper snow storms, my neighbors and I received mail about every 3 days. The guys just couldn't keep up. We as customers understood, but that would be hateful for the mail people. USPS is teaming with folks having affairs with each other but I won't even go there. I could write a book about some of my Postal ex room mates and relatives and all their "goings on" but somebody would read it and have me locked up. I heard about incredible drug use while they worked in the mail facilities and how folks would go out to the parking lot at lunch to smoke a doobie or to continue that affair in their car... Any many, many suicides. I knew of one suicide (not to say there weren't more, of course) in all my years at UPS. My mouth would drop open a little bit more and more as time went on from what I heard. We, UPS and USPS, are both in the same industry and our facilities are much the same. And we both withstand enormous amounts of pressure. I'm no Pollyanna and I know people misbehave, but come on. Area, your question is also the same one I've been wondering about for years... [/QUOTE]
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