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Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs
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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 1090264" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>I'll admit, I do not know what the USPS is like today. My father retired from the USPS in 1982 at the age of 60. When he did work there looking back his job was very easy compared to what UPS drivers do. He was a Sr driver and was a floater. (He worked Mon-Fri and covered 5 routes). He indicated that a route was an 8 hr day regardless of the amount of work to be delivered. If at the end of they day they weren't done, they came back to the building. Well, as a floater he always came in with the new mail for the day and the prior day's leftover mail. He delivered 100% of the mail with nothing left over and he ended up having about 2+ hours of break since the routes were so easy for him. (I'm talking paid breaks not lunch, he had that too). Prior to being a floater he had his own route but as he came back early with all the work done he ended up just getting more and more streets added to his route. When he finally decided to become a floater so he could work Mon-Fri they took his route and made 3 routes out of it. He was a hard worker, but no harder then a UPS driver. Granted, my knowledge and information is very very old. There should have been a lot of tightening up on standards. Maybe they went too far, maybe where your dad works it's extremely bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 1090264, member: 4886"] I'll admit, I do not know what the USPS is like today. My father retired from the USPS in 1982 at the age of 60. When he did work there looking back his job was very easy compared to what UPS drivers do. He was a Sr driver and was a floater. (He worked Mon-Fri and covered 5 routes). He indicated that a route was an 8 hr day regardless of the amount of work to be delivered. If at the end of they day they weren't done, they came back to the building. Well, as a floater he always came in with the new mail for the day and the prior day's leftover mail. He delivered 100% of the mail with nothing left over and he ended up having about 2+ hours of break since the routes were so easy for him. (I'm talking paid breaks not lunch, he had that too). Prior to being a floater he had his own route but as he came back early with all the work done he ended up just getting more and more streets added to his route. When he finally decided to become a floater so he could work Mon-Fri they took his route and made 3 routes out of it. He was a hard worker, but no harder then a UPS driver. Granted, my knowledge and information is very very old. There should have been a lot of tightening up on standards. Maybe they went too far, maybe where your dad works it's extremely bad. [/QUOTE]
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