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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3088223" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>It is the most city minded company that ever existed. The largest incorporated borough I covered had a population of 5900 people It was 26 "stem" miles from the terminal.What they didn't understand or realize is that every morning 8 rural mail carriers pulled out of that town's post office and went out and serviced it's 480 rural mail carrier system . It was just part of the 34 zip code 3600 mile RD carrier network I had to try to cover in a day. When they started cuffing me around I told them...."you never factored in the RD's! " And roads believe me I understand. Mile upon mile of township trails About 16-17 ft wide with base material ( in places where there was some) was nothing more than a few inches of napped in field stones laid down during The Depression. 15-20 MPH was the best you could do ,the suspension wouldn't take it and if somebody was coming the other way you had to pull over as far as you could get stop and let them go by. In winter with no cross pipes no catch basins and no way to control the run off water would run onto them freeze overnight and for the rest of the winter you had a 3/4 layer of ice. In some places the township made it easy for themselves. They simply posted "No Winter Maintenance Signs" My vindication came when the guy who bought me out had to send 2 full time guys and a half time guy out everyday to cover the area including the 40 mile round trip to do a 4-5 box pickup.....and as a result he's not making a dime in that area.But that's a nationwide carrier for you and the bad goes right along with the good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 3088223, member: 58386"] It is the most city minded company that ever existed. The largest incorporated borough I covered had a population of 5900 people It was 26 "stem" miles from the terminal.What they didn't understand or realize is that every morning 8 rural mail carriers pulled out of that town's post office and went out and serviced it's 480 rural mail carrier system . It was just part of the 34 zip code 3600 mile RD carrier network I had to try to cover in a day. When they started cuffing me around I told them...."you never factored in the RD's! " And roads believe me I understand. Mile upon mile of township trails About 16-17 ft wide with base material ( in places where there was some) was nothing more than a few inches of napped in field stones laid down during The Depression. 15-20 MPH was the best you could do ,the suspension wouldn't take it and if somebody was coming the other way you had to pull over as far as you could get stop and let them go by. In winter with no cross pipes no catch basins and no way to control the run off water would run onto them freeze overnight and for the rest of the winter you had a 3/4 layer of ice. In some places the township made it easy for themselves. They simply posted "No Winter Maintenance Signs" My vindication came when the guy who bought me out had to send 2 full time guys and a half time guy out everyday to cover the area including the 40 mile round trip to do a 4-5 box pickup.....and as a result he's not making a dime in that area.But that's a nationwide carrier for you and the bad goes right along with the good. [/QUOTE]
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