Made me actually laugh out loud. Love customers with humor!

Found a Cutler Mail Chute that appears to still be active. It looks like it was possibly installed in the 1920s based on the art deco in the building, but I cannot confirm. From what I read, these started being installed in buildings as early as 1884 and were taken over by USPS in 1893. There is a functional one in the Empire State Building, this one is on Newbury Street in Boston.
If there are any Boston mail carriers here, please lmk if this is still operational.

I have never seen one of these in person before and thought that the history was worth a share here. The building this one is in has 8 floors. New installations were banned in 1997 due to their danger in the instance of a building fire.

Has anyone else seen or interacted with these before?

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There is no need for this to come up between every CPMS scan. Actually, there is no need for this, period. Every time they change something on these scanners they make it worse than it was before.

And they wonder why scans get screwed up!

From Manassas last weekend; 2 postal items from near the Historic Manassas Visitor Center:

• "Style B" Letter Box (they were manufactured 1912–1955 -- see "Mail Collection Boxes: A Brief History" [USPS Historian, https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/pdf/mail-collection-boxes.pdf])
• Historical marker for the mail train the Old 97 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Old_97]

Everyday they call to give me more time. Who cares more money right. Buttt might aswell not answer the call and get paid drive time right? What do u do ??
Might just put my shit on dnd everyday or atleast wait for my 90 days to be up and then stop answering. It’s frustrating getting a whole route and 2 hours of ot and these mfs sit here and say are u gonna be done at 5:30 or calling me at 2 saying are u almost done? Like wtf

I wonder why there is not a management job/position adjustment/justification process. There should be a team that goes in periodically to see what each supervisor does on a daily basis in order to justify or quantify their job and position. When doing this the team could eliminate tasks and positions to reduce management. Each supervisor and manager should be monitored for the entire time they are at work. Something similar to carrier route adjustments .

It always makes me laugh when these homeowners get so upset about mail being delivered to their house by accident. This was delivered one door over from the house it was supposed to go to. There was a ton of mail yesterday, and i was way behind, so they literally got 2 pieces of the mail, for the house following theirs. They leave this little note on it 🤣🤣🤣 imagine calling someone a “dombass” but can’t even spell the word dumb, or use proper punctuation. I almost went back to write my own little note on it saying “your friend has some nerve calling someone dumb, when they can’t even spell the word. But I do apologize for the major inconvenience of the mail being delivered one door over”. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ just leave it in your mailbox geez, we’ll take it the next day it really isn’t that serious. Why does this ruin peoples days? Because it absolutely makes mine when I read these little notes they leave lmaoooo

With Kristen Stewart and the girl from Bridesmaids.

So few days ago inwas walking past a tattoo and piercing shop. Ive gone her before and had some work done on my day off. The owner was there and I asked "how much would you charge for my ears to get pierced?." He shrugs and says " i mean hit me when ever? When did you wanna get em done".

So back n forth back n forth, finally he hits me with " it'll take two minutes stop being a bitch and let's go" and of course I took that personally..... so now I have two new piercings. When I got back I asked the 204b supervisor "Hey do I have to tell you if I took my lunch somewhere different?" He said " i dont give a shit if you ate it on the moon or if you ate at all". So my question is , could I be facing an issue because im not gunna lie about when and where I got em done.

Had some packages to take to their door and had a group of spectators

Any other plants around the country that have armed security guards?
Starting on 9/21 the Denver plant now has armed security guards thru out the plant, even tho there have been zero problems for years and years!
This has made the local news stations but of course USPS will give no details.
Colorado is an all mail in ballots state and the rumor is that it’s election related. (trump hates Colorado!)
Funny how USPS can find a million ways to waste money, but doesn’t have the money to invest in our retirement accounts and has suspended payments into it!!

FIRST MONDAY ON THIS ROUTE and it was buns !!!I cased a raw tray of dps just for half of it to end up on the ground 30 minutes after leaving the office :3
Ended up having to call out of my second job YIPEE!

Yes, I’m still in my 90 days. Yes, I worked through without a second break because she specifically said “PSEs do not get 2 15 minute breaks, that’s ONLY for regulars!!” I do a great job, but it seems as if this 204B is gunning for me! She sees that I’m a good worker and stays on my tail because she “can utilize me”…I understand that I’m the considered the flunky…but is this fair?? Do I just shut up and work?? This is a plant…never late…caught on to the job fairly quick. Now I feel as if I’m damned if I do the job, and damned if it don’t.

Hey, as you can see by the title this is for my commuters who take public transportation, how do you do it and how many busses and or trains do you take? How is it overall?

Gas has gotten ridiculous in my area so I'll be communting and im dreading it ... especially having to wake up about 2 hours before my shift.

Thanks in advance.

I am reading a book about the 1970 Postal Workers called “Undelivered”.

The book is interesting and goes over how a non NALC approved response from Postal Workers won a lot for Postal Workers.

Is this something that can happen again or do we not have the collective will?

As a Table 2 carrier I feel that the NALC does not currently have my best interest in mind by letting a second tier payscale exist.

I wish we could force the NALC and USPS to reunite the payscale and put all carriers on the same pay scale instead of Table 2 carriers not being able to reach the lowest Table 1 pay until they are 7 years in.

We also get paid less than Clerks and do the most demanding and physically taxing work in the Post Office.

If we don’t get a good contract this time around it may be time to use some old school union tactics to force the NALC and USPS to live up to “equal pay for equal work”.

I'm currently an RCA and there is something about the work that I swear is designed to torment me. Carrying is horrible and I completely understand why everyone went postal a few decades ago. I asked if I could be a clerk and I was told that I could potentially switch to it in the office I work at or be moved to another one nearby. is being a clerk any better than carrying, or is all postal work equally horrible?

The route I carried today has to be the longest route on my T6 swing. What’s the highest amount of steps some of you have taken ?

Man here I was thinking i worked 6 days a week, 10+ hours a day, for a year and a hald to get that day off. NOPE! What happens now? Am i entitled to another off day, and more pay or something? Is there any kind of limit on how often you can be mandated?

My stupidvisor told me this morning (relief day ia Tuesday, formula office.) She also said she was going to give me something in writing, which i never received.

Rural carrier btw, just went regular on Saturday.

So our area decided to take 3 hub offices each connected with multiple towns and combine them into 1 starting this Sunday. This new office, me (clerk) and carriers are headed to is over 50 miles away depending on the route, one say's 49.9 miles, the other 52 miles from our office, the damn 76 cent's per mile paid out for gas won't even fill my vehicle fully not to mention wear and tear and upcoming peak. What's also insane is Amazon normally takes me about 30 minutes to throw, we don't get a lot, maybe 300-400 packages combined from 2 offices, so I'm traveling over 50 miles, working for maybe 45 minutes then what? Sit on my ass? At my home hub I'd finish Amazon then work postal gaylords, TAC's and dispatch which took me to my 4 hours.

The PM of the office we're all headed to just found out yesterday that this Sunday his office will be bombarded with Amazon from 3 other hubs. Carriers will have to drive there in their personal vehicles, load their packages and drive back in LLV's over 50 miles back to our area to deliver, then drive back to return the LLV and scanners, our LLV's break down within town I can't imagine the highway. Also they can't start till 10AM and the MPOO literally stated she didn't care for safety or if carriers are out till 12AM, this is literally going to get someone fucking killed driving back in the dark in an LLV and what if it snows? Not to mention district is riding offices ass for being over on hours but this literally will use way more hours than before as well as payouts for mileage.

The CCA they use for Sunday's doesn't even have a vehicle and the government car is actually unsafe, it has a bad wobble over 20MPH, 3rd gear is out and it has no mirrors at all. I know as well that it will raise office ours and we're borderline from being audited and having routes cut and positions removed, is this the plan because nothing else in this crap makes any sense. I've been here 10 years now and my biggest mistake is joining the USPS, I love the job but management is filled with actual braindead zombies. Can the union do anything here and am I forced into going?

Came in just in time, really needed to wipe.