Are you a rural or city carrier?

everythingLitty ! City

everythingLitty ! City

Damn easy peasy route!!! Congrats!

Route inspection yet?

yes, some of those distances from sidewalk to porch were ridiculous

I read that as "Mountian Curbside" mailboxes...

Maybe it is now idk. But they seem to have plenty of room.

Congratulations on retirement

Judahsmoon I'm a t6 that transferred from a beautiful beach city to the city where I live where the climate is about 20-25 degrees hotter and routes are longer. I'll be 45 soon and I'm telling you everything hurts. My heel, lower back, sciatica!! It sucks. So yes I agree with you. I go home too tired to want to do anything.

I’m not staying on a route because of the customers lol I worry about me first. That’s why I bid off of the route I was just on, it was physically kicking my ass but the people were nice

do ppl give you presents around the holidays?

you forgot elbow! you can get some sweet tennis elbow! Don't miss out!

More like a nursing job when you retire your back and knee give in and you become the patient as well..

Achilles are sore after watching

I agree ... hip and shoulder destroyer too

Don’t forget soul destroy as well

Mail slots suck. Majority of the time they trip me up.

The mail slots that don't have that built in outward groove are a real pain one-handed. Especially on a walking route, and the customer has things like tables with decorative crap on it directly below the slot. Satchel always gets in the way

@damonsipe9232 screw them damn mail slots. That's what I do, all walking routes. Especially when your loaded with dps, flats and a full satchel

probably has s&*# supervisors pushing him to make the bs time. He killing himself for them retards. smh....

Milking the route? What is this milking the route you speak of?

Wayne E. Sounds like a 204B comment

Milking the route😵 what the heck is that? Sounds like a 204b or a customer who hasn't been educated on their carriers job(I educate my customers😁) This route needs boxes on the curb and where is the volume and how many blocks on this route? All those stairs made my knees hurt just watching

Spoken like an inexperienced former letter carrier who became a 204B

poor diet and drinking too much booze!!

That's nothing bro. Sometimes youre forced by management to do an additional route on top of your existing one

same for me .... 1988 - 2021. Plus, I had 5.5 military and over one year S/L. Almost 40 years of federal service.

You mean poo poo

All they care about are the numbers they could care less about your health and if a familymemeber dies in a horrific accident. The heartless b's

@@brybrunyou actually mean couldn’t care less, right?

I had my hilly route with boxes on the porch. One big diffeence is that I never went up and down stairs if there was a yard to walk across. The grass is so much better on your knees.

I’m a mailman in Sweden and I’ve noticed that in USA and almost any other country always have boxes at ground floor in all buildings (apartments) but in Sweden we have to in about 99% of all cases run the stairs up (if there is no elevator) and down and deliver to every door. How common is it in the states that there are no boxes at the ground floor?

Марцус Åкерман VERY uncommon for big/high rise apartments to do door to door here in the states. Even 95% of small apartments with only 2-4 units have mailboxes in front. We only do deliver oversized parcels to doors, floor by floor only if the front desk at some few apartments wouldn’t accept them.

Andrew L He only gets paid on what the route is rated at! If it’s 8 hours he only gets paid 8 hours even if it takes him 10

@@Davidmaccc He's not a Rural Carrier

@@Davidmaccc No, he gets paid 10 hours if it takes him 10 hours.

Aw! Traded one poison for another! Lol. I'm new and was delivering to mailboxes for several hours on my 3rd day of working and my mail truck felt HOTTER than normal. I kept working but I was getting weaker and sicker. My drinks were almost gone. My body was overheating and I was pouring water down my head! After 3 hours I realized there was HOT HEAT comin out my vents and I had the fan on HIGH! I finally said I need ac before I give out. I headed back to post office because that was the closest place to me with ac. The postmaster just looked at me and said NOTHING as I was struggling. I eventually went to the back by the restroom so she wouldn't have to look at me. I was trying to see if I could recover. I was drinking more water I couldn't get enough it seemed and I kept putting my head under the faucet. After a half hour I wasn't feeling any better and thought I better get out of there before I started vomiting. So I went home. Thought for sure I lost my job. But she called me today and asked if I'm able to still do the job. I said yes as long as heat is not comin out of vents!

@@petunia5835 are you still there??

Lol

I hate people like this

Jose Rodriguez your kidding right. Have you ever heard of bursitis tendinitis heel spurs fallen arches, knee replacement, tore rotator cuffs, to name a few long term and permanent injuries that a lot carriers suffer who have park and loop or city carrier routes. 29 years on Chicago streets, I think I know a little bit about this job by now. No disrespect

How can a new CCA avoid these issues? Good soles and greater in soles? And knee pads

I loved dip shits that stayed on their shitty routes their entire careers. We had many in my office and my last 18 years as a carrier were very easy because I was never scared to bid on an easier route.

Thank you! Sometimes my customers leave sweet notes.. probably cause I talk to their door cameras and the barking dogs 😂

Thanks for that. We always appreciate that.

Makes a difference. Us carriers always appreciate it

I had. 32yrs in the post. Office loved every year 😂 3:13

This was posted 6 years ago.. amazon wasn’t that popular yet

Back when it was enjoyable

I used to tune those out on a daily basis. All I was hearing was "wawa .. wawa.... wa...wa.

I have my interview for CCA this week, how do you like being a Carrier?

What about your route and a half

I wear my crocs

Way to go

yeah like a herniated disc and sciatic, my route 580 deliveries which of 562 are all houses, approx. 11 miles walking.

My last route was 518 dtops and every stop was curbside. Best route in the office and to obtain it, I had to be number one in seniority.

+Mr Ford Shelby i work in the Caribbean USPS as a Cca and i always since i started i work 40 hrs or even more !!!!

Hmm. Around here, CCA's are paid $16.06/hr and work pretty frequently.

Sounds like you should get your ass to work then! Why is it all his responsibility to put food on the table you lazy leach...

When I was a CCA worked 60 hours a week and 80+ during the holiday season, worked five weeks straight once, had to beg for a day off.

@@brybrun so CCA's do get hours?

Realistically you could probably pay a friend a flat rate to go out and find you with what you needed if you just called them up. I do this job and have thought about doing that before.

If they can't get their mail early enough, they'd be standing around too much.

That is funny just did a route earlier that had like 20 loops on it with all hills.

whoopty do

My route is 130 miles rural gravel roads. Drive my own RS wrangler. I love it. 26 years in Awesome job. ,

It's not a LLV, look at the round tail lights and honeycomb grill. It's a FFV formerly known as a CRV. They are a modified Ford explorers that were purchased by USPS around the year 2000 or so. Still no air conditioning or 4 wheel drive.

@@philup755 Disagree, different years were made slightly different, grills, added windows etc. All the LLV in Okc look like that one.

I used the FFV for over 14 years, I got to know the vehicle very well. Maybe you could research the differences yourself. They are different top to bottom, the only thing they share is same paint scheme. This was in Charleston, WV. Not Okc, we have both vehicles here.

@@philup755 I stand corrected, apparently the different ones I have seen, outside of Okc, were the FFV. Were you able to drive both, and are the FFV tires inset on the front as the LLV? As difficult to drive in the snow?

The FFV tires are 15 inch, the LLV tires are 14 inch (I think). I would prefer the FFV in the snow, they are more of a solid vehicle. A lot of carriers wouldn't take nothing over a LLV, summer or wintertime. I always heard the LLV was like a Frankenstein vehicle, Chevy s10 frame with chevette rear axel. With a modefied front end for better turning radius. I personally enjoyed the 205 hp 4.0 FFV over the 80 hp 2.? (Ironduke) in the LLV. The LLVs I drove was usually garbage, they where loaner vehicles when my FFV was being serviced..

lmaooo right

It's all show for the cameras. If he's walking up and down steps instead of cutting across lawns, he'll be dead at retirement.

He’s a runner

Yes they do on the countryside

sweatyballsac We call those fat ass route. Once you get on a full mounted route, your ass gets fat. 😂

My last year I got one of those Mercedes Metris to drive. 518 stops, all curbside. I did what I wanted and that meant I would drive my entire route first thing dropping off all parcels that would not fit in the box. When finished, I would listen to "Small Town Murder" on a podcast through my I phone and bluetooth. I would end up somewhere and really not realize how I got there. I was on auto pilot was I rarily misdelivered a lettter although I might have a DPS sticker here and there. When I retired at 62, I had nearly 40 years of federal service and I never have money issues in retirement.

applesomething hey don't judge! My route gets hardly any mail most of the time. Average dps is 1400 and I get maybe about 2 ft of flats, 30 parcels but it's long ass route with exactly 938 deliveries and in the straight up ghetto. All walking, maybe like 5 or 6 nbu's. Absolutely no curbside. Not an easy route to learn or do either.

It's killer with advos/ coverage too. Killed me other day with everyone's w2's. Dps was freakin 4000.

applesomething i wouldnt mid if your were my lady

Maxim Mee Would legitimately take more time and energy.

I'm new and I have to learn to slow down. I work too hard and too fast. Can't do that on this job. Just have to work steady, not fast

Who in the hell are you to judge letter carriers? Some fat ass that works in the office??

+Honestly Speaking Stupid the business proposals by Ali G fell on deaf ears, all those companies had to do was to design the flying part.

+Stainless Details My goal was to say something funny rather than being Mr. smart-ass.

Lisa That's where I would disagree

@@HolyMarkMcGrath I would have never bid it. Being a PTF, you'd had to have carried it a few times before becoming a regular. My goal from day one was to have the least physical route that I could bid on. My last 18 years were very nice. My last 9 were 100% curbside.

Lol. Am in LOS FELIZ "los angeles" no joke with them hills

cm07ca I heard bad things about routes on Los Feliz

I make twice that as a UPS driver.

@@pbear216 that $50k was 5 years ago with no OT. A letter carrier now tops off at over $75k without one minute of OT. $100k annually is not very hard to accomplish.

@@jojowhite9296 and the base pay for a UPS driver with no OT is $87,360.

And in 4 years no less

And our new contract this year should bump that base pay after 4 years of service to $95,680

Try 26,000 steps a day, 11 miles.

Try 40,000 steps a day. 18.4 miles

@@BryanHernandez-id9bj Try very little steps on a 100% curbside route. That's the way I like it.