That's great advice. It can be frustrating at first. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for that advice. I'll be starting soon, and I have had a little bit of anxiety wondering how I can master this..

Amen to this. My first solo delivery was an absolute disaster and I was contemplating quitting. My advice to anyone new is figure out ways to get out of the office faster, give your self enough time in the truck to learn the route, the boxes and the strategies to get faster will start to come to you.

Lol I haven't gone over evaluated in a while. I was done by 2:00. What looks so difficult to you?

Thank you for watching!

I agree. I drove a Mercedes metris a couple times and it's very cramped up there. Also, you do not have access to the back from the cab as it is fenced off.

It does get easier. There certainly are other ways to set things up, but you might want to do as your regular does until you get used to it. Everyone is a little bit different, so you can change things up and find your own way. For me, things got easier when I learned different ways to do things. Some worked for me, others didn't. Check out my first video and a few others. See if anything seems like it might work for you.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n-Bgi6qCr6fZiac.html

I'm on my second week. I know my route but having a tough time organizing it. My carrier does a lot of organizing at the office and at the case and then we deliver in the truck. The post master wants us to take the DPS out in trays (not touch it) and assemble the mail in the truck. It's a tough job and as of now I'm just taking my time, trying not to make mistakes. The good news is I get better every time I do it.

Are you still working at the PO

Yes i am lol ​@MailLadyMesha

@@neneweeks3263 hi I’ve been a Regular for 3 years.. I would like to chime in with your advice question. For your big packages right them down all big packages on a slip of paper. When you get to that relay drop them off first just to get them out of the way. Another thing, it takes time to get your own technique, so be patient. Being a mail carrier is like riding a bike for the first time. You fall off a few times and scrape your knee a lot of times. But one day, you take those training wheels off❤️

I haven't heard that term since orientation! I believe that it's just mail that has to be hand-sorted by the clerks.

@@sohailsohail9655 truth is it depends. For some people it's great, for others it can be terrible. I've made a few videos about the positive s and negatives, but briefly, it really depends on the office and where you live. $20 an hour isn't bad where I live, but it won't cut it in Boulder, CO. And it really depends on your office. My office is great and I really trust my postmaster to go to bat for me. That isn't true everywhere. Since you are a dad, insurance is probably pretty important, so if you are thinking about the post office, you probably should look into becoming a clerk or a city carrier. Their route to full time is much quicker. Let me know if you have specific questions and maybe check out some of my other videos.

It is going to vary greatly. I am in a small office which is fully staffed, so they rarely need me. I have another full time job, and they are fine with that. I usually just fill in at another office on Saturdays and I cover a week of vacation for someone in the Summer. Currently, I do not work on Sundays as my office no longer gets Amazon. On the other hand, some offices will expect you to be available all of the time, and will not accept someone who has another job- it will really depend. The best thing to do is to talk to a supervisor or postmaster from the office that you are interested in to see what their expectations are. Large offices tend to be more demanding, because what you don't cover has to be covered by someone else.

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@@davidkelln9225 THANK YOU!

So DPS are the letters for your route that were sorted by a machine, so they are in route order- that should be most of your letters. Because they are in order, they are much easier to put in your case. You can also leave them in the trays and simply deliver them right from the tray. As far as the large packages, I place the first ones in the cab as much as possible, then organize the rest based on what row they are in ( as much as possible - some are large and/or oddly sized. Your regular should show you how they organize them on your ride along.

@@davidkelln9225 Thank you!

@@davidkelln9225 are you into casing the dps or bringing it to the truck? My post master is pressuring us to put the DPS in the truck, but this makes me tense. I don't want to be putting stuff together in the truck or at the boxes. He swears it's faster, the person training me cases everything and then delivers.

@@sonicmilk I take my DPS to the streets, but I only work one day a week. Obviously it saves time in the office, but it takes longer on the street. In general it saves time, but how much really depends. Are you fast at casing DPS? Do you have flats for most of your customers? Are there any dismounts? Is you route have a lot of busy streets?

@@davidkelln9225 I'm doing Saturdays as a sub, and I suspect the magazines/flats will be low. My thoughts are get that DPS out there in the truck. I have a crazy town house complex with a lot of boxes and some odd numbering which has me a bit concerned but I'm just going to go for it. I have an apartment complex as well and I think that place will work out fine. The start of my route is on a busy street so maybe I'll do a little bit of casing there. Your video 'Casing DPS' was brilliant in answering my questions.

You are correct that you should not block your mirrors with anything, but you need to realize that this video is misleading with regards to my field of vision. When I shot this video, I was not holding my phone right by my eyes. I could clearly see the mirrors, my DPS was not blocking them at all from my view.

POVs are still widely used. I would simply either call the PO or stop by and ask to speak with a supervisor. They should be able to tell you if it would be required.

@@davidkelln9225 Thanks for the help David ! Great videos !

It depends. Usually I spend a couple minutes in the office with the trays. I check the mail in the front and back of each tray to put them in order and quickly check for potential problems (sometimes you get a stack of mail that either isn't sorted or belongs to another route). Then if they are loose (which they usually are) I squeeze the mail from one tray into the next one just so I can take fewer trays. Then I stack them in order on the cart. Again, pretty quick unless there is an issue. Two weeks ago I had 3 good trays and one that was only half full, but all out of order. It was mostly for my route, so I took the time to case it. The rest of it looked okay, so I took it to the street. So to answer your original question, I usually sort at the box.

@@davidkelln9225 i’m a new rca i’ve. been doing it about 2 months im still super slow in trying it make my 90 days my biggest problem is not casing fastest enough and remembering street order because on my route i go back on the same street about 4 or 5 times and the numbers go high to low to low to high

Nope. You follow the mail. The first time I deliver a route, I use the GPS on my phone to find the first mailbox. Then I just start delivering, turning when the street name changes on the letters. Sometimes I make a wrong turn and have to turn around. If I get confused or lost, I put the next address in my smart phone to get back on track. It can seem overwhelming at first, but after you've done it a few times it gets much easier.

It can slide towards you if the bottom tray is tightly packed with tall mail. It really depends on the day. Less mail or short mail makes it more secure. If it makes you nervous, just don't do it.

@@davidkelln9225 thanks a lot of helpful info I think I want to try it though because whatever I do now just doesn’t work for me

I wouldn’t even chance it because who wants to pick up a dropped or discombobulated DPS tray? 🥸

It depends. I might take 1 or 2 on the side if it seems doable- sort of like with the political ads in this video. I would probably case the one that seems the easiest to do so with. I might case all of them. It just depends on the weather, how easy it seems they will be to carry or case, etc. It's much easier to take multiple items on the side in an LLV because you have so much more room in the cab. I've never taken more than one thing on the side in my POVs. Another option is to colate them as you pull down, but then you either have to flip the stack or pull down from beginning to end instead of end to beginning. (Does that make sense?)

@davidkelln9225 I've been casing the smallest one, then I take an extra half tray for the other 2 and pull the smaller one first, then the big one. Then I combine them with the mail as they go out the window. The extra tray stacks on the case mail. Refill as needed.

@@edr449 I take it that you are working out of an llv and you have a tray of SPRS, a tray of cased mail and flats, and then your DPS?

@davidkelln9225 I love casing my dps with my flats and keeping my sprs on the side, but it's just too much effort. I'm teetering between casing sprs and not. Most days there's just too much. So dps hides under the sprs in a separate tray banded by streets. I can usually get 5dps down to 2. I actually prefer the metris over my jeep, I'm too tall for the llv lol.

On this route I set my outgoing between the trays until I empty my first apartment bucket. Then I place that on the floor under the DPS tray. I put everything else in the first container I empty. I don't bother using a squelch tray- I just sort through it when I get back to the office.

That’s what I do at the office but it I have to write on the letters, vacant etc.. it takes time I need to get a tray with the labels but I don’t know where I would set it lol

@@BryanLChess dis? Haven't heard that one.

@@davidkelln9225 spellcheck, sorry. DPS