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Seriously, is it that hard to deliver the mail? You guys have the second easiest job in the world, next to librarian: You deliver mail! No thought required. So, how can it be that our retarded mailman "forgets" (I guess?) to deliver the mail and to pick up the mail we've left for him? Not to mention all of the times he's delivered mail to the wrong house.

But it gets to the next level. The last time he had a certified letter for me. He never rang the bell, but instead left the little slip. I signed it to say that it could be delievered without signature. He picked up the slip the next day, no letter... three days later, he finally delivers the letter. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE! Now I had an overnight express mail being delivered for me that was supposed to arrive yesterday. It never came, my girlfriend was home. No slip, no mail. So far, it hasn't shown up today either. We had the tracking checked. It shows that an attempt was made to deliver yesterday with no answer and that a slip was left. LIAR!!!! BURN IN HELL!
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Posted by Solace:

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Seriously, is it that hard to deliver the mail? You guys have the second easiest job in the world, next to librarian: You deliver mail! No thought required. So, how can it be that our retarded mailman "forgets" (I guess?) to deliver the mail and to pick up the mail we've left for him? Not to mention all of the times he's delivered mail to the wrong house.

But it gets to the next level. The last time he had a certified letter for me. He never rang the bell, but instead left the little slip. I signed it to say that it could be delievered without signature. He picked up the slip the next day, no letter... three days later, he finally delivers the letter. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE! Now I had an overnight express mail being delivered for me that was supposed to arrive yesterday. It never came, my girlfriend was home. No slip, no mail. So far, it hasn't shown up today either. We had the tracking checked. It shows that an attempt was made to deliver yesterday with no answer and that a slip was left. LIAR!!!! BURN IN HELL!
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Tampering with the mail is a Federal offense. I wonder that applies to US Postal workers...

Mailman joke #1 (First hit on a search for "I Hate Mailmen"):

This kid walks up to a ***** house with a dead frog on a rope, he then walks up to the door and knocks on it.
A young woman answer's the door and ask's the little kid what he wants, the little kid says i want to have sex with one of your women, appaled the young woman looks at the kid and say i don't you should.

The little kid takes out a large wad of cash and then looks at the lady, she finally gives in and says come on in. the two walk into the house and the young woman says well which one of these ladys do you want to have sex with.

The little kid says the one with aids, the young woman say why would you want to do that, and the little kid says just cause. the little kid goes with the woman with aids and does his buisness and is about to leave when the young woman who let him in said to him again why did you want to have sex with her.

after much baddgering the little kid says alright i'll tell you. when i get home my baby sitter will have a quickie with me and then when my dad takes her home he is gonna have a quickie with her and when he gets home he is gonna have a quickie with my mom and in the morning my mom is gonna have a quickie with the mailman and that son of a ***** ran my ****ing frog over.

Posted by VDesai:

I thought this thread was gonna be about Karl Malone. Remember when he hit Dennis Rodman with the diamond cutter back in WCW?

Hahaha!!! Yes, that was great ... and terrible at the same time. That's when WCW was just getting silly. Didn't Jay Leno also team with DDP against Hogan and someone?

Actually, Malone was a good wrestler... unlike Rodman, who was terrible.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by VDesai:

I thought this thread was gonna be about Karl Malone. Remember when he hit Dennis Rodman with the diamond cutter back in WCW?

The Jazz's problem was that Malone should have gotten minutes at backup center

I would've played Ostertag 48 minutes per game... because Ostertag rules. RULES.

Hahahahaha... TWO mailmen showed up together with my express letter. Genius! They then tried to cover for the guy who didn't show up yesterday. They said they told him that he's not allowed to skip on delivering the mail again or he's going to be in trouble.

maybe he was unhappy w/the tip u gave him last Christmas?

Civil service jobs are seen as easy, but with all the factors that come with the job, it can be very depressing work.

Example. I know a few guys that work for the post office. A lot of guys tend to lose their minds due to the seemingly endless flow of mail that comes in around the clock. The repeditiveness. The unwarrented passenger complaints. The working conditions outside and inside. Having to deal with the weather no matter how bad it is, knowing you just can't call out sick. The health problems associated with anxiety and depression. Having to do your job with no room for mistakes. The knowledge that you can get ivestigated and go to jail over the basic operations of the job. Bad neighborhoods, racist neightborhoods, snobbish neightborhoods, etc......

I'm just trying to paint a picture of what a postal worker has to deal with. When receiving mail, you take forgranted that its just supposed to get to its destination and that's that. There are hard working people involved in the process. A lot of guys never had any other work experience before taking the job. Others have college degrees and grew tired of corperate life. Some people were laid off from other jobs, some people actually grew up wanting to be mailmen.

Anyway, if your mail wasn't coming, you gotta report it. The guy that has been delivering could be a lazy bastard. He could also be stressed out. As I said the work is over looked when things run smoothly......they rarely get any recognition for that.....but if they do make a small infraction they can lose their jobs or go to jail.

Again I'm just trying to paint a picture from the world of a Post office worker.

As you know I work a civil service job as well with the MTA. I for one have never been this sick, or mentally strained in my entire life. I only have been working with them for almost 5 years. I call out sick all the time just off of mood. If I'm having a bad day in my personal life, I don't need some ******* coming up to me thinking is within their rights to talk to me like a second class citizen. A "customer" can lie about anything and I could be suspended or fired at anytime. That's a lot of stress. As far as my experiences with the trains, the system works fine 80% of the time. When it does nobody says anything. When it goes wrong, people wanna yell and call you ******* and *****. They wanna call you lazy. They lie with complaint letters. They assault, like throwing things, spit and actually physical contact. Its crazy and I personally do feel under appreciated. That's depressing.

Then quit! Yeah ok. It is that easy, but if you are locked into the job and 24hr lifestyle its a lot harder to just quit. The pay is good and the benifits are decent. Its tough to simply quit after giving 5-10-15 years to something unrelated to whatever prior skills or work experience you may have. Most likely you would have to take a pay cut. If you have a family you simply can't give up on them.

Anyway, civil service is very depressing work. I say make complaints if things are going wrong but relax a little with the personal attacks especially with how easy the job is. Cuz overrall, no it is not easy to deal with the whole experience.

Along with complaints, it would be nice to acknowledge the good work by people that goes unnoticed when things go smoothly.

Eny, you make good points. The reality is that this one mailman was a lazy bum who wasn't doing his job. I reported it, the situation is being dealt with internally, and I was assured that he wouldn't be allowed to do that again.

I apologize if I made it sound like I was condemning all mailmen. However, this mailman really has been a lazy bum. He's had a history of delivering mail days late. You might ask how I know it's late: Simple. Places like Netflix inform me when they send DVDs, for example. There's no way it takes three days for a DVD to come, when it used to sometimes come the same day where I last lived. There are many examples, and the neighbors have mentioned similar issues. If this mailman shapes up, then he'll have earned props, though. If he doesn't shape up, then I hope he gets fired.

You can feel sorry for people to a point, but I am not of the belief that someone who is unwilling to do their job deserves to keep that job. Perhaps he's not cut out to be a mailman. *shrug*