They might show up anywhere after 8 AM and as late as 9 PM or even 10 PM, depending on a whole bunch of different factors including mail volume, local weather, etc. At the end of the day, weekend deliveries from the USPS follow a similar delivery window timeline as standard weekday deliveries from the post office.
Certain days are going to almost overwhelm the USPS, with your driver having to make significantly longer stops every step of the way — inevitably delaying persons individual daily delivery throughout the process. Those are the days where your USPS driver is going to be able to really fly through their delivery route, and you are going to see your mail dropped off significantly earlier than you would have expected!
In the dead of winter, however, roads can be treacherous, piled with snow, with traffic moving at a standstill pace. This usually means that the fifth day of the week with that rotating mail carrier is going to be a slightly more delayed delivery day. For some people this is the Saturday delivery window, though other mail carriers take their day off in the middle of the week and have the rotating carrier handle a Tuesday or a Wednesday for example.
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There are a couple of different reasons for this. For starters, mail volume on a day-to-day basis is never identical. We need to supply a little more spring to our step. Our careers and livelyhood depends on it. Acarrier Says what? Talk about selfish and arrogant, I agree carriers are understaffed, but so are most crafts at most locations. From pulling the mail off the truck, to running the machines, to trying to get mail to the carriers in a timely manner, to meeting managements numbers, to getting the bathrooms cleaned to servicing customers at the window, ALL CRAFTS are asked to do more with less.
Get your head out of the paper bag and ask your fellow craft employees what additional pressures have been added to there day. Be kind to one another, in the end were all in the same boat, getting older and expected to do more each day. Those 20 apartments probably have a collection box in the complex that all 20 apartments use. I'm not a carrier, so bias remark here. No wonder the USPS is in financial trouble On my route, it takes me 5 minutes to deliver to a 20 unit apartment complex.
Delivering to a 20 unit apartment only takes me 5 minutes on my route. If I loose my 5 minute apartment building, I will be added 20 minutes onto my route? That will make my route 15 minutes longer than before. Route consolidation; this will work for awhile, but then a carrier can only walk so far in 8 hours. Then it becomes too much. Later, there will be health problems like pain in the feet, knees, hips, shoulders. Then a slow down as pain dominates the mind of the carrier.
We will be like the workers making mud bricks for the pyramids. We will age quickly with no end in sight. We need a long term solution like cluster boxes in the city and rural mail boxes in the suburbs.
You can give a letter carrier an assignment with high expectations, but that does not mean it can be done. You will save the postal service. At the same time management needs to spend money wisely.
No more wacky contracts on new gadgets so my brother in law's company can get the contract. You guys at the top know what I mean. The pig trough is almost empty. If the post office was really serious about saving money and the PO they would look at every position like they do the carriers. Some days we have one supervisor and some days we've had five, go figure. The PO spent over 78 million last year buying houses from bigwigs from headquarters that want a "transfer".
Carriers are being forced to "pivot" carry part of someone else's route - no OT to help with making budget. BUT, carriers will have to pivot 3,, hours to make back the money management wasted on just the house buying program!
In fact we are over staffed in every position except the carrier craft. Many times management have taken a carrier off his route to work the desk when we had 4 supervisors for an office of 40 routes already, making carriers work overtime to cover the route of the desk rider, this makes no sense and waste money BUT it will happen again -today, in fact, in our office.
Evaluated city routes Service will definitely take a hit. Supervisors also need to worry about office times. Those of us who do our routes in time and are off the clock in 8 hours are the ones being punished. We get to watch carriers walk around and chit chat in the morning, then get help on the street and also come back on OT, all the while being told we need to do extra on the street.
There is plenty of blame to go around. Lower mail volume is just a convenient excuse. Oh, and as a separate issue, I was sitting in the parking lot of a laundromat waiting for my clothes to dry.
It is right across the street from a post office. I see a TE come out of the PO with a hit to deliver around the corner. Five minutes later, I see a lady walking around the corner heading for the PO with the TE right behind and they are basically shouting at each other about misdelivered mail.
They both enter the PO still shouting and a minute later the TE comes out to continue his hit though he's still shouting to himself about the customer. Like I said, service is gonna take a hit. As a carrier i have to take issue with your statement that a carrier can deliver ten letters almost as fast as ten. It takes me one minute to walk from one delivery point to the next. How many pieces of mail can you finger in one minute? It takes me One Minute to walk from one Delivery Point to the next.
I finger as I walk, How many pieces of mail can you finger in One Minute? Postal customers should have to have their mail box out to the street to help speed up deliveries. Door delivery should only be for person physically unable to walk to the box. We have 17 rts. In the summer and winter we only get 2 or 3 on the ODL. In any office, at least half the carriers are on the ODL list.
They desire overtime. Let's use as an example a fictional office of routes. Most are slightly more or less. You DO know what legacy costs are, right? These routes will be set up as 1-hour office and 6-hours street.
So for each core route, carriers on the ODL will bid by seniority to service a piece. Same carrier casing the core route. Same carrier delivering the same split. Customer gets good service. In the event that a piece of the core route is vacant, a PTF will service that section, but it's only for a day.
Nothing is different between a regular route and a core route as far as distribution is concerned for a core route. DPS is run the same. Because they know that they'll get the same section everyday, more carriers will volunteer for this extra work. The USPS benefits because they eliminated 3 carreer positions and their legacy costs. The carrier benefits because he has the opportunity to earn more.
The customer benefits because he has the same carrier everyday that's accountable for that sectiom. If you folks would listen to your veteran workers you would learn a few tricks. Regards, Nick. Why isn't Headquarters looking an an evaluated system for city carriers? I guess maybe because it makes too much sense? It would certainly give the city carriers an incentive. The way it is now, the harder one works the more work is added to the route. Hardly a fair system. With evaluated routes you could eliminate Supervisors, grievances, have a more consistent delivery time and save on overtime.
Managers and carriers, when asked individually, like the idea. It's the top leadership that seems to oppose the idea. Yes and in communities etc. Even if a person who's been hit by a vehicle or injured by any other form , they act as though it's fake and never understood what took so long with the biggest mail loads.
Yes having managers, clerks etc and anyone employed should also have to give by doing more work also to help with delivery services. It's not just postmasters that have time for making waste. Common sense ideas that can improve things should be allowed without difficulty instead of attacking hard dedicated workers,blaming them, hating them ,abusing them, etc for a form of recreation to release boredom or amusement. Unions should make it legal for clerks to do some deliveries to , along with extra managers on hand.
Federal positions have an established pay scale based on length of employment. Experienced mail carriers may also move into management positions within the USPS. Employment of USPS mail carriers is projected to decline about 12 percent over the next decade. That is primarily due to new technologies that reduce the need for carriers and centralized mail delivery that cuts down on the number of door-to-door deliveries.
There is also increased use of online bill payment and email, causing a decline in printed mail needing to be sorted and delivered. Leslie Bloom is a Los Angeles native who has worked everywhere from new start-ups to established corporate settings. In addition to years of business and management experience, she has more than 20 years of experience writing for a variety of online and print publications.
She holds degrees in both journalism and law. What Hours Does a Postman Have? By Leslie Bloom Updated June 27, How Much Do Couriers Make?
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