The stunning thought process of the USPS

[Betty]

I'm the kid of 2 mail carriers one of which has been a Union officer for the longest time and is retiring in about 3 months.

The post office, as I was told, was and is the only (one of the few?) government programs that does not run at a loss. Having said that, the managers had a knack for making employees miserable playing office politics and the like. Some caused by them - some by other employees where they turned their head. I'm sure that's the case in many jobs - but I heard about a lot of it when working part time at the office. Route too long? Walk faster. Not good enough. Try running part of it. That not working for you? I'll just f with you then...

A lot of good people too though. As a job, if you've got a good route and decent supervisor, I imagine it's not bad at all. At least when your not getting bitten by a dog, sunburned or rained on.

I think the .41 is not such a big deal. I don't send much mail so what's 2 cents. Then I think of the mail I do send from work - some of that "not junk" mail - and then it does make a difference.

More then that though is the weird size rules about it being less then this big or more then that big this way and that. If you're sending anything other then a regular letter, you have to go online and go through their guided postage figurer-outer. And if it's not normal, the rates went up substantially more then 2 cents.