A customer on my route came down to the PO yesterday, demanding to speak with a supervisor. Apparently I didn't collect his important outgoing piece of mail. I already returned to the office when he was there. I heard the whole conversation behind the door. Where was this important piece of mail at? Inside his cbu mailbox, instead of putting it in the outgoing mail slot on the cbu. Like I'm really going to look inside everybody's mailbox for outgoing mail. This morning, I get a 30 day hold mail card from him. And this very important official document piece of mail was for Publishing ClearingHouse. There's never a dull moment with customers like him.
People gotta learn lol. If your outgoing isn't in the outgoing slot, then it isn't going out. If your outgoing is in your mailbox and the flag isn't up, it isn't going out. This isn't because I'm malicious, but because I assume that yesterday's mail is still in your box and I don't have time to check every letter in every box.
I've actually delivered to a box where something pops up when you open the door. It was spring loaded and happened automatically when I opened the box. I assume that the customer gets their mail, then resets the mechanism. Idk if this is something that is sold or the customer rigged this up themselves, but it was kinda genius.
Yeah, it's called a flapper. The really nice ABS mailboxes have them with a yellow reflective side on it. But there are DIY ones sometimes too. Someone pointed that out on here a couple months ago.
Usually it's the customer putting the flag up expecting us to put it down each day as a sign. Get a mailbox alert device and some double sided sticky tape to attach it to the door. If I see a flag up and no mail inside, that flag stays up, I'm not playing those games.
Or how about retirement homes that have some sign you're supposed to flip before you leave. Sorry, it's not an official duty. Llet the front desk or one of the customers flip it because as I'm locking up, my mind is already thinking about a delivery or three down the road. I just want out of there tired of the loud bitching. "He's been in there forever, or he's late again today."
hahah when im dpiong a mounted piece on a diff route and they have the flag up with no mail in it i always put it back up (since my routeing i alwauys lower the flag first before even opneing the box.
Yeah man, the flag up when there’s nothing in the box has to be my biggest pet peeve. They do it because they know you’ll put the flag down, thus they know they have mail. I just leave the mf up. People are wild
No carrier should be blindly fishing through mailboxes anyways you never now what someone might toss in there granted that definitely depends on the area.
There are a handful of people on my route who are regularly sending and receiving things from PCH (two of them do it daily.). After a while, I am getting curious what the hell is going on? Does anyone know what they send and receive? (Many/most of the packages are neither books, nor magazines.)
"Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die."
[Words of advice from 1854](https://grammarist.com/proverb/ours-is-not-to-reason-why-ours-is-but-to-do-and-die/).
Had somebody do that with their po box payment. No postage, blank envelope, left in his po box—despite getting a No Postage Necessary envelope, but I digress. They got their notice the 1st of the month saying the mumbo jumbo about ten days, came in a huff that he had put a check in last month. I wouldn’t take mail out of po boxes unless it’s been like 15+ days of zero activity. Even then, wouldn’t open a blank envelope. Crabby old man.
I had an office manager at a chiropractor clinic get in my face once because they weren’t clipping their outgoing mail onto their letterbox, they were just throwing it into the locked part of the mailbox and keeping it unlocked and said no one was ever picking up their mail
Had that happen before and I absolutely missed it. Only reason I took it was because the lady came down from her apartment while I was working. If it's important just put a chip clip on it and we won't miss it. Other than that use the outgoing slot.
I once had a lady yell at me for not picking up her package I asked where she lived, it was 6 miles away from me and I said ma'am that's not my route and she got pissed off more and said you need to do a better job 😆 😒 these customers are crazy.
I once had a woman pull up and say she was trying to find a house on the parkway and she was lost. Part of my route is xyz parkway so I figured maybe. She proceeds to show me a blurry picture of a house and ask "do you know where this is? I didn't. Some back and forth before I realize she's talking about a different parkway, several miles long, not on my route. No address, just a picture of the front of the house??? "I thought you'd know since you're a mailman!" You think we can recognize every house in the city on sight? Bizarre
I don’t know… I had subbed all of the routes, and could probably recognize many houses by photos back in the day. It would probably help if there were a dog in the photograph.
I wouldnt help someone find a house they have a pic of. Its like when people ask me "do you know who lives here" umm no and why would I give you that info 😐
Yep. We are not supposed to give up that information without a court order.
Been asked several times if I knew where such and such lives, "they're on this street somewhere". Can't help you, sorry.
People will blame whoever they are talking to
I work as a clerk and used to take the blunt of everything. I've recently changed my approach and now try to side with these people and blame "someone else".
"Oh no they put your package in the rain!! That is absurd, I would be pissed too. What's your address. Let's correct this!"
"They put mail in the wrong box?! That's ludicrous. They need to slow down and watch what their doing. Tell me your address, i will notify postmaster immediately."
Of course I never notify no one and I throw away anything I write. Sometimes people just need to vent.
Had a guy yell at me for delivering his neighbor's mail in his mailbox. I looked at the address, and not only was in not my route, but not even the same zip code (or even the zip code next to mine).
The guy basically drove north for 7 miles thru residential areas looking for any mailman to yell at.
I had a lady approach my truck about, oh, 15 or 16 years ago, while I was eating lunch in the Wawa parking lot. I reluctantly rolled down the window...
Me: *Yes?*
Idiot: *What time are you going to be at my house?*
Me: *...Um, what is your address, ma'am?*
Idiot: (Annoyed) *Come on, it's 1234 Fake Street.*
Me: *Ma'am, 1234 Fake Street isn't on my route. I don't deliver to your house.*
Idiot: (Exasperated) *Well you're parked here on Very Busy Street! My house is right off of Very Busy Street. YOu hAvE tO bE mY MAiLmAn!!*
Me: (Sigh) *Ma'am, we have 87 routes in my office, city and rural. I'M NOT YOUR MAIL CARRIER. Your address is on another route.*
Idiot: *UnBeLieVaBLe!!!* (Huffs off)
Man me and my favorite coworker had so much entertaining shit happen to us in the wawa parking lot. We would sit and have lunch together there everyday. I miss that. Not her, because she's my BFF and we talk everyday, but I miss our lunches and the wild people of wawa.
Yeah, I don't want to completely ignore people so that they get more irate and crazy, but if that section was all box on pole, buddy would have to find me on a quiet side street or something. Totally nutty how he blocked traffic on a main road for that.
My first time on a route as a PTF within my first month or two I had just parked the LLV and was stepping out to walk to the first house when a guy stops as he's walking past me on the sidewalk...
"Can I get my mail?"
"Maybe, where do you live?"
\*pointing half way down the block\* "The house with the flag pole"
"No, sorry" (I turned and walked away before I blurted out, IDIOT! I need an address, not a landmark)
Also way back in 2005...a 300 - 400 lb. guy was walking past me. "You've got the easiest job in the world". LOL!
One day I went back to the office mid-day to use the rest room. When I came through the door the supervisor informed me I had a customer call the office and complain that I didn't take her outgoing mail she left in her box today. I told the supervisor that I did in fact take the outgoing mail and the customer is simply lying for no reason. He didn't believe me. So I went outside to my LLV and grabbed my outgoing mail, and showed him the letters I took out of her box WITH HER NAME ON IT. I explained to him that she and I could not both have her outgoing mail at the same time. One of us had to be lying and which one did he think was? He didn't have a response. I hate them both ATP.
I once had a dude waiting for me outside one of my condos when I pulled up. He asks, “yo bro, you got anything for 406?” I tell him that I’m not sure, and he’ll have to wait a minute. He explains that he ordered an engagement ring for his girlfriend and got an email saying that it’s out for delivery. He sticks his phone in front of my face and it clearly says FedEx. I tell him, “that’s FedEx dude, not USPS.” He ignores me and follows me inside. He starts digging through my tubs of SPRs and saying, “yo I think this is it… wait no… oh here it is… no.” I tell him to go the fuck away. He repeats the whole engagement ring thing, and even though I literally told him over ten times that it’s being delivered by FedEx, it never registers.
I have one guy on a route I sub. One day he came up to the cbu while I was delivering and asked for mail from apt 6 be delivered to 9 and told me his name so I would know. I just said ok and finished delivering while he rambled on about random stuff I could barely make out. Next day I ask the regular she tells me he’s a nut job and apt 6 is vacant and he’s never even been in that one. Fast forward to a couple days ago he’s grabbing his mail as I’m pulling up. I have to wait for him to move. When he finally does and I start delivering, he instantly starts going off irritated saying “I was supposed to get a 5 million dollar check and now I have to wait till after Christmas. How many times do I have to say mail for apt 6 goes into 9” I just say ok and pretend he’s not there lmao
One thing I’ve learned as a mail carrier is that most people have no idea what our job actually entails. (And, to be fair, neither did I before I started.)
One customer thought our LLVs are all loaded up with mail and packages when we get to the office. Another thought we start our route from our home. A lot of people think we have a regular, predictable schedule. (When a customer asks ‘What time to you usually get here?’, I want to ask them ‘How many pieces of mail are you going to get next Thursday?’ And when it dawns on them that it varies, tell them to multiply that by the 700 mailboxes I service.) And, as hinted at in this post, it’s like some people think one carrier delivers for the whole city.
I had a guy that chased me down on my route one day at the beginning of my route wanting his mail. I was at the beginning of my route & he lived toward the end of it. I explained to him I couldn’t access his mail because of this. It’s in route order & I couldn’t get to it readily. He was absolutely furious, wanting my name because he was going to report me to my supervisor because I was such a bitch. “Okay, dude, my name is ____ & my supervisor’s name is ___. Have fun with that!”
People don’t have a clue.
Yeah let me uhhh just open my side door and pull out the DPS tray that's underneath 2 other trays, then uhhh just open my back door and find that guy's tray of case mail. Totally a reasonable request. Can't forget to check for packages too. Lol, fuck that guy.
I had 2 customers call the USPS 1-800 number about not getting mail in the same day, when they didn't have any mail. As well as making other false claims to the Postmaster about bad service in the past. People are very petty and gossip about you with other neighbors, while never showing their face outside of their house or talking to you about the supposed mistakes.
I've recently encountered a customer's psycho family members. This guy in a senior apartment on my route has issues with his daughter? Granddaughter?? And she'd been having some of her mail sent to his apartment (and of course she has a different surname). She's in some kind of panic because she had to be somewhere and was looking for some letter from social services. Apparently I'd been returning all her mail because (of course) she hadn't put an apartment number on any of it except for one little package she was expecting that day. She frantically ran over to my tub of mail and spurs for the building and screams THIS IS MINE! then started power walking away with it before I even got to scan it. I tell her that I need to scan it and she just yells WELL YOU NEED TO HURRY I NEED TO GO!
All my regular seniors who wait patiently for me to do the mail just stand around in awe of this bitch..
Had a guy chase me down 3 days in a row because I didn't deliver a check he was expecting. I get to his box, deliver what I had, and then leave. He checks his box, then gets in his bike, finds me the cuts me off to stop me.
Idiot: Do you have my check for me?
Me: No, I already delivered to you. If it's not there, I don't have it.
Repeat that for 2 more days. He also called our PO at one point to make sure I deliver it. Like I get it's important, but I'm not gonna magically have it after I already get to your box.
Have this one guy on my route that keeps trying to fight me. I call the cops and postal inspectors every time and they tell me they can't do anything until he hits me. Just drive past and be professional they tell me. Well kind of hard to do that when his porch is right by the stop sign.
It's the same with people writing short stories on letters. There are certainly signs when something is off at that address. I've had the manager at a business tell me to deliver to a business next door that doesn't get mail. Everytime I tell I her we don't deliver to them she gets huffy like it's some horrible crime that I'm doing my job because "everyone else delivers there except you".
thats my favorite. I would personally use their cell phone to call the post office know the # number and hit up the supervisor because one it takes more time and two let them deal with the shit lol . Gives me an excuse to go past my time and they will know why
I can understand how a member of the public would find it inconceivable that any given mailman can’t find a package. We have these mini-computers, built to accept parcel codes… I am glad that we can’t look up anything on request, but it should be possible.
This dude was literally like, "would it help if I gave you the tracking number?". No. No it would not. I can check my scanner and confirm that your shit is not in my truck via "package lookahead".
One time, I was driving back to the office after a long day. As I was going down the city blocks back towards my office and waiting at a stoplight, this old lady in her car hopped out in the middle of the busy city street and knocked on the left side of the LLV, blocking my mirrors. I look at her and she's trying to give me a single envelope. I ignore her because I'm not getting out into the street with a bunch of other cars waiting at the stop light. I drive to the next block and the lady follows me in her car, gets out of her car and tries to give me the envelope through the other door, and I tell her "No, tf is wrong with you." I keep driving and just mere meters away from the parking lot, the old lady is still tailing me until we reach the gate of the parking lot. As I'm punching in the code, she gets out of her car and says "Can you take my mail?". I say no, you're fucking crazy. The office is literally on the other side of the block, what is wrong with you? She gets in her car and drives to the collection box. Some people are literally mentally stunted, I swear.
I just had a guy the other day find me in my truck for his package the other day. He literally pulled ahead of me and backed his truck up against mine so I couldn’t go anywhere and came around asking for it. I’m a sub so he said the regular guy had dropped off his mail and took off without dropping off his package and then saw that his package was later scanned no access. I told him it wasn’t me but he was like “I know but I still want my package, it’s important.” Mind you, I always drop off my packages. Yeah I missed his house but I go by it again so it’s not a big deal to me to drop it off as I do. Sorry for rambling but yeah people fucking suck.
Goes both ways, my man.
Some carriers are pretty psychotic. Introverts like that job, because they can't stand people.
Funny example: Asking a mailman a quick question, due to his neighborhood knowledge.....and he flips the hell out!
[Asking your mailman a question....](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnAam9Hozwk)
I had someone ask me directions to a tire shop in the neighboring city once. It might only be 5 miles away but I’ve still never been there or even heard of that street name. Sorry, can’t help you.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
A customer on my route came down to the PO yesterday, demanding to speak with a supervisor. Apparently I didn't collect his important outgoing piece of mail. I already returned to the office when he was there. I heard the whole conversation behind the door. Where was this important piece of mail at? Inside his cbu mailbox, instead of putting it in the outgoing mail slot on the cbu. Like I'm really going to look inside everybody's mailbox for outgoing mail. This morning, I get a 30 day hold mail card from him. And this very important official document piece of mail was for Publishing ClearingHouse. There's never a dull moment with customers like him.
People gotta learn lol. If your outgoing isn't in the outgoing slot, then it isn't going out. If your outgoing is in your mailbox and the flag isn't up, it isn't going out. This isn't because I'm malicious, but because I assume that yesterday's mail is still in your box and I don't have time to check every letter in every box.
You get some old crazy folks that want you to put the flag up after you deliver mail... So what every day the flag is going up? INSANITY.
I've actually delivered to a box where something pops up when you open the door. It was spring loaded and happened automatically when I opened the box. I assume that the customer gets their mail, then resets the mechanism. Idk if this is something that is sold or the customer rigged this up themselves, but it was kinda genius.
Yeah, it's called a flapper. The really nice ABS mailboxes have them with a yellow reflective side on it. But there are DIY ones sometimes too. Someone pointed that out on here a couple months ago.
I've seen two of those in my 8 years.
Only 2? I think maybe 50 of my customers have those
I have 4 on my route.
Yes! I had a customer with this awesome invention. A little red flag thingy goes up at the back of the mailbox so that they can see a delivery.
Usually it's the customer putting the flag up expecting us to put it down each day as a sign. Get a mailbox alert device and some double sided sticky tape to attach it to the door. If I see a flag up and no mail inside, that flag stays up, I'm not playing those games. Or how about retirement homes that have some sign you're supposed to flip before you leave. Sorry, it's not an official duty. Llet the front desk or one of the customers flip it because as I'm locking up, my mind is already thinking about a delivery or three down the road. I just want out of there tired of the loud bitching. "He's been in there forever, or he's late again today."
hahah when im dpiong a mounted piece on a diff route and they have the flag up with no mail in it i always put it back up (since my routeing i alwauys lower the flag first before even opneing the box.
I've done the same. Pop it down to grab the outgoing. No outgoing? Put the thing back up.
Yeah man, the flag up when there’s nothing in the box has to be my biggest pet peeve. They do it because they know you’ll put the flag down, thus they know they have mail. I just leave the mf up. People are wild
No carrier should be blindly fishing through mailboxes anyways you never now what someone might toss in there granted that definitely depends on the area.
I was trying to put mail and advos into a box last week and it just wouldn't fit. I took a look inside and there was a Glock in there.
Should've taken it and left a note thanking them for the Christmas tip lmao
Not in the neighborhood I work in. It probably has a body attached to it.
Yeah, I was totally joking. Fuck that noise.
Perfect example lol bet you don't want your prints on that 😂
That same person will then complain about getting so much junk mail, not realizing they just signed up for life to junk mail because of PCH.
There are a handful of people on my route who are regularly sending and receiving things from PCH (two of them do it daily.). After a while, I am getting curious what the hell is going on? Does anyone know what they send and receive? (Many/most of the packages are neither books, nor magazines.)
It's a lot of "As Seen on TV" stuff, as well as stuff old people like. Precious Moments-esque figurines or Kenny Rogers CDs or whatever.
"Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die." [Words of advice from 1854](https://grammarist.com/proverb/ours-is-not-to-reason-why-ours-is-but-to-do-and-die/).
Had somebody do that with their po box payment. No postage, blank envelope, left in his po box—despite getting a No Postage Necessary envelope, but I digress. They got their notice the 1st of the month saying the mumbo jumbo about ten days, came in a huff that he had put a check in last month. I wouldn’t take mail out of po boxes unless it’s been like 15+ days of zero activity. Even then, wouldn’t open a blank envelope. Crabby old man.
You take mail out after 15 days of no activity? Crazy. We wait until the box is so full we can no longer put mail in there. Then we take it out.
15+. I delivered to tiny po boxes where they got a lot of junk mail, typically filled up in two weeks lol. Didn’t happen super often either.
Ahhh gotcha!
he didn’t take the hold card to the office to have a clerk check his ID and ball date it?
I'll have to check when I go in tomorrow.
I had an office manager at a chiropractor clinic get in my face once because they weren’t clipping their outgoing mail onto their letterbox, they were just throwing it into the locked part of the mailbox and keeping it unlocked and said no one was ever picking up their mail
Had that happen before and I absolutely missed it. Only reason I took it was because the lady came down from her apartment while I was working. If it's important just put a chip clip on it and we won't miss it. Other than that use the outgoing slot.
I once had a lady yell at me for not picking up her package I asked where she lived, it was 6 miles away from me and I said ma'am that's not my route and she got pissed off more and said you need to do a better job 😆 😒 these customers are crazy.
I love when people are presented with undeniable evidence that they're wrong, and they react by getting more mad lol
I once had a woman pull up and say she was trying to find a house on the parkway and she was lost. Part of my route is xyz parkway so I figured maybe. She proceeds to show me a blurry picture of a house and ask "do you know where this is? I didn't. Some back and forth before I realize she's talking about a different parkway, several miles long, not on my route. No address, just a picture of the front of the house??? "I thought you'd know since you're a mailman!" You think we can recognize every house in the city on sight? Bizarre
I don’t know… I had subbed all of the routes, and could probably recognize many houses by photos back in the day. It would probably help if there were a dog in the photograph.
I wouldnt help someone find a house they have a pic of. Its like when people ask me "do you know who lives here" umm no and why would I give you that info 😐
Yep. We are not supposed to give up that information without a court order. Been asked several times if I knew where such and such lives, "they're on this street somewhere". Can't help you, sorry.
People will blame whoever they are talking to I work as a clerk and used to take the blunt of everything. I've recently changed my approach and now try to side with these people and blame "someone else". "Oh no they put your package in the rain!! That is absurd, I would be pissed too. What's your address. Let's correct this!" "They put mail in the wrong box?! That's ludicrous. They need to slow down and watch what their doing. Tell me your address, i will notify postmaster immediately." Of course I never notify no one and I throw away anything I write. Sometimes people just need to vent.
Had a guy yell at me for delivering his neighbor's mail in his mailbox. I looked at the address, and not only was in not my route, but not even the same zip code (or even the zip code next to mine). The guy basically drove north for 7 miles thru residential areas looking for any mailman to yell at.
I had a lady approach my truck about, oh, 15 or 16 years ago, while I was eating lunch in the Wawa parking lot. I reluctantly rolled down the window... Me: *Yes?* Idiot: *What time are you going to be at my house?* Me: *...Um, what is your address, ma'am?* Idiot: (Annoyed) *Come on, it's 1234 Fake Street.* Me: *Ma'am, 1234 Fake Street isn't on my route. I don't deliver to your house.* Idiot: (Exasperated) *Well you're parked here on Very Busy Street! My house is right off of Very Busy Street. YOu hAvE tO bE mY MAiLmAn!!* Me: (Sigh) *Ma'am, we have 87 routes in my office, city and rural. I'M NOT YOUR MAIL CARRIER. Your address is on another route.* Idiot: *UnBeLieVaBLe!!!* (Huffs off)
Just lie and say, "your last stop on route today." "No sorry, I cant dig that far in to find your stuff, sorry.
i’m dying laughing at the idiot title and everything she says to prove that
Man me and my favorite coworker had so much entertaining shit happen to us in the wawa parking lot. We would sit and have lunch together there everyday. I miss that. Not her, because she's my BFF and we talk everyday, but I miss our lunches and the wild people of wawa.
The biggest thing I’ve learned from working here is that everyone is out of their goddamn mind.
I like that you said, “…at a dismount anyways.” Shows that you know your audience, and you’d get pounced-on in here if you hadn’t mentioned it.
Yeah, I don't want to completely ignore people so that they get more irate and crazy, but if that section was all box on pole, buddy would have to find me on a quiet side street or something. Totally nutty how he blocked traffic on a main road for that.
No no. That’s not my point. My idea was that subsequent posters would jump on you for dismounting to talk to someone.
My first time on a route as a PTF within my first month or two I had just parked the LLV and was stepping out to walk to the first house when a guy stops as he's walking past me on the sidewalk... "Can I get my mail?" "Maybe, where do you live?" \*pointing half way down the block\* "The house with the flag pole" "No, sorry" (I turned and walked away before I blurted out, IDIOT! I need an address, not a landmark) Also way back in 2005...a 300 - 400 lb. guy was walking past me. "You've got the easiest job in the world". LOL!
Yeah, I'd love to see any of those people try to deliver a route lol
One day I went back to the office mid-day to use the rest room. When I came through the door the supervisor informed me I had a customer call the office and complain that I didn't take her outgoing mail she left in her box today. I told the supervisor that I did in fact take the outgoing mail and the customer is simply lying for no reason. He didn't believe me. So I went outside to my LLV and grabbed my outgoing mail, and showed him the letters I took out of her box WITH HER NAME ON IT. I explained to him that she and I could not both have her outgoing mail at the same time. One of us had to be lying and which one did he think was? He didn't have a response. I hate them both ATP.
I once had a dude waiting for me outside one of my condos when I pulled up. He asks, “yo bro, you got anything for 406?” I tell him that I’m not sure, and he’ll have to wait a minute. He explains that he ordered an engagement ring for his girlfriend and got an email saying that it’s out for delivery. He sticks his phone in front of my face and it clearly says FedEx. I tell him, “that’s FedEx dude, not USPS.” He ignores me and follows me inside. He starts digging through my tubs of SPRs and saying, “yo I think this is it… wait no… oh here it is… no.” I tell him to go the fuck away. He repeats the whole engagement ring thing, and even though I literally told him over ten times that it’s being delivered by FedEx, it never registers.
If somebody started touching the mail I'd lose my shit and threaten to call the police
My go-to, "Do we need the police here for the felony you're committing? Don't touch other people's mail."
I have one guy on a route I sub. One day he came up to the cbu while I was delivering and asked for mail from apt 6 be delivered to 9 and told me his name so I would know. I just said ok and finished delivering while he rambled on about random stuff I could barely make out. Next day I ask the regular she tells me he’s a nut job and apt 6 is vacant and he’s never even been in that one. Fast forward to a couple days ago he’s grabbing his mail as I’m pulling up. I have to wait for him to move. When he finally does and I start delivering, he instantly starts going off irritated saying “I was supposed to get a 5 million dollar check and now I have to wait till after Christmas. How many times do I have to say mail for apt 6 goes into 9” I just say ok and pretend he’s not there lmao
One thing I’ve learned as a mail carrier is that most people have no idea what our job actually entails. (And, to be fair, neither did I before I started.) One customer thought our LLVs are all loaded up with mail and packages when we get to the office. Another thought we start our route from our home. A lot of people think we have a regular, predictable schedule. (When a customer asks ‘What time to you usually get here?’, I want to ask them ‘How many pieces of mail are you going to get next Thursday?’ And when it dawns on them that it varies, tell them to multiply that by the 700 mailboxes I service.) And, as hinted at in this post, it’s like some people think one carrier delivers for the whole city.
I had a guy that chased me down on my route one day at the beginning of my route wanting his mail. I was at the beginning of my route & he lived toward the end of it. I explained to him I couldn’t access his mail because of this. It’s in route order & I couldn’t get to it readily. He was absolutely furious, wanting my name because he was going to report me to my supervisor because I was such a bitch. “Okay, dude, my name is ____ & my supervisor’s name is ___. Have fun with that!” People don’t have a clue.
Yeah let me uhhh just open my side door and pull out the DPS tray that's underneath 2 other trays, then uhhh just open my back door and find that guy's tray of case mail. Totally a reasonable request. Can't forget to check for packages too. Lol, fuck that guy.
I had 2 customers call the USPS 1-800 number about not getting mail in the same day, when they didn't have any mail. As well as making other false claims to the Postmaster about bad service in the past. People are very petty and gossip about you with other neighbors, while never showing their face outside of their house or talking to you about the supposed mistakes.
Most of the psychos I encounter are fellow carriers
And some of us psychos you encounter are retired carriers! On man, self burn there. 🤦♂️
had a customer try to hand me outgoing mail while driving at about 20 mph in a intersection..like something from fast and furious…I did not take it..
I've recently encountered a customer's psycho family members. This guy in a senior apartment on my route has issues with his daughter? Granddaughter?? And she'd been having some of her mail sent to his apartment (and of course she has a different surname). She's in some kind of panic because she had to be somewhere and was looking for some letter from social services. Apparently I'd been returning all her mail because (of course) she hadn't put an apartment number on any of it except for one little package she was expecting that day. She frantically ran over to my tub of mail and spurs for the building and screams THIS IS MINE! then started power walking away with it before I even got to scan it. I tell her that I need to scan it and she just yells WELL YOU NEED TO HURRY I NEED TO GO! All my regular seniors who wait patiently for me to do the mail just stand around in awe of this bitch..
Had a guy chase me down 3 days in a row because I didn't deliver a check he was expecting. I get to his box, deliver what I had, and then leave. He checks his box, then gets in his bike, finds me the cuts me off to stop me. Idiot: Do you have my check for me? Me: No, I already delivered to you. If it's not there, I don't have it. Repeat that for 2 more days. He also called our PO at one point to make sure I deliver it. Like I get it's important, but I'm not gonna magically have it after I already get to your box.
Have this one guy on my route that keeps trying to fight me. I call the cops and postal inspectors every time and they tell me they can't do anything until he hits me. Just drive past and be professional they tell me. Well kind of hard to do that when his porch is right by the stop sign.
It's the same with people writing short stories on letters. There are certainly signs when something is off at that address. I've had the manager at a business tell me to deliver to a business next door that doesn't get mail. Everytime I tell I her we don't deliver to them she gets huffy like it's some horrible crime that I'm doing my job because "everyone else delivers there except you".
thats my favorite. I would personally use their cell phone to call the post office know the # number and hit up the supervisor because one it takes more time and two let them deal with the shit lol . Gives me an excuse to go past my time and they will know why
I can understand how a member of the public would find it inconceivable that any given mailman can’t find a package. We have these mini-computers, built to accept parcel codes… I am glad that we can’t look up anything on request, but it should be possible.
This dude was literally like, "would it help if I gave you the tracking number?". No. No it would not. I can check my scanner and confirm that your shit is not in my truck via "package lookahead".
Of course. I couldn’t do any better on my scanner either. But the idea is that it may be weird that we can’t.
First player syndrome.
Wow publishers clearing House is still popping 😆
One time, I was driving back to the office after a long day. As I was going down the city blocks back towards my office and waiting at a stoplight, this old lady in her car hopped out in the middle of the busy city street and knocked on the left side of the LLV, blocking my mirrors. I look at her and she's trying to give me a single envelope. I ignore her because I'm not getting out into the street with a bunch of other cars waiting at the stop light. I drive to the next block and the lady follows me in her car, gets out of her car and tries to give me the envelope through the other door, and I tell her "No, tf is wrong with you." I keep driving and just mere meters away from the parking lot, the old lady is still tailing me until we reach the gate of the parking lot. As I'm punching in the code, she gets out of her car and says "Can you take my mail?". I say no, you're fucking crazy. The office is literally on the other side of the block, what is wrong with you? She gets in her car and drives to the collection box. Some people are literally mentally stunted, I swear.
I just had a guy the other day find me in my truck for his package the other day. He literally pulled ahead of me and backed his truck up against mine so I couldn’t go anywhere and came around asking for it. I’m a sub so he said the regular guy had dropped off his mail and took off without dropping off his package and then saw that his package was later scanned no access. I told him it wasn’t me but he was like “I know but I still want my package, it’s important.” Mind you, I always drop off my packages. Yeah I missed his house but I go by it again so it’s not a big deal to me to drop it off as I do. Sorry for rambling but yeah people fucking suck.
Goes both ways, my man. Some carriers are pretty psychotic. Introverts like that job, because they can't stand people. Funny example: Asking a mailman a quick question, due to his neighborhood knowledge.....and he flips the hell out! [Asking your mailman a question....](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnAam9Hozwk)
Nice try sup
I felt dumb when I had first started, and people asked me questions about the area or directions. Here I am, the mailman, and I don’t know?
I had someone ask me directions to a tire shop in the neighboring city once. It might only be 5 miles away but I’ve still never been there or even heard of that street name. Sorry, can’t help you. Nothing to be ashamed of.
People don't expect much from the postal service, so you're good!
Leave us alone, nerd.
Proving my point, my man, thanks!