Man. It was brutal at work yesterday… Rain and a bunch of packages that weren’t designed (or boxed) to fit in a Jeep Cherokee…too long a route….too many dirt roads…too many steep dirt roads…too long a route…TOO LITTLE TIME…. Arghhhhhh. … Continue reading
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Ohhhhhhh….yuck. I had 8 trays of mail today….168 packages….2 trips to the post office to reload…..7 in the morning to 6 at night….and it was a pretty typical heavy Monday. But….it wasn’t Christmas yet. I was “given” 23 days off … Continue reading
Ahhhhhhhhhh! Yo-Yo! Now, here’s some GOOD MUSIC! For sure. The Post Office is making me take a whole bunch of time off in the coming month and a half. Like….almost a month and a half. Off. So…I’m going to have … Continue reading
Here’s some video from last year’s Coon Dog Day. This year, I had to deliver the mail on a Saturday because my sub quit. It poured. Now, rain makes a day of delivering mail pretty rough. So does a town … Continue reading
This guy seems like a good fellow. It’s good to have a mailman like this….and good to work with a mailman like this. Of course, I don’t work with a mailman like this. There’s nobody that old working at my … Continue reading
Today is the last day of a three-week “mail count”. A mail count is what the Post Office uses to determine how a route is rated….and the rating determines how may days the driver has to work to make the … Continue reading
The USPS is in the process of closing down our mail processing facility in Asheville. It’s a cost saving measure. Even after a big money renovation of the facility in Asheville, it is more effective to have our mail … Continue reading
My kids enjoy playing a game called Harvest Moon. It’s a game, from the little I’ve seen of it, where you set up a … Continue reading
We got everyone ready and out of the house by quarter to 9 to make our 9:30 appointment in downtown Hendersonville to get our passport applications processed. Apparently, at five minutes past 9, they called the house to tell us … Continue reading
I saw a lady come out of one of the trailers on my mail route the other day. I saw her out of the corner of my eye when I stopped to put a piece of junk mail in her … Continue reading