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I have had many in my family. Some that retired


In the 70’s and my brother in law is one now. He has been one for 23 or 24 years.

He started in maryland and was able to get transferred out to Vegas. He has moved a few times to different routes out in Vegas and has liked some better than others. He has a real nice community now and actually has Harry Reid on his route. Says Reid is very nice to him. Or at least was the last time we talked to him (bil not reid). His last route had a whack a doodle person who kept filing complaints against for...delivering his mail to him. He wanted my bil to pick out all the political mailing for him. A chance for a new route came up and he took it. There were other problems on the route.

The biggest problem he sees at his level are the supervisors and managers. They promote a lot from within and they promote people who were treated like crap as employees so they only know that way to be a supervisor or manager. I work for the USG overseas and move every few years and I have had more good or great leaders (as a percentage) than him. He said he has had one that he wouldn’t mind working for again. One. That person was also early in his career and got promoted out of the local post office to a regional center.

People complain about them but I know my brother in law busts his butt. He cares and tries to do the right thing. He also can only deliver it if he gets it and the real big problems (he says) are managers holding mail to get carriers a lower mail count (gives the carriers less money) and the (now) long delays between centers. The changes in the last few years (particularly the last 18 months he says) has really slowed down the mail.

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Posted: 02/20/2021 at 5:17PM



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