Love hearing about the USPS from the inside. I find it extremely interesting! I always make sure I shovel out my mailbox from the snowplow in the winter. I cant imagine how many times those little trucks get stuck in a day. If you guys are so behind, how come you take on packages from ups and amazon?
Those trucks are constantly getting stuck, they don't handle well in the snow at all. Your carrier no doubt appreciates that! I'm still a sub, but I've had a hold on this one route since December (the guy's out on a knee injury), and a nice little trend in this neighborhood has been the customers shoveling a path through their yard over to the neighbor's yard. It started with just a couple houses, but more and more people are participating. Those little things definitely get noticed and appreciated by the carrier.
As for taking packages from Amazon and UPS, as Hicks mentioned, I don't really think we could turn them down even if we wanted to. But we really don't want to. Letters and magazines are way down, 21st century and whatnot, so packages are what really keeps us afloat. That and those annoying ads you get every Tuesday -- they're actually our largest customer.
Love hearing about the USPS from the inside. I find it extremely interesting! I always make sure I shovel out my mailbox from the snowplow in the winter. I cant imagine how many times those little trucks get stuck in a day. If you guys are so behind, how come you take on packages from ups and amazon?
Because they are the USPS?
It?s not like they can refuse to do business with Amazon or anyone else.
But yeah, you uh, picked an interesting time to start working for USPS Dan. But I will say that USPS are unsung heroes in my book. We had a massive snow and ice storm last week with about half the city losing power for several days and USPS only missed one day of delivery, which was pretty awesome.
That's honestly pretty nuts, what do they even do with no power? Is everything sorted by hand or something? My shop basically is useless without internet, let alone power. Can't process payments or update workorders, and if the power is out... guess we can only fix screens if they still have a charge 
There's only a handful of sorting centers in each state, so the volume is way too high to sort by hand. It would honestly be impossible.
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