I agree. At least part of the problem is the packaging. You can see where the box started falling apart on him back near the van. By the time he gets it to the porch, it’s blown open on one end.
Yes, he should have used the dolly. I could see where that box would look like it should be hand-carried, since it is small for it’s weight. But the sender should have double-boxed that package and either included handles or labeled it clearly with “Heavy” all over each side.
The guy said that he had talked to the mail carrier before and was contentious enough that he decided to get the camera so he wouldn’t have to interact with him. Seems like getting roughed up packages was habitual
The postman is in the right. That delivery is for one of those millionaire gamer-bro douchebags.
You’re only seeing this most recent instance. I’ve talked to him before and decided to stay out of his way in the future. He’s one of the reasons I got the front porch camera in the first place
Can’t help but wonder if this is why it happened? I just how people love to be “talked to” about their jobs.
Physical Requirements
Physical requirements are determined by the job. Carriers must be able to lift a 70-pound mail sack and all applicants must be able to efficiently perform assigned duties. Eyesight and hearing tests are required. Applicants must have at least 20/40 vision in the good eye and no worse than 20/100 in the other eye. Eyeglasses are permitted.
OT: Is it normal to have a front porch like that with no railings? I think that’s not legal in my locale. Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen, since you can reasonably expect people to come to your front door for various reasons.
Could be the mail carrier. Also could have gone like this:
Guy: Hey! How come all my fucking boxes show up beat to shit?
Mail Carrier: I am sorry sir, I don’t handle it throu the entire chain.
G: I don’t give a shit, asshole…
M: Sir, you need to stop speaking to me in that manner.
G: Or what? You’re going to fucking drop-kick my stuff at me?
M: Or we’re going to have to cease delivery here, sir.
G: Fuck you, asshole. (Goes inside, orders camera so he can “gotcha” the mail carrier).
People dish out a lot of abuse at government employees that they don’t on other service people. As union members, government employees are also a whole lot safer employment-wise about refusing dangerous work. That includes working with hostile individuals.
Like I said, we don’t know. But for certain people “the conversation didn’t go well” can mean “they didn’t kiss my feet and gift me a pony.”
That boat sailed about 30+ years ago when consumer grade video recorders hit the streets. Get over it. (Said as a class A pedant with an official BoingBoing Pedant Pendant.)
Also whenever you say “records” do you mean audio or video - there IS a difference!
The problem here is that all parties (shippers, recipient, and mail carrier) are humans, and humans are a real mixed bag. This carrier is not representative of all mail carriers, but he is representative of the ones people talk about.
It’s like the Bible says–“you take the good, you take the bad, you take 'em both, and there you have: the facts of life.”
At least in my locale it’s only a problem if you have unsafe railings (in disrepair or otherwise incapable of holding someone up, too short so someone could trip over them, etc.);no railings is fine.
… aaaand now I’ve got that theme song playing in my head. Thanks. 
40lb boxes delivered by USPS on a normal mail round? That’s madness.
Here in UK there are max size/weight limits for ‘mail’ specifically to ensure posties can do their rounds in a timely manner (inc. enabling postal sorting office to work effectively).
Above those limits it’s Parcel Force, the parcels/courier arm of the Royal Mail (who deliver, well, just mail) or your other selected courier. The point is, if you take a 40lb box to the Post Office to get it sent, they’ll make it go Parcel Force, not as mail, because Parcel Force has a separate logistics operation designed for parcels just like any other courier, whereas Royal Mail’s is designed for sorting and delivering mail.
Personally, If I’m sending something delicate through a shipping company, it’s going to travel in a larger than normal package with a lot of padding inside it, because I’ve had to deal with the Stupid Shipping Gang on multiple occasions for the various companies I’ve worked for.
(Like one company dropping a pair of stupidly expensive routers off the truck. Another crated router worth ~$2 mil not only getting dropped off the truck, but also getting impaled by the forklift as it was being righted. And another company ramming a pallet containing a full disk shelf hard enough to knock it off the truck AND causing the pallet to be knocked askew, which is pretty damned difficult under normal circumstances. the shelf was crushed and several drives were utterly ruined.)
I’d say the 2nd scenario is unlikely considering he kicked a box across the street
When I worked for Walgreens, and they had a DHL drop off contract, the training I was given said that anything without at least three inches of padding between item and outer packaging was not considered sufficient to protect it though shipping, and thus could not be insured. The rules have likely changed, but in my mind that’s still the minimum for shipping: a 3 inch/7.5 cm cushion around the actual object being shipped.
I know a lot of people who used to work for the USPS. Most carriers in my area took retirement packages and left for other jobs. Now they seem to be following the same path as corporations by turning full-time, good paying jobs into part-time gigs with much lower pay.
As a result, everybody I know is having issues getting their mail. Carriers don’t look at the address on letters before they shove them into the box. I can tell when they arrive because they are usually multitasking on the phone while making deliveries. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the mistakes, though. 
During the holiday, I was chatting with a relative who was asked by a postal employee to change the writing on a form to block letters, because they couldn’t read cursive letters. It’s become another case where going cheap leads to terrible service.
In the past three months, I’ve caught Amazon changing delivery dates without notice, missing “guarantees,” and delivering packages in very bad shape. Just like with crappy cable and Internet services, soon consumers won’t have any “good” choices - just less bad ones, followed by nothing but bad ones.
Amazon has been pretty inconsistent with delivering things to me, i’ve put directions for them to deliver packages to my apartment’s leasing office and for the longest time they kept leaving them at my door. They’ve also left things of mine in other apartments and marked things as delivered and didn’t actually deliver it until the next day. Fedex has typically been just the worst though, they never knock when they have packages that need signature. Every single time i’m expecting something from them they just leave the door tag for attempted delivery, one time they didn’t leave the door tag at all, and the last package required signature and the person delivering left it at the door without having me sign for it.
UPS and DHL i don’t deal with a lot so i don’t have much of an opinion on them.
Yes. What is the point of delivery at all if what you ordered was computer parts and what you got was a box of bits of plastic and metal all mashed together?
Did he have one, though? (Just because he’s supposed to have one, doesn’t mean there actually was one.) Using a dolly would have been a hell of lot easier on him (he’s clearly struggling with it, even kicking it down the street), so presumably had it been available, he would have used it.
Hell, these days “record” could also refer to capturing gait or movement data, online activity, etc. The number of possible meanings has exploded of late.
