Was this in Cleveland? I had a similar mail carrier. Sometimes he wouldn’t show up and then appear the following day with two days worth of mail and say, “Here you go. I didn’t get around to delivering it yesterday.” In summer months he delivered with his shirt completely unbuttoned like he was strolling on the beach.
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It looks like he’s carrying the sack that he is required to be able to carry, and then trying to move this awkward, heavy box. I’m sure you would do better, but we don’t know what this guy may be dealing with. I’ve talked to some mail carriers that are unable to finish their route in the time they are allotted because of all the packages they now have to deliver. Ideally, he could lock the bag in the truck, carry the box, go back to the truck, get his bag, and continue delivering to the rest of the houses on the street. Or do the same with the dolly that some people seem to be so sure is just languishing in his truck, while carrying the bag.
I don’t think I have enough information to bag on the guy. Judge not, etc.
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Maybe it was his last day before retirement. Maybe he just didnt give a fuck. Maybe he was TRYING to get fired. Maybe he has lost all hope in life and was hoping he was going to piss someone who happened to be a rabid gun nut and suicide by poor customer service.
Who knows? Certainly not you or I.
My Amazon order deliveries seem to wind up split between UPS, USPS, and Amazon itself. Once I ordered a hardware item and set it for ship to store, and UPS showed up at the store after hours. I found out days later about the snafu, but they tracked the item and delivered it the next day. If I’d been forced to reorder the item it would’ve taken two weeks.
Amazon delivery screwed up one of my orders with multiple pieces of hardware. The day before delivery I got a notice that the box was damaged, and everything was sent back. I needed one item for a team scheduled to work the next day, but it was impossible to find out via Amazon if that part of the order could be salvaged. They never gave me the choice.
I think that UPS still has employees doing the work, so that might account for the difference in how those situations turned out. I wish they would let customers choose their preferred service.
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I worry more about what they are doing with those trucks:
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Yeah, I wondered if the guy was drunk. He seemed awfully unsteady. That may have been due to the heavy box, though.
No hand-truck though?
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I thought that was partly from the full bag of mail he was carrying. Sometimes when he bent to deal with the package I expected something to fall out. In my area, they started using UHaul vans in place of postal vehicles. I don’t know if those vans carry the same equipment as the larger rental trucks. The USPS has an old fleet, so lack of equipment on their trucks wouldn’t surprise me:
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“Videos” is a verb?
The English language verbs nouns. Get over it. While this was a popular complaint among the grammar police in 1902, that ship has pretty much sailed.
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Plus, the box kept falling apart on him, throwing off his balance.
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25 years later, I’m in as bad shape as this guy (seriously, notice the “oofda” breathing), and I could do it. Asthma and sudden weight gain due to medication.
Before I get hit with “citation please”, you can come to me for proof if you want it.
THE GUY IS KICK-SCOOTING THE PACKAGE DOWN THE STREET
This is me judging your argument that’s as pitiful as the postal worker.
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Instead of jumping straight to the comments, why not read the article that covered that point already?
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German postal service was privatized 25 years ago, and service has gone downhill ever since, and the only ones that are worse are their competitors. But you get what you pay for. Working conditions have declined there in an incredible fashion, they all used to be public servants, down to the last postman, with cushy pensions and tax exemptions… now most of them are subcontractors working far below minimum wage because the government was lobbied to put an exception into the minimum wage law. Deutsche Post shareholders are happy, the rest of the nation is learning to live with the fact that when you post something, there’s a good chance it may disappear forever. Someone should arrest the invisible hand for mail theft.
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Well the consensus seems to be to just “get over it”. Fair enough, I think I’m just getting old.
Can someone tell me when it became rude to expect that someone being paid to do a job should do the job?
Even if you’re tired or grumpy, there’s no excuse for willfully damaging someone else’s property that you are entrusted with.
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“Verb isn’t a verb”. You can’t verb a noun or adjective an adverb. It’s not too hard.
But on the other hand “video” is definitely used as a verb. Has been since VHS.
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An alternative reading of the situation: someone who is getting paid from my tax money to deliver items to me safely is damaging things that 1. they’re responsible for, 2. I paid for or 3. contain important information to me. I’m not sure how it’s petty to complain about it.
(I’m sympathetic toward disempowered workers suffering from burnout under an oppressive system and whatnot, but also they’re not sticking it to the Man by causing me trouble.)
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It might depend upon location here in the USA. In my neck of the woods, the regular Monday-thru-Saturday USPS postal carrier doesn’t deliver anything larger than one of those softpack envelopes. Larger packages are delivered by a different USPS truck, and I’ve seen those ones using a hand truck. Those package delivery trucks will also deliver on Sundays.
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Because he tried to lift a 40lb box with one hand, by one corner - of course it fell apart (though the corners ought to have been reinforced).
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