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Late mail in Chicago

4 by connor_Archive
BadComrade wrote:
Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:Creepy?
Annoying is what comes to my mind.


Yeah. Creepy that some rouge mail carrier is sneaking around your neighborhood in the dark, slipping mail in to mailboxes and through mail slots. The mail's not supposed to come at night. That's just wrong. Like drinking orange juice with a spaghetti dinner or something.

Your mailman is a creep.

In my last place the mailman often arrived around 7 or 8 o'clock. I think this is maybe more common than we realize. But yeah: it's fucking creepy.

Over winter break I filled out the forms to have my mail forwarded to Texas. After two weeks of not a single piece of forwarded mail, I called my post office in New York and actually managed to get a hold of my postman. I was polite. In a thick Bronx accent he said: "you know what? I'm not gonna lie. I didn't forward any of your mail. Sorry. I'll get on that Monday morning."

Never got a piece of forwarded mail.

EDIT: I should mention that he saw me walking down the street the other day and asked, "you read all these fucking books or you just trying to look smart? Ha ha!" Kind of a "hey, how are you" as well as a little "fuck you" but I kind of liked that he said hi regardless. Perhaps he is my Milkman Dan?
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Late mail in Chicago

5 by Spook_Archive
I worked as a mailman for a few months, and after writing what was turning into a rather long and boring explanation of how the postal system works, especially in terms of workers' hours and union vs. non-union employees, I'm going to try to simplify it.

Each office only has a certain number of employees. And each day those employees must deliver whatever mail that is sent to their office. Sometimes the post office will be inundated with more mail than it has workers to deliver it in a timely fashion. Thus resulting in the mail being delivered at an ungodly hour of the night.

With Valentine's Day coming up, most post offices are having to deal with an excess of mail and packages, resulting in the late delivery.

That is an oversimplification, but that's the gist of it.

Late mail in Chicago

8 by Marsupialized_Archive
I get my mail about 25% of the time.
All I get are the super saver coupon newletters every day, and maybe a bill once every so often.
I tried to complain at the post office but they don't care.
He said 'what do you want ME to do?' I said 'deliver my mail' he said 'whatever...NEXT!' and that was it.
Rick Reuben wrote:Marsupialized reminds me of freedom

Late mail in Chicago

9 by rachael_Archive
Oh my god if my mother knew any of this she'd be horrified.

She was a rural carrier since I was 3, and is now the Union Steward for the state of Florida. Woman goes to bat for postal employees benefits rights every day when shitty supervisors try to fuck sick old people and single parents out of their pensions and medical leave.

She really believes in them.
The cat with the toast, once it's free in the air, will float at its cat-toast equilibrium point, where butter repulsion forces and cat forces are in balance.
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