Letter Carriers Live a Thousand Lives.
We deliver, but we also listen, watch, learn, and take part in the community on a grand scale. I don’t think any of us realize just how interwoven our lives are with our communities. We have many skills as letter carriers, some are ex-scientists, tech workers, accountants, architects, plumbers, and construction workers just to list the tip of the iceberg. Why do we work as letter carriers? What is it about our jobs that motivate us not to do something else? Good question. Hopefully there will be answers here in the stories we write about…
On The Plus Side Of Things
I do like my job…
I like meeting my customers and giving the best service I can…
I like my fellow employees most of the time…
We are a family in so many ways…
I even like my managers, (cough cough.)
What I don’t like is my standard of living being reduced to a meaningless existance…
I don’t like the fervor that management shows in its reduction of my wages during counts while they get a pay bonus…
Any gains our craft has made over the years someone has found a way of reversing…
I saw this happen in the ’70s…
I went into the service and my base pay was doubled with the promise of a professional force, only to be reduced to nothing by the Jimmy Carters era’s hyperinflation…
Since then every base I ever served on has been shut down through base closings…
People, especially politicians make promises only to go back on their promises at some time when it suits them…