s/o mail delivery

Re: s/o mail delivery

• MrsMyrtle member

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Yeah, they did. But I think they made that their motto when people were a little hardier. 

  

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• MinM

  

  January 2011 edited December 2011

  Either people got real wimpy really quickly, or....I'm incredibly elderly.

  

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• Heffalump member

  

  February 2011 edited December 2011

  When it snowed here last month, we didn't get mail for three days, and DH and I said the same thing about "through rain and snow and whatever else."  I agree, it's not worth them risking life and limb to rush my Pottery Barn catalog into the mailbox, but three days seemed excessive.

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• Butter Cookie member

  

  February 2011 edited December 2011

  I'm not sure. The person I know who is a mail carrier has to drive through crazy amounts of snow on scary curvy dropoffy (like that word?) roads because there's no such thing as the weather being too bad, according to this person's boss.

  

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• **O-Face** member

  

  February 2011 edited December 2011

  Like I said, I always see my mail person.  They have to actually SCAN our mailbox, otherwise I am sure it shows up somewhere that they skipped boxes.  But this is Iowa where every mail person wears a snow suit come December.

  

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• zsazsa-stl member

  

  February 2011 edited December 2011

  My parents were both mail carriers - my dad for 20 years and my mom only part time for 3 or so years.  I don't ever remember either of them getting a day off because of the weather.  Sometimes the roads were so bad that they had to crawl along and people didn't get their mail until evening, but they always went through.
  
  But there are tricks that some poeple would use to speed up their routes (my dad used to complain about these people...a lot)...like coming in super early and leaving before the guy bringing who pushes the cart around with new batches to sort could get to them with anything new (they usually sort in the afternoon when they get back from their route and then again first thing in the morning).  They are just making the next day harder for themselves that way but if it was a bad weather day they could shorten it that way.
  
  And I think first class mail (and maybe 2nd class - like magazines) is the only thing that has to go out as soon as they get it.  So if the only mail you would have received was bulk mail or advertisements that go to every box...I THINK they can skip you (or put off the advertisements for everyone until tomorrow)....but I could be wrong on that.
  
  Also, the city carriers (people who walk to the box at your door) and rural carriers (people who ride around in a little truck and deliver to the box on the road) have separate unions and different rules about routes and hours worked and such.  I'm on a city route now and I'm pretty sure my street is some leg that gets passed around to whoever has time that day.  I rarely have the same carrier for a whole week before it changes.

  

  I just a friendly gal looking for options.

  

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