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Contractors don't deliver the mail to customers, they deliver mail from one facility to another. | |||
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My friend worked for the post office back in the 80's in Michigan. He called it marriage mail and the retires looked forward to having it delivered and knew when it was coming. | |||
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A USPS worker who unlawfully destroys mail can face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. The USPS Office of Inspector General investigates incidents of mail theft and other crimes related to the postal service. You can report suspected mail theft to the Office of Inspector General's hotline. LINK: ps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1703#:~:text=Whoever%2C%20being%20a%20Postal%20S | |||
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| John has a long moustashe  |
My first retirement job was as a contract mail carrier and I did indeed deliver mail to customers. My wife ran a small contract post office and an attached mail route and when I retired I started helping her by doing the route portion. This lead to a contract company hiring me to do two other routes and I did 160 miles a day delivering the mail to cluster boxes in mountain subdivisions. The contract company trucks brought the mail to the main USPS Post Office (not the wife's) from the major facility in Denver. Then I cased (sorted) the mail, cased flats (magazines and catalogs), loaded packages (USPS and Amazon) and then drove my routes and put them in the customer's mail boxes 6 days a week. I used the contractor's pickup truck and fuel. The Mrs had to drive to the USPS office and do the same for her post office and route before driving back and taking care of all the same postal duties as any regular post office. It paid well, but truly sucked canal water. I did it for three years. Twice my route made the national news as the coldest place in the lower 48 (-50). "Neither rain, nor snow..." We still get the magazine sized catalog of contract routes available all across the country from USPS... | |||
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It's $1 a month, belly up to the bar! Don't be billik” (ביליק)  _________________________ | |||
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Just cool your jets. If you want to surrender, maybe try the Post Office or something. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| Imagination and focus become reality |
My apologies. I stand corrected. When I retired 20 years ago from the Postal Service there was no such thing as contract employees that delivered the mail. In your area it would have been a rural carrier substitute or regular rural carrier that performed that work. We had contract stations that sold stamps, etc. and they were run by employees of the Walgreens or other drug store that had the contract station as part of their private business. They did not run carriers out of their stores or place of business. | |||
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They used to call them highway contract routes, way out in the boonies. "Ninja kick the damn rabbit" | |||
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