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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLazy postal worker drives on a customers lawn instead of walking twenty feet to deliver a package
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)Don't postal workers wear uniforms?
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)Nor do the management rather than the ones who work on the streets. Management will sometimes make package deliveries if the carrier for the route is already on the street.
I hope whoever took the video contacted their local office to show it to them.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I'm rural and have never seen a USPS worker/carrier in a uniform.
Not even the ones who work IN the Post Office.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I wouldn't be surprised if it's just an ad for the company.
cali
(114,904 posts)yes, we have a post office in my tiny village, but the post mistresses doesn't wear a uniform. Nor do the drivers.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)and walks the route, at least parts of it. He parks his truck mid-way and then walks back and does the first half of the street - picks up the rest from the truck and does the other half of the street. Friendly, smiles, chats with you if you're outside when he comes by . . . it's like the "old" days.
My brother lives in a smaller town and the postal service is contracted out, I think. No one wears a uniform in the office or on the routes.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)at the thought of seeing my mail lady walking her route. Or even a part of it.
Nearest house to me is 1,000 feet down the hill
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)have a good excuse for driving her route!
MineralMan
(146,364 posts)block by block, parking the vehicle and the end of the block and then delivers the mail down one side of the street and back up the other to her vehicle. If there are packages on that block to deliver, she does that first, stopping the vehicle at that house, and then does the other mail delivery. 11 A.M. at my house, plus or minus 10 minutes, every day.
Nice person, she is, and always has a smile if I happen to meet her at the door.
sammytko
(2,480 posts)they even drive their own vehicles - which is scary. They sit in the middle and drive from there. This way they can put the mail in the boxes with their right hand.
NickB79
(19,310 posts)The first time my mother-in-law saw someone pull up in a beat-up Ford Taurus and open our mailbox, she was ready to call the cops, until I explained to her that's the mailman.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)CatWoman
(79,303 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 4, 2013, 11:50 AM - Edit history (1)
rather than walk to the front porch and leave it at my door. The truck was parked in the driveway.
Anyone walking along could have taken it and I wouldn't have known any better............
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)her seatbelt.
that is too sad.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)THAT would be a problem if it were my hose.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)to honor a medical restriction. A set-up. Poor thing.
Throd
(7,208 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)This has gotten around my office quite a bit today. According to my cubical mate (who used to be a clerk) she's probably a supervisor since she's wearing street clothes and has a badge around her neck.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)This lawn she drove over should now become a memorial.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Poor blades.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Obesity can take such a toll on the body.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)She would drive in front of a house walk to the door deliver walk back to the vehicle drive to the next house (30 feet away) and repeat.
Never underestimate the power of sloth.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I had a new mail carrier who didn't even attempt to deliver a package. She just left a slip in my mailbox and I had to drive to the post office to pick it up. I was home the entire day and saw her pass by without even attempting to deliver it. I let it slide that time. When she did it again, I went to pick up the package and complained. It never happened again.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)What difference does that make?
If she doesn't want to do the job properly, then she needs to go.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I have been working have to do with this?
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)through employment. That is special. Apparently don't believe in unions and in addition believe people are dispensable when used up physically. Just fire them.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I have been cut and burned working in kitchens. I never injured myself when I was landscaping. I had enough sense to quit landscaping when it became apparent to me that I was no longer physically able to do the job as well as I could.
My dad was in the steel workers and mechanics union.
If she can't or won't do the job properly, she should ask for a desk job.
edit to add - There's no proof that she was injured. Unless you consider disregard for property and laziness an injury.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)know about asking for a desk job at the post office?
When one looks in as a juror of their peers, one needs to do so without conviction of prejudice. If you are going to judge and juror, you must have all of the facts. There is no proof, but for subjective look at her driving skills and exiting her vehicle that she is not injured. And good sense? Where is it written that one has lack of good sense when they continue what they know and have not drawn the conclusion that it that is time to give it up on your time table?
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)tkmorris
(11,138 posts)See, here's the thing. Even if we assume any of the unlikely sets of circumstances you assert (injured, supervisors not cooperating, etc.) her actions are wrong. If I were in that position there are a number of things I might do but driving up onto someone's lawn is NOT one of them. That isn't cool no matter how you look at it.
Actually it seems most likely that she is exactly what she appears to be. The laziest postal worker in the US of A.
I was going to address that poster but you did it much better than I would have.
Throd
(7,208 posts)If she can't perform her duties correctly, she needs to be assigned a different duty. Or fired.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Home dwellers may not like that.
Throd
(7,208 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Someone should be seeing about medical assistance for the poor lady. Her hips or back appears to be busted. But she is still delivering the fucking mail.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)She knows what the job entails. If she can't walk, she needs to go.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)the medical treatment and give her a sedentary position until she is able to walk again, not fucking fire her.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I don't think she's all that 'broken'.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)lazy cause
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)somebody delivers your package by throwing it at your house.
Snap judgement on your part with the baseless claims of broken back and other injuries.
I have plenty of empathy for those who have actual problems.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)You are arguing in defense of this person based on her having a work injury that you have made up in your own mind. Bizarre.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)incident are not present on the video and tried to get people to think about the judgments they were making. The tangent I made up in my own mind was speculation as to one thing that may have made this incident occur. Good gawd.
Throd
(7,208 posts)Where you see a victim, I see a fat, lazy person who doesn't respect other people's property in the least.
She needs a desk job if her hips and back are busted as you say.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)I see a person struggling to do the job, no matter fucking what.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)running and jumping around-
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lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)She got out, walked fine, threw packages, turned around, hopped in, slammed the door shut-
She is fat but not morbidly obese- So why are you making up this "injury" story when you have no facts?
What time-stamp in the video please--
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)out of her truck to be that of someone whose face looks to be in pain.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)walks fine, no limp...
Within 24 hours we will have the whole story- I'm seeing a title-
"Postal Worker on viral video who drove through yard fired"
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)She is the size of two women and moves pretty good. No pain. Sloth. Good old-fashioned sloth.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)someone is awfully defensive
Throd
(7,208 posts)She could have hit a small child or pet around who wasn't expecting a car on the porch.
There can be underground utilities to break with the weight of a car.
There just isn't any way to defend her actions. Well, not rationally.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)You are clearly not familiar with employment at the USPS.
Throd
(7,208 posts)My aunt and uncle have been employed by USPS since the mid-70's. (uncle is retired, aunt should retire any day now,)
I have heard all their stories, good and bad.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)employment procedures and policies to allow you to view this incident I watched in the totality of its circumstance. No I don't see credentialed authority here. So no...
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Hurt or not, she's going to lose her job.
For good reason, too.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)other side of the fence.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 4, 2013, 11:59 AM - Edit history (1)
wow the lengths some people here go thru to justify others actions
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)buddy. Do we still have that buddy business? Makes what ok?
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)shitty attitude is another.
OK I can see someone "needing" to drive up on the lawn to deliver a package.
But the tossing of that package on the porch sucked. How does she know what's inside? Packages aren't always marked "Fragile", and people don't always pack things in boxes with sufficient cushioning.
I have video cameras all over my house and have never seen this sort of attitude from USPS, UPS, or FedEx where they just throw the package if nobody is home.
kimbutgar
(21,318 posts)That said I love my postal worker. If I'm not home when he delivers me a package he will come back later to deliver to me. He always smiles and us friendly to all the neighbors. I guess it depends on where one lives.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)kimbutgar
(21,318 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)delivers 40% of the mail - worldwide.
http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/
and we have to post this video on DU....
Really?
Bashing government services is an everyday hobby for right-wingers. Sad to see it here - and especially to see so many feed into it.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)like this lazy slob making all the other postal carriers look bad!
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)doesn't have an aggressive dog that tends to be loose in the area?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)when that is the case.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)are lazy and bad. This particular one appears to be.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)I know that the majority of postal workers are hard working, but she is an exception and she got busted. If I were a co-worker of hers I would be pissed.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)By any objective standard she is lazy. If she is injured (which it doesn't appear) then she needs to go on worker's comp (or whatever they have in the postal service). But she should not be driving on people's lawns if she can't or won't do her job normally.
Honestly, have you never seen anyone drive on a lawn to deliver a small package? I have not but maybe that was mt privileged upbringing. She makes Justin Bieber getting carried up the Great Wall seem like Jack LaLane.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)At first glance, this looks like a postal worker drove up on a grass, over some lawn and what appears to be a garden hose, then backed over the same things. But perhaps there a reason other than being lazy.
Before I judge anyone, I like to know what I am actually seeing. If this is a woman who just drove up on a lawn because she did nto want to walk up the pathway, then I would certainly agree with some of the anger I have read toward her. But what if there is another story being played out here. What if this is a rural route customer who refuses to comply with the postal regs, and complains when the mail is not delivered. As a rural route resident very close to NYC, I get a lot fo NYC residents who move here and do not understand the rules. They expect mail to be walked to their door. The expect to be able to buy a cheap mailbox that is too small for a rural route. Maybe the resident was warned that mail would stop unless they complied with the regs and the resident comlained that the mail could be taken to their door. Maybe the resident did somethink wrong here and this was a response. Maybe she had permission to drive up to the walkway. Maybe she is a supervisor and is doing this so that her drivers do not have to deal with this resident. Who knows. I am prepared to be angry at her and call for her to be disciplined, but only if warranted after I know the facts. Right now, I know little about this.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,382 posts)Maybe she mistook the sidewalk for drive - maybe the vantage point view from the right side looking to the left only revealed part of the sidewalk and she mistook it for a drive.
She wouldn't be the first person to turn down a sidewalk. I once pulled an old lady out of a car on a railroad track. "I'm from Naperville and I'm lost!" , she said. "you sure as hell are!" I said as me and my body carried her down the embankment with a train heading toward us.
aikoaiko
(34,186 posts)so she wouldn't have to get out of the car.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)MadrasT
(7,237 posts)I have a mailbox on a post at the end of my driveway and half the time he leaves the package on the curb next to the mailbox (50 yards from the house).
You can literally drive TO MY FRONT DOOR and he won't do it. Just leaves them up by the road, where any passerby could take them.
The last mail carrier I had always brought the packages down the driveway and left them on the front porch.
Kingofalldems
(38,539 posts)she has been employed for less than 90 days. The lack of a uniform is telling on this. Either way she can be fired on the spot.
ecstatic
(32,829 posts)At least give people the opportunity to get their packages before a random thief gets to it. Unfortunately, I'm having the same problem with UPS not even bothering to ring my doorbell when they leave packages. When a signature is required, they just assume I'm not home and leave the "Sorry we missed ya!" notice. I don't order online as much as I used to as a result.
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