Why are postal carriers such right wingers?

[Roon]

I walk by a post office's parking lot every day and the bumperstickers on their cars say the same ol' crap! And a lot of postal workers are listening to radio while they are out delivering. For some reason,I doubt they are listening to AAR. Why is this? Anyone know?

[WCGreen]

1. Most ot the carriers I know are dem's.....

Perhaps you shouldn't infer from such a small base that all postal carriers are right wingers....

[evlbstrd]

2. My city doesn't have AAR, to start with.

I guess it depends on where your post office is. I don't see that at mine. So, kind of an extreme generalization, isn't it?

[Gman]

3. Never seen anything that substantiates this

Letter carriers are in general great union members and good democrats.

[MADem]

4. I have a relative who retired from the PO, and is a screaming liberal

I'd imagine humping all that mail all over hell would make one identify with the working American...

Maybe the people who park in that lot are customers???

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. What do the bumper stickers say? And what radio do they listen to?

Doesn't sound like the post office people in my area. And I hear normal radio stations, at least when I go in there.

Some of the customers cars have RW crap plastered on them, and a few of the usual brainless insults about Ted Kennedy.

[undeterred]

6. my ex postal carrier was former military who trained to be a special ed

teacher, which is what he is doing now. But after 911 he volunteered and went to Afghanistan for a year. He's a great guy and if he's on the right I never knew it...

[Momgonepostal]

7. I work at the PO and have NOT seen this

There are a couple of W stickers out there and some other Dem stickers. One guy in particular has several, includeing a Phil Angelides for Governor, some kind of anti-war sticker that mentions Bush-Cheney and the one that says, "Save the environment, plant a Bush back in Texas."

And I live in FReeperland.

I think you just have a conservative assortment of postal workers there, but that is not universally the case.

[Yollam]

8. I haven't seen that to be the case at all.

Most postal workes I've known were dems.

Only the ones who "go postal" are wingnuts.

[benburch]

9. Mine isn't!

She was a Kerry supporter.

[Kerrytravelers]

10. My dad is a mail carrier. He's a big-time union guy,Dem & Vietnam Vet.

Although my parents live in Northern California, they are a few miles off Travis AFB. Most of the people there are retired military... and also have a hatred of all things bush and reich-wing.

But then again, this is just one post office (well, actually, there are two in town, but they are both alike in these regards.)

[Saturday]

11. My carrier is a Democrat. n/t

[ellenfl]

12. my regular carrier just retired on disability but he

was not a freeper. when one of my anti-bush t-shirts arrived in the mail, he liked it so i gave it to him.

ellen fl

[SmokingJacket]

13. Mine aren't.

The people at my PO are great, funny, cool people -- and probably liberal.

However, my current PO is the best one I've ever been in. Might not be typical.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. I was a carrier. Most I knew were Dems.

When I "moved up" into administration, I noticed that the right-wingers were usually upper-management.

[ngant17]

19. management is often rightwing

Yeah, I'd say you're right about that. I worked as a casual for about a year, didn't notice
much right-wing propaganda from the working stiff section, but I got a nasty letter from upper management which essentially blacklisted me from working there. I still have the letter, I think.

I guess I could have challenged this legally, but didn't want to waste my time with the process back then.

I'd be very surprised to see some leftwingers in post office upper-management.

[catmother]

15. i have to drive down the road about 1/2 mile to pick up my mail.

in the last 3-1/2 years that i've lived here, i have met 2 mail carriers. they were both young women with big asses and a nasty attitude. i told them who i was asked their names -- they barely looked at me when responding. i'm not generalizing. in my last house my letter carrier was great. she was even invited and came to a neighbor's baby's christening.

[Nay]

16. I was a mail carrier, and I'm practically a socialist. Plenty of us

were libs.

[Swamp Rat]

17. Never met a repuke postal worker in my life n/t

[AngryAmish]

18. 2d Amendment / Right to bear arms?

cheap joke, I know.

[Fozzledick]

20. Local postmasters are political appointees who hire their cronies

It's probably just your local postmaster. The whole civil service - test system, although intended to select the best candidates, only produces a list of qualified applicants that the local postmaster chooses his hires from. He's supposed to select them from the top of the list, but can usually manipulate the process to "bubble up" his cronies to the top of the list one at a time while ignoring the actual top scorers.

[Desperadoe]

25. You're a little confused

There are NO political appointments in the USPS and there hasn't been since the reorganization in 1972. There is no 'civil service' test given for employment anymore either.

If the 'selecting official', who may or may not be the Postmaster, deviates from the order in the list of candidates, he/she better have a damn good reason and be prepared to substantiate it with documentation. Human Resources at the District level is not going to buy that BS and run the risk of a civil suit or an EEO complaint or a VA complaint, in the case of Veterans.

And one more thing.....most Postal employees are Democrats, however, there are some very stupid ones who will consistently vote against their best interests for the same reasons a lot of Republicans do. Gun control, religion, racism and just plain stupidity.

I have found that management employees are mostly a 50/50 split, all the way to the top but interestingly, there is very little discussion of politics or evidence of influence from it, one way or the other. I would credit the years of being subject to the Hatch Act with keeping politics out of the workplace in a lot of Federal Agencies and Government Corporations. It should be reinstated along with all of the civil service laws to all facets of the Federal Government if we are ever to be a functioning bureaucracy again.

[DefenseLawyer]

21. The mail never stops, Jerry n/t

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

22. Funny Story

I use to be a delivery driver and a van I had to drive the radio was having problems and could not pick up any FM stations, so I was stuck listen to my choice of 2 right wing AM radio stations. So listened to some of Rush during this day, for a laugh. Rush starts talking about overpaid lazy goverment employees and someone calls in and talks about postal employees Rush gets on his soapbox, bitching and moaning about them.

Here's where this comes into play with postal workers, I have a real lazy mailman, I've reported the guy's attitude in the past with no avail. If a car is even 15 feet near the mailbox he won't delivery the mail and if there is a package to big for the mailbox he won't even get out and leave it at the front door or knock to see if anyone is home. I end up having to go pick it up at the post office the next day. Anyways this guy has to be a real right winger because he's always has the radio blaring Rush's AM hate talk so loud I can hear it inside the house when he drives by.

Anyways like a week after I had listened to Rush, I'm outside in the yard when the mailman pulls up, so I go out to talk to him and said I notice he was a big rush fan, he's like yeah, I ask if he heard his discussion from the week before about lazy government workers, he's says yeah again. I then tell him I'm liberal and I had never agreed with Rush before in my life, but after having him for a mailman I couldn't agree more.

[Beacho]

23. Actually In My Old NEighborhood

We had "Hippy Mailman". He was awesome.

[tabasco]

24. Friend of mine is retired postal carrier and retired reservist.

He's a solid Democrat.

[Pharaoh]

26. You 100 % wrong roon

I listen to AAR all day , 2 out of the 50 people at my station are repubs, 1 is a born again moran and the other listened to limbaugh so long that now he is permanently brain damaged, Postal workers are mostly democrats, Get your facts straight!
:hippie:

[soothsayer]

27. 10 point veterans go to the top of the rolls, so lots of them, but...?

are they right wingers?

[foreverdem]

28. I don't see that

My father in law was a postal carrier and was a Democrat, and our last few mailmen have been Dems as well.

[Puglover]

29. My partner is

a carrier and as left as they come. Painting with a very broad brush you are. :eyes:

I can't help but to notice that the OP hasn't bothered to check in again.

[newportdadde]

30. Alot are ex-military they get very nice bonus points.

My father has worked for the postal service for over 20 years. He is not ex military but he had to go up against those who were when testing for the job. You get some really good bonus points if you in the military or if you spouse died while in the military, consequently you can get a wide range of people working at the post office.

So if your post office has a lot of ex-military I'm not surprised to see the Bush stickers, as an aside the postal union did endorse Kerry in 04 I believe. The main reason is because the Republicans are frothing at the mouth for the chance to privatize the postal service.

[RebelOne]

31. My sister is a mail carrier

in South Florida and is a Republican.

[Marie26]

32. Sweeping broad statement

indicting all postal workers. FWIW, my ultra-liberal uncle works in the Post Office & most of his collegues are Democrats. If you don't know anyone, it's sort of hard to make assumptions like that. How do you know they aren't listening to AAR?

[Bridget Burke]

33. Why don't you talk to some of them?

I've had 99% positive interactions with my local PO employees. We haven't discussed politics, but most of them do NOT seem Right Wing.

[watercolors]

34. My postal del\ivery man is not!

We talk politics alot.He is articulate and very engaged in the Dem party, lets us know when there are some local meet-up we might like to attend.

[devilgrrl]

35. What a stupid thread.

eom

[bullwinkle428]

36. Tell them you wish the Postal Service was privatized...

MUAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!! Then watch the verbal gymnastics begin!