When can I expect delivery

[PessOptimist]

Postal service employees whom I have no desire to single out, when can I expect my groceries to be delivered? More importantly, when will the beer get here?

No link as it has been pretty well publicized. Seriously. how do you feel about this? And where is the beer?

PO

[Cactus]

You really want to receive groceries by mail? The last time I tried that they didn't get here until they were stale and rotten. It was a care package of green chiles and blue corn tortilla chips from NM to UT. The post office crossed out the valid zip+4 and sent it circling around New England for 3 weeks before I got it. That's the last time I did that. If you really want groceries delivered, go with a local grocery store. More and more are offering that service as us baby boomers retire.

[konakathy]

Postal service employees whom I have no desire to single out, when can I expect my groceries to be delivered? More importantly, when will the beer get here?

No link as it has been pretty well publicized. Seriously. how do you feel about this? And where is the beer?

PO

Personally I think it's a stupid idea and there is no way in hell I would deliver groceries between 3:30 am - 7:00 am to someone's home. Too many safety hazards...dogs, owners thinking it's a home invasion and blasts you through the door with a gun, crackheads waiting to jack you, or just your average perv standing there without his "special" underwear on wanting to give you a free show. (I've had several of those greet me at the door. I just stand there with a smirk on my face and ask "is that all you got?" and start laughing.)

Unfortuantely, the new hires ( CCA's), will be forced to deliver the groceries in the wee hours. They won't pay a carrier employee like myself the OT. I'm so glad I'm a short timer.

Bread, bills and junk mail? Postal service wants to start delivering groceries | AL.com (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/bread_bills_and_junk_mail_post.html)

[konakathy]

You really want to receive groceries by mail? The last time I tried that they didn't get here until they were stale and rotten. It was a care package of green chiles and blue corn tortilla chips from NM to UT. The post office crossed out the valid zip+4 and sent it circling around New England for 3 weeks before I got it. That's the last time I did that. If you really want groceries delivered, go with a local grocery store. More and more are offering that service as us baby boomers retire.

Listen prickly pear, the post office isn't going to send the groceries through the main mail stream first of all, they will reinstate a "special delivery" service. I agree with you....go through your local grocery store and have them delivered.

As far as your package being rerouted all over New England.... sorry to hear that, but shite happens. The post office processes billions of pieces of mail each day and there is bound to be some human error. In all the years you have been using the USPS how many of your letters or packages have been lost or damaged? I know that the post office does a damn good job at an inexpensive rate to get the mail delivered in a timely manner. Give us a break....most of us do our best under the worst conditions.

Which leads me to this article for anyone who thinks being a letter carrier is a cushy job...especially for the CCA's.

Blues on Wheels - The Morning News (http://www.themorningnews.org/article/blues-on-wheels)

[konakathy]

Here ya go, PO. A glimpse of how groceries would be delivered by the USPS. Interesting. I still think it's a bad idea for safety reasons.

Didn't see any beer being loaded in that vehicle.....maybe it was in the green bag.

I wonder if the acronym USPS will change to USProduceService, USPizzaService....USPimpService?!:laugh: Ok, that one is a little
overboard, but desperate times, call for desperate measures. (jk) :nuts:

VIDEO: USPS Amazon Fresh Deliveries – PostalMag (http://postalmag.com/blog/video-usps-amazon-fresh-deliveries/)

[PessOptimist]

Here ya go, PO. A glimpse of how groceries would be delivered by the USPS. Interesting. I still think it's a bad idea for safety reasons.

Didn't see any beer being loaded in that vehicle.....maybe it was in the green bag.

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VIDEO: USPS Amazon Fresh Deliveries – PostalMag (http://postalmag.com/blog/video-usps-amazon-fresh-deliveries/)
Thanks for all that and the link before it. Mail Carriers. I have known or not known so many in my life. No thought to most of them other than where the hell is my mail. Sarcastic references to the female man. Saying “he’s just a pup” when the dog could stand up and be taller than me. (same dog was on probation for breaking his chain and opening milk bottles to lick the cream out.) What did I know?

Beer is probably one of the items that the postal service is not supposed to deliver. In the long distant past it is possible a postmaster/rural carrier/grocery store owner may have combined deliveries. It may be possible that a rural route carrier may have had alcohol on board to fend off those -30F days.

In later years I wondered how one carrier dealt with a left hand drive car with a clutch while putting mail in boxes out the right window. I mean I wondered after I knew how to drive (8 or so) not the previous years I watched the carrier deliver.

Later I encountered my first NDCBU often erroneously referred to as NBUs, later named CBUs.
Then there are the various types of carriers. CCA, TE, regular, RCA. Makes me wonder which my normal CBU deliverer is. Regular carrier does not seem to work Saturdays and drives a well-used caravan (sometimes a very well used Ford aerostar). Once in a while the regular carrier comes around in a LLV to deliver packages late in the day.

Just curious about these mostly invisible workers. Sometimes I wonder about the uniform combinations. The CBU deliverer today was wearing long pants, postal shirt and a cowboy hat.

Not trying to start anything, just curious about these under-noticed workers who bring the mail daily.

PO

[konakathy]

PO .... I'll get back to you with an answer soon. ;)

[konakathy]

Just curious about these mostly invisible workers. Sometimes I wonder about the uniform combinations. The CBU deliverer today was wearing long pants, postal shirt and a cowboy hat.


The carriers you may see dressed in all the postal blue ( see pic) are what the postal service refers to as City Carriers. We get an annual uniform allowance and are required to wear the full getup. You can be sent home, or written up if you don't have the correct socks on. Depends on the mood of the supervisor or postmaster...myself, I've tried, believe me, I've tried to get sent home for wearing the wrong shoes and socks at my currrent office, but they know me too well. They know I'm pushing their buttons just to get off work. ( beach day! kowabunga!) :cool:

30724

Usually, the carriers dressed in street clothes are Rural Carriers, or HCA's. They do not get uniform allowances. RC's wear what's comfrotable for them. No dresscode other than to try to look clean and respectable. (ha!) So, the carriers you see wearing cowboy hats or other attire are probably them. And if you see a carrier dressed as in the picture below...she's delivering something else to you. ;)

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[jpcavin]

Usually, the carriers dressed in street clothes are Rural Carriers, or HCA's. They do not get uniform allowances. RC's wear what's comfrotable for them. No dresscode other than to try to look clean and respectable. (ha!) So, the carriers you see wearing cowboy hats or other attire are probably them. And if you see a carrier dressed as in the picture below...she's delivering something else to you. ;)

30725

I bet you don't see these in Montana :D

[PessOptimist]

Which one is you KK?

I haven't seen either of the examples you post so I guess it's just mail for me. I do need to find out my regular carriers name. She usually wears a helmet. Called pith or something? Though she looks nothing like your posted photos, she seems like a very dedicated and overall nice person.

I was serious about that PM.

Thanks for the response.

PO

[konakathy]

I bet you don't see these in Montana :D

My guess would be in the strip clubs of Montana, or any state. :laugh:

[jpcavin]

My guess would be in the strip clubs of Montana, or any state. :laugh:
Maybe even in Russia? :laugh:

[burrocrat]

My guess would be in the strip clubs of Montana, or any state. :laugh:

montana doesn't have any strip clubs. we call them community centers.

[konakathy]

montana doesn't have any strip clubs. we call them community centers.

oh, my bad. i thought the "community centers" were the sheep ranches.

[burrocrat]

oh, my bad. i thought the "community centers" were the sheep ranches.

no, those are called dude ranches.

[konakathy]

:laugh: we need to move this to the TspJail thread

[jpcavin]

Sheep and Dudes. What's wrong with this picture?:laugh:

[burrocrat]

Sheep and Dudes. What's wrong with this picture?:laugh:

uhh, nothing except the sheep and dudes part?

[99percent]

They ladies where I work dress like the first one. My next wife will dress like the second one.

[burrocrat]

hey postal people, can anybody riddle me this?

i ordered an xmas present online and it turns out it is shipping from hawaii. first the shipping label was originated and package received at zip code 98621 in honolulu. now it is arrived at zip code 98620 still in honolulu.

is that zip code some aggregating facility where everything leaving the island goes to? do they load it on a boat or plane there to journey to the mainland? where does it land first when it gets to the mainland? then i assume it follows regular channels once in conus? it is shipping priority mail cost $5 over the purchase price, not hot ticket air but not slow boat to china stuff either. any estimates on timeframe? i know 2 day delivery typically takes at least 3 days to get to where i'm at usually.

pretty cool if you ask me, from the middle of the ocean to the middle of the north plains and beyond, this package will probably have 6,000 miles on it before it gets unwrapped, all for about $10. the maps show straight line distances but there is no straight line to get to where i'm at. way to go usps!

[bmneveu]

hey postal people, can anybody riddle me this?

i ordered an xmas present online and it turns out it is shipping from hawaii. first the shipping label was originated and package received at zip code 98621 in honolulu. now it is arrived at zip code 98620 still in honolulu.

is that zip code some aggregating facility where everything leaving the island goes to? do they load it on a boat or plane there to journey to the mainland? where does it land first when it gets to the mainland? then i assume it follows regular channels once in conus? it is shipping priority mail cost $5 over the purchase price, not hot ticket air but not slow boat to china stuff either. any estimates on timeframe? i know 2 day delivery typically takes at least 3 days to get to where i'm at usually.

pretty cool if you ask me, from the middle of the ocean to the middle of the north plains and beyond, this package will probably have 6,000 miles on it before it gets unwrapped, all for about $10. the maps show straight line distances but there is no straight line to get to where i'm at. way to go usps!

If I'm not mistaken, the airport near Honolulu is hawaii's international airport, and they fly to several destinations, and quite frequently as well.