My favorite stamp

Poststructural Pub
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:laughing: Makes my going back to working every Saturday a bit better. I just wish it was a real stamp.

As you can see here, we are not happy campers -

http://lvcitylife.com/articles/2008/04/24/news/local_news/iq_21103951.txt

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Wow. I never knew. If you can’t trust the postal system who can you trust?

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Is that the origin of the term “going postal?” I guess I thought it was much more violent. :smiling_imp:

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I wouldn’t mind the dumping if they’d confine it to the junk mail.

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I wouldn’t mind the dumping if they’d confine it to the junk mail.

I really don’t think anything other than junk mail would be “dumped”. But, it is a real fact that mail has been found in tractor trailers, stashed away, until after count because lower volume means lower pay for us.

I was lucky in that I only lost 2 1/2 hours. I’ve heard of some that lost 7. We always know it will be a bad count when they make every route in the country count. Most years we or our postmaster have the option of counting and most don’t count-it’s like torture. What I dread is when I’m expected to run this route at my lower time this fall and winter. It’s just not possible when the mail volume picks up for the holidays and the new year.

One of the few jobs I know of that you can make less your last years working than you did when you started- all because of this out dated evaluated pay system that is open to blatant manipulation. :moreevil:

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A friend of mine is a psychologist in the employ of the US Postal Service.

I asked him, “Is there any truth to the expression, ‘going postal’?”

He said, “Yes. The postal system seems to be designed in every detail to drive its employees insane.”

Best wishes,
Jerry

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He knows!!!

Thanks, somehow that makes me feel better…