Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor...

[Conquest10]

A little setup: it snowed all day yesterday up until this morning. So I'm there enjoying my vacation sleeping in as I have been doing. In the background I hear the doorbell. It turns out that the mail(wo)man was the one that rang it. She said if we wanted to keep getting mail, we would have to shovel our snow.

I mean, wtf? I'm getting sick of these lazy ass postal workers. If you don't like it then why get the job? Its not like we constantly leave all the snow there on purpose. This is the first mail delivery day that theres snow out there.

Maybe I'm alone in thinking people should work hard and take pride in their jobs.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Actually I've seen the notice at the post office. If you don't have a clear access to the mailbox they won't deliver.

They have feelings too you know

Kevin

[Capmaster]

A little setup: it snowed all day yesterday up until this morning. So I'm there enjoying my vacation sleeping in as I have been doing. In the background I hear the doorbell. It turns out that the mail(wo)man was the one that rang it. She said if we wanted to keep getting mail, we would have to shovel our snow.

I mean, wtf? I'm getting sick of these lazy ass postal workers. If you don't like it then why get the job? Its not like we constantly leave all the snow there on purpose. This is the first mail delivery day that theres snow out there.

Maybe I'm alone in thinking people should work hard and take pride in their jobs.

Well, they'll make up for the crappier service by raising the price of stamps. I'm sure that 40-cent milepost is on everybody's mind down there. They have a great deal ...whenever they want more revenue, they just vote in a rate hike

[Goober57]

The letter carriers around here really go to extremes to
deliver the mail.......including walking up VERY
icy steps, when they shouldn't.

During the big Christmas snowstorm the mail was
actually early!!! :P

[tekkieman]

Maybe I'm alone in thinking people should work hard and take pride in their jobs.

New to OT are you?

[SquirrelDip]

New to OT are you?

Good point...

1. You should clear your walk.
2. You shouldn't have to clear it immediatly. If this was the first day after the snowfall then tell to carrier to shove it up his/her ass...

[Cobra]

I agree with Conquest10.

These people need to be told to deliver the post and stop whining about a little bit of snow.

[Doramius]

New to OT are you?

Good point...

1. You should clear your walk.
2. You shouldn't have to clear it immediatly. If this was the first day after the snowfall then tell to carrier to shove it up his/her ass...

She may be hot and you'll want to shove something else in her yourself. For Safety & insurance reasons, mail carriers are not allowed to deliver to places that may be hazardous to go to or have difficult or blocked access. This means if your dog that bites is leashed, but in relatively in close distance to the box, the carrier has the right not to deliver. If there is thick enough snow over the sidewalk, they can assume there is ice below and not deliver for their own protection. They can also refuse pick-up with reason that there may be cause for harm or injury to themselves. Doesn't really matter for me because I don't put any mail in my box. I drop everything off at a drop box or at the office itself. In some of the neighborhoods I've been in, there were instances of mail theft.

[Capmaster]

New to OT are you?

Good point...

1. You should clear your walk.
2. You shouldn't have to clear it immediatly. If this was the first day after the snowfall then tell to carrier to shove it up his/her ass...

She may be hot and you'll want to shove something else in her yourself. For Safety & insurance reasons, mail carriers are not allowed to deliver to places that may be hazardous to go to or have difficult or blocked access. This means if your dog that bites is leashed, but in relatively in close distance to the box, the carrier has the right not to deliver. If there is thick enough snow over the sidewalk, they can assume there is ice below and not deliver for their own protection. They can also refuse pick-up with reason that there may be cause for harm or injury to themselves. Doesn't really matter for me because I don't put any mail in my box. I drop everything off at a drop box or at the office itself. In some of the neighborhoods I've been in, there were instances of mail theft.

How many people with jobs would be able to get away with this:

"Sorry boss ...there was snow and possibly ice on the ground when I was coming to work. I could have probably risked death and actually placed a foot on ice, but ....I didn't want to risk injury. So I played it safe. And ...I expect to also get paid for it, 'kay?"

Gimme a break

[SquirrelDip]

How many people with jobs would be able to get away with this:

"Sorry boss ...there was snow and possibly ice on the ground when I was coming to work. I could have probably risked death and actually placed a foot on ice, but ....I didn't want to risk injury. So I played it safe. And ...I expect to also get paid for it, 'kay?"

Gimme a break

Agree...

My point above was that a certain amount of time has to be given for someone to clear their walk - the carrier shouldn't bitch right after the snowfall. If a couple/few days pass then he/she has the right to bitch.

So you go a day without mail... Who shives a git...

[Capmaster]

How many people with jobs would be able to get away with this:

"Sorry boss ...there was snow and possibly ice on the ground when I was coming to work. I could have probably risked death and actually placed a foot on ice, but ....I didn't want to risk injury. So I played it safe. And ...I expect to also get paid for it, 'kay?"

Gimme a break

Agree...

My point above was that a certain amount of time has to be given for someone to clear their walk - the carrier shouldn't bitch right after the snowfall. If a couple/few days pass then he/she has the right to bitch.

So you go a day without mail... Who shives a git...

I was mainly replying to Doramius' post. It's like . .."ohhh ...ice The horror" :P

Maybe we have particularly lazy postal workers here in the Land Of Enchantment. Cloudy days causes the mail to go undelivered. We know because we never have no mail ...always some junk mail. Plus, we can see the jeep they drive. Some days they just take the day off because it's "Tuesday" (to stay)

[Doramius]

I'd deliver. slip on the ice. collect insurance, disability, and possibly file a lawsuit. Then I'd never work a day in my life again. Now that's how a lazy a** person should do it. You have to make sacrifices up front to get what you want.

It's like being single and wanting sex. You may have to lower your standards to get the pipe polished. Once it's done, you're much happier.

[Capmaster]

I'd deliver. slip on the ice. collect insurance, disability, and possibly file a lawsuit. Then I'd never work a day in my life again. Now that's how a lazy a** person should do it. You have to make sacrifices up front to get what you want.

It's like being single and wanting sex. You may have to lower your standards to get the pipe polished. Once it's done, you're much happier.

Hmmm....a slacker's paradise, and all it would cost you is some pain and a cast for 6 or 8 weeks 8)

Wait ....I went through the leg thing already

[Doramius]

I'd deliver. slip on the ice. collect insurance, disability, and possibly file a lawsuit. Then I'd never work a day in my life again. Now that's how a lazy a** person should do it. You have to make sacrifices up front to get what you want.

It's like being single and wanting sex. You may have to lower your standards to get the pipe polished. Once it's done, you're much happier.

Hmmm....a slacker's paradise, and all it would cost you is some pain and a cast for 6 or 8 weeks 8)

Wait ....I went through the leg thing already

It isn't working if you still are.

[Capmaster]

I'd deliver. slip on the ice. collect insurance, disability, and possibly file a lawsuit. Then I'd never work a day in my life again. Now that's how a lazy a** person should do it. You have to make sacrifices up front to get what you want.

It's like being single and wanting sex. You may have to lower your standards to get the pipe polished. Once it's done, you're much happier.

Hmmm....a slacker's paradise, and all it would cost you is some pain and a cast for 6 or 8 weeks 8)

Wait ....I went through the leg thing already

It isn't working if you still are.

I wasn't ready to take down the shingle yet, or go through life hobbling around.

I was referring to the nightmare that started out as a crushed leg and turned into a tibia infected with staph (no doubt from the OR) in the fracture areas below the knee. The nightmare lasted 2 years, eight operations for this and that, with a follow up several years later to get the last of the hardware removed:



I wouldn't go through that again for ten times the amount I received. NFW

I did end up with absolutely no limp whatsoever ...I had made a conscious decision to force it to work right, and I did. Hurt like hell breaking all those adhesions loose, and it required aspirating the knee, but you couldn't tell I've ever had any work done nowadays

[Roundabout]

Doesn't really matter for me because I don't put any mail in my box. I drop everything off at a drop box or at the office itself. In some of the neighborhoods I've been in, there were instances of mail theft.

Yeah, theft seems to be a Vegas thing. In our neighborhood (remember, I lived in a gated comm. in the NW part of town), they blocked off the outgoing mail slots on all the cluster boxes, so we had to take it to the PO. Closest one was miles away, although they built a new one on Jones & Centennial just as we were moving away. Suckers already had it easy, since all new neighborhoods have cluster boxes, they don't have to walk anywhere, now they don't even have to pick up outgoing mail!

I'm sure they will raise the rate to $.40 soon. Glad I don't have much to mail anymore. I pay all my bills online for free, so I rarely mail anything at all. It's only $.80 to send a one-ounce letter around the world, but it'll cost $.40 to send one as close as down the street? What's the better deal, hmm?

[zzyzzx]

A little setup: it snowed all day yesterday up until this morning. So I'm there enjoying my vacation sleeping in as I have been doing. In the background I hear the doorbell. It turns out that the mail(wo)man was the one that rang it. She said if we wanted to keep getting mail, we would have to shovel our snow.

Is she hot? The chicks that deliver around here are! (seriously).

[thecoalman]

Really depends on the amount of snow and how longs it's been there. I can care l;ess about a few inches of snow but when they have a giant snow bank that's all ice right where I have to go it's another story. I run into shit all the time where the customer is not prepared, my job isn't to shovel snow and I tell them that right up front. Too many people expect you to do stuff that in the long wrong is there responsibility. I've often considered instituting a time charge for once I get there.

Best instance was a guy who I told I wasn't going to do something and he goes "I'm calling your boss"

[northcat_8]

I agree Conquest. Like Coalman says though, if it's a 10 ft snow drift they would have to tunnel through then I can understand their complaint.

I understand their complaint, I didn't say I was going to shovel the snow I can do without mail for a few days until the snow melts.

I don't really see where Mail Carriers have any place to bitch about anything, they should be thankful that they still have a ******* job...of my bills only 3 of them cannot be paid online or over the phone, when those 3 catch up with the 20th centurty, I have no reason to check my mail, I don't need anymore "pre-approved" credit cards.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Actually that slogan - neither snow...... ISN'T the OFFICIAL mail slogan. It's on the building in DC but isn't official. That's what they said during the blizzards that hit DC a few years back as I recall.

Kevin

[thecoalman]

Around here you can be fined for not shoveling your walk within a timely manner...among other crazy rules such as not being able to cut a tree down in the tree lawn without the tree committee first authorizing it. Yes my town has a tree committe who's sole purpose is to decide whether or not you can cut a tree down.

[northcat_8]

Around here you can be fined for not shoveling your walk within a timely manner...among other crazy rules such as not being able to cut a tree down in the tree lawn without the tree committee first authorizing it. Yes my town has a tree committe who's sole purpose is to decide whether or not you can cut a tree down.

seriously

Oh that's Buuulllshit

So I guess shooting exploding targets at 2:30 am would be completely out of the question

One more reason I happy to be living in the country

[yoda313]

Hello,

One more reason I happy to be living in the country

HICK!

Kevin

[thecoalman]

So I guess shooting exploding targets at 2:30 am would be completely out of the question

One more reason I happy to be living in the country

My brother had a tree business and this giant oak about 5 foot across fell on top of this house from a storm. Lady from the tree commission pulls up and asks him hoe he's going to stand it back up.
She was completely serious too.

[northcat_8]

So I guess shooting exploding targets at 2:30 am would be completely out of the question

One more reason I happy to be living in the country

My brother had a tree business and this giant oak about 5 foot across fell on top of this house from a storm. Lady from the tree commission pulls up and asks him hoe he's going to stand it back up.
She was completely serious too.

I don't think I could live in your neighborhood...at least no peacefully

and Yoda...why I ain't no hick...my parents are cousins not brother and sister

[yoda313]

Hello,

and Yoda...why I ain't no hick...my parents are cousins not brother and sister

Why that be mighty neigborly of ya northcat! How bout we all go down to the creek and fish??

Kevin

[northcat_8]

Creek is just for bathin there yoda...and we have to wait til it thaws.

In the country we have "fishin holes"...in your big city fancy talk, that would be "pond" or "lake".

You cityslickers sure are nieve about country life.

[Conquest10]

Is she hot? The chicks that deliver around here are! (seriously).

No.

Actually that slogan - neither snow...... ISN'T the OFFICIAL mail slogan.

Yeah, I know. Its just funny how at the very though of snow or rain or cold weather they start to bitch about it.

I see what you're saying coalman but it was only 4 inches of snow at the most. It was all fresh snow and since this is the first time it has gone down below freezing and the temperature hasn't gone up, there is no reason to think any ice is out there.

I don't know if the houses are the same out there but here there is no real obstacles to delivering the mail.

[Doramius]

@ Conquest - you forgot about dogs.

@ Coalman - They had a commission like that in places of upstate NY. An Ice Storm hit around 92' and one of the oldest trees in Williamson fell onto a museum(an old store). The commission wanted to fine the museum if they didn't put it back up. The museum had a statue made out of it of one of the store owners and placed the statue in the spot where the tree used to be. The commission took it to court and the court ruled, "they put the tree back and there's no clause that says they can't trim the tree for beautification. A few more older trees turned into statues after that and new codes and laws were made. One is Natural Acts cannot be fined or asked to have restored. 2, There is a limit of 1 statue per 1 acre on residential properties. :P

[Conquest10]

you forgot about dogs.

Not really. People keep them inside or in the backyard.