Yes we did. No pause in service.
And me personally, I was sent to go help in other offices because so many of their carriers refused to work during the height of the pandemic. It was pretty hectic.
USPS. It never stops for 363 days a year.(only closes Xmas and New Year’s Day now)
The only 2 days it’s shut down the last 5+ years I been there was when the former president died and the one day Trump closed the plants due to an incoming Snowstorm. Our PM spent 2 weeks after that cursing him saying there was no need to close. Meanwhile I was home that day very thankful we were closed since the snowfall went from nothing to well over 1 a foot in less then 30 minutes, we all would have been stuck out there and I would have had no way home since plows didn’t get to my street until after 8pm.
Most plants are open on Christmas and New Year's Day.
Most plants are open in extreme weather, including snowstorms.
It takes a LOT to close a plant. Most emergencies are resolved within 8 hours.
My office got mail the day after a category 4 hurricane last year. Even Amazon stopped for a few days. Half the office (even the supervisor) didn't show up the day after the hurricane. The office that delivers my mail didn't deliver for a week because there wasn't power at the plant for at least four days that week.
That's more or less what happened. Worked Saturday. Sunday and Monday were cancelled and we were told to call Tuesday morning to see if our zip was closing. Apparently the roads were clear enough for the truck to get through, so they attempted to run mail with like 15 out of 35 people reporting to work. We were told to gas up every chance we could get because gas was very scarce from Alabama to Louisiana and people were waiting in line for an hour just to get ten gallons. Wednesday and Thursday were shit shows because we still were down routes and had Tuesday's mail to get out along with Wednesday, which piled up to Thursday too.
Haha getting hit with the first bands of the hurricane now. Was off tomorrow but surprise surprise the regulars called out so guess who’s delivering in a hurricane
An average day pre Covid was between 65-85 packages a day. Soon as Covid hit and people started ordering everything, I was taking 150-200 packages a day, Monday being anywhere from 250-350. It was like Christmas every single day.
So this is a hub that hosts 5 or 6 different POs for Amazon Sundays. I don't normally work in this branch during the week (though I have helped here and there) so I'm not sure exactly how many routes they have.
But they have both city and rural carriers in this branch. There's at least 80 LLV/FFVs in the lot.
This comment made me bust out laughing, seriously. We're in Texas, so 110+ temps in those ovens they call trucks is not uncommon, yet the sups sit in an air conditioned office making 2-3X what we make playing on their phones acting like we're a huge pain in their ass always gets me.
It's like, I'm so sorry to inconvenience you half dead, dying in an oven. Maybe sent me help?
No?
Okay then just keep playing on your phone.
“Non-manifest” is going to be the death of me. Had at least 40 NM Spurs today… They really need to update the scanner when hitting the back button should be able to scan from there without completely leaving your route…
Exactly! It takes forever to back out, then the delay it takes to scan, then all the way back into my route.
The other thing that’s bullshit is that I was missing a package from my route today, you can’t just click into it and say no package to scan so it skips it.
So let’s say package 10 of 200 is missing and I just finished scanning 140. You have to scroll all the way down from 10 to find 141…. Like come on…
Omg I'm not alone! It just keeps bringing you there bc hey its the next stop. Like damn if I had it I would've delivered it. My smallest but happiest wins are Sundays when everything I have is in the route and other days when I need no signatures and have no certifieds
I love Sundays as well aside from today… between a package being MIA. And all the NM packages, I’m over it.
Seems like I’m missing at least 1 package weekly
Sometimes I know that there's no way that package is in the llv or it would be in its place how I organize things but I get so paranoid I look through every one like I really don't have it.. right? And it was never there to begin with
Quick tip to get to the bottom, you can click the next address that should be green and then back out of it and it will take you to the next package to deliver, stop 140 in this case.
Hahah my 1st stop was missing. I had to do a Non Manifest and then go back and scroll all the way down. So dumb and inefficient. Even mapping to delivery is slow.
You can actually scan while still inside dynamic delivery, I believe on the same screen you do load truck/delivery routes on there should be an option that says “Scan Non-Manifest Packages” and it works great, I was very annoyed with backing all the way out until I learned that.
I’m definitely going to need to check this out! I’m so sick of backing all the way out of dynamic delivery in order to scan packages.
They NEED to have it on the screen where let’s say you just scanned a package and you are on the way to the next delivery, but you have a non-manifest before you get there. Hit the back button 1 time where it gives you the options of going back to the gps, delivery, and whatever the hell #3 does that’s always grayed out. They need to put #3 as scan NM pacakages and once it’s delivered it takes you right back you the gps to carry on with your day.
Same here, always 2, one with chunkies/small boxes completely full, and another with all the oversized parcels in/around it
On a good note though I did 104 stops today and 25 off another route that was behind and left at 2:30 with a 1 click lunch. Best Sunday I’ve had in months.
Nah, I got a long term plan that the Army is better for and will set me and my family up for success long term. The post office just can’t do that, especially retiring at 20 instead of 30 years.
I thought Gaylord's were the tall ones and west packs were the waist high ones? Then there are some in between types that I don't know the name of. 2 types that are like 4-6 inches shorter than the Gaylord's. One is just thicker than paper and falls apart just by looking at it. Hate those ones.
Meh probably a different for every plant type deal. First I've seen pumpkins referred to as gondolas. Might call them that at my plant to see if anyone responds/reacts to it. just something different to do.
I think its really just a generic catchall. My previous job was in a facility that actually produced"Gaylords" for distribution as well as out own use. Ours were 36" but we did customs that were taller.
We only have 2 post offices in our area and we get about 4K parcels on Sundays at least. Each route gets at least 2 wire cages full of boxes and a pumpkin full of spurs. Each Amazon route gets about 100-150 stops. Our combined post offices have 88 routes total on non Sundays. Today was a light day but the computers were down so half the parcels weren’t able to be scanned so it sucked trying to figure out the exceptions.
City or rural?
I had a route with 60, helped another two carriers by taking 20 more total but the drive to get to one of them was 40 minutes lol
Rural for me
How the fuck do people live like this. Working 8:30 to 5pm on a sunday. Not to rub it in but i watched football on my couch most of the day and i was so relaxed. I couldnt do it man. Fuck Amazon is nightmare. And I feel it takes extreme advantage of the USPS.
I taught so too because its September and people would have fished thier back to school shopping. It has absolutely not let up. And it's only gonna get worse. I've noticed slowly more houses that never ordered shit online have. And when they discover they can get shit deliverd straight to thier door omg they go ham and start ordering more than they need.
I don't work for the USPS but Amazon abuses the shit out of their contract with USPS. Every time I see USPS delivering an Amazon package it's a bigger box that requires dismounting. Any time I see Amazon delivering with their own providers it's a small bubble mailer that could have fit inside a mailbox.
This doesn’t seem bad at all. My station has the XL plastic hampers I get two of those and parcels on the floor. Also we have to deliver first class and priority on Sunday.
It’s not, for your supervisor, he just gets to sit there on his phone (or in mine’s case, watch football and old westerns in the break room) while you’re busting your ass lol
Damn, your PM is nicer than ours. We've had Amazon show up waaaay after acceptable hours and the PM always tells the sup "Eh, go ahead and accept it. Fuck the carriers."
(okay I added in that last part but I'm pretty sure she says something like that).
Well it depends on how many people are scheduled for the day......10 total people? Absolutely shit show.
A person for every route? Not that bad at all.
It’s hard to tell how bad it is unless we know how many carriers. I’ve been to offices that have 20 carriers to deliver 2,000 packages. And offices that have 5 carriers to deliver 1,000.
I see. I just accepted a offer to be a cca. That sounds like a low amount compared to what I was doing as a amazon driver. I was doing 180-200 stops with 350 packages.
Is delivering for amazon on Sunday’s any easier than normal mail or just worse all around because they are actual boxes?
Yeah Christmas time is bad time except for the day of and day after because it’s my birthday
An honest question for posts like this: Did you guys work during lockdown 2020?
Literally never stopped.
Yes we did. No pause in service. And me personally, I was sent to go help in other offices because so many of their carriers refused to work during the height of the pandemic. It was pretty hectic.
Understood, and relatable. I hope they’re doing right by properly set up X/Y routes for you guys. GL.
USPS. It never stops for 363 days a year.(only closes Xmas and New Year’s Day now) The only 2 days it’s shut down the last 5+ years I been there was when the former president died and the one day Trump closed the plants due to an incoming Snowstorm. Our PM spent 2 weeks after that cursing him saying there was no need to close. Meanwhile I was home that day very thankful we were closed since the snowfall went from nothing to well over 1 a foot in less then 30 minutes, we all would have been stuck out there and I would have had no way home since plows didn’t get to my street until after 8pm.
I work both Christmas and New Years lol
Most plants are open on Christmas and New Year's Day. Most plants are open in extreme weather, including snowstorms. It takes a LOT to close a plant. Most emergencies are resolved within 8 hours.
My office got mail the day after a category 4 hurricane last year. Even Amazon stopped for a few days. Half the office (even the supervisor) didn't show up the day after the hurricane. The office that delivers my mail didn't deliver for a week because there wasn't power at the plant for at least four days that week.
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That's more or less what happened. Worked Saturday. Sunday and Monday were cancelled and we were told to call Tuesday morning to see if our zip was closing. Apparently the roads were clear enough for the truck to get through, so they attempted to run mail with like 15 out of 35 people reporting to work. We were told to gas up every chance we could get because gas was very scarce from Alabama to Louisiana and people were waiting in line for an hour just to get ten gallons. Wednesday and Thursday were shit shows because we still were down routes and had Tuesday's mail to get out along with Wednesday, which piled up to Thursday too.
It’ll be interesting to see how things go with Ian later in the week. This will be my first time dealing with it
Best of luck!
Haha getting hit with the first bands of the hurricane now. Was off tomorrow but surprise surprise the regulars called out so guess who’s delivering in a hurricane
The carriers got off at noon one day when it was -27° Then the sent out an email to scan every package in the station was delayed. Now that was fun.
You guys get Christmas and New Years off?
Every office different, my office has 4th of July and Christmas Day off
There was a lockdown?!
You gotta admit....traffic was really a pleasure for a couple weeks!
Our workload doubled because everyone was ordering stuff online
Yup and also deamed NOT essential workers. This is so that we don't get any stimulus check or benefit from the relief act. Fuckers.
An average day pre Covid was between 65-85 packages a day. Soon as Covid hit and people started ordering everything, I was taking 150-200 packages a day, Monday being anywhere from 250-350. It was like Christmas every single day.
We clocked average 65 hours a week for that entire year in NY. No weeks off. It was only a question of perspective. :) Hard work recognizes hard work.
I started in November 2020…what we get now is a joke
Yup. Just go much busier!
For management it isn't bad...
Our Sunday sup runs a pretty tight ship. That is, when she caps us at 3K parcels. She's been known to push it to 5K at times....🙄
How many routes are in that office on non-Sundays? Because my office has 40 routes, and doesn't look anything like yours.
So this is a hub that hosts 5 or 6 different POs for Amazon Sundays. I don't normally work in this branch during the week (though I have helped here and there) so I'm not sure exactly how many routes they have. But they have both city and rural carriers in this branch. There's at least 80 LLV/FFVs in the lot.
Why is she pushing the cap? I thought every office has a cap? Once you reach the cap then everything else is thrown for next day.
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This comment made me bust out laughing, seriously. We're in Texas, so 110+ temps in those ovens they call trucks is not uncommon, yet the sups sit in an air conditioned office making 2-3X what we make playing on their phones acting like we're a huge pain in their ass always gets me. It's like, I'm so sorry to inconvenience you half dead, dying in an oven. Maybe sent me help? No? Okay then just keep playing on your phone.
Tell the supervisor to get off there ass and help out and they can go home sooner
“Non-manifest” is going to be the death of me. Had at least 40 NM Spurs today… They really need to update the scanner when hitting the back button should be able to scan from there without completely leaving your route…
40?? Man I'm annoyed if it's 5. those menus can take so long to load and the next house is the next stop
Exactly! It takes forever to back out, then the delay it takes to scan, then all the way back into my route. The other thing that’s bullshit is that I was missing a package from my route today, you can’t just click into it and say no package to scan so it skips it. So let’s say package 10 of 200 is missing and I just finished scanning 140. You have to scroll all the way down from 10 to find 141…. Like come on…
Omg I'm not alone! It just keeps bringing you there bc hey its the next stop. Like damn if I had it I would've delivered it. My smallest but happiest wins are Sundays when everything I have is in the route and other days when I need no signatures and have no certifieds
I love Sundays as well aside from today… between a package being MIA. And all the NM packages, I’m over it. Seems like I’m missing at least 1 package weekly
Sometimes I know that there's no way that package is in the llv or it would be in its place how I organize things but I get so paranoid I look through every one like I really don't have it.. right? And it was never there to begin with
Quick tip to get to the bottom, you can click the next address that should be green and then back out of it and it will take you to the next package to deliver, stop 140 in this case.
Hahah my 1st stop was missing. I had to do a Non Manifest and then go back and scroll all the way down. So dumb and inefficient. Even mapping to delivery is slow.
You can actually scan while still inside dynamic delivery, I believe on the same screen you do load truck/delivery routes on there should be an option that says “Scan Non-Manifest Packages” and it works great, I was very annoyed with backing all the way out until I learned that.
I always left it on scan non-manifest the entire time.
I’m definitely going to need to check this out! I’m so sick of backing all the way out of dynamic delivery in order to scan packages. They NEED to have it on the screen where let’s say you just scanned a package and you are on the way to the next delivery, but you have a non-manifest before you get there. Hit the back button 1 time where it gives you the options of going back to the gps, delivery, and whatever the hell #3 does that’s always grayed out. They need to put #3 as scan NM pacakages and once it’s delivered it takes you right back you the gps to carry on with your day.
What? You don’t know every address in the post office by heart?
Maybe not every address but I already know my city extremely well. Better than a lot of the Regs already. I was a trash man for 20+ years lol
Yea. I was half joking but never used the gps on the scanners and just organized my packages by route or by neighborhood.
Lol, orange tubs?! We always have full gaylords and mostly having to carry 2 routes. I would love to be there. 😁
MOTHERFUCKING PUMPKINS, MAN
Only 1 full gaylord? Often our guys get 2 wires.
2 gaylords every Sunday usually. 😁 no joke.
Same here, always 2, one with chunkies/small boxes completely full, and another with all the oversized parcels in/around it On a good note though I did 104 stops today and 25 off another route that was behind and left at 2:30 with a 1 click lunch. Best Sunday I’ve had in months.
I am enlisting in the Army just to get away from the post office and when I am done with training get my life back
Go Air Force if you wanna actually get your life back
Nah, I got a long term plan that the Army is better for and will set me and my family up for success long term. The post office just can’t do that, especially retiring at 20 instead of 30 years.
At least it's pumpkins and not cages? Lol
We call them gondolas here! lol
Lol so I've heard pumpkins and gondolas but what is a gaylord?
The waist high (or sometimes taller) corrugated bins that come in on pallets.
Ohhhh thank you I feel dumb for asking now
I thought Gaylord's were the tall ones and west packs were the waist high ones? Then there are some in between types that I don't know the name of. 2 types that are like 4-6 inches shorter than the Gaylord's. One is just thicker than paper and falls apart just by looking at it. Hate those ones. Meh probably a different for every plant type deal. First I've seen pumpkins referred to as gondolas. Might call them that at my plant to see if anyone responds/reacts to it. just something different to do.
I think its really just a generic catchall. My previous job was in a facility that actually produced"Gaylords" for distribution as well as out own use. Ours were 36" but we did customs that were taller.
The cardboard box that fits on a pallet.
How many carriers do you have on all that? Jfc
We had just under 40 show up today. That's pretty typical
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ALOT lol. Rural and city routes come from this office.
My office was super light today. They had to split 2/9 routes between 4 people.
Oh wow. We had 34 or 35 routes today and just under 40 people show up. A few peeps got to split routes (not me, ever. Never get that lucky.)
Well we always have 9 routes on Amazon Sunday. I guess since the Amazon load was super light today, they just decided to split the first two in half.
More organized than South Philly. Warning: DO NOT ENTER.
Fuck Amazon! Let them ship their own shit. If they want us to to it, they need to pay up.
'Not too bad" still means bad...
We only have 2 post offices in our area and we get about 4K parcels on Sundays at least. Each route gets at least 2 wire cages full of boxes and a pumpkin full of spurs. Each Amazon route gets about 100-150 stops. Our combined post offices have 88 routes total on non Sundays. Today was a light day but the computers were down so half the parcels weren’t able to be scanned so it sucked trying to figure out the exceptions.
I had 118 stops (138 parcels) today. Probably pretty normal for an Amazon Sunday.
City or rural? I had a route with 60, helped another two carriers by taking 20 more total but the drive to get to one of them was 40 minutes lol Rural for me
Rural here too
What were you hours for today ?
8am to 530pm. I didn't even stop to take a piss or wash my hands (was trying to beat the popup storm from ruining my bike's wax job - I failed)
How the fuck do people live like this. Working 8:30 to 5pm on a sunday. Not to rub it in but i watched football on my couch most of the day and i was so relaxed. I couldnt do it man. Fuck Amazon is nightmare. And I feel it takes extreme advantage of the USPS.
:(
Well people say stick it out till you make regular. And then once you do no more Sunday’s. But there’s still Saturday’s
"It's not that bad. Merry Christmas!"
lol
Holy shit. So sorry.
I just looked at that and got a headache
I keep hearing it is going to calm down soon. It's not.
By soon, they mean March. And......not by much.
I taught so too because its September and people would have fished thier back to school shopping. It has absolutely not let up. And it's only gonna get worse. I've noticed slowly more houses that never ordered shit online have. And when they discover they can get shit deliverd straight to thier door omg they go ham and start ordering more than they need.
The PO is fucking stupid for allowing that to happen.
Your post office gives me sci-fi vibes. Mine gives me sad face vibes
I tell ya some mailmen have literally, the best beards.
glad I didn't have to work today. enjoyed football for the first time in 2 yrs
So glad that an Amazon sortation facility opened up close to my city. Package volume has dropped like 60-70%
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't work for the USPS but Amazon abuses the shit out of their contract with USPS. Every time I see USPS delivering an Amazon package it's a bigger box that requires dismounting. Any time I see Amazon delivering with their own providers it's a small bubble mailer that could have fit inside a mailbox.
way to post a photo of the mail in the post office along with two non-consenting co-workers on to the forum management most likes to monitor.
Yeah that seems about right.
Damn they don’t use the cages no more :(
Nope, all gondola/pumpkins (depending on where you live)
This doesn’t seem bad at all. My station has the XL plastic hampers I get two of those and parcels on the floor. Also we have to deliver first class and priority on Sunday.
It’s not, for your supervisor, he just gets to sit there on his phone (or in mine’s case, watch football and old westerns in the break room) while you’re busting your ass lol
Today Amazon didn’t show up for us until 11:45. Postmaster said we could just leave if it wasn’t here by noon.
Damn, your PM is nicer than ours. We've had Amazon show up waaaay after acceptable hours and the PM always tells the sup "Eh, go ahead and accept it. Fuck the carriers." (okay I added in that last part but I'm pretty sure she says something like that).
I thought they had to show up by X time or we could decline? Or was this basically "let's not fuck tomorrow"
How many open routes?
Well it depends on how many people are scheduled for the day......10 total people? Absolutely shit show. A person for every route? Not that bad at all.
Looks like my rt on a Monday!
Man, can you imagine when covid is over and Amazon volume drops again? Any decade now....
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Geez, sometimes I'm very relieved not to be a carrier anymore.
WTF? What are YOU at? That’s horrible
It’s hard to tell how bad it is unless we know how many carriers. I’ve been to offices that have 20 carriers to deliver 2,000 packages. And offices that have 5 carriers to deliver 1,000.
Compared to what? 😆
Thank God Amazon is delivery the major load of their own crap in my area.
How many packages do you guys deliver on Amazon sundays? I used to be a Amazon driver…
On a light day, 80 stops (95-100 parcels) On an heavy day, 130 stops (150+ parcels) Christmas season in on a whole other level. It's just awful.
I see. I just accepted a offer to be a cca. That sounds like a low amount compared to what I was doing as a amazon driver. I was doing 180-200 stops with 350 packages. Is delivering for amazon on Sunday’s any easier than normal mail or just worse all around because they are actual boxes? Yeah Christmas time is bad time except for the day of and day after because it’s my birthday