Thread: Dh is ready to go postal !

My husband is a mail carrier for USPS. He's worked for them for about 6 years. Today he called in sick to work and went to the doctor because he is SO stressed that he can hardly contain himself. The doctor gave him a week off of work to start with. Then he has to see another doctor.

You guys have no idea how bad it can suck to be a mail carrier. I swear the supervisors have to go to school to take classes such as "how to contridict yourself in 2 sentences or less" or "evading answers 101" or "how to thouroughly piss off your mail carriers until they get to the point where they want to kill you"!

I really is that bad. Supervisors are under alot of stress to make sure each route is done completely by a certain time even if people call in sick or whatever. The level of mail on any given day can be not very much or tons of mail. So they have all of these stupid formula's & stuff that "magically" tell them what time a carrier should be out on the street after caseing his mail (putting it in the correct order) and delivering it. It is almost always wrong but you can't tell that to a supervisor because it must be YOUR FAULT! Not the formula!

I could go on and on and on......Dh won't even go to work to pick up his paycheck this week, I have to go get it for him so he doesn't have to see anyone there.

My Grandfather worked for USPS as a routing supervisor. He was under enormous stress daily. He even took a couple of different leave-of-absenses because of stress. He lived in California and Oregon because that is where the p.o. sent him, he declined to be transfered to Washington for the last year before he retired. Well they basicly black-balled him because he didn't want to move his family again & they made him miserable utill the day he retired. Only a year later he had his first major stroke, with more to follow later.