Post office to only deliver 5 days a week?

[amp in srb]

Anyone ever worked for the USPS?

Anyone ever read Bukowski's 'Post Office'. ? Great piece of fiction if you haven't.

I've worked, in the most dreary, coldest, depressing postal station ever. Whilst I was a young lad.......needing money to do a variety of things, travel, live, laugh..........

Anyway. As an aside. I worked in a St. Paul MN post office, central station, dead of winter, cold as all get out, it was the worst ever, I was paid........well not poorly but not greatly. It was negative whatever daily............in any case......I had a task a couple hours a day taking rubber bands off of envelopes. I started, obviously, making rubber band ball, (who wouldn't) with the collected rubber bands I collected. The ball, and all of us were in on it, was at least a foot in diameter by the time it all came to an end. Of course eventually it was confiscated, I was denounced as a traitor and my comrades separated from me. It was awful. But hilarious.

 

[amp in srb]

Again, grammar. Sucks.

 

[Beach Runner]

There are many people who do not own a computer. So there has to be some option for these to pay their bills and recieve mail.

Plus what about people who work M-F 9-5 and can't make it to the post office except on Saturdays? They might have a certifed letter to pick up or a package that requires a signature. In larger towns due to traffic it's not practical to run to the post office before work or during lunch hour.

 

[John R]

Don't take away this guy's job.

Hopefully advances in technology will make the sorting faster than it already is. I too like receiving a postcard of handwritten letter.