Postal Letter

What is the a career as a mailman like? I've been wondering what it would be like to be a USPS mailman. What do the daily duties include (assuming it's not just driving around a route and delivering/picking up mail)? Also what sort of salary do they see and is it competititive?

I want to be a mailman. Can someone with experience tell me what it's like? I've had the fantasy of being a mailman for a long time. Great exercise, independant, outdoors, etc. Can someone who really knows give me the run down on salary, conditions, culture and how to get the job?. I hope it's all I've been dreaming of....

Roughly whats the starting salary for a postal worker in the USA? Looking for someone that knows what they're talking about, not looking for BS. What is the rough ballpark figure a starting full time postal employee makes in the USA. And if you know, what does a veteran mailman/mailwoman make?

1) Any info about be a mailman (especially southern California) is appreciated? 2) How many years of service they have to do in order to retire with full benefits? 3) When they do retire, they get what salary percentage from their pension plan? 4) How competitive is it to becom a postal worker in southern california?

What is the typical day of a mailman? i would like to deliver mail and be a mail man i think they start them off with good salary :)

mailman? is it a good job or not? i am 16 and have a 93 average through high school. i want to become a mailman. they make a good salary and have great benefits.

What happened to the mailman? A popular mailman around the neighborhood announces to the whole town, that he is moving in a few weeks. Another town had agreed to give him a better pay. On his weekly schedule to deliver mail. Upon the first knock on the door, the mailman notices a letter. " If you stay I'll provide you a new jaguar every year, and a mini van for your wife," - Workman Willy. The next house he had on his scehdule no sooner as he knocked on the door, the mayor pulled hiim in, and said, " If you stay I'll double your salary, and establish a building to make sure your children have the top of the best education." The next house he went in, a wonderufl drop dead gorgeous woman brought him upstairs and gave him the best time of his life. Went he proceeded to walk downstairs, on the table he noticed a 100 dollar bill with a sandwhich. He questioned the lady why the money and food? She replys," Last night i asked my husband what we should give you. He said," screw him." the money and food was mine.

why is it that I cant live with self respect? I am a grad student. As you can imagine, I barely manage to live out my "sentence of poverty" on a stipend that, despite being treated as salary by the IRS, does not give me a worker status. I am not a slacker, in fact I carry a well earned reputation for hard work. But, this is what it boils down to at the end of the day: the univ claims to be actually indulging me by paying tuition; the univ (and society) claims to be doing me a favour by letting me have my measly TA job. So, despite the fact that I work my life away each and everyday, i am made to feel like a parasite. What is my crime? People tell me that I should "love" my job; is it wrong to ask for pay if you are doing a job you love? I am poorly paid, I work extremely hard and I am made to feel like a thief.... Why is all this happening ? A mailman, a janitor, a waiter, a cashier makes way more than I do; I walk everyday and they drive cars; what have I done to deserve this fate?

How much do postoffice jobs pay? Hi, i want to know how much do mailmen make a year?.. Or how much do the people working inside the postoffice handaling the boxes make a year? I live in texas, can someone just give me an estamation of salary I would be making a year barely starting out working for the postoffice?

how much money do mailmen make? how much is the hourly wage, or do they get a yearly salary?

Does this make sense? http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-Mailman http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-Nurse http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-Genetics out of high school job > bachelor's + some extra classes > Ph.D. wtf? How much longer do you think mail men will be around?

How do salaries compare between U.S. and Western Europe? For example how much would doctors/lawyers/teachers/ accountants etc. be paid on average in the U.S. as compared to say France, or Germany? I would suspect that salaries for these professional type positions would be higher in the U.S. as compared to other countries, however salaries for other jobs like waiters, janitors, mailman etc. may be higher in Europe since I suspect the minimum wage is much higher there. What got me interested in this question, was that I read an article, a few days ago (I think it was the NY Times) that talked about Europe's shrinking middle class. I remember reading that the salary for a mid-career elementary school teacher in France was only about $21,000 euro annually (only about $31,000 even with the bad exchange rate). I thought that was awfully low considering that entry level teachers in the U.S. can make around $40,000, and could be at 55-60,000 by midcareer. Any insight would be appreciated.

How much would you pay a cleaning lady? I am a self employed cleaning lady for 6 years now, & am wondering what the average pay is. I live in the south Chicago suburbs. I try to charge by the job not the hour. I quoted one lady $75.00 for a once a month cleaning & she thought that was too high. Are you kidding me?? I have to pay for insurance & my cleaning supplies & my gas. What do these people think they are going to pay? I average around $20-25 an hour for a basic cleaning & $30 for a deep clean or a move out. Also with the exception of maybe one customer, none of them have ever given me a Christmas gift or a bonus. I heard that nannies get a one week's salary as a bonus & the mailmen gets around $25, too. What do you think? Shouldn't I get a bonus at Christmas? Why do people tip the paperboy & the mailman but not the cleaning lady? wow Gary D! You got away cheap! She did laundry & dishes for only 75 bucks?! thanks to all who answered...

Why do we tip Hairdressers? I feel that tipping is out of control. The only ones who should get tipped are waiters/waitresses only! A 15% tip is sufficient at that. As for hairdressers they should not receive any more than a $5 or $10 tip no matter what service they provide. They already take in 50 -60% of what they bill you, as well as a percentage of the products they sell you. They get a commission from that also. YOU ARE PAYING FOR THE SERVICE TWICE!!! ONCE ON THE BILL THEY GIVE YOU. NEXT ON THE TIP YOU LEAVE THEM. GETTING A HAIRCUT OR COLORING HAS BECOME A MAJOR EXPENSE WITH ALL THIS TIPPING. If you pay for something once that person should do a good job so that you become a repeat customer. You should not have to tip in order to ensure good service. The hairdresser is making a very, very good salary on your service. (Look at your bills.) Why are you paying them again with a tip to perform a job they have been very well compensated for? It doesn't make sense? We tip people that make a good salary just because they give us a service. Masseuses also make a decent salary and yet they expect 15-20% tips. We are the fools that spoil these people into thinking we owe them a tip when in fact THEY SHOULD DO A GOOD JOB FOR THE PRICE THEY CHARGE US. THESE SERCIVES ARE NOT FREE. They are lucky to have clients and a job in a economy such as our country has now. DO YOU TIP YOUR GROCERY CASHIER? No you don't. They work very hard also? Do you tip a mailman/garbage collector/gas attendant. No! They also give us a service and don't make a lot of money. Where does this ridiculous tipping stop! It was started to compensate the waiters ( who don't make a decent hourly wage) not every other service around.

Why do blue collar workers hate the wealthy? Why do blue collar people tend to think that anyone who is wealthy is a Paris Hilton type. Someone who has never worked a day in their life, inherited all their money from daddy and looks down on the working class? I have an Aunt who used to run a multi-billion dollar division for a Fortune 500 company. She had multiple degrees including a Masters in electrical engineering from Columbia. She busted her butt for 40 years to get to that position and would work in excess of 80 hours a week doing highly skilled labor that generated billions (literally) of dollars in revenue for the company. She was never able to have kids because of her career and she had to sacrifice a lot in life in order to obtain her wealth. She certainly wasn't stuck up and if you hung out with her you would never know she was wealthy. So this misconception particularly annoys me because I feel like working class people always complain about CEO types without realizing the amount of work and sacrifice that goes into their job and the amount of education and skill that is required. I've always been of the philosophy that if you live in America you have the opportunity to do whatever the heck you want and make as much money as you want if you work hard enough -- you chose your own fate. It just bugs me whenever I hear a teacher, mailman, construction worker, cop etc complains that it's unfair that so-and-so makes so much money. I mean, if you don't like it then do something else. You chose whatever line of work you're doing. I have a teacher friend who used to always complain "Alex Rodriguez makes like 25 million dollars a year and yet teachers only make 50k a year it's just not fair." Do blue collared workers think that there's some government agency that assigns salaries to professions or something? There's no salary czar saying "Well, professional athletes deserve millions and firemen deserve 35K." It's called supply and demand -- their skills (while less important to society) are rarer than yours. Hence they get paid more. It's that simple. Sorry for the rant, it just annoys me whenever I'm on Yahoo reading the comments about a Goldman Sachs article or something and I see people complaining about bonuses. I went to college with friends who work for Goldman Sachs and I can assure you that they typically only hire like the top 5% of students from the top 5% of the Nation's top universities. The people I know who work for them work in excess of 80 hours a week -- sometimes literally sleep at their desks -- and when they're not working they're typically on call and if their work phone goes off they have to drop what they're doing and attend to it instantly. Doesn't exactly sound like Paris Hilton to me yet for some reason it seems like the entire blue collar population thinks these people were given everything in life when in reality the majority just busted their butts in school and in work. FYI, I don't work for these people and nor am I wealthy, just drawing on personal experiences from what I've witnessed. Asheal: Nobody told your dad to have 8 kids that he obviously couldn't afford. I think you perfectly personify what I was talking about. I don't think it's fair that wealthy people who have busted their butt their entire life and made responsible choices (like not having 8 kids on a working class salary) have to support you just because "they can." Guess what? Your dad could have gone to college, studied hard, went to work for a top company and became wealthy, but he didn't. Dean: I'll agree that there is luck associated with it and my Aunt has told me that many times before. There's always qualified people who get left out in the route she chose (working up the corporate ladder). But, opportunity is nothing without ability. Granted she may not have been a multimillionaire without some luck but she certainly would be making in excess of $150,000 per year given her education and profession (not a bad amount of money). With clever savings and investing you could easily be a millionaire once you're in your 50's on an engineer's salary and maybe a promotion or two. So, I don't agree that rich people are there by pure luck. The mega rich I'll agree are there from a mix of luck and skill, but anyone can have a million+ in their account with time and purely skill and hard work. I also grew up poor, and I never really had that same experience as you have where I was looked down on. I'm sure some rich people's children might take on that attitude (but they're not Powwow, you're an absolute moron. Based on your inability to use basic grammar, I would say you didn't try very hard in school and hence the reason that you're not successful. You epitomize that blue collar I'm the victim mentality. I'm not disrespecting or prejudiced against blue collar people (seeing as I technically am one). It bothers me that blue collared people tend to think of all rich people as the cast of the Jersey Shore or something when in reality they simply worked hard for their money. And yes, anyone who wants to can become rich. If you work hard your entire life waiting tables then no that's not going to happen. But, if you are waiting tables then you obviously didn't work very hard when you were in school. Everyone gets an education -- through financial aid, scholarships and loans, anyone can go to college. Anyone can get the education that is needed to make $100,000+ a year. That isn't some privilege for the rich. If you're in that situation then no you didn't work ha Dean again: Despite how it sounds, I actually came from a really crappy home myself. My mom was a waitress who spent a 3rd of her money on cigarettes and my dad was a virtual deadbeat. I was lucky that I was able to get ambition through seeing my Aunt's career take off but I took those experiences and was of the mentality "there's no way I want to keep living like that." It was a form of reverse motivation I suppose. I agree people's parents are an impediment, but even if you realize that by 23 or so there's still no reason that you can't go back to college and earn a degree that will get you the career you desire in order to make the money you want. You say that you work really hard? What do you do? Where did you go to school? What was your GPA? Innocence Faded: I know my Aunt very well and I guess you guys will have to take me at face value when I say that she truly isn't like that. I've also worked with her and know most of her coworkers. I've seen her mailing Christmas cards and birthday cards and stuff to secretaries and low level employees at her company. She also donates a lot of money to some great charities. I'm sure she's had to be an a$$ at work sometimes as that's pretty much called for in a CEO position on occasion, but that's no different than saying that a cop is being an a$$ for writing a ticket to a speeder -- it's their job. Dean 3: Answer those questions I wrote in my 2nd edit to you. What do you do? Where do you go to school? What's your GPA? What are you studying? What state do you live in? If you're going to some joke of a college studying communications then no you're probably not going to make much money in life. I like my Aunt am an Engineer. I'm getting my Masters and when I get out this summer will probably start at a salary of 70k/year at the age of 24. Saving 3 grand per month and making 5% return on investments would make me a millionaire by 45. I didn't have to pay for college since my mom was making below the poverty line (financial aid covered it). I worked my butt off and had a 3.5+GPA got into a top Grad School and now don't have to pay for school because I'm on a funded research project (and I take out some loans for spending which I can easily pay off in a few months upon graduation). Engineering school is f'ing hard but anyone can do it. Go for it. Dean 4: I didn't get an email on my Yahoo. Try again: it's tomv043@yahoo.com 1. I don't buy that you're not smart enough to do engineering. I'm of the philosophy that anyone is capable of anything so long as they work hard enough. If you studied your butt off you would pass. I've seen some really really dumb kids pass through shear determination. 2. I have a hotmail that I never use you can email me there and from there I'll give you an email that I actually check, just let me know on here once you have sent something to my hotmail: bravesfan222@hotmail.com 3. Getting a job with a psychology major from a small liberal arts school will probably be tough. At least you have the GPA though. You can get your Grad School paid for if you work for a funded project (which is hard in a liberal art's degree). Chemistry on the other hand is a solid degree (and if you can do chemistry you can do engineering). Why not chemical engineering? I wouldn't get it at a liberal art's school, but surely there's some state school in your state that you can afford? How old are you? Dean it's cutting me off as I think I've reached a limit. Email me at that bravesfan222@hotmail.com address.

received a false thc / bac test result - possible health related? i had to go to get an alcohol assessment for an owi (2 beers in a 6 1/2 hour time span showed a bac of .132 ,, after i blew clean on the breathalizer and then the cop found out i had a well paying job) and after the assessment they had me give them a urine sample whioch they are saying tested positive for marijuana. i don't smoke marijuana, dont hang around anyone who smokes, and dont even allow it to be brought into my home. i looked online to find reasons for a false thc reading and one of them was kidney disease or diabetes- was wondering if its possible i could have either one based on the fact that i usually consume an average of a 12 pack of Sunkist Orange soda a day along with a few candy bars here and there and my usual diet consists of boxed/canned foods and frozen pizzas- and smoke cigs - pack-pack and 1/2 a day - im a mailman so i walk a lot everyday so im not huge or anything- stocky at best. is it possible i could have one of these and not know it.. and if so would it cause a false reading on the marijuana as well as the bac? also dont have alcohol in my home (was raised by an alcoholic mother so i dont drink at home and have only been to a bar twice in the last 7 months, and then just had a few and played the jukebox.) since the assessment place took down my salary before the assessment im convinced this is the biggest money hungry scam going on and im a bit pissed- especially about the marijuana thing. will call my lawyer friday but wanted to check to see if i had anything going on in my favor here.

why is it that I cant live with self respect? I am a grad student. As you can imagine, I barely manage to live out my "sentence of poverty" on a stipend that, despite being treated as salary by the IRS, does not give me a worker status. I am not a slacker, in fact I carry a well earned reputation for hard work. But, this is what it boils down to at the end of the day: the univ claims to be actually indulging me by paying tuition; the univ (and society) claims to be doing me a favour by letting me have my measly TA job. So, despite the fact that I work my life away each and everyday, i am made to feel like a parasite. What is my crime? People tell me that I should "love" my job; is it wrong to ask for pay if you are doing a job you love? I am poorly paid, I work extremely hard and I am made to feel like a thief.... Why is all this happening ? A mailman, a janitor, a waiter, a cashier makes way more than I do; I walk everyday and they drive cars; what have I done to deserve this fate?