Postal Letter

Why do postal workers seem nutty ?

How come postal workers have reputation being crazy ? Are alot of postal workers abused by customers for high prices and long waits ? There is a guy at the UPS store and he is so defensive . He overcharges people and people complain .He always talks like he is picking fights with people - is it becuz he gets abused all the time ?

Public Comments

1. Mind numbing repetitive work day in and day out can make you nuts. And perhaps too many difficult customers.
2. It's because mail never, ever stops coming in. There is always more. It is unrelenting.
3. Yep, they have a sucky job. Post offices are normally located "downtown" where all the ghetto people are. They have to deal with stupid people who don't understand that if you want to mail a letter you have to put a stamp on it! lol It's a boring job, but someone has to do it. Plus they are no longer government employees so they don't have all the great benefits worth putting up with a sucky job.
4. they are very stressed out.they do have to get the mail out every day.
5. I haven't had a problem. They are so nice and helpful.
6. I work for Royal Mail, thats the British postal service. I've never "gone postal", but there are things about the job that do get you down. It can be quite soul-destroying. I used to work in a sorting office. One day, you could spend a seven hours of your eight hour shift clearing and emptying a big mountain of mailsacks and prepping the contents for sorting. Then you might spend the last hour of your shift unloading a lorry and building tomorrow's mountain. It makes your work seem futile and pointless. Like you're fighting the tide. I currently work on deliveries, and thats just the same. You have to do some sorting before your round, which is the same effect as above, but then you have the public to deal with. Postal services tend to be distant from people's lives, and the postman on the street is the only connection they have. This means you get all the crap. I used to find that I'd be almost finished my round by 1pm, which I consider an achievement, considering it means I've delivered to 500 address, out of six sacks, in under five hours, and walking non-stop the whole time. However, when I was delivering the last letters, people would complain and have a go at me, because "their old postman used to come at 8am". They forget that it was a series of management decisions to merge rounds, and to push back the start time for deliveries, and if I could finish earlier, I would! You also get accused of increasing the price of postage, being generally lazy because you don't run straight to their house individually at the start of the delivery, for tampering with their mail (when in actual fact the damage was done by a sorting machine, or their letterbox or even dog), or even stealing their mail (when their parcel didn't arrive when they wanted it to). All of this just adds to how it eats away at you. Personally, I enjoy my job (not the bad aspects like above), but I can see how it would crack some people.