Lil Foot
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One more thing to piss you off
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Daren Todd
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I haven't had any damage from mailbox baseball. But our mail carrier has smoked it a couple times now with their mirror 
I'll walk out with a couple pair of pliers and a hammer and knock it back into shape till the next time 
I'll walk out with a couple pair of pliers and a hammer and knock it back into shape till the next time 
Our carrier is too lazy to close the door on it. Dude makes big bucks, has a wicked union contract and is a lazy slug. I see the PO lost 2 billion in the last 3 months. I can understand why.
Like you Flip I once painted some people with the same brush but I was wrong. For 13 years I lugged milk
to retail stores, taverns, restaurants, well you get the idea. Long hours, good pay especially back then but
dirty, leaking milk and if yoghurt busted open in the back of your truck at the end of the day you looked
like you blew a seal so to speak. Then came the chance to get on at the PO, wow, I won the lottery. Wasn't
until after a few days on that it began to sink in that not many companies will pay well for unskilled labour
and give you medical along with a good pension. For the first month I thought I was going to die, those
people are athletes and even the ones that keep themself's in shape were having knees and hips replaced
sometimes long before they retired. Hey, but that was 9 years ago now I'm sure things have changed quite
a bit since then, after all the government is there to make things easier on us all right. I guess what I'm
trying to say is the old sayings, don't judge a book by it's cover and there's good and bad in every walk of
life. As for your job, you can have it, I've helped the farmer down the road and that was no picnic either.
to retail stores, taverns, restaurants, well you get the idea. Long hours, good pay especially back then but
dirty, leaking milk and if yoghurt busted open in the back of your truck at the end of the day you looked
like you blew a seal so to speak. Then came the chance to get on at the PO, wow, I won the lottery. Wasn't
until after a few days on that it began to sink in that not many companies will pay well for unskilled labour
and give you medical along with a good pension. For the first month I thought I was going to die, those
people are athletes and even the ones that keep themself's in shape were having knees and hips replaced
sometimes long before they retired. Hey, but that was 9 years ago now I'm sure things have changed quite
a bit since then, after all the government is there to make things easier on us all right. I guess what I'm
trying to say is the old sayings, don't judge a book by it's cover and there's good and bad in every walk of
life. As for your job, you can have it, I've helped the farmer down the road and that was no picnic either.
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We had a rash of that very thing where I live. After 2 times in two weeks we caught them. Local teenagers and most of us out here know their parents. The problem for the kids and their parents is bashing a mailbox is a federal charge and the local cops turned it over to the postal authorities. The kids garnered some hefty fines for bashing some $20 mailboxes on their night of fun. Four kids in the car and each one drew a charge for each mailbox that was hit. Eight boxes total.
Lil Foot
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In general, our letter carriers have been pretty good, except when our area was designated a "training route" for a couple years. It was a PITA, but probably good for the neighborhood, as we all met in the street around 6pm every night to exchange mail that had been delivered incorrectly each day.
We have 4 community boxes in the neighborhood, and one (ours) was broken into 4 times. (it's a little less observable than the others) They were light sheet metal with doors in the rear, so easy to hide while breaking in. We complained, and the PO said that they were all going to be replaced soon with new armored boxes. Yay!
The other 3 boxes were quickly replaced, but not ours. After a couple months, I was able to track down the woman in charge of this program, and set up a meeting. I asked why ours was not replaced, and she said they had used all the money budgeted for the program, and that it would be at least a year before they got more money.
I asked her to explain why she replaced the 3 boxes that had not been broken into, and not replaced the one box that had been broken into 4 times. She had no answer. I kept pressing, & she told me to get out of her office or she would call the cops.
I contacted a local investigative TV reporter, and after he called her, we had a new box that same week.
It has not been broken into since.
If she is representative of their management, I can see why they are losing billions.
We have 4 community boxes in the neighborhood, and one (ours) was broken into 4 times. (it's a little less observable than the others) They were light sheet metal with doors in the rear, so easy to hide while breaking in. We complained, and the PO said that they were all going to be replaced soon with new armored boxes. Yay!
The other 3 boxes were quickly replaced, but not ours. After a couple months, I was able to track down the woman in charge of this program, and set up a meeting. I asked why ours was not replaced, and she said they had used all the money budgeted for the program, and that it would be at least a year before they got more money.
I asked her to explain why she replaced the 3 boxes that had not been broken into, and not replaced the one box that had been broken into 4 times. She had no answer. I kept pressing, & she told me to get out of her office or she would call the cops.
I contacted a local investigative TV reporter, and after he called her, we had a new box that same week.
It has not been broken into since.
If she is representative of their management, I can see why they are losing billions.
