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‘Air Mail’: Camera Catches USPS Worker Launching Fragile Package Over Fence

Remember when The Blaze reported that a FedEx worker threw a package over a customer’s fence — and that it was caught on camera?

It looks like a similar situation has occurred, only this time it isn’t FedEx, it’s the United States Postal Service (USPS).

Air Mail: Camera Catches USPS Worker Launching Fragile Package Over Fence

“Say it ain’t so, Joe…”

Michael Oreb ordered a 1938 German black forest cuckoo clock and opted to have the (USPS) deliver it.

“I tracked it all the way from Pennsylvania to Bell Gardens to here,” Oreb said to NBC LA.

When the USPS truck pulled up, Oreb happened to be watching his surveillance video and was shocked by what he saw next (via NBC LA):

“I looked and he pulled up, threw it (the box) over the fence and then got in the van and drove off. I went out there and picked up the thing and he was already up the street,” said Oreb.

“I pretty much figured that it was going to be damaged from the distance that he’d thrown it,” Oreb said.

The rare, antique clock was definitely damaged.

“The chains no longer work. I guess they’re jammed up in the back. And one of them is off the rails. And the second hand is catawampus, it’s loose. But I don‘t know what the other ones do but I don’t know what else is broke until I take it in and have them look at it,” said Oreb.

Oreb said he immediately called the postal service to tell them what he caught on video, reports NBC LA. He says a helpful company representative was at his door in 10 minutes, but he wouldn’t let her take the clock, the report says.

“I will take it in and find me a repairman who works on antique clocks and have them repair it and I’ll send them the bill,” said Oreb.

USPS released the following statement:

The U.S. Postal Service was dismayed to see the video of one of our employee throwing a parcel over a fence. That does not represent the kind of service we strive to provide our customers. … This matter is currently being investigated to determine the appropriate actions to be taken with regards to the employee and our customer.

Luckily for the driver, Oreb is a forgiving soul and isn’t pressing the USPS to fire the driver.

“I think he should be reprimanded – maybe put through some more training and stuff like that ’cause you never know what’s inside the packages when you see them,’“ he said.

Considering the financial hole the USPS is already in, they might want to invest in keeping customers happy; they may not be around much longer if they don’t.

Comments (87)

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:05pm

    …
    The postal worker should be fired.

     
    • Pontiac
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:45pm

      There wouldn’t be any left if they did that…

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:09pm

      PONTIAC Yes, Fire and rehire one of those who won’t throw packages..

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:56pm

      I don’t throw packages like that, so yes there would be a few of us left.
      Unfortunately, you have to steal mail or kill somebody to get fired. I think the post office was written into the constitution to show how bad gov’t run anything can be……

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 4:15am

      I’m sure their union is on top of it right now. How many people are out of work who REALLY want to work? THIS DRIVER SHOULD LOSE THEIR JOB SO A GRATEFUL PERSON CAN TAKE IT.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 8:14am

      There are bad apples in every industry. Fire him and use his firing as training for the others. I had a UPS man put a package UNDER a front hedge…it was an envelope that could have easily been slipped between the screen door and the front door. I complained to the company about not getting it. The only reason I found it was it said it was left at “other.” I did a diligent search. Who leaves packages under a hedge?

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    • DakotaJoe
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 8:46am

      With 8.5 million people (OR MORE) out of work, I’m sure there are some of them that would LOVE to do this job.

      OH yea, The UNION willl find a way to protect him and make excuses for him. He will be delivering someones mail today.

      At least make this carrier pay for the repairs of the clock

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    • centenium
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 9:27am

      I wonder if this is the former FEDEX employee’s new gig?

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    • tankyjo
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 11:21am

      Fired? He’ll get promoted dude! This is the gov’t, remember?

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    • Spirit 72
      Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:32pm

      For 99 wks of unemployment, he might have thought “what’s the diff?” He was probably due for SEIU’s 100% retirement anyway.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:24pm

    Post Office employees do things like this on purpose just to get fired. They have the Union fight it and they settle for retirement at 50% or more of their salary. I’ve seen a lot of it here in Tampa. Now they get to collect retirement for life and don’t have to worry about lay-offs and PO offices closing. They also don’t have to go back to work and deal with the Supervisors or Management that have fun making their lives a living he11 everyday and collect $15K or more bonus’s every Christmas. Sad, but it’s true. It’s how Union workers retire early on propose.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:29pm

      Sorry, my spell check did not catch propose when I meant purpose so please don’t give me any grief about it. Thanks.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:45pm

      Shoot, I‘d be surprised that the union wouldn’t demand a raise and extra vacation time for the pain and suffering of seeing himself on the video. The only post offices that I have ever in my life seen run anywhere near efficiently were overseas military post offices. Only GIs and no union thugs. Been retired so long now that has probably changed by now too.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:49pm

      @RichNGadsden
      Don’t use the words “shoot” and “post office” in the same sentence…. some 3 letter government agency will be knocking on your door ;>)

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  • Romans623
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:14pm

    That carrier should have to reimburse the customer for his clock! 
    There‘s no excuse for throwing someone’s package. 
    What ever happened to the golden rule?
    I’m a contractor/carrier, and I treat others mail/packages the way I want my mail/packages treated.
    As a side note, if you get a lot of packages and you have a small mail box, consider putting up a larger box ( it’s not that easy getting in and out from sitting on the hump in the middle of the car :)
    Also make sure your mail box is the proper height and distance from the road  :) 

    http://www.i-mailboxes.com/installing-mailboxes.html

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  • schroeder123
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:21pm

    He will NOT get fired… Just like all Government workers and teachers.

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    • antiencenom
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:45pm

      I have to laugh at this ,just today my USPS driver sat in my drive way laying on the horn ,I didn’t budge till I heard the package hit the door Then I opened the door as she walked away,and scared her out of her shoes LOLand I thanked her.way to funny Privatetise it

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  • p51d007
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:13pm

    “Look for…that union label…”

    Fire the idiot. Training? Any idiot knows you don’t THROW packages. Start FIRING some of these clowns, and watch the service improve. And the postal service scratches its head on how well other carriers do?

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  • bryan305
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:12pm

    “Luckily for the driver, Oreb is a forgiving soul and isn’t pressing the USPS to fire the driver.”

    Why? There are plenty of people out there who are looking for work and might not be complete A-holes like this one.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:25pm

      Oreb says give more training. Mr. Oreb must be a full fleged Union Man or dumb. This is about 10 to 20 years of union training. The Post Office can only put a letter in his personal file. If he has 3 letters they actually could fire him.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:59pm

      No they can’t Turkey. They’ll screw up, do something wrong, and have all the discipline thrown out by a step-b or arbitrator.

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  • vetformorals
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:59pm

    This is nothing new for USPS. They are as corrupt as our government. 5 years ago, one of their workers hit my father in law with his truck. My FinL walked across the street to wait for the “Mailman” who had delivered mail to our address wrongfully. The “Mailman” took the mail from him and when my FinL walked in front of the truck to come home, the “Mailman” pressed the gas and hit him. We called the USPS to file a complaint. My FinL was black and blue from his waist to his feet, he was 84 yrs old at the time. USPS supervisor came out a couple of days later and said that it was not the USPS that hit him and that we would get in trouble for filing a wrongful claim. We took pictures of his injuries and showed them to the supervisor. Again, we were threatened with prosecution for filing a false claim. The “Mailman” did not even get out of his truck to see if this 84 yr old man was ok, or to help him up. The intimidation of the USPS is outrageous. They think they can do and say anything and get away with it, just like our current government. Thank God my FinL was a Veteran and had available medical treatment for his injuries. This article does not surprise me in the least. Another over-inflated government agency that thinks it is beyond the law or moral code.

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    • Romans623
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:42pm

      Did you call the police? That route would have gotten results!0

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    • Proud Stray Dog
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 5:06pm

      Should have definitely called the PD. One neighborhood I lived in did after the USPS worker was driving while intoxicated and hit a kid on a bike. Kid was OK, bike was trashed, and USPS driver kept going. They tried the same intimidation crap, but LEO still cuffed and stuffed the guy. He’s serving 5 years for DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, and child endangerment. Media wouldn’t even touch it with a 10 ft pole. Last I heard, LEO officer was pressing a harassment suit against the union for their actions.

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    • SGT Rock
      Posted on January 22, 2012 at 1:29pm

      Should have called police and reported a hit and run.

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  • zoose
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:59pm

    We have a mailbox on the side of the road and our rural carrier is to lazy to close our mailbox door.
    I frequently have to walk up and down the road to collect my mail on windy days.

    The postmaster can’t do anything about this as all the rural carriers are CONTRACTORS.

    All our important mail goes to our PO Box and they soak us $40 a year for that.

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    • Romans623
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:51pm

      My first approach to solve this would be to try and politely explain to the carrier you’ve found your mail blowing around the neighborhood and to please make sure the door is closed, ps use your cell phone or video camera to discreetly record the convo. If that doesn’t work contact the postmaster again.
      The post master needs to grow a set and tell the carrier to close the door. If it isn’t resolved, go to the next higher official.

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    • adirondacklady67
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:45pm

      What is the condition of your box door? Is it the metal or plastic box? I have to leave notes for customers whose doors don’t close right. If it doesn’t latch after the first try then it needs to be replaced. If you had to deliver to over 450 boxes a day within a required time limit, there is no time to mess around with a bent or damaged door to get it to close. Also those molded plastic boxes have 2 doors on them and the wind can catch that back door when you open the front to put the mail in. Tell the carrier or postmaster to make sure to close the door if your box is in good working condition.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:03am

      adirondacklady67

      Oh hell no, they have a box where the lid keeps flopping open after I close it 3 times, it is MY FAULT.
      No one here knows what the hell they are talking about.

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    • sallyskull
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:22am

      Rural carriers are not contractors. They drive their own vehicles but they receive retirement benefits and medical coverage from the postal service. The postmaster is their supervisor who can bring about disciplinary action against them.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:57pm

    Fire the shmuck, apparently he does not want the job.

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  • OutOnTheTiles
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:41pm

    Don’t ever mark “Fragile” on the box…….that just marks it for “special treatment”. LOL

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:55pm

      That is also like printing the contents on the outside of the package on the Custom’s form when it goes out of country. I’ve sent and received a number of collectible items that just did not make it. Have learned to fill out the customs forms in the vaguest wording possible. Have had a similar problem with UPS too, but that’s another story.

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  • EMM1969
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:38pm

    These comments are depressing. You all act like a bunch of self righteous liberals. Same attack style comments without the knowledge to back up the hatred you spew. Not all USPS workers are lazy or bad. Most work very hard and take pride in their work and their customers. My mail route is 16 miles. I treat my customers and their mail/parcels with respect as do my co-workers. Their are idiots in every organization, that doesnt make it the norm. And don’t believe everything the media puts out on the financials of the USPS. The media does lie you know!

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    • adirondacklady67
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:36pm

      I agree with you. I have 2 routes I work out of 3 offices and I work my tail off 6 days a week 51 weeks a year and I provide excellent service to my customers. This incident is not the norm. We are all human and people can have bad days and good days. I think the worker should get reprimanded and retrained but not fired. If people think that this one incident is cause for this worker getting fired, then why aren’t they screaming at their politicians who are constantly screwing over the American worker? Where are those liberals now?

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:11am

      Mine is 12 miles walking, with about 900 steps. I am amazed at how nice most my customers are, yet how others act like they are the only person I deal with. Or the dumbasses that send something to the wrong address, or (THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED LAST SUMMER) some moron in Az, who claimed to be a carrier in Phoenix, mailed something to her son in Tulsa, to an address he hadn’t been at in 5 years. No tracking, she calls having a cow, wondering why we delivered the package to the address without checking the name, come to find out WE DIDN’T. We sent it back to the processing plant as a “dead” piece of mail, because the dumbass didn’t put a return address. This stupid woman yelled AT ME on the phone for 20 minutes, claiming she put 2 money orders for $4,000 and about $500 cash in the box.

      BUT IT WAS MY FAULT…………..And I didn’t even carry the route that day…….

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    • hddoug
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 8:51am

      My good friend worked for the USPS as a supervisor and she retired because she was fed up with the mail carrier’s. She said it was almost impossible to fire any of them because they could only get for fighting or drinking on the job.I asked what about doing their job? She laughed!

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  • Bill Rowland
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:35pm

    Post office in this little town is very good and our carrier is very polite and courteous. He delivers packages to big for the mailbox to the porch and knocks to let you know it is there.

    OMG

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  • piper60
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:35pm

    the carrier who did this should be fired, and forced to work as a prison guard somewhere.

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  • the phathom
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:25pm

    For starters he should be fired and the job given to someone who would appreciate it. However If I said what I really thought I would be considered A bigot.

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  • TRK
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:24pm

    As a Rural Mail Carrier this video is very disturbing to me. I do the best I can to give good service to my customers and insure that their parcels are handled properly and left in secure places with protection from the weather. It really is a bad reflection on those of us who enjoy our jobs with the USPS and work hard to do a good job to have someone caught ignoring postal regulations so flagrantly. I’m sure few postal employees have any sympathy for him. I also doubt that his customer’s forgiving attitude will have any effect on the discipline he is sure to recieve. And yes people do use USPS for parcels, in fact we deliver many parcels for UPS to rural areas. They drop off parcels at Post Offices every day.

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  • GollygeeMrwilson
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:09pm

    I won’t justify the USPS for mistreating the package. That is inexcusable. But that doesn’t look like an antique Black Forest clock to me. Looks just like a $30 knock-off I picked up at a military BX in the late 60′s. Just MHO.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:18pm

      He is a federal employee and in a union. Absolutely nothing will happen to him other than maybe a promotion or a raise.
      Soon you will be getting the same type of service for your healthcare needs.

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  • bjornskis
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:01pm

    this is just the first time this kind of behavior has been caught on tape

    If he has done this once he has done this many more times with out witness to claim damage.

    just another self entitled public sector worker

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  • BAPDCO
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:48pm

    One nice thing about living in a free country is we have the option to choose what we read, view, listen to, etc, etc. If you find this site so disturbing why don’t you just avoid it??

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  • bankerpapaw
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:34pm

    United States Postal (Service?) No wonder no one uses it any more. A bunch of incompetent
    government workers who don’t give a flip.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:29pm

    Thats a shame that one lazy worker makes all of USPS look bad, with them $8 billion in the hole and with better service alternatives from UPS and Fedex Ground, the USPS can’t afford to allow its service to slip like this, otherwise the institution Ben Franklin built will go the way of the dinosaur.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:05pm

      It seriously blows my mind that I can mail a letter for 44 cents anywhere in the U.S. It honestly is a magnificant system.

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 6:16pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7XtDfzQamU
      This is how Ben would react.

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    • bryan305
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:14pm

      Jeanr – It’s because they lose money on ever letter they deliver. That’s what government-run business looks like.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:19pm

      So do interstate highways. But I like those too.

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    • jeanr
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:32pm

      Besides roads, the government does lots of things I like but loses money. National defense, public safety, libraries, road building, and space exploration. We spend lots of money on these things and none of them turn a profit. So I guess we either eliminate them or realize that the government is the only entity that can possibly do these things because they are so large and unprofitable.

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  • Hill60
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:26pm

    “This matter is currently being investigated to determine the appropriate actions to be taken with regards to the employee…”

    Of course most employers would fire the idiot on the spot – especially with the behavior caught on tape. But in this case – I’m thinking the National Association of Letter Carriers and their friends at the AFL-CIO will make termination very difficult.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:23pm

    I can say this much for the postal worker – you need to be fired.

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:22pm

    People still use the USPS for parcels?

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    • Shasta
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:36pm

      I can say that my post office, in Pioneer California, is the most efficient and courteous PO that I have ever had the pleasure of doing business with.

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  • bikerr
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:21pm

    Isn’t the roman numeral for the number 4 IV?. this clock has IIII. Just wondering.

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    • jcase16
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:33pm

      This actually happens a lot on clocks, but I do not understand why.

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    • MsMonsoon
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:44pm

      Perhaps it’s a German or European thing.

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    • cr0ak
      Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:16am

      My Black Forest clock has IIII, too. And I agree with Gollygee who said that that clock doesn’t look like an antique one. But I’m no expert (I’ve just seen a lot of cuckoo clocks.).

      As for my mail carrier, he’s polite, friendly, efficient (most of the time, although on occasion he mis-delivers mail to us), and just an all-around nice guy. I tend to order a lot of things (usually off of Amazon), so he’s always having to get out of his truck to deposit packages at our front door. He rings the doorbell to let us know that we have a package, if it won’t fit into our mail box. (We tried to put up a much bigger mail box, but it would have necessitated in our removing the old post and putting in a different kind – and it just wasn’t feasible. But we did get the largest one that would fit onto the old post, so that was a help to him.)

      Don’t judge all postal workers by the few who make the rest look bad. The majority of them are hard workers and have to go through a lot to get the mail delivered to us.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:17pm

    and they wonder why they are insolvent and despised

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