I have to agree with Jencar...all of us Postal Employees are not bad, evil smoking cell-phone talkers!!
Some of us really do try to do the best we can and get the mail out in a timely manner!! Really, we do!!! I think you would be absolutely AMAZED at the sheer VOLUME of mail received each and every day at your local post office. Also, most mail carriers work 6 days a week every single week. They are at their PO and have to sort the mail for their route, 1st class letters, 1st class flats and 3rd class mail...along with packages and other things. You know how much junk mail you get.....well just multiply that by the 100's and that is how much mail your carrier is dealing with daily. Not to mention all the people who have multiple people with multiple names living in their homes....people hate to get the wrong mail, but woe be until the mail carrier who "THINKS" that isn't the correct name and returns it...that is the week that the cousin is staying with that particular postal patron and it is a life and death letter, and JUST WHY was it not delivered...even if that name isn't the one on the box??? Also,, mail is always and I mean ALWAYS misaddressed by the senders, numbers are juxtaposed or left off...and yet the carrier is expected to get it there and most times they do. I haven't even mentioned the forwarding and the temporary forwarding and the dogs that bite...and I could go on and on. I will get off my soapbox now....and I do know there are horrible Post Office employees ( I work with one in particular that I would love to strangle myself, personally) but all and all with the volume of mail these people deal with...I think most of them do a dang fine job!! Have you hugged your Postal Worker today???