USPS: "We can't" culture at its finest. How to restore mail service?
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You cant shovel it safely. You will get hit by a car. It is a 55MPH road. and Everyone does 65+.
Hall,
To answer your question, mine is the specs just like you show. They do not need to use a device out the window during the spring, summer, fall. Just in the winter. It is a state highway and techically spaeaking you are not allowed to plow it yourself. The snowbanks get big and hard, but it is not difficult to deliver with this device they use. You cannot snowblow or shovel safely unless you want to become road kill.
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You could park your vehicle with the flashers on 20 yards away as a way to slow traffic. Then dig it out safely. That is probably what I would do.
We get snow here 
Used to get a lot more but we did get 10+ inches last Sunday/Monday. We live on a residential street and the snowplows ended up building up a 3' wall of hard-packed snow at the end of everyone's driveway. I ended up just shoveling out a 1-car path so my wife and I could get our cars out (I have an AWD sedan and she has an AWD SUV). I also shoveled a large scallop by our mailbox so our carrier could reach the box from her car like normal, and also shoveled out the fire hydrant that happens to be in front of our house.
I see plenty of people who have their driveways plowed or they use tractors with plows and while it's risky, they plow out of their driveway and push it all the way across the road. They also clear the area in front of the mailboxes too. I'm not aware that the county, state, etc "care", at least not until there's damage.
Used to get a lot more but we did get 10+ inches last Sunday/Monday. We live on a residential street and the snowplows ended up building up a 3' wall of hard-packed snow at the end of everyone's driveway. I ended up just shoveling out a 1-car path so my wife and I could get our cars out (I have an AWD sedan and she has an AWD SUV). I also shoveled a large scallop by our mailbox so our carrier could reach the box from her car like normal, and also shoveled out the fire hydrant that happens to be in front of our house.I see plenty of people who have their driveways plowed or they use tractors with plows and while it's risky, they plow out of their driveway and push it all the way across the road. They also clear the area in front of the mailboxes too. I'm not aware that the county, state, etc "care", at least not until there's damage.
Do you suppose that's the problem for the postie too? He/she doesn't want to hang around to make a difficult delivery with the traffic.
You need to talk to the post master about getting a box in a different location, maybe one of those locking ones like apartments have somewhere.
As @Hall posted, there are specific rules for your mailbox, and the carrier is not supposed to get out to deliver items that will fit in the box. Period. If they cant reach the box then its no longer there problem - including complete access I believe its 20 feet front and back. Might be 15?
My carrier is very nice. The dogs like her much better than the fedex and UPS guy so it must be fact
. Might be that she is a "she", the dogs like women better it seems.Indeed my mailbox is within the guidelines hall posted.You need to talk to the post master about getting a box in a different location, maybe one of those locking ones like apartments have somewhere.
As @Hall posted, there are specific rules for your mailbox, and the carrier is not supposed to get out to deliver items that will fit in the box. Period. If they cant reach the box then its no longer there problem - including complete access I believe its 20 feet front and back. Might be 15?
My carrier is very nice. The dogs like her much better than the fedex and UPS guy so it must be fact
As far as safety, they sit on the side of the road with flashers and deliver for the past 11 years without a collision, never needing to get out of their vehicle. Nothing has changed. Snow loads this year are the same as the last 11 with last year 2023 ~ 2024 being very light in comparison to all other years.
As suggested I may park a vehicle and have my plow guy push the snow area around the mailbox onto my porperty. We cannot plow onto or across a state hwy. Fine is high. Snowblower wont even touch it, tried that years ago and blew the shear pins from the ice.
The issue is unless all the neighbors on the road also clean theirs, service will not likely resume, which is where I have my issue.
One mailman told me straight up when asked why we always get the wrong mail and why we never see our actual mail:
"The print on letters is too small to read"
"The print on letters is too small to read"
If you have snow blocking the mail carrier’s access to your box, and your road is so dangerous that you can’t clear that snow, then why do you expect your carrier to expose themselves to the same hazards that you are unwilling to?
Clear the snow from your box.
Or go pick up your mail at the post office.
PO Box might make sense for your situation.
On April 2nd 2021 the postal system received 8.64 BILLION dollars from taxpayers to offset their losses. Google it.
Well we just found 8.64 Billion to cut. Mail delivery every second day. Once a week would be fine with me.
I get nothing important in letter form anymore
I do get small - whatever USPS will fit - in our mailbox.
I order all kinds of small stuff to sparement with
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I have to agree. In todays electronic delivery age six mail drops a week is not needed. All I get is junk.
When you lower hiring standards, You get workers with lower standards.
When there is no one to hire, you need to lower your standards, or not hire anyone
While you can make a decent wage if you stay long enough, it appears the bottom 25%, which I assume is starting wage - is between $19 and $21 an hour. Hard to support a family on $40K a year, so your going to get what you get.
https://www.bls.gov/oes/2022/may/oes435052.htm
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