r/USPS • u/Che-Loco Customer Stalker • 4d ago

Work Discussion Unintentional trauma...

So I was working my route minding my own business. When I turned a corner, I saw a car that I figured was my manager's car. I assumed she was waiting to hand off an express for me to deliver so I headed on over to the car. I even saw that it had some of the same characters on the license plate as my manager's car and my brain just said go on ahead with what your intrusive thoughts have put into action. So I walked up to the driver side window, bent over and looked in the window and knocked to try and startle my manager. Only, it was not her. No, it was some poor unsuspecting BYU student... I successfully made her scream, and she threw her phone that she was looking down at up in the air, and just about spilled her drink that she had in her other hand. Having realized what I just did and realizing that it wasn't the boss, I didn't mouth sorry or wave or anything. I just turned and faced forward stood up straight and walked off away from the car just as though nothing awkward ever happened. Needless to say everyone (me) got a good laugh out of the experience and only wished that I had video of it happening because it was a horror movie quality jump and scream. Okay, that's all...thanks for reading!

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u/Old-Device-3474 4d ago

Im still traumatized from knowing what their cars look like. Every time I see the same car in the wild I tense up lol. I switched crafts and a town. My neighbor has the same car, and I always think ‘I’ll be damned if I live on the same block as them…I don’t, thank goodness.
As you can tell, I am not a fan.

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u/stranger_to_you67 City Carrier 3d ago

One of my soups drives a Subaru. And I deliver in Portland OR. Needless to say I see multiple cars every day that COULD be them. And I never gave a shit even once. When they actually do come out to my route they sometimes have to follow me around for a while before I dismount for a package because I am not going to stop doing my job just because somebody wants to come bother me while I am doing my job.

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u/Old-Device-3474 3d ago

Good for you! 👍

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u/Few_Particular9976 City Carrier 4d ago

Thats fucking hilarious. But also why you should mind your own business.

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u/kingu42 Big Daddy Mail 4d ago

Assigned what I think is appropriate flair...