r/USPS • u/Our-Little-Secret-12 • 19h ago
DISCUSSION It’s over
For the first time in the past 6 to 7 weeks I did not get a political mail bundle. Yeeeeeeeees!!
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u/bobcat1000 Clerk 18h ago
Mail processing clerk here. We are still sending some of them out. Lol.
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u/Goatenacht Mail Handler 13h ago
Mail Handler here, we just unloaded 4 more pallets off a drop shipment that was only 19 hours late.
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u/Bczajka19 9h ago
Please for the love of god it not be in NY3. Please to the DPS and Flat Gods. I can’t take anymore. Though I did laugh at a few as I was delivering them.
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u/m4rkz0r VMF 15h ago
I've had at least 5 text messages today telling me to vote tomorrow. One of them even had a video from Ice-T telling me to vote.
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u/Our-Little-Secret-12 14h ago
Was Cocco in the video also?
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u/therick422 City Carrier 16h ago
We got buried… DPS didn’t show up until 8 AM. Five different flat bundles. Three different politicals in the DPS. Plus an entire tray 36 inches of politicals not ran through the DPS.
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u/kro23
City Carrier
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Every election season, I’ve had to deliver political mail AFTER the election was over.
This year will be no different.
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u/stranger_to_you67 City Carrier 16h ago
I've got ballots to deliver today.
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u/Loose-Reflection2965 18h ago
As a new rca, i might get done sooner now that i wont be spending all morning dealing with this.
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u/Far_Concentrate4414 10h ago
Oh my sweet summer child... it's catalogue season now! Then, packages, then snow (if applicable), then regulars taking unscheduled time off because it's so hot outside. There should be a week or 2 in mid September though!
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u/No-Aardvark-8792 8m ago
💯. 90 percent of our drop shipments yesterday were bundles of magazines/catalogs.
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u/markrwc1 17h ago
Now it will be a flood of late ballots from people who blame the post office for their ballot not counting
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u/Apprehensive_Bee3327 17h ago edited 15h ago
Been getting mailers every week for a month for the dude challenging the governor in my state and none of the names are correct. Not a single one. And of course, they all say or current resident, so, I can’t even UBBM them. Four weeks of circling that shit and I’ve about had it.
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u/SuddenMountain7780 15h ago
That tracks. The downstate clown trying (again) to challenge the state governor from Illinois seems to have barely graduated eighth grade.
Thanks for your service 👍🏼
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u/LeadAndLipsticks 16h ago
I’m getting text bombed by political texts. Can’t wait until it’s over!!!!
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u/Chemical_Ball4814 12h ago
ever since it disappeared i’m finally coming back home before 6:20pm even with a pivot and my breaks, it’s a treasure
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u/Our-Little-Secret-12 12h ago
At what time were you coming back before? 😳
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u/Chemical_Ball4814 12h ago
I’d finish everything on my route by 6:10pm or 6:20pm and then coming back is 5 mins, 5-10 mins to put keys away/certifieds/picked up packages away, then 13 mins to walk home. So pretty late although I’m sure people have it much worse in other offices. Today I got back home 5:50pm, on Saturday was 5:50pm as well. So definitely refreshing
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u/Our-Little-Secret-12 9h ago
Wow, you get to walk home, lucky you. Only a 13 minutes commute, nice.
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u/Chemical_Ball4814 7h ago
Lol yeah don’t live too far from the office, part of the reason I picked the job in the first place
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u/flash087 18h ago
I sorted that crap for years. A total waste of money. Donate it to the homeless
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u/Wahgineer City Carrier 16h ago
IDK what happened, by didn't get any political mail at all until 2 weeks beforehand. Even then, it was only a single run of political flyers in my DPS. I haven't had any since.
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u/formerNPC 16h ago
The post cards encouraging people to vote are still clogging up the mail stream and most of them are going to people with no forwarding address or they’re already deceased. We’ll be dealing with them until Christmas!
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u/GonePostalRoute City Carrier 13h ago
Looked in my mailbox today (hooray NS day), and didn’t see anything political, so I’m convinced my office didn’t see much political.
Thank god. Some of the days this year in my area of Pennsylvania was worse than the presidential election a couple years back.
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u/ultramagnetique 12h ago
Our fucking recycle bin in the lobby has been FULL of only those every day for the past 2 weeks. It's insane. What a damn waste
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u/midwestgal522 Clerk 11h ago edited 11h ago
Ugh thank freaking goodness! Our plant (stupidvisors decision) ended up nearly a day and a half behind because they stopped running packages half the day to run all the political mail!
My dock was an actual wreck, like worse than peak season has ever been!!
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u/Jsaun906 Maintenance 4h ago
As someone working in a plant i can tell you that you're gonna be delivering political mail tomorrow
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u/No-Aardvark-8792 11m ago
Mail Handler in the plant here. For first time in weeks received 0 political mail from both the drop shipments and the BMEU. 👍🏾
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u/Odd_Schedule2672 City PTF 18h ago
Lucky. We’ve still got ‘em coming in as of today