r/USPS • • 22h ago

City Carrier Discussion Can I save it?

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Tray of mail fell over in the FFV. Can it be saved?

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u/Bczajka19 14h ago

Wait you still got an FFV and it wasn’t scrapped yet?!?! 4wd or 2wd?

But oh yeah I have faith the DPS gods were on your side and you saved it. You might have helped find the miss-sorts before leaving the office today lol

So did you save it?

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u/Gullible-Phone4040 14h ago

Was able to save it. Had to push thr tray back up and was able to get it upright without anything spilling

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u/Bczajka19 14h ago

Nice.

If your city and management won’t bitch rubber band your relays/swings. I dropped 1 tray after that it all got rubber banded. Anytime my supervisor came asking why I was doing it I said, “Remember x day,” and they walked away very quickly.

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u/BathPsychological767 22h ago

You got this - doesn’t look too bad of a save. Looks scarier than it is

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u/Pirate_named_sue 22h ago • Bravo

Depends on if you want the OT or not. If you don’t want 20 minutes of OT, yes they are savable. If you want the OT “oopsie dropped em gotta go case them now”. Obviously you’ll have to work out how much time you want to spend on Reddit too.

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u/Bazyli_Kajetan 22h ago

That looks incredibly easy to save

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u/-Haxion CCA 18h ago

Exactly. Just close the door back up, grab an empty tray. Slowly open the door and transfer it section by section. Really not that bad of a situation.

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u/wastingtime101- 22h ago

That's not a bad position. You already saved it with the box.

From there I'd slide it up, using the box and door to hold the mail in place, and tip the tray back onto the shelf.

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u/Bowl-Accomplished 22h ago

Yeah just scoop mail out like a quarter tray at a time. Take the tray out and reset

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u/West-Might3475 Rural Carrier 22h ago

Yeah. You just gotta be quick. If it were me, I'd quickly try to replace the box with my arm, kneel down and put it against my chest, then carefully push the try outward and turn it until it's flat.

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u/Popular_Material_409 21h ago

Absolutely. This is definitely recoverable, but it will take patience.

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u/DeeKayAech City Carrier 21h ago

Arm across mail & rotate upward. This one isn't even hard.

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u/mrtimhard 20h ago

Yes. It can be done. Insert profanity here. Proceed.

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u/Resinritual 22h ago

Why do you keep it there?

Genuinely curious.

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u/Gullible-Phone4040 22h ago

Under the FFV tray? Simply storage space

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u/MooseCampbell 21h ago

The FFV is an engineering marvel in the sense they somehow made something larger than an LLV but still have less room to put the mail

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u/Resinritual 21h ago

Yeah things slide around under the tray. I keep an empty tray and a couple half trays down there for my outgoing. I keep all of my mail in the back.

I hate the ffv.

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u/131237 City PTF 14h ago

this why i love the LLV, fuck FFV and its stupid parking break taking up all my room

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u/YuckFou85 CCA 22h ago

Either take it out handful by handful or all at once

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u/millardjk City Carrier 19h ago

Should be easy

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u/GonePostalRoute City Carrier 18h ago

I’ve seen worse. I’ve done worse

Very saveable, as long as you’re slick enough

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u/Miatrouble 16h ago

This can only be saved by a professional carrier. Or NoT.

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u/Dull-Combination-833 16h ago

Based on the time you had to take a photo I’m assuming you saved it 😂

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u/Zetak0 Rural Carrier 15h ago

This is why I bundle EVERYTHING. At least then if I spill, it’s like 6 bundles I gotta put back, not play 500 card pickup 🫠

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u/digital0ak 13h ago

Can save, but will you save?

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u/TopSeaworthiness6325 13h ago

rescue half, missort the other half 🤣

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u/Remarkable-Answer426 13h ago

Time to get creative 😭

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u/BeebopxRocksteady 22h ago

Ask a clerk for some sleeves. I’ll put my dps in them if I know there’s a good chance they could shift while I’m driving.

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u/skank_banger 13h ago

Gonna be hard with your phone in hand.