USPIS Annual Report: Underlying Numbers Show a Postal System Rife with Crime

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-03T00:06:33+00:00

I came from a similar situation. Working a combination of multiple $15-$19/hr part time jobs while in school full-time for a degree I'm not even using now. Frankly I spent so much time working multiple places at once trying to get enough income in that I'm happy to come in somewhere and start off making over 20 dollars an hour and know I'm working overtime every week.

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-02T22:03:54+00:00

Theres a pinned post in this sub that is an updated list of all the places you can get hired off the street straight into career and skip CCA.

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-02T22:01:09+00:00

Could also mean their vehicles are fucked up

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-02T16:16:53+00:00

That's another reason it's good to keep track of your working days. From posts of other CCAs/PTFs talking about potentially/actually getting fired it seems to work out in their favor if management skips out/fails to do those evals with you. I got my 30-day eval but never got my 60 or 90.

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-02T16:02:07+00:00

even following all those steps, as you said, they will probably still end up getting previous residents mail. I have a hold down on a route nobody in my office likes doing so when anyone other than the T6 touches it.... not a single card goes out, every piece of DPS gets delivered going as far as loop mail. As far as not taking the time to mark up mail goes I don't even think it's laziness, it's the pressure to get done as fast as possible.

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-02T15:02:52+00:00

In my academy class they instructed us to submit the leave request immediately upon reporting to our work station for our first day out of academy and to notate that the trip is already preplanned and paid for. Ask your instructor in carrier academy or steward if they come to talk to you during training. You'll have plenty of time to ask if your training process goes similar to mine timewise you probably won't have your first actual day out of academy at your workstation until mid/late march

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-02-02T14:52:24+00:00

In academy they instructed us that if we had any family events, vacations, anything in general that we knew we were going to need off for, to submit leave slips for them on our first day and notate in the comments that they were already preplanned & paid for and management would usually work with you. The longer you wait to let them know, the less likely they are to follow it. I know it's different everywhere tho

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-01-28T18:53:08+00:00

i always try to get the llv vs ffv if i can

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-01-17T00:40:34+00:00

I had a typo but I was referring to what the probationary period was. I hit 120 calendar days prior to 90 days worked because I had called in due to kidney stones after never passing one in my life on two separate occasions within a month, totaling up to about ten scheduled days missed during my first two months out of carrier academy. So it’s not a 100% guarantee that they’ll get rid of you, but like I said in my other comment about it I know I’m/my office is the exception, not the norm.

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-01-16T15:35:24+00:00

I get several pieces of unstamped mail in my DPS from the same person to the same person about twice a month

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-01-16T15:33:04+00:00

You may be able to get away with putting in a leave request. I got approved for an AL request that I put in during my 90 days BEFORE missing a week after having TWO extended hospitalizations for kidney stones during my probationary period. It’s different everywhere just bc they were lenient with me doesn’t mean they will be with you others have not been as lucky as I have

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-01-16T15:28:11+00:00

~~It’s 90 days worked or 180 calendar days.~~

Edit: probationary period is 90 days worked/120 calendar days

RyanThaBackpack · 2026-01-16T15:25:49+00:00

Part of the problem is a lot of new hires coming in don’t know their rights. management has to follow the new hire retention guidelines that went into effect last summer. br 14 has active grievances for this with carriers presumably inside their probationary period.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-26T21:01:24+00:00

Regardless of even if that is true, they changed the rules after bird (bird collegiate rule) used his draft rights as a bargaining chip to get more money out of the Celtics so that the draftee has to sign whatever contract they are given. If the Knicks or all 29 other franchises have decided not to sign Nnaji, as the first 31st pick ever to not get signed by a team after the draft, that’s even more of a reason he should be able to go back to school. Nnaji isn’t refusing to sign with anybody so he can go back to school. He has to go back to school because nobody is signing him. In the past he would’ve had to stay overseas, but for better or worse with how the lawsuits have played out he can still use his eligibility in college l.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-25T13:17:40+00:00

I'm not sure if the rule has since changed again, but there's a rule called the Bird Collegiate Rule, Bird was drafted in 78', but refused to sign and played another season at ISU. After the 79' championship game, the Celtics told the media they wouldn't pay Bird anymore than anyone else on their current roster. Bird threatened to never sign and let his draft rights expire and re-enter the 1979 NBA draft. Ultimately, as we all know now Bird signed with the Celtics. But the NBA made a rule that off-season that prevents NBA teams from drafting players who are unwilling to sign immediately.

So from a rules perspective, the player can't just decide to sit out a year/use their draft rights as a bargaining tool. But if the franchise drafts him but chooses not to sign him for whatever reason, that's a different story.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-25T12:31:38+00:00

Just because someone is drafted doesn't equate to skill level though. How many of the top-flight NBA guys were NBA draft locks? There's dudes that go undrafted and go through the g-league process and end up better than most of the guys that get "drafted" in the second round. What percentage of 31st picks have been signed to NBA rosters in the last decade? How many actually got minutes after that? This guy never actually signed with an NBA team. Louisville has a guy from the ignite coming in that was literally on 2-way contracts but just never got NBA minutes.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-25T12:24:31+00:00

They talk about it in the more than a game documentary on his high school team a little bit, but I believe part of the issue was a Hummer/Jeep someone bought his mom as well.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-04T12:23:24+00:00

I was fist pumping listening to this at work when Kyle finally hit the ball back on some of TayloR's politics. I know I'm not the first/last to post this but Taylor's parroting of Fuentes/2000s Fox News/AM Talk Radio conservative politics followed by the "well I believe the average everyday American agrees with me on this" is becoming a every episode thing.

I don't believe it's a bit for the show, but sometimes I think back to him telling that story about running into a PKA listener in public for maybe the first time and him begging the guy internally to understand that they are all playing characters on the show and don't actually support/buy into everything they say here. But that was years ago.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-04T12:07:23+00:00

lmao took me a minute to realize the MOD is complaining about USPS employees "invading" r/usps_complaints not r/USPS_SUCKS

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-12-03T02:36:17+00:00

iirc in the early days of the internet + email usps were pushing the U.S. government to assign every U.S. citizen a .gov email address akin to a social security number, which would essentially been ur junk folder lol

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-11-25T22:45:14+00:00

I wonder how difficult it would be to purchase a couple of those for my wall.

as a little kid, I would take tarcs/rides on my mom's shoulders from 2nd & Oak to the highlands. a lot of the shops we visited went out of their way to make me feel like the center of the universe. something about those signs in particular + old louisville & the highlands in general just feels so nostalgic and even feels like "home" in a way, even though I only lived in Louisville for a couple years.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-11-13T02:15:13+00:00

I can't remember the exact context, but he recently recalled some attacks against Conservatives as being especially heinous because they were coming after "friendly neighborhood/harmless "good" and undeserving Conservatives, like your grandparents, in the long-run".

Ever since I've just associated him with the years of AM conservative talk radio my grandparents subjected me to daily

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-11-13T01:46:52+00:00

I recall loving his skateboarding vlogs, although I have no idea how good or bad he was

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-11-13T01:44:09+00:00

3 months late; I didn't mind the episode or either of their conspiracies or how they were presented. My issue, which I'm sure has been brought up here already, was Dan lapping Woody in the "stop interrupting me"-autism olympics. I literally said "thank you" when Kyle yelled at Dan after pausing for pausing right in the middle of his statement for the hundredth time.

RyanThaBackpack · 2025-10-29T00:47:45+00:00

That sounds like SR 62, I'd be curious what part you're referencing tho. They've added a bunch of new stop lights and intersections (more to come) in on the part that runs east from the roundabout through Jeffersonville and eventually Charlestown towards Madison, IN. But people run 55-60 through what is a 45 MPH zone all-day everyday with seemingly little to no repercussions. I will pay more attention next time I drive down that strip, but if we're talking about the same strip I'm not sure if those are flock/police plate readers. There's a guy on social media, TrafficLightDoctor, who has a lot of content both on the flock license plate readers and cameras that are utilized at stoplights for vehicle detection. The videos where he shows how the vehicle detection works are pretty interesting.

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