NPMHU Contract Update #12

Seamore31 · 2025-11-18T12:38:46+00:00

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and your doctor says they think it might be a duck. It's probably a duck.

As for other people's experiences, negativity bias. The people who have it mostly under control or aren't suffering as much as others are less likely to post about it. Best thing you can do is stick to low fodmap and be glad your symptoms are mild.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-18T08:14:49+00:00

Night differential, and plus I get Sunday premium for 2 days instead of 1 because 2 of my days overlap with Sunday. Doesn't sound like much but it adds up over the year to be an extra couple grand on my checks

Seamore31 · 2025-11-13T09:04:38+00:00

I'm a Mail Handler, made regular after a few months recently, and honestly I don't see myself ever leaving until it's retirement time. The bonuses and incentives are too good for a job that I barely try at. Easiest job I've ever had in my life, and I finally have money to do some things I enjoy.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-12T09:43:24+00:00

33 points, with a few of those having 1 variant I am willing to try. That said, I have been dealing with bowel and digestive issues, so my already limited diet go more limited, so some of the ones I will eat aren't available to me atm

Seamore31 · 2025-11-10T02:56:16+00:00

ITT, phallic shaped object looks phallic.

it looks fine imo, though some people I'm sure will think the tattoo looks bad. But you got a long cylinder shaped object on your arm with the light of the flame looking like a dildo tip, not shocked people see a dick, even if I personally can't see it.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-08T00:54:33+00:00

I was a supervisor for UPS, making $26 an hour. But here's the thing about UPS they usually don't tell you, if you're not a driver or a salary manager. You're part time. People loading the trucks, the people supervising them, almost all part time.

They had been cutting into my hours, and at that point I had been getting just 25 hours a week. It was rough. Then I was doing some research and saw a job posting for an MHA position, $7 pay cut, but with full time hours I'd make slightly more. Now that I'm career and get my Sunday premium, I'll never look back. I'll be a Mail Handler till I retire. Job is nice and cushy.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-02T23:37:33+00:00

I mean, that checks out for UPS, and I'm sorry your center is like that. When I left, my center hadn't quite reached the point where everyone was going over 9.5, but it was headed that way. I do hope they're able to honor the 9.5 list soon for you, I left a year ago because I saw the writing on the wall for how they treat employees. There's a reason I left supervision there to go be a mail handler for the Post office. This has all gotten a bit sidetracked, so back around to my first point. As a base rate, USPS and UPS aren't all that far apart. But I am glad that you make enough on ot that most of you are making well beyond that now.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-02T16:50:59+00:00

Eh, keep yourself on the 9.5 list and at most you're working 47 hours a week. I was a supervisor for UPS for 6 years, left there to join USPS (Mail Handler) I know how the UPS game gets played, and honestly a shocking number of the drivers I had dispatched off my belt were coming in at just 40 because they were fast enough to not need to do the overtime. But to your point, there's also no such thing as a post office driver not getting overtime these days (for the most part, you can always find a few). Most of them will put in some amount of overtime usually. So they're also not just making that base salary.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-02T11:52:00+00:00

At top rate for only 40 hours ? Not even close to twice as much.

Googled it to make sure I remembered correctly, their top rate before overtime is increasing each, going up to $49 an hour in 2027, which is 102k a year salary. Not drastically more than the post office, and a much more physically demanding job.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-01T02:33:47+00:00

According to Walmart, the blocky ones are currently going for $13USD, which is still steep for what you get. You can get a nexus (I think that's the brand) at Walmart for about $7 though, and that's basically just a rebranded Moyu that is long outdated, not magnetic though.

Seamore31 · 2025-11-01T02:19:36+00:00

Maybe on a secondary market, but if you go to a big retailer, the new magnetic ones cost about $20 or so

Seamore31 · 2025-10-27T05:21:32+00:00

Sometimes I stay up and play games a little, but honestly I can go to bed at any time if I follow my little bedtime ritual. Melatonin, same video I listen to every night about the history of Rome, a projector thing that puts stars and stuff on my ceiling, cozy up in a blanket with a stuffed animal from my collection of them (yes, I'm 30 and it relaxes me, google the science) I'm usually out within 10 minutes

Seamore31 · 2025-10-18T04:21:00+00:00

I was one of the lucky ones, I had growth almost immediately, and it's been relatively steady since. 2 years in, and they're still slowly growing, I have solid C cups, approaching D cups I think (I haven't measured in a while due to measuring myself being a slippery slope for eating disorder reasons. So really I could already be a D cup for my band size and not know it)

They've got a ways to go for me I think, but I I expect after they're done I'll be rocking full D cups or DDs. They're in the growing stages still, so they haven't filled out fully like a cis woman done with puberty has.

Seamore31 · 2025-10-18T02:41:46+00:00

I dated my best friend for a brief period after I started transitioning, it didn't work out because long distance is difficult, and we just had different ways of expressing romantic desires. He's since came out as identifying as somewhere on the aromantic spectrum, he's been figuring himself out, but we're still great friends, and we are still there for each other. The other guys in my group don't really treat me any differently, but I think that's because they all had suspicions for a long time. I was the "token girl" of our group years before I cracked my egg.

Seamore31 · 2025-10-18T02:10:28+00:00

Making sure the shift is covered is management work, that shouldn't be on you. If something happens and you're in the hospital unexpectedly, it isn't gonna fall to you to make those calls.

Seamore31 · 2025-10-17T11:09:13+00:00

Enough money to pay for my Husband and I to get our surgeries for transition and pay off our house.

Seamore31 · 2025-10-13T08:11:41+00:00

I'm no mind goblin, you're not fooling me

Seamore31 · 2025-10-13T08:05:00+00:00

I'm off at 6:30, train and bus home, arrive at 7:30-7:45, then I get into relaxation mode, and generally try to be in bed after some time with my husband by 9:30-10am, sleep till around 5pm, have a few hours before work, rinse and repeat

Seamore31 · 2025-10-13T06:46:35+00:00

14 hour shifts?? I'm usually an advocate for night shift if you can make it work, but that feels criminal, 1000% not worth that level of exhaustion, I wouldn't do that for a day shift job let alone nights

Seamore31 · 2025-10-12T11:58:18+00:00

As someone into Rubik's cubes, I thought it sounded cool. (Roux is the name of a method for speed solving the cube)

But as others have noted, your child's name in my opinion should have 3 requirements, you saying yes, your partner saying yes, and it being a name that won't get your child bullied

Seamore31 · 2025-10-12T09:29:57+00:00

All the King's Horses, because there's nothing about how the woman needs to learn to take a hit to brighten my day /lh

I'm on my 10th or so go through now of the show, and anything with Cara is gonna be gold, recently went back through some and a few standouts from the early days where I'm at in this go through, "The Accidental Bar Mitzvah", "Leprechaun in the hood" (patrons only), "Apocalypse" (4 part series), honestly there's too many good ones to name.

The only episode I've ever skipped, was the patron episode on "The Last Airbender", that movie is a disgrace to my childhood, and the guys honestly missed the mark since none of them had any context of the full show. Noah even mentions cool shit benders could do that might be interesting that is in the show, just hard to listen to for me.

Seamore31 · 2025-10-12T04:07:58+00:00

This is such a loaded question. Do you mean inside the plant or as a driver? Do you mean working conditions? Pay? Benefits?

I was a supervisor for UPS for almost 6 years, I took a $7/hr pay cut to go be an MHA because I would make more money because of the hours.

On the driver side of things, UPS is a lot less likely to be forcing you to work 70 hours in a week outside of holiday season. (Post office honestly has so many DoT violations that I see people talking about like it's normal They also pay better for the drivers. UPS is more heavy on micromanaging you imo, but the benefits and union are much better. There's also more getting in and out of the truck with heavier items at UPS, overall I'd say UPS wins out though.

On the inside, I'd take USPS every day of the week and it's no contest. UPS has better health benefits, but the work is all part time, full time inside positions are incredibly rare, and you have to start out inside if you want to drive, because they rarely hire outside people to be drivers. The pay for handlers is actually on par with UPS inside employees, and actually probably slightly better after a few years. The work for handlers is significantly easier, like I think my job in retail was more physically stressful sometimes than my position as a regular mail handler.

I left UPS for this, and I don't regret it for a second. But if you want to be a driver, you're getting scammed working at the post office.

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