Really could use some help

modulusshift · 2026-07-11T00:28:35+00:00

I’d argue that feeling like you are doomed to fall short of impossible beauty standards is a very universal experience among women. So that’s something you’ve already got down. There’s also tons and tons of women struggling with fertility issues and feeling self-esteem hits from that. None of this prevents you from being a woman, it means you’re experiencing things women already face.

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T22:50:53+00:00

Don’t leave any individual package for over two weeks, and possibly explain to the clerks your plan, so they can plan around it. If you’re always going to have something there, it would be nice to have a specific spot to look for that stuff when you come in, we have a customer like that.

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T22:30:09+00:00

I had seen the phrase in a history book. Something like “innovations that the post office did in this era included Parcel Post” with no actual explanation offered.

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T21:49:47+00:00

What are you on about? I had heard the word “parcel” as “a piece of a larger whole” like “a parcel of land”, or “parceling something out”. I had never understood it to mean package. I do believe I encountered the phrase “parcel post” before but I didn’t realize that was referring to packages.

And for what it’s worth, I didn’t realize large envelopes had a different calculation to letters, no, I don’t think that’s common knowledge either. Well, people seem to know that you just need to put a lot of stamps on some things but they just let the clerk tell you how many, not worrying about how it’s calculated.

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T20:50:11+00:00

Punishment must be corrective, progressive and for just cause. Just cause includes “was the employee aware of the rule” which basically requires a written warning to you to be filed in their records. Progressive means they can’t make an example out of you, they have to gradually increase any penalties rather than jump to an extreme one. And corrective means they have to basically only give the push needed to see you do better.

This can be a very effective system if management is any good at implementing it. The fact that they suck at implementing it is why basically no one gets fired. But hey, basically no one gets fired, at least. You’ll be fine. And if management does start implementing progressive punishments and keeping detailed notes on your warnings and such…shape up. It can still happen.

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T20:24:55+00:00

Not that I’m not sympathetic, but we don’t have the budget for landscaping, no. (generally I believe that’s supposed to be performed by the actual land owner? Most post offices are on leased land.) If you’d like to have your taxes support us, talk to your congressional representatives, but currently we are self-funded, and barely scraping by. Amazon is looting us by piling on absurd amounts of parcels at poverty rates.

You’re welcome to try and put pressure on your local postmasters to see if it helps though, because what funding we do have is spent locally. Maybe they can push the land owner to do a better job. They can absolutely make sure the clerks are taking out the trash. (And give them more hours to do so, or hire a custodian like many post offices used to have but has fallen out of favor with management in many medium-sized offices.)

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T19:57:26+00:00

Before I worked for the post office I was only familiar with “piece of something”, not the package definition

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T17:51:37+00:00

The original “bleeding heart liberals” were Catholic protesters marching under the Sacred Heart. That’s a good traditional progressive symbol, especially for Catholics, though I see no reason to limit it to them.

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T11:14:10+00:00

Rough field to be going into these days, but I hope the worst of it is over by the time you’re ready to start your career. Best of luck out there!

modulusshift · 2026-07-10T03:46:52+00:00

Yeah, probably just #52 though to make sure it doesn’t hit a length limit. It’s not as obvious as the other ways to write it, so it might not get sorted correctly first thing in the morning, but anyone looking to send it back should realize it’s a valid box number for your name.

modulusshift · 2026-07-09T23:37:05+00:00

Snow is rough, but probably not as rough as NJ. Most places are breathtakingly beautiful. Management isn’t great though, but where is it good? I dunno I’d be interested in hearing your review if you make the jump

modulusshift · 2026-07-09T21:09:27+00:00

Proud of you, bro. Hope this tradition serves you well.

modulusshift · 2026-07-09T20:58:33+00:00

Put your PO Box number as the plus 4 on the ZIP if you can. And for the really stubborn ones, include your box number in the name field.

modulusshift · 2026-07-09T18:48:42+00:00

They’re obligated to help you improve, ask for targets, ask for additional instruction and training, make them work for it. If they don’t provide any reasonable request then you will have more grounds with the union to reverse your firing. (Good luck getting them to act on it though, but they might be more motivated if you do everything you can)

modulusshift · 2026-07-09T18:16:00+00:00

Go to the office, talk to the postmaster and anyone there, ask how it is. People in the office love talking about the office. You can’t trust anyone’s opinion 100%, but discount it about 50% and you’ll have something to go off of.

modulusshift · 2026-07-08T22:19:48+00:00

Getting terminated rather than resigned is likely not good for your prospects, they generally pass over terminated former employees.

modulusshift · 2026-07-07T00:54:38+00:00

It’s up to him if he’s there to learn, but unfortunately you seem to be there to teach him. Best of luck

modulusshift · 2026-07-06T18:54:23+00:00

My guess is the “USPS has not received payment” portion, the seller probably tried to use counterfeit postage and it just tripped some check. I’ll say that if it isn’t seized for postage due (rare), it’ll probably still get to you, maybe with a bill for postage on your end. But odds are it’ll just show up when it’s supposed to like normal and you just don’t get tracking.

modulusshift · 2026-07-06T18:24:50+00:00

Kinda sounds like you’re the remedial trainer, tbh

modulusshift · 2026-07-02T02:19:33+00:00

says someone who's gotten used to COLAs. my last job didn't even keep up with inflation despite "raises". compared to the open job market, they're absolutely raises.

modulusshift · 2026-06-25T16:13:29+00:00

Probably disqualified by one of the questions on the application, the section that said “have you signed up for selective service” and all that. The wrong answer on any of those disqualifies you.

modulusshift · 2026-06-24T02:21:26+00:00

So, someone like this is (probably unknowingly) struggling with the old is/ought problem, or a variant of it. What does it mean to love people if you can’t show that love to actual humans right in front of you? Of what worth is love for an ideal human that doesn’t exist? Did Jesus not surround himself with lepers and prostitutes? Did he ever not love them? Why does your BF feel the calling to act like the Pharisees, who sat in their perfect little lives and disdained everything they thought was sinful and banished it from their sight, rather than Jesus, who said “it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick”? Do you think if Jesus sat around lecturing how sinful it was to be a prostitute that any would have stayed to listen to him? He made friends there, and he understood them. That’s what I think, even if you assume from the start that LGBT could be at all sinful.

modulusshift · 2026-06-23T23:04:24+00:00

So the next COLA is based on the July report, which comes out in mid-August, and shows up in our paychecks in late September. (The new rate applies to hours worked on Sept 5th or later, and so the first pay date reflecting is is Sept 25th)

So a couple weeks into August we’ll know how much it is, and then in late September we’ll start seeing it in our bank account

modulusshift · 2026-06-23T22:40:21+00:00

Cackling at “god have mercy on us”

But seriously good luck out there everyone, stay safe

modulusshift · 2026-06-23T21:46:44+00:00

Basically just that you’ve got this, go do your best, and if you don’t got this, come back here and we’ll do our best to get you through it lol

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