Do you know your mail delivery person?

[jsharr ★]

I almost posted the archaic and gendered version of this persons title, but refrained?

I used to know mine, sort of.  Vietnam vet named Bear.  He retired a few years back and I have not really met his replacement.  Seems to change pretty often now, but I am seldom home when the mail delivers.

I do not even know when the mail delivers to my house, do you when yours delivers?

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, jsharr said:

I almost posted the archaic and gendered version of this persons title, but refrained?

I used to know mine, sort of.  Vietnam vet named Bear.  He retired a few years back and I have not really met his replacement.  Seems to change pretty often now, but I am seldom home when the mail delivers.

I do not even know when the mail delivers to my house, do you when yours delivers?

I've had the same asian guy for many years.  No idea his name, but I say hi when I see him.  It's not like when I was a kid and the postal carrier  came up the door and plopped the mail in the box.  That guy used to chat with my mom or dad, knew the dogs, and probably read our mail.

[bikeman564™]

I don't have a regular mail carrier  

[Randomguy]

I am going to make mine cookies tomorrow, I think.  She lets me know when there are other packages from FedEx and the like, and is very nice.

[sheep_herder ★]

Nice young man, and we visit sometimes when he brings things to the gate. Our mailbox is around the corner on another street. He often inquires about the critters and still asks about Redhead, the Corgi that was stolen. He normally delivers late morning, but when he is gone the mail is delivered much later in the day.

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Yes, we always try to get to know the mail carrier. You get better service and they are an excellent source of gossip. Our current carrier is in too much of a hurry to develop a chatty relationship with. But we’ll get there one day.

[bikeman564™]

12 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

I am going to make mine cookies tomorrow, I think.  She lets me know when there are other packages from FedEx and the like, and is very nice.

good lookin'?

[Kirby]

I don't know mine, but since I've been working from home, I know when mail is delivered.  My mail goes to a mailbox at the end of the cul de sac, so they don't come up to my home unless there are packages too big to fit in the mailbox.

[Randomguy]

14 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

good lookin'?

Not my type.

[dinneR ★]

We don't have mail delivery here.

I knew mine at my last place. His name was Tom. Good guy. We had great conversations. 

[Wilbur ★]

Mail delivery? 

[Kzoo]

no

[BR46]

We have 3 different delivery people in a rotation. One of them is Mike the other two I don't know. 

I was on a dart team with Mike. 

[donkpow]

Who? Dave? Not really. When you think about it, does anybody really know anybody?

[sheep_herder ★]

Just now, BR46 said:

We have 3 different delivery people in a rotation. One of them is Mike the other two I don't know. 

I was on a dart team with Mike. 

Did you play regular darts or those electronic ones?

[maddmaxx ★]

Yes.  But the times are changing and I don't know the new kids................they are the ones that stuff oversized boxes into my mail box to avoid coming up the driveway.

[Longjohn ★]

We had the same lady for many years, when she retired there has been a constantly changing stream of people delivering our mail. It used to be if you could land a job with the post office you kept it for life but I guess now there are other jobs available that pay well and are more desirable. I think the person we have now only delivers mail every other day or so. My mailbox will be full one day the next day it will be empty. The following day full again. 

[ChrisL]

Our long time mail carrier was also a local resident so everyone knew Laurie. We would often see her while walking our dogs.  She retired & moved and it’s been a revolving door with mail carriers. 

I talk to the mail carrier at work often.  He’s about my age, retired Navy and an avid mountain biker so we have a lot in common. 

[Prophet Zacharia]

2 hours ago, jsharr said:

I do not even know when the mail delivers to my house, do you when yours delivers?

I don’t know her name, but I talk with her on the rare occasions I am home when the mail arrives. She is nice.

[Airehead]

Yes, he drives way to fast in his private car not a mail jeep. I gave him a gift card for Christmas and one around the 4th of July. That one was for ice cream. 

[Tizeye]

Turnover is too fast with the residential mail delivery.  Seems like it is a new person every month. I do wave to them and say high, though.

Now, the local post office, I know the 3 people who man the counter as well as several who retired in the past couple of years. It is weird seeing them in other settings like the grocery store.

[BR46]

5 hours ago, sheep_herder said:

Did you play regular darts or those electronic ones?

One of those fancy electronic boards 

[jdc2000]

I am on a route where the delivery person has to walk instead of drive, so no one wants a route like that.  Different person every day, probably several hundred carriers in the years I have lived at my current location, all of them disgruntled.

 

[KrAzY]

the most I know about my driver is his name... it's written on the inside door of my mailbox. I don't know who put it there, but it also has our last name on it.. guessing it is for them to not deliver the neighbors mail at our house... well... it really doesn't work out too well that way either.

[petitepedal ★]

At work..we had Jeff..the we had Tim..mail was always in between 9 and 10..sometimes they would pop into mens coffee for a cup..and a cookie before going on..when Tim retired Peggy one of our subs absolutely wanted our route..but she was beat out by some guy who had never delivered to our place..he had about 2 months seniority over Peggy..after about a month or 6 weeks..the switched things up and we became an auxiliary route..always different..I am not sure all of them can read or know the alphabet..or numbers...been about 5 years since we have had a decent mail carrier..and it now mostly arrives after I have left for the day.