Raymond German Jr. says the secret to his 58-year postal career is simple: USPS has been good to him.
Raymond German Jr. stands on the workroom floor at the Suburban Maryland Processing and Distribution Center, where he has spent most of his career.
German, a mail processing clerk at the Suburban Maryland Processing and Distribution Center in Gaithersburg, began his career in 1961, following two years with the U.S. Navy.
USPS leaders and colleagues recently gathered at the facility to celebrate his 60-year federal service milestone.
“I really don’t think I’ve done anything special,” German said during the event, where he received letters of recognition and a service award. “The fact is I’ve been fortunate to have a good work ethic.”
Others praised German’s dedication to the job.
Referring to his more than 5,100 hours of accumulated sick leave, Capital District Manager Sal Vacca said: “I’ve never seen a sick leave balance of this size. It’s a tremendous accomplishment.”
German joins other postal employees who’ve marked six decades or more of service in recent years, including a trio of Los Angeles workers and a Cleveland letter carrier.
German, who has held several mail processing jobs in Capital Metro Area, has no plans to retire anytime soon.
“I just come to work and do my job,” he said. source
Postal Employee celebrates 60 years of service
Cleveland Letter Carrier Alfonzo Wilson Jr. is interviewed by a TV news crew for a recent story about his 60-year career.
Things were different when Alfonzo Wilson Jr. began delivering mail in 1958.
The 80-year-old Cleveland letter carrier, who recently celebrated 60 years on the job, didn’t have a delivery vehicle in the beginning and used a city bus to get to his route.
“An employee in a truck would place our mail in brown mailboxes located along the route,” Wilson said. “We would walk all day and then take the bus back to the Post Office when we finished our routes.”
There was also more mail to deliver back then, especially to businesses that received deliveries twice a day.
Wilson — who has no plans on retiring anytime soon — said he was raised to have a strong work ethic.
“The way I was brought up, if you’re blessed to work and able to work, you work,” he said.
Wilson has left an impression on his customers in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood, the route he’s had since 1968. story from 2018
Postal Employee has more than six decades of postal work
Los Angeles Mail Handler Willie Clemmons, 91, recently marked 66 years as a postal employee
Willie Clemmons is celebrating a milestone few others have achieved.
Last month, the 91-year-old Los Angeles Processing and Distribution Center mail handler marked 68 years as a postal employee.
“I wanted to work at the Postal Service because I wanted to be of service to the people,” he said.
Clemmons, who served in the Army during World War II, was hired at the Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office in 1951, not long after he was married. He stayed in that job for two years, then moved to the Processing and Distribution Center’s “bad order” section, where he’s been ever since. story from 2018
Ninety-one year old Postal Employee marks 66 years with USPS
I guess it’s good. Can’t be that difficult of a job.
Come and walk my route with me. I’m gone as
soon as I can go. OK Boomer, what a joke
Can’t believe this guy is running mail in automation… he’s probably running circles around the newer millennial hires though…. the millennial employees in our plant are mostly lazy as hell and on their stupid iPhones all the time.
Nice to see that even on rare work environments. One good worker can
be left alone, and allowed to do quality work. This story lacks the normal
drama at USPS. None of the normal action of drugs, scams, crashes,
abuse, or theft here.