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Nation’s Longest Serving Mail Carrier with 62 years still delivering at 85

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OKLAHOMA CITY – This has been an extremely busy week for the US Postal service.But one letter carrier in OKC has been answering the call the week before every Christmas since the Eisenhower administration.

Johnnie Bell joined the USPS in 1956 after serving in the Navy and still works at the downtown OKC post office.

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“I’m going to tell you the truth. I like my job and its gives me something to do 8 hours a day. It keeps my mind operating,” says the 85-year old.

January marks 62 years of loading up and shipped out, rain, sleet, or snow in Oklahoma City.

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15 thoughts on “Nation’s Longest Serving Mail Carrier with 62 years still delivering at 85”

  2. I can think of plenty of other things that will keep my mind and body operating. When I retire… The post office is not one of them. How pathetic

  3. $7.00/hr, 5000 hrs. sick leave, a risk/reward scale based on whose standards? you guys who couldn’t get out fast enough (but you stuck around anyway, didn’t you?), and on and on with your negatives. You glorify in pulling down everyone into your tiny, useless worlds? I don’t care if you’re PS or EAS. That’s not what this is about. Open your eyes. And I have my share of negatives, too, so the charge applies to me, as well.

    Johnnie Bell is a very rich man, indeed. He’s found something too many of us will never have: peace, joy, CONTENTMENT. His job and for that matter, his life, is what he made of it. Neither Johnnie, nor any of us, have much of control over the postal bureaucratic machine, and few of us care for the direction it’s taking. It’s unnecessarily broken in far too many areas. But we do have control over the direction we choose to walk and the decisions we make in our lives.

    Johnnie Bell is, unfortunately, the exception to the face of the PO, and you will NOT pull this guy down: he deserves to be raised up as an example of a man we can emulate. Who can call that a bad thing? Regrettably for some, it is. This man is an heroic example of a career postal guy, a veteran, I’m guessing maybe a husband, dad and grandpop, too. A regular but exemplary guy who looks forward to each of his days: good, and his fair share of not so good. I admire him.

    I, and no doubt many others, salute you, Johnnie Bell! Always forward.

  4. God bless him me my self I have three years left I’m a LSSA at the post office I enjoy my but I can’t wait to retire I’ll be 56 yrs old their is more to life than working. To answer ITAV question he’s actually working for free because under CSRS he would get paid 80% plus pension plus his TSP that alone he would get more money staying home and if he worked a side job and put money in SS that’s even more money but if not just pension and TSP he’ll be ahead of the game so He’s working for free someone needs to explain that to him unless he just wants to work more power to him I’m out in three.

  5. William says God bless him me myself I have three years left I’m a LSSA at the post office I enjoy my job but I can’t wait to retire I’ll be 56 yrs. So I can enjoy life there’s more to life than work folks. To ITAV what we mean is actually is working for free he’ll make more money staying home (retired) being under CSRS he will get 80% of his pay plus what TSP he has he doesn’t get SS because CSRS doesn’t pay unless work a side job and paid into it none the less with pension and TSP he’ll make more money retired so that why he’s working for free actually someone needs to explain this to him unless he just wants to work.

  7. I’m quite sure he could find much better way to enjoy life. I and my brother in law couldn’t get out fast enough! A bad day in retirement is better than a good day at work. It’s very nice not to be bothered by the Postal Service’s daily junior high school piddle shit.

  8. talk about being postalized and having no life. you just know this joker is going to turn over 5000 sick hours to these mismanagement tools. worth about 140K oh my. oh he will get 1% of that in his pension, not really on the plus side of the risk/reward scale.

  9. God bless this man! However, I cannot believe how he keeps His brain working while working at the post office! Don’t they tell us at orientation to “Leave your brains at the door”?

  10. It is nice to be dedicated to a job, but does he know he is working for less than $7.00 an hour.

      • It’s simple math. Could be pulling 82% of his base retired. While working take 8 or 9 % off the top for CSRS and Medicare contributions, 5 % to the State of Oklahoma. He’s working for about 4% of his base or roughly $1.20/hour, I don’t know how you arrive at $7. Grab a part time gig somewhere else for say $10/hour x 20 hours and you’re way ahead of the game financially.

        Granted he gets the excess contributions back when he stops but you have no access to that 7% while working.

        I’m all in favor of working as long as possible. It’s important for a lot of reasons but the thought of giving back even one nickel to this organization makes me sick. I’m going 2 days after I’m eligible, I have a late month birthday and I will work somewhere else.

        With this man’s health and longevity Uncle will beat him for hundreds of thousands. It’s disgusting.

    • his current rate of pay minus his retirement pay=difference between the two. he is csrs and maxes out at 41years and 11 months and gets 80% of base of his high 3. so I would guess about 3 or 4 bucks an hour. if the old coot works ot on a regular basis then figure about 12-15 bucks on average. still why work in a cesspool?

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