It’s now the busiest time of the year for the postmen and women, but it’s also the time they can be prime targets. They have their hands full now as the volume of mail jumps.
Postal carriers are getting some extra security and they are also asking for you to have a watchful eye.
The postal inspectors are deploying marked units and uniformed officers, and those who you can’t see, undercover officers blending in nearby. This protection will hopefully be a deterrent but also the officers are prepared to respond, if needed.
source: Postal Carriers Getting Extra Security During Holiday Season
in Moscow, Russia the city carriers pack heat. I can see needing a glock in Chitcongo!
Couldn’t help but notice that the carrier making curbline deliveries was driving with mail in her lap. The park and loop carrier was out of uniform. Polo shirts have to be tucked-in. Easy video evidence for a stupidvisor to write some discipline. Why do some carriers insist on making it so easy for management to take action against them?
Maybe in south Florida, but one thing about the explosion in package business the USPS and its mailers like Amazon will have to contend with is a huge year around increase in package theft. Many of our packages are now endorsed “Leave If No Response”, and carriers in most offices are told to leave the packages except in areas where they know such parcels will not be safe.
This will not stop crooks who follow carriers from a distance the carrier doesn’t notice, and sneak up and steal packages shortly after the LLV has left the address. It has happened in my city with skank going through mailboxes and snatching parcels.
So it will be a leave the package today/leave notices tomorrow scenario, and management being management in some places will no doubt try to pin the lost parcels on carriers, regardless of instructions. I will not say my office would do that, but it’s a big country, there are a lot of bad supervisors out there, and it would make sense to have a steward record when specific orders concerning handling packages are given out with dates and who gave the orders, just to play it safe.
As a customer your best bet is to ask that notices be left at your address if you are worried about possible theft, and remember, your neighborhood may be okay but determined thieves most often go outside their own turf for a better chance at not being recognized. Unless I were home during the day, I would not want packages left if I lived in a city at least through the holiday season.
It’s about time and I pray each and every Carrier stays safe
my office in the Houston district has been working until 8 at night the last week. it’s hazardous walking in yards after dark. People are on alert and once they hear something such as their mailbox being rattled, they might be quick to get their gun such as what happened to the carrier in DC a couple of years ago. He wasn’t in uniform though and the homeowner thought he was taking his mail and shot him. I don’t recall if charges were ever filed against the owner