77 year-old #GailGiustino allegedly collected feral cats along her postal route. After she reportedly refused to cooperate with animal control, deputies obtained a search warrant and discovered the home had no working air conditioning or ventilation, temperatures above 110 degrees, and floors covered in animal waste.
Officials said the woman had recently surrendered about 15 animals in an apparent attempt to reduce the number on the property before the search.
She was arrested and charged with animal cruelty and confinement of animals without sufficient exercise. Her bond was set at $50,000 The rescued animals are now being evaluated.

We lost a brother in our office,

How convenient to do your needs right next to one of your stops.

I start academy this Friday! It’s now all starting to feel real.

If you told me back in January I was going to be a mail man, I’d probably laugh. Here we are, foot in the door, ready to go on routes.

Life feels good. I quit drinking 10 months and 2 days ago. Life has been really rewarding in terms of having a clear path of where I want to be and how to get to it. Also, realizing the people I want and don’t want around me.

Cheers my fellow couriers clerks and others!

120 by noon in this toaster! I’m not even in AZ anymore. Phew. For real tho, guys. Take your damn breaks.

It’s been quite the journey to get in. I first applied and accepted a position in Dec 2025. In January 2026 I was deemed unsuitable due to a prior felony drug conviction (convicted dec 2018). However I appealed. I had a reference letter written by my old boss and also turned in all court documents from my conviction. In April 2026 after almost 100 days I got my unsuitability reversed. Fast forward to last week I finally got an offer and the offer was from the closest office to my house (2 miles).

I’m excited to finally get out of family events and no social life!

Also s/o to the ones on reddit who told me I had no chance on my appeal. Thank you for the jinx 🤞

I’m 3 months in as a cca and I’m so proud of the progress I’ve made. This is by FAR the most challenging job I’ve ever had to learn and it’s so satisfying to see myself actually make progress and push forward. 3 months ago I could barely hold a stack of dps and now I’ve serviced thousands of houses across 6 routes at my office and have even helped a new cca learn the small route I learned on. It’s encouraging to see myself get just a little bit better every day!

The owner said “I taught him to eat any bills or junk mail “ 🤣

Been working as a RCA for about 3 years now and I really enjoy the job but I don’t get how upper management expects RCAs afford to survive. When I first started I caught on pretty quick basically all of the other subs at my office have a second job to help make ends meet because of the lack of hours. I have a second job I work at, and I’m usually able to still work my scheduled Saturday and any other coverage days if I have a small amount of notice.

Lately my acting postmaster has been coming down hard on us subs for having a second job and now we’re being told we are required to have full availability on both Sundays and Mondays, even if we aren’t needed.

Not really sure how much longer I’ll be able to stay with the company. The PO doesn’t guarantee me enough hours/pay to justify me staying at home hoping to be called in.

So they’re doing attendance reviews at my office. I was told my attendance was unacceptable bc I had 4 days missed from 4/1-6/30. I know i only called in 3 times because I can go back and look at my screen shots. Apparently they are counting the actual number of days not occurrences. I’m also being told that if I clock in at 8:01am i am late. So my question is I thought call out go by occurrences not the actual amount of days you call out for, I also was under the impression that there was a 5 min grace period on clocking in. Was I just misinformed this whole time?

In the direct middle of a mailbox today, almost didn’t want to touch the box again lol

I can’t believe we have a little over 45 of the new LLV’s just sitting on the lot for 2 years now (probably more I forgot). We have not been trained on them or anything but they keep promising we will use them soon. Fingers crossed we do!!!

My route driver stopped delivering the mail to my road. It’s a dirt road and got stuck one time. My neighbors gets mail but driver stopped delivering to end of road. City won’t pave the road for whatever years in over ten years. What are my options? Driver told me i can put a box at the top of the road but that doesn’t seem secure.

I was hired as a CCA and completed the OJT. Unfortunately, I injured my knee and had to resign. When I met with my supervisor to sign the paperwork I brought up that I was shorted time in training in my paycheck which equals over 8 hours. This is on top of talking and emailing another supervisor about this issue. There is also travel expenses that need to be reimbursed and I gave her the appropriate form. She said it would be taken care of by next week, the following week at the latest. It has been 3 weeks and no answer to my two messages until this morning that said she'll let her boss know. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this? I have read horror stories that it took up to a year to get compensation. I am thinking of filing a complaint with the attorney general but only if they drag this out.

There is a rural carrier at my post office that just did her 6 months as 204b and she just came back to her route maybe 2–3 weeks ago.. they’re pulling her back up to 204b next week and are saying she wasn’t a 204b for the whole 180 days.
The contract states she has to come back to her route for 90 days.
I don’t think this it’s right that’s she gets to keep her route, and gets to go back to sitting in the office for another extended period of time but our union steward told me they found a loophole.. and that there’s nothing we can do about it.

Advice?

Hi all, I'm a fairly new employee and have heard a few restrictions on what ONLY maintenance employees are allowed to do, like climb ladders, touch mail, enter maintenance areas ect. The SDO for the machine I'm working with has done and continues to do these things. We don't have a maintenance steward on my tour so I've been getting snippets of information from the oldheads but I can't find anything written down in the national APWU contract or JCIM, for instance. Can someone direct me to where this is written down? I'd like to start filing grievances. Thanks.

Ive been with the USPS for almost 3 years, I started only working Saturdays and had to go to different stations to get hours everyday. After transferring a few times I finally got an aux route. Now, I'm just trying to figure out the fastest way to become a regular carrier!? The only ways I know are a regular retirement or quitting, job postings or Hopefully finding a station that you get transfer to! For the job postings does it go by seniority because I'm considered a high RCA that gets vacation and sick time. Does any of this matter or is it just based on seniority only?

Hey guys I just have a few things to say and wanted to see what you guys thought. I am a rural carrier non-career. I am running two routes a day most of the time. Is it fair that I’m being pushed to do another route everyday because I finish before everyone else? It seems every one doesn’t care about eval time and just works by the hour but I want to go HOME! Should I just give up on eval time and just be as slow as possible like everyone else? I hate working slow. Sometimes it works out great because I stay under 40 but it’s pretty stressful when I’m close. I even work through 1 hour lunch breaks to keep the eval.

Another thing. Shouldn’t I be paid eval time on the second route since I case and run the DPS? But I don’t take any spars or packages.

I don’t mind doing extra I understand it’s work and won’t be fair sometimes but it’s hard when I come back and everyone left and I’m always last to leave.

Thanks guys.

My dumbass boyfriend for w.e reason threw I guess the end of his route away and was seen doing it.

Is he going to jail?

Just talked again with the moron. I guess they got him on camera.

Dumb question would it save him jail if he went back got it and took it back to the station?

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I carry mail in a small town. Days are never dull and I enjoy small towns but something feels off. And I think it's just where I am. I became a regular in November and I'm actually starting to think about moving to a bigger state with what I'd feel would be more to offer. Texas.