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lkjohnson1950:
I can't say how the mail works in Canada or the UK, but I was a letter carrier for the USPS for quite a long time. You are told to cut across yards where possible as long as the resident doesn't object. You would have to be home and ask him/her to stop. You are encouraged to leave parcels at the door. Amazon insists on it. If your Amazon parcel is stolen Amazon says they will replace it. Otherwise you must file a claim. If you can prove your claim, the letter carrier may have to pay. When I retired I had 1500 mailboxes on my route. Most got something every day. I was supposed to deliver them all in 8 hours. That's a little more than 3 per minute, not including sorting time or travel time. My route was in Tucson, in a non air conditioned truck where inside temps were recorded as high as 130 in the summer. It is a far more difficult job than most people imagine.

guest3164:
I have to be honest, I feel sorry for posties and other delivery drivers now.  Too much pressure, low pay, far too many deliveries and as Lonny just said, far too unrealistic targets.  I do get miffed when the lie about attempting deliveries, but by and large I am sympathetic to them.  I wouldn't want to be doing it!

Warmwater:
A few years ago I had a friend who drove a Canada Post truck, I believe his job was to empty the large mailboxes on the streets. His first stop every morning was a liquor store where he bought a liter bottle of whiskey to see him through the day. I have no idea how he managed to drive, though he did have an occasional accident. A few of us would meet every evening at the local pub and he often told us about his day on the job. He said he would always deliberately get behind on his schedule, then to finish his route he would be on higher overtime pay after the end of his shift. To add icing on his cake he would then volunteer for after hours special deliveries, for which he got a hefty daily bonus. I never saw him sober, but he was a happy drunk and his wife was very attractive. He looked and acted like Cliff on Cheers...

cosworth151:
The letter carriers around here always short cut between houses. In our neighborhood, we even shovel a path through the snow between the houses in the winter for the mailman. For many years, our regular mailman lived about a block & a half away from my house. Jack retired a few years ago & moved to Florida. He said he never wanted to see snow again!

Andy B:
Here in NZ we have the option for a bar code to stuck to a position where the Postie can leave a parcel and scan the code but being retired I'm home more often than not and having a large GSD is better than a door  bell.

One of my annoyances is the continuous use of profanities it used to used to emphasise a point but in a lot of cases its every other word so what do they use to emphasise a point?

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