1st there was Bloods vs. Crips.....now Amazon vs. USPS?

[the artist]

U.S. Postal Service mail carrier shot by Amazon driver

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U.S. Postal Service mail carrier shot by Amazon driver​

A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot in the face during an altercation Friday afternoon in Everett, Washington, and a rival package delivery driver is in custody, according to local police and a postal inspector.

The incident took place at the West Mall Place Apartments. The victim was transported to Providence Hospital with a gunshot wound, the Everett Police Department said in a Facebook post. He was transferred to Harbor View Medical Center in critical condition, Seattle TV station KOMO reported.

Neighbors said the shooter was an Amazon delivery driver, according to KOMO and social media posts. TV footage showed an Amazon vehicle and USPS van behind police crime-scene tape and the Amazon van being towed away later.

 

[D24OHA]

It is Postal Policy to "securely deliver the mail" to CBUs (cluster (mail)box units). When you have CBUs open it is extremely frustrating when customers want to grab their mail "real quick," or if ppl want to be let into the building. Just let me finish "real quick" and we can both be on our ways.

Turning away from or your back to an open CBU in most cases is not a security risk, however maybe the carrier was almost done and the Amazon driver didn't like waiting the additional 30 seconds or minute for the carrier to finish and then lock the unit........

But shooting (attacking) a Postal Worker while on duty is not the same as attacking a civilian. Its automatically a federal offense and you could get additional charges for delaying delivery of mail, (for every piece or address remaining on the route).

 

[xfactor]

Bezos been a gangsta

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Daaaamn.

 

[RoomService]

Trump brings out the evil in everyone.

 

[ORIGINAL NATION]

Damn postal wars

 

[D24OHA]

Damn postal wars

Delivery wars.....

There is only 1 Post Office (or delivery company that uses "postage.")

 

[ORIGINAL NATION]

Delivery wars.....

There is only 1 Post Office (or delivery company that uses "postage.")

So amazon deliveries but get their postage from post office

 

[D24OHA]

So amazon deliveries but get their postage from post office

Amazon packages that USPS delivers has postage on it.

But the packages that UPS, Amazon, FedEx etc deliver...... they mostly do not have "postage." They have labels.

Occasionally, FedEx and Amazon will have packages they deliver with postage on it, but that's typically due to an error. FedEx had a long term shipping agreement with USPS, that ended during Covid, but their tracking numbers still follow USPS' guidelines (or have both USPS and FedEx names on the label). So occasionally customer packages with postage will still be delivered by them. And as far as Amazon delivering packages with postage, the package probably wasn't handed over to USPS in time, so they'll deliver it themselves to maintain customer expectations.

 

[jawnswoop]

Damn, mail carriers companies beefing.

 

[DMXtreem]

This is absolutely insane!!!

 

[Z MONSTER]

It is Postal Policy to "securely deliver the mail" to CBUs (cluster (mail)box units). When you have CBUs open it is extremely frustrating when customers want to grab their mail "real quick," or if ppl want to be let into the building. Just let me finish "real quick" and we can both be on our ways.

Turning away from or your back to an open CBU in most cases is not a security risk, however maybe the carrier was almost done and the Amazon driver didn't like waiting the additional 30 seconds or minute for the carrier to finish and then lock the unit........

But shooting (attacking) a Postal Worker while on duty is not the same as attacking a civilian. Its automatically a federal offense and you could get additional charges for delaying delivery of mail, (for every piece or address remaining on the route).

My son is a USPS CCA (city carrier assistant). He said the same thing about the cluster boxes. He also said he go on different routes and have to figure things out. He's been there 10 months now.

 

[D24OHA]

My son is a USPS CCA (city carrier assistant). He said the same thing about the cluster boxes. He also said he go on different routes and have to figure things out. He's been there 10 months now.

He's still a CCA after 10 months? That's interesting. Thanks to the new contract they should be converting most CCAs to PTF in 6 months. CCA life is hard, I was one for 18 months.

 

[mcguyver]

Bezos been a gangsta

You cheerleading bitch. Is their a white person you don't love?

 

[Z MONSTER]

He's still a CCA after 10 months? That's interesting. Thanks to the new contract they should be converting most CCAs to PTF in 6 months. CCA life is hard, I was one for 18 months.

I'll ask him about this. He's working 6 days a week and have the impression that he has to do this for 18 months to get a consistent route.

 

[D24OHA]

I'll ask him about this. He's working 6 days a week and have the impression that he has to do this for 18 months to get a consistent route.

Nah that was pre- contract work conditions. The NALC union covers the carriers nationwide.

Iirc now you are no longer a CCA, you actually start out as a PTF, or if you were a "CCA" pre contract ratification you become a PTF within 6 months. Either way you make "regular" in 6 months or less after being a PTF.

There were PTFs in my area making regular in as little as 30 days and the most was like 4 months...... no one I've seen in the past year+ had to wait a whole 6 months - 1 year to make regular.

It sounds like either someone wants to set his expectations low and see if he'll grind it out. Or they hipe he folds so that more OT becomes available.

Once he makes regular he can either try to stay at his current station as an unassigned regular, meaning no assigned route so he floats to whatever is open. Or he can take his chances and bid on available routes within his area. So, if his station has an open route, bid on it and try to bid on open routes at other stations. Some routes may be better elsewhere.

In the meantime he can try to put a "hold down" on any vacant routes at his cirrent station. And that way they shouldn't keep bouncing him around. If you need/ want more info pm me.