#mail carriers

[fixing-bad-posts]

mail carriers are skilled workers. union mentality babyyy.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Mail carriers, May 1957.

Photo: Thomas J. O'Halloran for U.S. News & World Report via the LoC

[iww-gnv]

USPS rural carriers seek to decertify union after most members see pay cuts | Federal News Network

A grassroots network of rural carriers across the country is collecting signatures from their coworkers, in the hopes of joining a new, non-

Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers say they’re in favor of decertifying their union, after USPS implemented a new pay system that led to significant pay cuts for two-thirds of the rural carrier workforce. A grassroots network of rural carriers across the country is collecting signatures from their coworkers in the hopes of joining a new union. Rural carriers have until the end of the calendar year to gather signatures from nearly a third of the total rural carrier workforce, but individuals leading the project said they have already collected about 20% of the necessary signatures. Leaders behind the effort say their current union, the National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA), has done little to prevent the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) from going into effect in May, or communicating its rollout to members.

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[unrighteousbooks]

It has been quite some time since I posted a photo of a book simply because it is beautiful. Here, then, is a handsome copy of a book called Going Postal, written by some fellow named Pratchett, This edition was published by Doubleday in London in 2017. The name of the author sounds dimly familiar and I feel that I've heard it before, but my memory is often faulty.

[deafinitelypawsitively]

How pretty and thank you!

🤟☺️💜👍💌📦📪📫📬📭

🌨️☁️⛈️⛈️🌤️🌥️🌦️🌩️🌡️🌀

Photo source: Facebook

[hclib]

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

First Mailwoman in Minneapolis

In January, 1945, 25-year-old Evelyn Scheldrup was hired as the first female mail carrier in Minneapolis. Hired as a substitute to fill war-time letter carrier shortages, Evelyn lugged the 50-pound mail bag on various routes through the coldest and snowiest months of the year. She dressed in her own clothes--slacks, sweater, and a jacket or fur coat with a mailman's hat, depending on the weather--and frequently came home soaked from snow. She was the only woman hired by postmaster John R. Coan during the manpower shortage that year. After suffering a serious knee injury from a slip on the ice, she was reassigned inside the post office as a clerk that spring.

Following WWII, cities didn't start seeing many female letter carriers again until the early 1960s when president John F. Kennedy ordered federal appointments and promotions be made without regard to sex. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination in hiring in the workplace at large. The number of women letter carriers in cities nationwide jumped from 104 in 1960 to 3,500 in 1968. In 2007, women carriers represented about 40% of the workforce.

Read more about women mail carriers on the USPS website.

Photos of Evelyn Scheldrup from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

[celiaelise]

Why do we let mail carriers go out there alone when their job is so important... they should always have a partner, buddy cop movies should be about them instead.

[hopepunk-humanity]

There is something so reassuring about the dependency of mail carriers. Keeping us together through strings of letter and packages, because that’s their job. And their job exists because it matters, not in a way that share holders or business people understand. It matters in the way your heart leaps at familiar handwriting on a slim envelope, or the way a much-anticipated square box on a welcome mat fills you with expectations. 

Here’s to the mail carriers. May we all comfort others with consistency