LJI Three Strikes, Week 3: "Morgenmuffel"

[copyright1983]

"Nor Gloom of Night"

Three streets to go, I mutter to myself. You're almost done.

As I park the vehicle, my Fitbit buzzes at me. I presume, at this point, it's trying to submit its own resignation letter. But no, it's a text from Jamie, my boss.

Can you check on Victoria when you're done?

The new gal. Of course. They probably gave her two hours too

Comments

[drippedonpaper]

Do you work for Amazon or FedEx or something?

Man. That really sounds very stressful. Like you say at the end, at least you see the sun. But I am guessing that means you also see the rain, snow, etc.

Thank you for all you do, seriously! Being able to order things can actually be so very helpful. For instance, I am a female with size 12 W shoes. I wear men's athletic shoes but when I need "dressy" shoes or sandals, I have to order them. I really appreciate all delivery drivers.

I hope you get some rest. Thanks for this glimpse of "a day in the life." I really sympathize. And your reward for doing your job well seems to be having to go "fix" the jobs of people who didn't do their day as well. I hope you get extra pay for that!

[copyright1983]

USPS, actually. And not much snow in the Bay Area, but plenty of everything else.

Thanks for reading!

[viagra]

Oof, the holidays always seems like the most annoying time to be a delivery driver of any kind - I can't believe that step counter and the long hours! I know there have got to be lots of upsides to the job (like you mentioned, at least you get to be outdoors seeing the sun), but I don't really thank my USPS carriers enough, especially the one that deals with delivering everything to our office in the center of downtown!

[banana_galaxy]

That is a long day! I hope you get good overtime at least.

When I worked as a tour guide, I think I did a couple of days that were like 10, maybe 10.5 hour days, but that didn't happen too often. Just when traffic was really bad on certain holiday weekends. I can't imagine having to do it regularly.

[adoptedwriter]

Holidays are always the busiest times and would be insanity for an inexperienced mail carrier.

[pixiebelle]

Interesting slice of life. I imagine that working at the post office that time of year would be wild!