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I don't know who you spoke to but you got a BS answer. If the post office is short people, they borrow from other offices. If no one is available, they generally break up routes. I'm not sure if you are at the beginning or the end of your route but some offices will set a time to be back to the office during inclement weather. As far as today, as long as you shoveled by your box, you should have got mail if there was any. The volume was extremely light today because the processing plant/machines were down,and incoming mail from flights(air mail) as well so the letter volume would have reflected that.
The guy I spoke to at the post office was very blunt when I asked if they were delivering mail. He asked for me address and right away said no one was on that route today because they were short staffed. I was surprised because in much worse snows the mail was delivered during storms or by the day after.
No mail delivery either bad snow day, but I really don't blame them. How terrible to have to trudge through snow at sub zero temps. If I had something important coming, I could see complaining, but I think the majority of us will live without our junk mail for a day.
The guy I spoke to at the post office was very blunt when I asked if they were delivering mail. He asked for me address and right away said no one was on that route today because they were short staffed. I was surprised because in much worse snows the mail was delivered during storms or by the day after.
As I said before, it could have been what they classified an open route. There was no one specifically for the route so they broke it into pieces. Even if it was broken up though, the carriers might have been on a time restriction, so if you are at the end of the route it might have meant no mail for you; but there is no way that they didn't deliver to any customers on that specific route for the day. I'm a carrier for 20+ years and I have worked in a ton of offices over the years. There hasn't been a day ever that one route had no deliveries unless the post office was off for a holiday or shutdown based on EXTREME weather.
As I said before, it could have been what they classified an open route. There was no one specifically for the route so they broke it into pieces. Even if it was broken up though, the carriers might have been on a time restriction, so if you are at the end of the route it might have meant no mail for you; but there is no way that they didn't deliver to any customers on that specific route for the day. I'm a carrier for 20+ years and I have worked in a ton of offices over the years. There hasn't been a day ever that one route had no deliveries unless the post office was off for a holiday or shutdown based on EXTREME weather.
Hi, you said as long as I shoveled by my box I should have gotten mail if there was any. I had shoveled and that's why I checked with the delivery supervisor at the post office to see if it was just that I had no mail. He said they were short of people and some areas would get no mail. (To be honest I don't know if he used the word 'routes' but that was my impression.) He then asked what street I was on and as soon as I told him he said there would be no mail delivery on my street that day.
I did get mail yesterday but it seems like they are still backed up. I have an eBay package that tracking shows arrived in the local post office in the early morning of 1/21 but it still hasn't been delivered.
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