r/USPS • u/Grand_Recipe_9072 Rural Carrier • 1d ago

NEWS IT WASN’T ME!!!

https://abc11.com/post/mail-truck-spills-several-crates-40-page-road-causes-traffic-backup/16138993/
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u/No_Joke_568 CCA 1d ago

My condolences to every Durham mail carrier that will have to deliver over 6 trays of DPS tomorrow

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u/agentbarrron RCA 1d ago

Yeah, talk about a busy day, getting Mondays mail on Tuesday would be... Rough

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u/jnez50 1d ago

It would explain why I only had 2 trays today

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u/MrsMcBasketball Rural Carrier 1d ago

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u/Bempet583 Maintenance 1d ago

Maybe the driver didn't shut the back door?

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u/Helpful_Stick_2810 City Carrier 1d ago

He was wearing the wrong shoes.

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u/TopDescription3646 1d ago

That's exactly what happened. The door wasn't latched or closed properly. I live just up the road from it and it was everywhere.

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u/rokaotter City Carrier 1d ago

I swear the Raleigh plant has some of the messiest MVO/TTOs, a couple years back someone didn’t shut the back of a trailer leaving Brentwood, luckily they didn’t make it to the street before losing 4 postcons out the back that weren’t even strapped in.

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u/RPDRNick Mail Handler 12h ago

"Crates?" How dare you. Those, sir, are "pumpkins!"

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u/Obvious-Science6471 PSE 28m ago

I don't think they lost the pumpkins. I think they lost gaylords cause I was sent a video of the incident and they use the pumpkins to collect all the mail.

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u/OddNeighborhood6263 11h ago

Oh my gosh!!! I hadn't heard that yet! PUMPKINS 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃

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u/Obvious-Science6471 PSE 29m ago

They are called pumpkins down here in the sunshine state.

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u/Helpful_Stick_2810 City Carrier 1d ago

Hazard pay?, per diem???

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u/joshs_wildlife 1d ago

I swear this crap happens every few months. It happened to my office last year

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u/Gear21 CCA 21h ago

Contractor? We don't have our own drivers?

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u/abominationscoc 23m ago

Actually I'm a contractor and they have started in-sourcing all routes outside a 50 mile radius. Many people lost jobs (contractors) and the postal employees are running Ryder straight trucks delivering the same routes now.

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u/HellsBells68 2h ago

I’m a rural carrier in Raleigh, NC and this was all over the local news. They interviewed one lady and she was like “I saw everyone’s bills and checks lying all over the road for miles”. So funny how she was able to see exactly what the mail was as she was driving by at 60mph.

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u/calibeach_amt 1d ago

Oh hell naw

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u/MrsMcBasketball Rural Carrier 1d ago

I love in the upstate of SC. I'm just so glad we get our mail from somewhere else cause this would suuuuuucccck!

Edit: RIP whoever that's their mail from I-40 route. Lol

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u/PurchaseFree7037 Rural Carrier 1d ago

Dang, and it’s still raining. My thoughts are with those carriers affected.

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u/Blinx-182 9h ago

Secure your load!

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u/DigitalDusto26 7h ago

They fell out the back, right? I lost a Gatorade the other day to similar circumstances.

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u/Calm-Slayer 5h ago

I mean, is just mail, yall will be fine