Post Office Summer

One nice thing about summers at the Post Office is that the mail volume goes down. You might say that's a bad thing as that means you won't get as many hours. In most cases, you'd be wrong. As I've previously mentioned, unless you manage to work 40 hours in 1 week, you don't get paid for all the hours you work at the Post Office. You get paid for whatever the route is assessed. This is usually less than what it actually takes you to do the route. If you get less mail then, you have less mail to case, pack up and deliver. That means, you can get the job done sooner which means you end up giving the Post Office fewer free hours of work. So, it's actually a good thing when the mail volume goes down during the summer. The only bummer is that it will go back up in the fall and continue to increase all the way through Christmas. Christmas is the worst time at the Post Office due to all the Christmas cards, sales fliers and packages. A route that might normally have 10 or 15 packages will suddenly have 30 or 40. All those packages can really slow you down.

So, for now, I'm enjoying the easier days at the Post Office. Barring the heat, I like getting done earlier and being able to get home sooner. The less time I spend at the Post Office, the happier I am.