Mailmen used to be middle class. Now they're living in poverty - A video

[Afro]

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

My Grandad was a mail man
Had a house, a wife and kids he didn't take care of

And tricked on hoes

 

[Peruvian Connect]

My Grandad was a mail man
Had a house, a wife and kids he didn't take care of

And tricked on hoes

And an awesome pension. Probably the same size as these guys checks now adadys

 

[MikelArteta]

yup here in canada they are on strike because of their wages, before it was considered a good government job

 

[Roger king]

I have a lot of respect for mail men and other service workers, they should be fairly compensated, its a very tough and demanding job

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

It’s a great job still and they make their own budget.

 

[Wild self]

It should feed your family, but you know....."Be a 6 figure STEM Guru like Tony Stark just to get a wage above poverty"

 

[Charlie Hustle]

@TheMailMan

 

[King Poetic]

Tough job

Dealing with weather, dogs and now kids robbing them for keys

 

[Sohh_lifted]

This isnt true, lots of mailmen/women still make a decent living, along with a pension. Better than most jobs.

 

[King_Kamala61]

I have a lot of respect for mail men and other service workers, they should be fairly compensated, its a very tough and demanding job

Tough like these negs you little bytch

 

[Peruvian Connect]

This isnt true, lots of mailmen/women still make a decent living, along with a pension. Better than most jobs.

You said they make a "decent living". It used to be great. Again blame inflation, price gouging or whatever. It aint the same,

 

[Neuromancer]

Hope it gets better for them.

 

[popogogo]

Pops did 35 years at the USPS.
We had a nice home in a middle class neighborhood and rental property.
Moms had a new whip every few years and he just took her old car when they upgraded.
We all went to private school and college and got cars in 11th grade.
Got braces when the teeth got fukked up.
2 or 3 family vacations every year.
Great union, great benefits, great retirement.

Firmly middle class.
We could do what we wanted to do for the most part.

I have many friends with similar experiences.
Post office was a great way for black families to build back in the day.

There is a real effort to fukk up the post office on purpose so they can justify privatizing it.
Don't get it twisted.

Things are not the same anymore.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

It’s a great job still and they make their own budget.

This isnt true, lots of mailmen/women still make a decent living, along with a pension. Better than most jobs.

Working 60-80 hours a week while dealing with abusive management and entitled customers
Is not a great job
The only way to crack 100k is to work 6 damn days a week on top of the 80 hours
There are two tables of pay for each craft
Table 1 tops out at 15 steps and is gucci for right now
It would take Table 2 craft employees YEARS to even get half of that salary to achieve that
Between the ever present packages from Amazon to Dejoy purposely running the post office into the ground
Attrition from overworking
Old buildings but now putting everybody in SD&C buildings that look like prisons
And those people having to drive sometimes 50-100 miles out to get to work
Benefits prices being increased
Rarely getting colas and contracts that are pure garbage
Kindly stfu