Date   : Thu, 02 Mar 1989 17:14:32 GMT
From   : blake!djo7613@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Subject: postal disk problems (was Re: Commdore's poor service to its CP/M customers)

As an ex-mail carrier, I thought I'd add a side note before irate postal
customers thrash the wrong person inadvertently!

You get mail six days a week, at least at your residence.  Mail carriers
work 5 days a week, usually with a rotating day off.  This means that at
least *once* a week (more during the flu season or summertime) a less
experienced carrier is handling your route.  These are professional "subs"
who may carry five different routes each week, but sometimes are carriers
just starting out who haven't the seniority to "bid" on a permanent route
of their own.

Point is, if you have a delivery complaint CHECK THE DATE OF DELIVERY before
your call in the postal supervisors.  They may mistakenly berate the regular
carrier, when in fact the sub was "on" that day, and was responsible.  

Note: this is not meant to castigate the subs.  When I was a 90-day temp
as a lad in Illinois, the professional subs (T1's) were well-respected and
paid more.  It's no mean feat to memorize deliveries for five entire routes!!


Dick O'Connor
Washington Department of Fisheries
Olympia, Washington  98504
Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu
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DISCLAIMER:  I speak only for myself, not for the Department.  Here, anyway!
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