Doesn’t seem any more “impersonating a postal worker” than wearing a letter carrier uniform on Halloween.
The FBI absolutely uses UPS trucks to deliver intercepted illegal drugs. It was a few months after jury duty before my paranoia about them subsided.One glaring error, the eagle on the left door should be facing towrds the front of the Jeep. Therefore, it is clearly a fake mail Jeep.
Be careful of law enforcement interdiction units trained to spot spoof vehicles as a probable cause to get pulled over. Spoofed vehicles are commonly used to transport drugs, guns, cash and trafficked people. USPS marked vehicles are common among the drug mules. As are Amazon, UPS, AT&T, construction vehicles, etc.
Well, see, data like this is helpful. Our Ring doorbell camera has recurringly filmed our UPS drivers sliding or tossing the parcels on our porch, and then literally jogging back down the driveway to their truck. Not once have they come close to lingering at or even near the house. If I ever see them do so, I'll now know that my order of China White was intercepted, and I'll just refuse to answer the door. Thanks, Ring!
Well it's temporary. White was the only available color for what I wanted that was at a reasonable price. Did not want white and joked if I ended up with a white jeep,I'd have fun with it and make it look similar to the 70s postal jeep. After newness goes, I'll do some other fun mockups. Since my baby is a Texan, a Texas Beach Patrol Jeep would be fun too.
I like it. That would be funny as hell to see a postal Jeep on Pritchet Canyon, or another difficult trail.I played humorously about all my Jeep picks got sold, and the only remaining choice was white... they were all black at the time. So my humor got the best of me....
Oh no, I love your white postal JL. I was commenting on the postal rat rod above. I didn’t copy the pics as part of my reply.
The new hires issues is with all businesses. We get them as temps. The few that actually want to work stay into their 90 day probation. Some that are good leave in 2 weeks because they are improperly utilized, or because they find overtime hours conflicting with life. Younger college students actually work well, but have college responsibilities. The ones who are not in college don't know how to function well and slack off at any opportunity.
I'm actually running one of our smaller routes (~450 houses) in this pic.
My family has run a postal contracting busines for over 40 years. I've run it the last 20 and, boy, how times have changed.
When I started it was all letters and flats -every piece hand sorted every day- with a handfull of parcels thrown in and no tracking.
Now the letters come from the plant already sorted, the flats are still done by hand, but are a a quarter of what we used to get.
Today it's all about parcels. We spend more time sorting parcels then anything else. Before Amazon started to deliver it's own parcels, we would fill every truck to the roof every day - it was brutal.
And as for the job itself - it's harder then most people realize. Both my company and the Postal Service loose about 60% of new hires within the first 2 or 3 weeks. Either they can't handle the physicality, can't wrap their heads around organizing everything in an efficient yet flexible manner or simply can't handle the pace required.
I almost exclusivly hire people who've at least a years experience because the cost of training someone who won't last two months is prohibitive.
It's funny when I have employees in their 60's who have been doing this for 40 years fly through the day (in 110+ degree heat mind you) and have these jacked, inked up kids who fall to thier knees because it's too stressfull to be held to a speed/accuracy level.
And just an aside: despite all the very real institutional problems embeded in the USPS, what it does every day is truely a logistical marvel. Delivering to every household/business in the country 6 days a week with a 97.5% accuracy rate is remarkable.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: 'it's not how well the bear dances; it's that it dances at all."
In the early aughts, I worked as an unloader at a Federal Express terminal. We were essentially being paid to work out, moving at 100% of our capacity 100% of the time. The pay was decent enough for what it was.
