Lazy postal worker drives on a customers lawn instead of walking twenty feet to deliver a package

[AngryAmish]

[Barack_America]

1. Cause for termination. Nt

[grantcart]

46. She will be. They are very strict and that is why stuff like this is so rare.

[warrior1]

2. that has got to be a joke

Don't postal workers wear uniforms?

[Cerridwen]

8. Rural and contract carriers don't, I think.

Nor do the management rather than the ones who work on the streets. Management will sometimes make package deliveries if the carrier for the route is already on the street.

I hope whoever took the video contacted their local office to show it to them.

[pipi_k]

35. You are right...

I'm rural and have never seen a USPS worker/carrier in a uniform.

Not even the ones who work IN the Post Office.

[sharp_stick]

9. I do believe so

I wouldn't be surprised if it's just an ad for the company.

[cali]

13. I haven't seen a postal worker in a uniform in decades

yes, we have a post office in my tiny village, but the post mistresses doesn't wear a uniform. Nor do the drivers.

[enlightenment]

17. Ours wears a uniform

and walks the route, at least parts of it. He parks his truck mid-way and then walks back and does the first half of the street - picks up the rest from the truck and does the other half of the street. Friendly, smiles, chats with you if you're outside when he comes by . . . it's like the "old" days.

My brother lives in a smaller town and the postal service is contracted out, I think. No one wears a uniform in the office or on the routes.

[pipi_k]

43. I'm just smiling a bit

at the thought of seeing my mail lady walking her route. Or even a part of it.

Nearest house to me is 1,000 feet down the hill

[enlightenment]

107. I think she may

have a good excuse for driving her route!

[MineralMan]

92. Ours, too. She walks her route,

block by block, parking the vehicle and the end of the block and then delivers the mail down one side of the street and back up the other to her vehicle. If there are packages on that block to deliver, she does that first, stopping the vehicle at that house, and then does the other mail delivery. 11 A.M. at my house, plus or minus 10 minutes, every day.

Nice person, she is, and always has a smile if I happen to meet her at the door.

[sammytko]

12. nope - not in my small town

they even drive their own vehicles - which is scary. They sit in the middle and drive from there. This way they can put the mail in the boxes with their right hand.

[NickB79]

93. Hell, here they don't even drive postal vehicles

The first time my mother-in-law saw someone pull up in a beat-up Ford Taurus and open our mailbox, she was ready to call the cops, until I explained to her that's the mailman.

[snooper2]

3. Yo lady, you are about to go viral

[seabeyond]

6. true dat. lol. the way it works today. nt

[AngryAmish]

7. Meet the laziest woman in America...

[CatWoman]

4. I had one leave a package on top of my toolbox that is affixed to the bed of my truck

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rather than walk to the front porch and leave it at my door. The truck was parked in the driveway.

Anyone walking along could have taken it and I wouldn't have known any better............

[seabeyond]

5. i would be firing her ass. attitude. driving on the lawn. tossing the package. at least she wore

her seatbelt.

that is too sad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. and running over the garden hose!

THAT would be a problem if it were my hose.

[seabeyond]

19. lol. ya. and that. lol. nt

[lonestarnot]

10. That lady looks like she is in pain. Nazi management at the post office probably refusing

to honor a medical restriction. A set-up. Poor thing.

[Throd]

21. Yes, that must be it.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

45. Nazi Management?

This has gotten around my office quite a bit today. According to my cubical mate (who used to be a clerk) she's probably a supervisor since she's wearing street clothes and has a badge around her neck.

[lonestarnot]

72. Yes they are Nazi's when it comes to getting injured on the job over there.

[Capt. Obvious]

70. This is exactly like the Holocaust

This lawn she drove over should now become a memorial.

[lonestarnot]

74. OMG. Just saw this.

Poor blades.

[Capt. Obvious]

11. She probably forgot her mobility scooter

[Barack_America]

14. Sad, because she looks so young.

Obesity can take such a toll on the body.

[CBGLuthier]

15. We had an obese woman delivering mail for a while

She would drive in front of a house walk to the door deliver walk back to the vehicle drive to the next house (30 feet away) and repeat.

Never underestimate the power of sloth.

[Oilwellian]

16. Not surprising

I had a new mail carrier who didn't even attempt to deliver a package. She just left a slip in my mailbox and I had to drive to the post office to pick it up. I was home the entire day and saw her pass by without even attempting to deliver it. I let it slide that time. When she did it again, I went to pick up the package and complained. It never happened again.

[HappyMe]

20. Fire her lazy ass.

[lonestarnot]

25. Really that's your answer. If I may ask, how many years have you spent employed?

[HappyMe]

26. Since 1976.

What difference does that make?

If she doesn't want to do the job properly, then she needs to go.

[lonestarnot]

27. Ever been injured?

[HappyMe]

28. Why? What does how long

I have been working have to do with this?

[lonestarnot]

30. 37 years you've been working and apparently you have had no risk to injury or never been injured

through employment. That is special. Apparently don't believe in unions and in addition believe people are dispensable when used up physically. Just fire them.

[HappyMe]

37. That's special of you.

I have been cut and burned working in kitchens. I never injured myself when I was landscaping. I had enough sense to quit landscaping when it became apparent to me that I was no longer physically able to do the job as well as I could.

My dad was in the steel workers and mechanics union.

If she can't or won't do the job properly, she should ask for a desk job.

edit to add - There's no proof that she was injured. Unless you consider disregard for property and laziness an injury.

[lonestarnot]

61. Snort. Daddy references to union membership do not make one a union member. How much do you

know about asking for a desk job at the post office?

When one looks in as a juror of their peers, one needs to do so without conviction of prejudice. If you are going to judge and juror, you must have all of the facts. There is no proof, but for subjective look at her driving skills and exiting her vehicle that she is not injured. And good sense? Where is it written that one has lack of good sense when they continue what they know and have not drawn the conclusion that it that is time to give it up on your time table?

[HappyMe]

64. Derp

[lonestarnot]

89. Oh now that's just ignant!

[tkmorris]

94. I refuse to believe you aren't being satirical

See, here's the thing. Even if we assume any of the unlikely sets of circumstances you assert (injured, supervisors not cooperating, etc.) her actions are wrong. If I were in that position there are a number of things I might do but driving up onto someone's lawn is NOT one of them. That isn't cool no matter how you look at it.

Actually it seems most likely that she is exactly what she appears to be. The laziest postal worker in the US of A.

[bunnies]

95. +1

I was going to address that poster but you did it much better than I would have.

[Throd]

29. So, you're OK with her driving up on the lawn.

If she can't perform her duties correctly, she needs to be assigned a different duty. Or fired.

[lonestarnot]

32. I didn't see her destroy anything, but repetitive driving on the fucking lawn may cause it to croak.

Home dwellers may not like that.

[Throd]

34. Holy shit!

[lonestarnot]

38. Holy shit people first, then the lawn. :)

Someone should be seeing about medical assistance for the poor lady. Her hips or back appears to be busted. But she is still delivering the fucking mail.

[HappyMe]

39. She should be seeing about her own damn health.

She knows what the job entails. If she can't walk, she needs to go.

[lonestarnot]

40. If she can't walk, her employer should know she can't walk, see that she gets the time off to get

the medical treatment and give her a sedentary position until she is able to walk again, not fucking fire her.

[HappyMe]

47. Part of her problem might just be a sedentary lifestyle.

I don't think she's all that 'broken'.

[lonestarnot]

53. Well lemme just say that you lack empathy skills. Judgmental snap decisions with regard to fat and

lazy cause

[HappyMe]

59. Lemme just say that I hope

somebody delivers your package by throwing it at your house.

Snap judgement on your part with the baseless claims of broken back and other injuries.

I have plenty of empathy for those who have actual problems.

[lonestarnot]

62. So where did you see her throw a package at the house?

[cui bono]

102. the only thing they lack empathy for is your imagination.

You are arguing in defense of this person based on her having a work injury that you have made up in your own mind. Bizarre.

[lonestarnot]

104. No, I did not. I was interjecting speculation to demonstrate that all of the facts of this

incident are not present on the video and tried to get people to think about the judgments they were making. The tangent I made up in my own mind was speculation as to one thing that may have made this incident occur. Good gawd.

[Throd]

41. Then she should be doing something else.

Where you see a victim, I see a fat, lazy person who doesn't respect other people's property in the least.

She needs a desk job if her hips and back are busted as you say.

[lonestarnot]

49. "I see a fat, lazy person who doesn't respect other people's property in the least." Really?

I see a person struggling to do the job, no matter fucking what.

[snooper2]

58. There's another video of her playing bad-mitten with her two kids

running and jumping around-

[lonestarnot]

69. Oops. Made the same day? And how do we know she didn't hurt herself at her last stop?

[snooper2]

73. Show me where in the video, what time-stamp, gives you an indication she is "injured"

She got out, walked fine, threw packages, turned around, hopped in, slammed the door shut-

She is fat but not morbidly obese- So why are you making up this "injury" story when you have no facts?



What time-stamp in the video please--

[lonestarnot]

75. I apparently observe things in the video which you did not. I observe the manner in which she got

out of her truck to be that of someone whose face looks to be in pain.

[snooper2]

78. LOL, she looks fine,

walks fine, no limp...

Within 24 hours we will have the whole story- I'm seeing a title-



"Postal Worker on viral video who drove through yard fired"

[lonestarnot]

80. Well of course she is going to be fired. That is not in dispute.

[CBGLuthier]

84. The only pain I see in her face is sadness at having to leave her seat

She is the size of two women and moves pretty good. No pain. Sloth. Good old-fashioned sloth.

[lonestarnot]

85. A sloth. Wow. This sounds so testosteronie.

[leftyohiolib]

100. not as much as that sounded sexist

someone is awfully defensive

[Throd]

68. Driving a car up to the porch is not doing her job.

She could have hit a small child or pet around who wasn't expecting a car on the porch.

There can be underground utilities to break with the weight of a car.

There just isn't any way to defend her actions. Well, not rationally.

[lonestarnot]

71. "There just isn't any way to defend her actions. Well, not rationally." Yes. There is and I am.

You are clearly not familiar with employment at the USPS.

[Throd]

76. Actually I am.

My aunt and uncle have been employed by USPS since the mid-70's. (uncle is retired, aunt should retire any day now,)

I have heard all their stories, good and bad.

[lonestarnot]

79. Oh so the Aunt and Uncle stories gave you all you need to know to familiarize yourself with

employment procedures and policies to allow you to view this incident I watched in the totality of its circumstance. No I don't see credentialed authority here. So no...

[lonestarnot]

77. So anyone who defends her is not rational? I see.

[Ikonoklast]

82. Does tying oneself into knots of supposition hurt much?

Hurt or not, she's going to lose her job.

For good reason, too.

[lonestarnot]

86. And that you opined here, you followed the interlacings apparently, and have done the same on the

other side of the fence.

[Ikonoklast]

88. Res Ipsa Loquitur.

[lonestarnot]

90. Yes it does, you heard one thing; I heard another.

[Throd]

83. That's my position. You have yours. Good day to you, sir/ma'am.

[leftyohiolib]

31. she didnt appear to be injured at all not that that makes it ok

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wow the lengths some people here go thru to justify others actions

[lonestarnot]

42. What do you mean, "people here?" Got something against "people here?" You are now my

buddy. Do we still have that buddy business? Makes what ok?

[leftyohiolib]

66. fixed

[lonestarnot]

81. Thank you.

[pipi_k]

57. Injury is one thing

shitty attitude is another.

OK I can see someone "needing" to drive up on the lawn to deliver a package.

But the tossing of that package on the porch sucked. How does she know what's inside? Packages aren't always marked "Fragile", and people don't always pack things in boxes with sufficient cushioning.

I have video cameras all over my house and have never seen this sort of attitude from USPS, UPS, or FedEx where they just throw the package if nobody is home.

[kimbutgar]

22. Look at the postal worker she doesn't look like she could walk up to the driveway

That said I love my postal worker. If I'm not home when he delivers me a package he will come back later to deliver to me. He always smiles and us friendly to all the neighbors. I guess it depends on where one lives.

[leftyohiolib]

36. youre excusing her actions?

[kimbutgar]

99. No I think she is a lazy ass who's lucky she has a job

[hedgehog]

23. The Postal Sevice employees 522,000 people and

delivers 40% of the mail - worldwide.

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/


and we have to post this video on DU....

Really?

[Brickbat]

24. +1.

[TBF]

33. Seriously.

Bashing government services is an everyday hobby for right-wingers. Sad to see it here - and especially to see so many feed into it.

[B Calm]

55. You are right, and it doesn't help when there are employees

like this lazy slob making all the other postal carriers look bad!

[hedgehog]

56. Thinking about it - how do we know that the homeowner

doesn't have an aggressive dog that tends to be loose in the area?

[Nye Bevan]

105. Yes, because the official postal service rulebook probably says to drive across the lawn

when that is the case.

[quinnox]

44. Thanks for todays reinforcement of the right wing meme, "public employees are lazy and bad workers"

[HappyMe]

50. Nobody said ALL public employees

are lazy and bad. This particular one appears to be.

[leftstreet]

51. +1

[ForgoTheConsequence]

52. She's the one reinforcing it....

I know that the majority of postal workers are hard working, but she is an exception and she got busted. If I were a co-worker of hers I would be pissed.

[AngryAmish]

54. Are so saying that this woman isn't lazy?

By any objective standard she is lazy. If she is injured (which it doesn't appear) then she needs to go on worker's comp (or whatever they have in the postal service). But she should not be driving on people's lawns if she can't or won't do her job normally.

Honestly, have you never seen anyone drive on a lawn to deliver a small package? I have not but maybe that was mt privileged upbringing. She makes Justin Bieber getting carried up the Great Wall seem like Jack LaLane.

[B Calm]

65. She makes Justin Bieber getting carried up the Great Wall seem like Jack LaLane. LOL

[leftyohiolib]

101. thanks for todays leap into hyperboloe

[B Calm]

48. Lazy as hell or maybe she's on light duty, LOL

[dr.strangelove]

60. I encourage everyone to make less assumptions and withhold judgment until you know everything

At first glance, this looks like a postal worker drove up on a grass, over some lawn and what appears to be a garden hose, then backed over the same things. But perhaps there a reason other than being lazy.
Before I judge anyone, I like to know what I am actually seeing. If this is a woman who just drove up on a lawn because she did nto want to walk up the pathway, then I would certainly agree with some of the anger I have read toward her. But what if there is another story being played out here. What if this is a rural route customer who refuses to comply with the postal regs, and complains when the mail is not delivered. As a rural route resident very close to NYC, I get a lot fo NYC residents who move here and do not understand the rules. They expect mail to be walked to their door. The expect to be able to buy a cheap mailbox that is too small for a rural route. Maybe the resident was warned that mail would stop unless they complied with the regs and the resident comlained that the mail could be taken to their door. Maybe the resident did somethink wrong here and this was a response. Maybe she had permission to drive up to the walkway. Maybe she is a supervisor and is doing this so that her drivers do not have to deal with this resident. Who knows. I am prepared to be angry at her and call for her to be disciplined, but only if warranted after I know the facts. Right now, I know little about this.

[lonestarnot]

87. !

[Hassin Bin Sober]

106. It's possible she though the drive circled the front.

Maybe she mistook the sidewalk for drive - maybe the vantage point view from the right side looking to the left only revealed part of the sidewalk and she mistook it for a drive.

She wouldn't be the first person to turn down a sidewalk. I once pulled an old lady out of a car on a railroad track. "I'm from Naperville and I'm lost!" , she said. "you sure as hell are!" I said as me and my body carried her down the embankment with a train heading toward us.

[aikoaiko]

67. I thought she might throw the package like a Frisbee.

so she wouldn't have to get out of the car.

[Blue_Tires]

91. I'm hoping there's more context to the story than this...

[MadrasT]

96. Hell mine won't even drive down my DRIVEWAY.

I have a mailbox on a post at the end of my driveway and half the time he leaves the package on the curb next to the mailbox (50 yards from the house).

You can literally drive TO MY FRONT DOOR and he won't do it. Just leaves them up by the road, where any passerby could take them.

The last mail carrier I had always brought the packages down the driveway and left them on the front porch.

[Kingofalldems]

97. She is either a temp, called 'casual' by the USPS (most likely) or

she has been employed for less than 90 days. The lack of a uniform is telling on this. Either way she can be fired on the spot.

[ecstatic]

98. I noticed she didn't ring the doorbell either

At least give people the opportunity to get their packages before a random thief gets to it. Unfortunately, I'm having the same problem with UPS not even bothering to ring my doorbell when they leave packages. When a signature is required, they just assume I'm not home and leave the "Sorry we missed ya!" notice. I don't order online as much as I used to as a result.

[kestrel91316]

103. I think we know how she got so pound-challenged.