Ages ago you’d start your day and spend 4-6 hours sorting buckets of envelopes and packages. Then organizing them in smaller batches by block/street. Then 2~4 hours running your route.
Now they have machines do pretty much all the sorting. But you still got a 8 hour shift. So it’s 7+ hours of walking instead of the old 2~4. It’s extremely physically demanding since you now have to deliver four times the mail due to the automation of part of your job.
From speaking to a career USPS worker…
Ages ago you’d start your day and spend 4-6 hours sorting buckets of envelopes and packages. Then organizing them in smaller batches by block/street. Then 2~4 hours running your route.
Now they have machines do pretty much all the sorting. But you still got a 8 hour shift. So it’s 7+ hours of walking instead of the old 2~4. It’s extremely physically demanding since you now have to deliver four times the mail due to the automation of part of your job.