Really management let play video that LONG! Where I come from they would never play a video that lasts that long. Not even a training video. In fact they push carriers to sign off for videos they never watched. But hey, I loved the video. Life was so much simpler back then. Loved it. Thanks for sharing.
@@ladychiefretireddiy2025 , I'm sorry to hear that. Some of the managers are my main station were corrupt, too: they lied, pushed others to lie, and worked their lies into the firing of me. Left an awful taste in my mouth for many years.
@@luisreyes1963 Ha ha. But really, I never got all my Playboy subs. About one every so often. I guess the carrier liked them too much to share baCK WITH ME. lol
Post offices still have the "wanted" photos seen in some of these old videos, mostly see them in the back of the buildings anymore, on my route collecting all mail at the end of the day I'd see these and joke with closing employees to make sure those on the wanted pictures weren't current employees you recognized 😅. Backfired though, saw one photo that resembled myself i swear they were going to call our postal police to carry me off.
I'm a rural carrier, but I've done a little City carrying as a casual and I had to laugh when the narrator said that the mail slot was the best option. They're the worst, I can't fit anything in them. And those old style apartment boxes, if you get more than a couple magazines or anything remotely big you can't fit it. Delivery seemed much simpler back then. Now it's crazy. So much of what I deliver is packages. Even though Amazon now delivers here we still are getting a lot of their stuff. Tips to make your mail carrier happy: empty your mail regularly, have a box big enough for your mail (consider a large one if you regularly get small to mid sized packages), file a change of address when you move and update people of your new address, buy local not everything online, and understand that you are "current resident".
Wow, as a regular carrier, these items are the things that make my day 🎉 it makes things easier for both parties involved by like a thousand percent lol
Also, on hot days try to remember that the mailman might be happy to get a bottle of water (optional), make sure your dog is away from the mailbox, and don't get mad if your mailman is behind schedule.
A simpler time! Wish life was as simple today in some ways. Also, lots of changes but still similarities to how we deliver mail today. My route has the only relay boxes left in all Manitowoc/Two Rivers wi but I drop off my own mail in them.
Still remember mid 1960s where the north south highway post office met a WB Santa Fe Chief. Railway post office in Galesburg IL to speed your mail to Kansas City and points west
The mail has changed a lot over the years. Mostly b/c technology has used automation to speed things up and cut back on office time. More packages than ever before, and letters are down due to the internet. Christmas letters used to be insane, but now much, much fewer Christmas cards.
Growing up with rural free delivery I've done a lot of things pictured here. If I needed a stamp to mail a letter I could leave the letter and the stamp money in my mailbox in the mailman would put a stamp on my envelope and take it and if there was change it would be left in the mailbox. To this very day I still support the USPS and have a PO box at my local post office.
I should of gotten into the post office a long time ago, it would of been the best career for me and I would of been working for a very very long time.
8:21 the USPS was known to be able to ship baby chickens but as of August 2020 baby chickens died because they could not get shipped as fast as they used to in the past.
Who did presort during the night? This is like showing someone filling up their car without explaining distribution of refined products , refining, transport of crude oil to refineries, production, drilling and selection of drilling sites. Where are links to the other films in this series?
Not every thing covers everything. A woodworking-video doesn't have to show you how ore is mined and turned into screws, and how babies are made to ensure a supply of people who will grow up and work at the store to sell the screws. A cooking-video doesn't have to show how tractors are manufactured to pull potato-harvesting machines. And, indeed, a video about how to fuel a car doesn't have to show the pumping of crude oil and the mining of materials for solar panels and the creation of stars to make the rays that land on the panels.
I started delivering mail fifty-nine years after the date on this film. So much was the same in 2005 as in 1946-but just one hour to case the mail for your route? It took us much longer, and we had far more addresses per route, probably because we weren't on foot. Registered Mail is still the same: it's kept locked up, and every person who handles it must sign for it.
We still have old ladies who grab their mail the instant it is placed into the mailbox, although it is all third-class crap. I hope that my mail delivery never becomes the high point of MY life.
Why would anybody, whether a postal worker or a poll-worker, tamper with your ballot? The chance of picking the right ballot to tamper with is poor, the chance of changing the outcome by tampering with your one ballot is minuscule, the chance of getting caught if he does it with enough ballots to make a difference is about one hundred percent, the payoff even if he succeeds in changing the outcome is minimal, and the punishment if he's caught (years in prison) is more than enough deterrent. Just ask yourself whether _you_ would ever tamper with somebody's ballot. If you answered "no", congratulations! You're like essentially everybody else. If you answered "yes", congratulations! You have now found the one voting-fraudster who lives in your district: keep your own behavior in check, and it's just about guaranteed that there will be no fraud. Now, if your reason for not trusting the Postal Service with your ballot is simply that any piece of mail stands a chance of being misplaced, then thanks for not assuming the worst about your fellowmen-and you should go vote in person. Finally, if you really think the poll-workers are dangerous, don't just whine in RUclips comments, and don't go be a "poll-watcher". Go sign up to be a poll-worker! You'll be able to see first hand how it's done, you'll have the best position for catching the "rampant" fraud, it takes at most a few days of your year-and they'll pay you money to do it!
@@smadaf Not trusting the postal service with my ballot doesn't imply any of what you said. There is inherently more chance for human error. It simply means its too important to leave to chance. Mail gets lost or sent to the wrong address in the system every day. Voting in person is the best way to know your vote got counted, although an argument could be made the machine or poll worker could tamper with or not count the vote, but that is very unlikely as I actually am a poll worker and know the realities of the job. It seams you are the one assuming the worst of people. Assuming failed you in this instance.
Why not? .. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW .. !!! We would be fired if we did any foolish SHIT!! .. FROM THE BUILDING TO THE TRUCK ITS ALL SECURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL SECURE!!! USPS DON'T PLAY THAT SHIT!!!!!!
This is the way the Postal service should STILL be ! All internet mail should be outlawed and blocked . Pay phones should be around in every store and business .. all In Jesus Name , and Mother of God
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I played this in our station this morning......still laughing 😅. Boy those were the easy times
Really management let play video that LONG! Where I come from they would never play a video that lasts that long. Not even a training video. In fact they push carriers to sign off for videos they never watched. But hey, I loved the video. Life was so much simpler back then. Loved it. Thanks for sharing.
@@ladychiefretireddiy2025 , I'm sorry to hear that. Some of the managers are my main station were corrupt, too: they lied, pushed others to lie, and worked their lies into the firing of me. Left an awful taste in my mouth for many years.
Support our US Postal Services. The lifeblood of a free and Democratic America.
As retired USPS Letter Carrier. Thank you
Tell that to Seinfeld when he got swamped with Pottery Barn catalogues. 😆
@@luisreyes1963 Ha ha. But really, I never got all my Playboy subs. About one every so often. I guess the carrier liked them too much to share baCK WITH ME. lol
100 percent right. Something’s need not be taken for granted!
Thank you
This is such a nice video!
Im a 14 year old stamp collector/philatelist. And just love this sort of stuff!
I hope you are a 17-year-old stamp collector now!
@@Masada1911 18 years old, I now run my own stamp dealership in Romania called Dacia Stamps
Post offices still have the "wanted" photos seen in some of these old videos, mostly see them in the back of the buildings anymore, on my route collecting all mail at the end of the day I'd see these and joke with closing employees to make sure those on the wanted pictures weren't current employees you recognized 😅. Backfired though, saw one photo that resembled myself i swear they were going to call our postal police to carry me off.
I'm a rural carrier, but I've done a little City carrying as a casual and I had to laugh when the narrator said that the mail slot was the best option. They're the worst, I can't fit anything in them. And those old style apartment boxes, if you get more than a couple magazines or anything remotely big you can't fit it. Delivery seemed much simpler back then. Now it's crazy. So much of what I deliver is packages. Even though Amazon now delivers here we still are getting a lot of their stuff.
Tips to make your mail carrier happy: empty your mail regularly, have a box big enough for your mail (consider a large one if you regularly get small to mid sized packages), file a change of address when you move and update people of your new address, buy local not everything online, and understand that you are "current resident".
And keep the path and steps clear of snow and ice.
Wow, as a regular carrier, these items are the things that make my day 🎉 it makes things easier for both parties involved by like a thousand percent lol
Also, on hot days try to remember that the mailman might be happy to get a bottle of water (optional), make sure your dog is away from the mailbox, and don't get mad if your mailman is behind schedule.
Oh my gosh if only I had this little bit of mail to deliver
And no amazon envelopes or packages that’s for damn sure.
I worked for the USPS for 32 years. Great job nice retirement
This video is gold...how did you get it??
Get serious.
@@edpisano920 don't be rude
Well don't rub it in everyone's face. Those jobs are long gone forever.
I work for the Post Office as a Clerk. I recognize so much of the equipment I use everyday in this video.
I wish everyone would have to deliver a walking route one day in July and one day in January. There would be alot less complaining.
Encyclopedia britannica film , that's how I know its gonna be a good film still have old books in my room
This video is gold!
A simpler time! Wish life was as simple today in some ways. Also, lots of changes but still similarities to how we deliver mail today. My route has the only relay boxes left in all Manitowoc/Two Rivers wi but I drop off my own mail in them.
Ahh back when the routes were actually kinda reasonable
Still remember mid 1960s where the north south highway post office met a WB Santa Fe Chief. Railway post office in Galesburg IL to speed your mail to Kansas City and points west
The mail has changed a lot over the years. Mostly b/c technology has used automation to speed things up and cut back on office time. More packages than ever before, and letters are down due to the internet. Christmas letters used to be insane, but now much, much fewer Christmas cards.
Growing up with rural free delivery I've done a lot of things pictured here. If I needed a stamp to mail a letter I could leave the letter and the stamp money in my mailbox in the mailman would put a stamp on my envelope and take it and if there was change it would be left in the mailbox. To this very day I still support the USPS and have a PO box at my local post office.
Wow...your rural carrier went above and beyond his duties.
@@stephendacey8761Nah, that is still standard practice for rural delivery. I sell stamps like that almost every day.
I should of gotten into the post office a long time ago, it would of been the best career for me and I would of been working for a very very long time.
Wow how times have changed
Really. Lol its pretty much done the same way today. The relay bags and hangar are exactly the same.
@@richr161 Sometimes, tubs are used.
8:21 the USPS was known to be able to ship baby chickens but as of August 2020 baby chickens died because they could not get shipped as fast as they used to in the past.
Actually, there was a time the post office delivered children as well! Not joking.
We still deliver chicks (in rural Ohio). They do fine!
Thank the more Amazon packages and fewer carriers these days.
This actually has more dialogue in the beginning.
5:59 So nice seeing a father visit his child. 😏
Does anyone know where this was filmed? Does the post office shown from the outside still exist?
Wow it still pretty much the same, but less mail volume and more packages.
Who did presort during the night? This is like showing someone filling up their car without explaining distribution of refined products , refining, transport of crude oil to refineries, production, drilling and selection of drilling sites. Where are links to the other films in this series?
Not every thing covers everything. A woodworking-video doesn't have to show you how ore is mined and turned into screws, and how babies are made to ensure a supply of people who will grow up and work at the store to sell the screws. A cooking-video doesn't have to show how tractors are manufactured to pull potato-harvesting machines. And, indeed, a video about how to fuel a car doesn't have to show the pumping of crude oil and the mining of materials for solar panels and the creation of stars to make the rays that land on the panels.
Now you’re not allowed to start before 8am.
The station I work at starts at 7am.
Back before there would be five dozen packages and toxic supervisors who expect the world from carriers
I wonder what the war was like for the Postal Service. I imagine a lot of their staff joined the military so I wonder how they adjusted to that.
Sounds like James Brill is the narrator.
I started delivering mail fifty-nine years after the date on this film. So much was the same in 2005 as in 1946-but just one hour to case the mail for your route? It took us much longer, and we had far more addresses per route, probably because we weren't on foot. Registered Mail is still the same: it's kept locked up, and every person who handles it must sign for it.
Accountables: All certifieds, registered letters, and your arrow key.
We’re no longer allowed to hand mail to children, and I have never sold a money order in my 19 years.
Rural carriers can still sell stamps though, right?
@@epochseven4197 yes
Damn just started in late 2022 but funny lots are the same
Fire dejoy
We still have old ladies who grab their mail the instant it is placed into the mailbox, although it is all third-class crap. I hope that my mail delivery never becomes the high point of MY life.
8 and 18 the union way.
Postal. Services. Is. Everywhere. And. Cashless. Is. Also. In. Trend. But. Post. Office. Saving. Bank. Account. Has. Not. UPI. QR. Facility. Please. Launch. This. Facility. In. Post. Office. Saving. Bank. Account. For. Cashless. For. Neddys. And. QR. In. Main. Sight. In. Shops. So. Please. Launch. This. Facility. For. Custumers.
how do they deliver Email ?
Funny. 😒
On CD-ROMs offering a free trial of AOL.
@@smadaf i dont know if thats kosher
My grandfather, mother and father in law were all rural postal workers. I support that profession. However, I don't trust them with my ballot.
You should. That being said, go vote in person.
I wouldn't worry about the mailman. I'd worry about the person counting your ballot.
Why would anybody, whether a postal worker or a poll-worker, tamper with your ballot? The chance of picking the right ballot to tamper with is poor, the chance of changing the outcome by tampering with your one ballot is minuscule, the chance of getting caught if he does it with enough ballots to make a difference is about one hundred percent, the payoff even if he succeeds in changing the outcome is minimal, and the punishment if he's caught (years in prison) is more than enough deterrent.
Just ask yourself whether _you_ would ever tamper with somebody's ballot. If you answered "no", congratulations! You're like essentially everybody else. If you answered "yes", congratulations! You have now found the one voting-fraudster who lives in your district: keep your own behavior in check, and it's just about guaranteed that there will be no fraud.
Now, if your reason for not trusting the Postal Service with your ballot is simply that any piece of mail stands a chance of being misplaced, then thanks for not assuming the worst about your fellowmen-and you should go vote in person.
Finally, if you really think the poll-workers are dangerous, don't just whine in RUclips comments, and don't go be a "poll-watcher". Go sign up to be a poll-worker! You'll be able to see first hand how it's done, you'll have the best position for catching the "rampant" fraud, it takes at most a few days of your year-and they'll pay you money to do it!
@@smadaf Not trusting the postal service with my ballot doesn't imply any of what you said. There is inherently more chance for human error. It simply means its too important to leave to chance. Mail gets lost or sent to the wrong address in the system every day. Voting in person is the best way to know your vote got counted, although an argument could be made the machine or poll worker could tamper with or not count the vote, but that is very unlikely as I actually am a poll worker and know the realities of the job. It seams you are the one assuming the worst of people. Assuming failed you in this instance.
Why not? .. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW .. !!! We would be fired if we did any foolish SHIT!! .. FROM THE BUILDING TO THE TRUCK ITS ALL SECURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL SECURE!!! USPS DON'T PLAY THAT SHIT!!!!!!
fedex could really use this video
1946…..before everything went “woke”
This is the way the Postal service should STILL be ! All internet mail should be outlawed and blocked . Pay phones should be around in every store and business .. all In Jesus Name , and Mother of God
While we're at it, let's bring back racial segregation & corporal punishment in public schools. 😩
Times change
Great film. Evokes the old timey ways.
We don't need the mailman like we used to. The monopoly of First Class mail should be broken.
The LIES!!!