Shannon

    Gender: Female
    Location: Raleigh, NC
    Relationship: Married
    Orientation: Straight
    Children: Maybe Someday
    Body Type: Slim / Slender
    Height: 5'8"
    Religion: Catholic
    Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
    About Me: well, i'm a city carrier in raleigh NC and have been with the po for 5 years now. only 30 more to go. ugh. i moved to nc 3 years ago from MD mainly because of the cost of living and also because my husbands job transfered him to nc. i am 3rd generation postal service employee. my grandfather started with the po back in 1931 and then my father and mother followed as well all of them reitred as postmasters. no none of them were like the ones ive seen nowadays. they actually cared about their employees. i dont see myself getting into managment though. too many headaches and bs to deal with. other than that, i'm 25, happly married and own my own house by the age of 23. i live on a lake and enjoy the outdoors. i guess thats why i'm a carrier. lol.
    Movies: i enjoy all movies but my fave are comedy and drama
    TV: my fave show is prison break and i also love family guy, house, grounded for life and most medical shows. i also enjoy some reality like the hills and american idol. cops and worlds wildest poliece chases i enjoy as well. there are very few shows that i do not like.
    Books: i really dont like to take the time to read books. i tend to read all the gossip magazines instead.

    FSS

    Saturday, July 12, 2008, 09:35 PM [General]

    Hi everyone. i know that i havnt written a blog in a while but i've been busy and also i have been having problems with my internet. well i'm back now and hopefully i'l have more to say then once a month. lol.

    well, i dont know about everyone else, but here in nc, were going to have the new flat sorting machiene come here in the next year. i am deffently not looking forward to it. every carrier has their own way of how they like to deliver their mail and i'm not looking forward to having to deliver a new way that doesnt work for me. so what happens when they get rid of 1/2 the rotues and have all of these extra carriers left over? i dont know maybe its just me. i hope things will work out. but then again, how long have they had DPS and they still cant get that right. lol. all i know is that vacation is not comming soon enough. i got a week off in aug and me and my husband are headed to the outer banks of nc. it should be fun, i just love going there. unfortunally our friends backed out of comming with us this year so we had to get a smaller house but i guess that had to do with gas $ .lol. its outrageous. i have a 50 mile commute to work one way every day, i'm putting at least 100 miles on my car a day and thats not including grocery shopping and seeing friends etc. i cant get to a po any closer to my home because, well, i'm a city carrier and all the po's close to me are all rural. i dont want to move closer cuz, the county taxes are just outrageous and i love living in the country. i also live in a lake resourt and there is not one closer to work that i can afford and have all the amminties there that i have here. oh well at least i can carpool to work with my husband and his father. thats one way to save the gas money. lol. well anyways, hope all is well with everyone and hope to talk to you all soon, till then, take care

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    HOT HOT HOT !!!!

    Sunday, June 8, 2008, 01:15 PM [General]

    well, i dont know how the weather is in the rest of the country, but we are setting record hichs here in NC. this past week and most of next week its in the 100's. ive been going through so much water and gateoraide at work and at home. it sucks, you know out there at work for like 5 hrs or so in an LLV / FFV  where it gets to be about 120 inside thoes things with no ac. i think that i've already lost about 5 pounds which ive tried so hard to gain. i was told by my doctor to gain about 10 to maybe 20 pounds but with work, out in the heat and all, its nearly imposible. even though the heat is a pain to work in, i would much rather have the heat then the fridget cold of the winter. i guess thats one reason why i moved to NC. at least on my days off i can relax in the boat at my lake. hope everyone else has it good.

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    you dont ever have rural carriers carry city mail? theres 2 of us who have to do it all the time...and NO we are not supposed to...but we had done several dual appts...so now we are utilized as emergency carriers....which sucks! rural is so much better...but you guys got the better union by far!

    Beth aka. *SS*
    July 21, 2008
    09:54 AM CST

    Hi Shannon!
    Have you been to the Outer Banks or are you close? I was thinking of going there on vacation....

    Kelly
    June 08, 2008
    10:40 PM CST

    I think I know what video you are talking about, the one where the cat grabs the string and gets whirled around the room? poor kitty! lol

    carrie
    June 08, 2008
    05:31 PM CST

    I laughed too, a lot, when I first started watching the video and then I began to feel sorry for the guy. He probably has an abusive supervisor who told him to make evaluation and deliver ALL mail no matter what!!! Maybe he really did make a bad decision trying to do his job and not get fired or written up. If that is the case, I do feel sorry for him, but if he was just trying to hurry and get done then, yea, he deserves to be laughed at. LOL

    Spauldo
    June 07, 2008
    08:23 AM CST