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.

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    Sunday, October 19, 2008, 06:53 PM EST [General]

     Hello All! well i'm back and with some news. unfortunally its not good but i was a good citizen and someone was saved on my behalf. unfortunally on friday october 17th i had an encounter with a customer. i was sitting by my cluster box takeing my afternoon 10 minunet break when i had someone approach my truck. when i opened my door this gentleman asked me to call 911 for he had been shot! needless to say i was shocked for i have not had any reason to believe that this rotue was in a bad neighborhood. it just goes to show that anything can happen anywhere. well as soon as he told me this, i called 911 and stayed with him till the poliece arrived. unfortunally for me though, it was a cold rainey day and shortly after they got there and the ems took the guy off to the hospital, the cops told me that i was in a crime scene and i had to leave immeately. i couldnt get my mail, truck, purse etc. by the way, i only had 2 cluster boxes left to deliver. about 10 mins left. it was about 4:30 in the afternoon when this happened so after i called 911 and the cops arrived, i then called my supervisor to tell him what was going on. so here i am, sitting in an appartment buildings breezeway freezing my ass off and couldnt go anywhere. i mean dont get me wrong, i understand that no one can be inside a taped in crimescene but i couldnt even get my jackett. oh well. finally after about an hour and questioning, the cops finally let me back to my truck and finish delivering the mail. well thats when my supervisiors finally came out to check on me. mind you, my rotue is about 1.5 miles away from the office. i mean what took them so long? well all i can say is that at least they did come to check on me. also, when i got done, i got back to the office and saw my supervisor and said .. " see, i made it back before 6" yea go me. i saved someones life and still got back before our 6 o'clock window. lol. well here is a link to the shooting on the rotue underneith but i think that the news crew took the photos after i had left so my truck is not there in the middle of the crimescene. at least i can say that i was safe and nothing happened to me. but it didnt bother me though. after 2 years working in the hood and ghetto, it toughned me up. so i was cool with it. well i hope that everyone else had a better work day then i did. i just thought that you all would enjoy a good story where i was a good citizen!!! lol.

    http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/3762556/

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    New Toy !!!

    Sunday, October 12, 2008, 09:14 PM EST [General]

    Well, i'm back. nothing worth writing about has happened  lately ... my life tends to be drama free and also when things are routiene, it gets to be a little boreing. but other than that, i did go out today and jason and i got a new toy. we got a 04' Chevy trailblazer. i'm happy now. now i feel better about getting to work in bad weather. i just know that my mustang wouldnt handle it. i know that here in NC, we dont get the bad weather in winter but just incase of that freak snow, i need something to be able to get to work in. also we needed a second veichele. one for the both of us wasnt enough or pratical. try going on vacation with 2 dogs and luggage for a week in a mustang. lol. well, also, when jason goes on call for a week at work, now he has a reliable car to get him there. so all is good here. its always fun when you get a new car! i'll have some pics up on here when i get them.

    other than the new toy, i just got back home from a shrot trip to VA Beach. i left on monday after work and got back friday. that was a good trip too. anywhere but work is a good plave to be sometimes.lol. my brother just got back from a 6 month deployment to south and central america from the navy and i met up with him and my parents there. its good to have family all together again. the trip was nice but not long enough. lol they never are lol and this time, i didnt take a trip and come back to work on a holiday weekend! yea good for me!  i'll have a few pics from that up on here too!

    well. gtg. talk to you all later and take care!

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    Thanks Shannon. So far, everyone has been so kind to me and I am grateful for that as I am kind of an outsider, but very much a "union friendly" outsider.

    Justin
    September 03, 2008
    02:22 PM EST

    Thanks for the friendship

    Lisa
    August 19, 2008
    02:29 PM EST

    I like your new profile pic Shannon. :)

    Mark
    August 09, 2008
    04:01 PM EST

    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
    10:54 AM EST