How many of you postal peeps got monster boxes? I know you know what i mean...those HUGE shop class monstrosities that management allows some folks to place on a pole instead of USPS POSTMASTER GENERAL APPROVED MAIL RECEPTACLE?
I have one box..that NO $hit has a Counterweight...a counterweight...like a durn catapult or something...that I have fought over for almost 3 years now...I keep hoping the dang thing will get ran over or something...escpecially here recently....SEE the "mechanism that operates the lid has rusted..and it is almost impossible to open with out a screw driver and a sledge hammer. Well several..i say several...times i have pleaded with them to make the customer maintain that monster ! I have even stopped delivery...to no avail...its always RESUME delivery...we dont care that it dont open...we dont care that its destroying your vehicle...so being the good employee that i am...i deliver the mail..grumbling all the way.
I ALWAYS approach this box with caution and care...awhile back it took a chunk out of the tip of a finger...when i told them i feared dismemberment afterwards..i was told to ...SUCK IT up and make the best of it...well today that dang monster box caught my "flip ya off" finger in the counterweight and between the weight and the side of the car....NEEDLESS to say...i screamed like a banshee and cussed like a sailor...and had to curb the urge to back up and drive over the stupid thing. ( COUNT TO 10. ...inhale ...exhale...cuss some more)
All I am praying for is halloween...and some little adolescent turds with the capacity to tear up a tank...meeting my personal monster....
Good gosh, I thought that I had some bad ones...I'd take a damn baseball bat to that think, say, oh around midnight...
MEWe get a lot of homemade boxes, and they aren't so bad unless they are poorly constructed and the lid doesn't want to cooperate. The only box I have on my route at the moment that I absolutely hate is s stupid fishing lure. Instead of the mouth opening, HALF THE FISH opens. It's extremely awkward opening that kind of weight in one hand, and the inside is only half the size of a standard box, so if she gets more than two boxes of checks I have to head to her door.
We have a lot of false boxes.
People get problems with drive-by box beatings, so they put a fake box on the right side of theirs and fill it with CONCRETE. So whoever drives by that thing at 60 mph with a 2x4 is going to rip their arms off =)
I wish they'd save the hate crimes for the more deserving mailboxes :)
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