How about a Warthog?
Posted on 06/04/2010 2:24:30 PM PDT by kanawa
Mail carriers are scrambling in Scranton this spring after seven dog bite attacks—the most in recent memory. Letter carrier Lyn Sottile was bitten by a chocolate Labrador that ran through an invisible fence, bit her leg and punctured the can of mace she carries. The injury took her off the route for a week, according to local news reports.
Postal workers are victims of only some of the more than 4.7 million dog bites annually. Each year 800,000 Americans seek medical attention for dog bites; half of them children. Of those injured, 386,000 require treatment in an emergency department and about 16 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children 5 to 9 years old are the most vulnerable.
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The average person is clueless about what the job entails though.
I would be the first person to admit that there are lots of bad apples working for the postal service but it ticks me off when people make sweeping generalizations about the employees. Especially when I know my husband doesn’t fit into that category.
Hippos, now meatballs? Okaaaay...
But that's Canada. Here in the USA, preference is given to military veterans. That's why your average American postal worker tends to be more patriotic than his counterpart in private industry.
Have you ever tried to throw a hippo?
I used to work in the USPS and more of my former coworkers were in the hardworking category than the bad apple category. But sweeping generalizations are the meat and potatoes of the message board environment.
See a lot of that on some dog threads.
Wow. You have a good memory.
The regular mailman (who is really a nice person) sometimes gives the dog treats and the "poor dog" is an extreme fan of the postal service employees and vehicles now. The problem is that the majority of local postal employees are apparently not "dog people".
[Dog bites man—4.7 million times a year]
Man, I’d hate to see THAT guy’s medical bill.
Averages 33%, actually.
[which means, conversely, an average of 67% are not pit bulls]
Poor dog. Hope it gets free dental care, at least.
LOL
True story. A guy who once was a postman told me this. There was a dog at one of the houses he delivered mail to that when it heard the mailman walk onto the porch, loved to make a run and throw itself against a locked screen door.
The mailman one day crept upon the porch and hearing the dog make its run toward the door, timed its run and then opened the door just as the dog flung itself. He said the expression on the dog’s face as it flew in the air past him was priceless.
A better term for “locked screen door” would have been “latched screen door.”
Cheated a bit...knew the general time period and location...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Connecticut_tornadoes
“May 24, 1962: An F3 tracked through northern New Haven and southern Hartford Counties. The tornado produced “near-F4 damage” in parts of Waterbury and Southington, with more than 200 buildings destroyed and another 600 damaged. One person was killed, with another fifty injured, and the tornado caused $4,000,000 in damage along its 11-mile (18 km) path.”
After the all clear I biked to a nearby hill to scan for damage.
Saw none, but did see an unfamilar GSD running loose that I thought I’d greet.
He was of a different mind and I can still see the scar on my calf.
Wow. What an experience.
How about a Warthog?
A friend of ours has worked for the Post Office. He thought of it as an over paid joke and laughed all the way to the bank collected OUR money via taxes for his salary, benefits and retirement.. It annoyed us to no end.
If YOU wish to be in denial of how UNDER WORKED and OVER PAID a Post Office worker is, that is your problem. Compared to what someone in the PRIVATE sector has to do, to get LESS in the end for being a CAPITALIST - really irks me. I know I'm supposed to EXPEREINCE the job before I can KNOW what it is like - that is the typical LIBERAL defense posture. LOL! No, I don't need to BE a postal worker, or even President of the U.S. (Obama) to KNOW NEITHER is worth their salt. Informed people don't need that childish exercise. Here's another one - I don't need to have an abortion to KNOW it's wrong and hardly "compassionate". Play that idiotic defense to a fellow moron.
You highlight the dumbed down and entitlement outlook that I detest. Save your indignant vicitm mentality for someone equally dumbed down. We are tired of it in this household.
“Is all your postal knowledge gained from watching Seinfeld?”
I have NEVER watched Seinfield. Perhaps his view of a postal worker being a joke is what offends your Obama mentality? I don't plan on watching Seinfield now or in the future. Liberals don't amuse me.
I'm sorry your friend was such a lazy character. I knew some like that in my postal work. I also knew some whom I would stack up against anybody as far as work ethic is concerned.
collected OUR money via taxes for his salary, benefits and retirement.. It annoyed us to no end.
The post office is supported through operating revenues, not taxes.
If YOU wish to be in denial of how UNDER WORKED and OVER PAID a Post Office worker is, that is your problem.
Over paid? Maybe.
Under worked. HA! During my postal tenure, if an employee was willing to work there was generally no shortage of work to be done. We were allowed two fifteen minute breaks a night. At times I would go weeks at a time without taking one of those breaks. I'd come home so stiff and sore I could hardly move. I know a lot of postal workers take advantage of the system. I didn't, and I know a lot of others who didn't
Compared to what someone in the PRIVATE sector has to do, to get LESS in the end for being a CAPITALIST - really irks me.
I'm sorry there are good people in the private sector who work under worse conditions than those I endured at the USPS. That's one reason I worked as hard as I did. I knew I was blessed in certain ways and I wanted to do my best to try to earn my pay. My flesh was weak at times, but my spirit was always willing.
I know I'm supposed to EXPEREINCE the job before I can KNOW what it is like - that is the typical LIBERAL defense posture. LOL! No, I don't need to BE a postal worker, or even President of the U.S. (Obama) to KNOW NEITHER is worth their salt. Informed people don't need that childish exercise. Here's another one - I don't need to have an abortion to KNOW it's wrong and hardly "compassionate".
The results of Obama's leadership are clear for all to see. Abortion is a case of morality and God's law. You can make inferences from your friend's comments and from what you personally see about the Post Office. I'm not disputing your personal experiences and observations, but as a person who actually lived the life of a postal employee I can say from experience that the reality of the USPS is more complex, and that your friend is not representative of each and every postal employee.
Play that idiotic defense to a fellow moron.
My friends and family know the truth about me, but rarely will they come out and say it like you have.
You highlight the dumbed down and entitlement outlook that I detest. Save your indignant vicitm mentality for someone equally dumbed down. We are tired of it in this household.>
I may be an indignant victim, but if, hypothetically, you were to read the comments of a liberal attacking all conservative Christians wouldn't you feel like responding? Nobody likes to see his life and livelihood be the the target of unfair criticism.
I have NEVER watched Seinfield. Perhaps his view of a postal worker being a joke is what offends your Obama mentality? I don't plan on watching Seinfield now or in the future. Liberals don't amuse me.
Ah, a man of rare good taste. I think I've watched five minutes of that show my whole life. From what I've heard, the show may be more libertarian than liberal.
Like I said, I'm sorry your friend is such a lousy advertisement for the USPS. I can understand people taking a dim view of the Postal Service as a whole, or of certain individual workers. What I don't agree with is the idea that each and every person involved with the USPS is the scum of the earth. That idea is what turns me into an indignant victim.
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