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Thankyou From My USPS Letter Carrier

Shawnie — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:48:55 GMT

I left a little bag of candy and a card in my mailbox for my letter carrier today. Just went to get my mailbox and amongst the mailwas a thankyou card from him. Ahhh, he didn’t have to do that!

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Pearlee — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:53:20 GMT

@Shawnie Every year I give a gift to my mail carrier ($$$$) and every year I get a thank you note just like that which ticks me off. The USPS raises postage every January yet it looks to me like those thank you notes "from your letter carrier" are given to them by the USPS (I may be wrong - maybe the carriers purchase them but I doubt it) at, I assume, taxpayer expense. So yes, I get one of those and I think my carrier should have used his own thank you notes that he purchase at Hallmark or some place.

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QVCkitty1 — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:53:30 GMT

@Shawnie wrote:
I left a little bag of candy and a card in my mailbox for my letter carrier today. Just went to get my mailbox and amongst the mailwas a thankyou card from him. Ahhh, he didn’t have to do that!

Better manners than some family members !

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Shawnie — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:28:04 GMT

@Pearlee it’s my first one. Usually i meet him and give him a little something. My dad was a letter carrier and every year we would wait for him to come home to see what goodies he had. Sometimes money, but more often homemade things, hams, you name it, theater tickets. One of his route ladies might as well have given her very old but barely driven car to him. He named it Esmeralda! Anyway i hope that Tim didn’t have to pay for his thankyou notes. He works very hard for his customers.

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Shawnie — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:02:56 GMT

@QVCkitty1 isn’t that right!!

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GenXmuse — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:06:40 GMT

That’s very nice!

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shopperqvc — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:08:58 GMT

I have given my postal lady a $$$ gift and a card every year. She in turn gives me a card, and she has said she pays for her cards. There is also a limit to what they can accept. Nothing more than $20.00 is the rule they are supposed to follow.

But then on very hot days I have given her a cool towel and offered a cool drink.

On stormy days I've let her in during the worst of the lightning.

I was out there on the road during all sorts of bad weather, and we were not allowed any tip at all. At least not money or gifts.

But, if a glass of lemonade or a hot cup of coffee ended up in our hands while we were working on a day where that would be good, we were allowed that. And a roof over us during lightning was okay, too as long as it didn't last for hours. So I try to look out for her when the weather isn't good.

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:09:43 GMT

My carrier hand-wrote a message thanking us for our gift. It is a nice touch, he does it every year.

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Pearlee — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:10:08 GMT

@Shawnie I still think the postal workers, whom I agree work very hard, get paid well enough to pay for their own thank you notes for gifts and those shouldn't be given to them at taxpayer expense.

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kitcat51 — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:13:44 GMT

There are sites were postal workers can buy Thank You cards for the customers they serve, they are made just for that purpose & feature mailboxes, the trucks they drive, etc. It's nice that the OP left candy & got a note in return. In my area the Post Office is understaffed so our carrier changes all the time, we're an add-on on to their regular route.

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GenXmuse — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:15:02 GMT

Are the thank you cards given to postal workers or do the have to purchase them?

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:17:15 GMT

@GenXmuse wrote:
Are the thank you cards given to postal workers or do the have to purchase them?

My rural route carrier uses handmade cards. They're cute.

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Pearlee — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:21:57 GMT

@deepwaterdotter I like that idea!

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ShowMe — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:22:15 GMT

@Pearlee wrote:
@Shawnie Every year I give a gift to my mail carrier ($$$$) and every year I get a thank you note just like that which ticks me off. The USPS raises postage every January yet it looks to me like those thank you notes "from your letter carrier" are given to them by the USPS (I may be wrong - maybe the carriers purchase them but I doubt it) at, I assume, taxpayer expense. So yes, I get one of those and I think my carrier should have used his own thank you notes that he purchase at Hallmark or some place.

@Pearlee......at least he let you know he appreciated it. That's more than some people do.

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Pearlee — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:22:49 GMT

@ShowMe wrote:
@Pearlee wrote:
@Shawnie Every year I give a gift to my mail carrier ($$$$) and every year I get a thank you note just like that which ticks me off. The USPS raises postage every January yet it looks to me like those thank you notes "from your letter carrier" are given to them by the USPS (I may be wrong - maybe the carriers purchase them but I doubt it) at, I assume, taxpayer expense. So yes, I get one of those and I think my carrier should have used his own thank you notes that he purchase at Hallmark or some place.
@Pearlee......at least he let you know he appreciated it. That's more than some people do.

@ShowMe Yes, I realize that - but that's not my issue.

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Sooner — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:39:50 GMT

Why would anyone think the post office would give the thank-you notes to the carriers? I can almost assure you that isn't the case. The post office could not care less whether they get a gift or not.

There are letter carrier organizations and I'll bet they order them through there.

I've never gotten anything from a carrier other than a purchased care like any of us would get. I've never seen one like the ones above.

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fancy pantsy — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:40:09 GMT

very nice of him to thank you like that @Shawnie

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haddon9 — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:41:23 GMT

I received a thank you post card from my mail carrier today too. Mine is a bit different. It says, "Thank you from your mail carrier" but it's a post cart with a colored image of a mailbox on the front.

Does USPS just give them out? I have no idea but maybe they are encouraged to purchase them from USPS since mine was different than the OP's.

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Jordan2 — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:44:01 GMT

@Shawnie wrote:
I left a little bag of candy and a card in my mailbox for my letter carrier today. Just went to get my mailbox and amongst the mailwas a thankyou card from him. Ahhh, he didn’t have to do that!

@Shawnie, wow, that was really nice of him. I give my letter carrier $50, no thank you note and if I ever ask him to take a letter back to the post office (when it snows by me it's hard to get to the mailboxes without risking injury), I can tell he isn't too happpy to do it.

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ShowMe — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 22:44:03 GMT

@Pearlee......I know what your issue is..... Enough said. OK.