Where do mailmen park their trucks?

[M@rk]

I've always wondered how mailmen work. I never see their trucks, they just walk around with mail... how does it work? Do they have to walk all the way back to their trucks when they're done or something?

Also, are the people who deliver the Canada Post parcels different than the mailmen who deliver mail?

[felixdd]

I've always wondered how mailmen work. I never see their trucks, they just walk around with mail... how does it work? Do they have to walk all the way back to their trucks when they're done or something?

Also, are the people who deliver the Canada Post parcels different than the mailmen who deliver mail?
My mailman just parks his car at the side of the street. He drives his own van. And yeah he walks back after he's done.

And the parcel guys are different than your daily mail-route guys.

[studmuphins]

I've always wondered how mailmen work. I never see their trucks, they just walk around with mail... how does it work? Do they have to walk all the way back to their trucks when they're done or something?

Also, are the people who deliver the Canada Post parcels different than the mailmen who deliver mail?

Hide your wife, while the mailmen are at work.

[Hard_Taco]

They sometimes take transit or just walk from post office.

[tlamm]

May depend on where you live.

But where I live they take cabs. The mail is put into metal storage boxes on the side of the road by someone, the mail man gets a ride from a cab to the first box. He delivers that mail, walks to the next box, ect. When he is done a cab picks him up.

[TheBrain]

When I lived at home we were usually the last house on the mailman's morning run. He would sometimes use the phone to call a cab.

[moyboy]

they don't want to you know this, but, they fly

[M@rk]

Oo they take a cab... turns out the system is less sophisticated than I thought :lol:

[GateGuardian]

The guy that delivers your mail to your house has to find his own transportation. The mails are like placed in those green boxes and the mailman picks it up and sorts it and delivers them to your house.

[runamuck]

they take the ttc

[Jucius Maximus]

A secret network of underground moving-floors and escalators takes the mailman back to his home base after he has finished his route.

[unleashed]

they take the ttc

I wonder if they get to ride the ttc for free, or if they have some kind of special discount. I'm pretty sure they make decent money still since it's a government job.

[Narci]

I saw a cop give a ticket to a mail truck (canada post) on king street once hahaha. The cop had to climb on the hood to get to the wipers.

[najibs]

Hide your wife, while the mailmen are at work.

It's the firemen you gotta watch out for :lol:

[joey3k]

I wonder if they get to ride the ttc for free, or if they have some kind of special discount. I'm pretty sure they make decent money still since it's a government job.

I was actually going to post in regards to this before you brought it up...I'm pretty sure as long as they are wearing uniform they get to ride for free.

[mahpoaht]

They teleport since i never see them.

[hyperion]

Wherever they want, which most often is side of the street.

[felixdd]

They teleport since i never see them.
Now that's just silly. Since you never see them, it's obvious that they don't exist. The post office is merely teleporting the mail directly to your mailbox. Nothing more.

[Kinki]

Canadapost uses personal car, company van, company truck & taxi. But depending on which mode of transportation they choose, there are different work requirements. For example if you take taxi, then you have to spend 3 hours sorting mail and the rest of the day delivering. Use your own car and spend one hour sorting mail and rest of the day delivering.

TTC use to be free no matter what time of the day, as long as you're in a uniform and have a TTC tag. But last I heard Postal Workers no longer get free rides (TTC/Canadapost contract ended).

[M@rk]

I never knew what those grey boxes beside the mailboxes were... now I know. So does a separate truck come every morning to put mail in those boxes for the mailmen to pick up?

[eh^]

my mailman takes the cab

[dakota2001]

Right in front of my house is where they park & they deliver my mail last!

[najibs]

Right in front of my house is where they park & they deliver my mail last!

did he bring ya a big package? :twisted:

[dakota2001]

did he bring ya a big package? :twisted:

Put your tongue back in your mouth, I just got back, & I can already feel my motherboard being undressed by your avatar;)

[najibs]

Put your tongue back in your mouth, I just got back, & I can already feel my motherboard being undressed by your avatar;)

We were wondering where ya left to, oldtimer. As for my tongue, you better hide your motherboard and a whole lot more :twisted:

[dakota2001]

We were wondering where ya left to, oldtimer. As for my tongue, you better hide your motherboard and a whole lot more :twisted:

We? as in you & other rfd members? or you and.......?
Did I get my own post titled "where's Dakota?" :lol:

And as to not threadcrap too much, Where I used to live, the mail man would park at one street & then deliver to all 10 streets by foot, so we never seen where he parked his car. (probley because I might have let the air out of his tires for giving my credit card to my neighbour) We only seen him drive down the street after he was done delivering.

[jm20]

I wonder if they get to ride the ttc for free, or if they have some kind of special discount. I'm pretty sure they make decent money still since it's a government job.

ha, my friend was making 60k working 2 routes in Mississauga. Only on the job for 2-3 years, now she's got her house paid off and going back to school to get a better job I would say they are paid very very well.:-0