Thanks for the invite TheMailman...lol...I've been doing it since '85..started out in the ghetto south of Ohio State. I was in my late 20s, actually had a blast once I got to know everybody. They treated me very well. As long as you did your route in 8 hours, nobody cared what you did when you went out there. It seems like the job was more respected back then and definitely a lot more fun. But yeah, now you have to carry a scanner with you that has a gps and if you are at a spot longer than 10 minutes, management gets alerted. And if you take like 32 minutes instead of 30 for lunch, they can call you into the office. Definitely a fukked up environment. It used to be a hard job to get, but just a couple of years ago they were hiring anyone with a pulse. They couldn't keep people. A lot of it had to do with Amazon as new hires usually had to work weeks in a row without a day off since Amazon demanded that their packages get delivered on Sunday. Made a lot of $$ delivering Amazon, but it was depressing af. Every route had a handful of people who would get like 3-4 packages every day for years. Definitely some kind of addiction going on. It's a little better now since Amazon has its own drivers. To give another example of how times changed; I live in central Ohio. The winters are actually mild. But if it got cold, you did your route and that was that. Then it got to the point where if got cold, a lot of new people would say fuk this and refuse to work. Then after a few days, the postal service would call them up and say 'ok, it warmed up, can you please come back to work?' Seriously lol. I feel like technology totally fucked up this profession. It's a shame, but I agree, it seems like all jobs are like that now. That all being said, if you like to be outside, you might like this job as there aren't too many jobs like that. But yeah, unfortunately I think this profession lost a lot of respect over the years..