So today, I emailed my Congressman (an idiot by the way)

[Trueblue Texan]

18. I love the Postal Service and we are lucky to have it, BUT...

...they really don't pay as well as folks think. Back in the oughts, I worked for $11.XX/hr, paid for my own gas and maintenance on my personal vehicle as a sub. And gas was around $4.00 a gallon then. I think I actually ended up paying them for letting me work at that rate. It was even worse for the part-time maintenance employees who made $7.25/hr, supplied their own mowers and gas for mowing the yards, plus did all the inside cleaning and worked 6 days a week--no benefits included, of course and never a full-time schedule. Ridiculous.

And Dejoy wasn't around then.

In the years before that when I worked as a window clerk, I first had to have a very high score on the postal exam to get a part-time job in a small town 60 miles from my home AND I had to work a split shift! I worked as a part time flexible (which doesn't mean you work less than 40 hours--usually mean you work at least 6 days a week, though) for almost 4 years stuck with the crummiest shifts there were and never a weekend off before I finally bid on and was awarded a full-time job, which ALSO did not give me weekends off. The people who had jobs with weekends off had usually worked more than a decade before they won a bid that gave them that luxury. It can be a real shit job at times. It's probably a lot worse now.