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I just retired from one of the local po's. the problem with the villages mail is that it is not postal employees delivering the mail here. they are contract carriers who bid on the right to deliver. the contract carrier who wins the bid can use anyone he chooses to hire, to deliver the mail. they may have no idea how the mail has to be cased and delivered. i know of cases where the contract carrier went to a day labor pool and hired people only for a day at a time to save money. it is the postal service's latest way to save money. that is the only thing that counts, not customer service. it's interesting that the postmaster did not tell you that he is using contract carrier, non-career people.