Chris J.
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I'm a gov't employee but on the lower end of the pay scale and consider myself lucky to have a job... The crazy thing i can't wrap my head around is that we pay our teachers in the local grade school less than the lady that drives around to deliver mail... sound off to you???
And that is the way it should be, not that teachers don't deserve a raise. If the heat goes out in the mailman's car he/she just works in the cold, if the heat goes out at a school they shut it down and send everyone home. When it is raining the mailman's window still has to be rolled down while he/she is getting soaking wet, the teacher gets to sit inside and watch the mailman get soaked. Catch my drift yet?
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My wife is a teacher at a private school (making about 25% less than if she worked for a public school), and over the past 25 years I've known many teachers. I feel very safe in saying postal workers are overpaid, and teachers are underpaid--The people who handle our mail do not deserve to make more money than the people who educate our children.
Nstueve, with a lot of pushing you might find someone who can locate at least some of your parts.
I've had good luck with the USPS. One thing I try to do is pack items very well, and tape the proper container/box in a such way that it would take some very serious effort to tear it open.