things wot pissed me off today

1. When I got to work this morning, there was a tub of mail on the sorting ledge that the regular carrier had left for me to deliver today. It was hold mail for two different houses that he had been keeping in one tub. Yes, they have the same last name. Yes, they had holds for the same time frame. Yes, they are probably related. Yes, they live in the same community. NO, THEY DO NOT LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE. I had to sort through it all so I could deliver it correctly. When I showed my supervisor she said, "Maybe he didn't realize." Yeah, he did. He knew exactly what he was doing, had written both unit numbers on the hold paper, and I am sick and tired of her making excuses for the completely dumbass things he keeps doing. I have one friend who thinks they're having an affair, because anything he asks for she gives him, and all the stupid STUPID things he does, she makes excuses for.

2. The supervisor comes around to each carrier each morning to ask when we think we will be able to leave the office and when we think we'll get back that afternoon. These estimates are based on how much mail we have on that route that day and how long it takes us to deliver that route on an average mail day. The computer has already projected a time based on the regular carrier's average time and on the mail volumes for that day. When she came by around 9 this morning, I told her I was going to take the medicare booklets out the same way I do the grocery ads. She said they weren't exactly in order the way they were supposed to be, so probably I should sort them. (Guess what? They were.) There were three piles on the floor that each came up past my knees. Then she asked when I thought I'd get back. I told her about 4:30. She asked when I would be leaving. I said 11. She said, "can we shoot for 10:30?" I said, "we can shoot for it" in a pretty noncommittal tone of voice. She said good and moved on to the next carrier. As I left at 11, I told her "I said it would be 11". I finished just before 4:30 but hadn't taken a lunch, which is included in our on-the-street time, so I "finished" at 4:55. I asked the night supervisor when I got back what time she had put on the paper this morning and he told me 10:30. So I told him what had happened this morning and he said "I just talked to her this afternoon and she told me she doesn't do that." Clearly, she does. He also told me that the computer projections for my route today were 11:17 and 5:35. So I beat the projections anyway.

3. I know there was a "three" but can't remember what it was now. Probably for the best!

This is more of an irritant than anything else, but I forgot to go to the bank after work today. My bank is in the grocery store, so I forgot to get bread too. Rar.