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Originally Posted by Hugh Jim Bissel
I've never worked in any sort of delivery job, but I would expect any sort of delivery service where you're driving around town to multiple locations in a day would put you well over 50miles/day. For example: if you spend 1/2 the day loading, unloading, & running to and from front doors, and the other half on the road = 4hrs. Since your driving around town, say an average speed of 25mph, thats 4x25=100 miles a day.
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USPS is nothing like United Parcel or FedEx. The USPS loves to deliver bulk mail - what you and I call junk mail - which goes to every address on a route. For housing developments dating from the 1930s and older (maybe even from the mid 1950s and older?), delivery service is door to door.
My brother works as a USPS carrier. His route and most of the routes out of the office he works in are what is called "Park and Loop." His day goes something like:
- 1 hour? - do final sort of mail to his route.
- 15-20 minutes? - Load mail, inspect vehicle.
- 10-15 minutes - Drive to start of route where he parks & shuts off vehicle.
- ~10-20 minutes - Hand carry / deliver mail 1 block up street,
1 block down other side of street,
1 block up cross street,
1 block back down other side of cross street.
(Or some similar variation. Hike up to 8 block total.)
- Drive vehicle ahead 1-3 blocks and park it again.
- Repeat steps 4 & 5 until lunch.
- Do lunch.
- Repeat steps 4 & 5 until route completion.
- Fuel up on return to Post Office.
In his particular case, I'm know he racks up well under 25 miles per day.
In highly urbanized areas, even UPS and FedEx have routes that operate under similar constraints. eg. Drive to the xyz building, park the vehicle and make separate deliveries to 15 of the 50 different businesses in the office building.
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