Mail contractor companies

Hi SRT, the heyday of mail hauling is over.I have a friend that works for a well known mail hauler in Wis. and they used to do nothing BUT haul mail, and now the focus of the business has shifted to freight hauling, and they haul mail only once or twice a week. I looked into it too, and they have crazy hours, like go to a P.O. and sit for 6 hours, before they can leave. The post office is in big trouble and loses billions of dollars every year, and I think, in our lifetime, we'll see the end of the post office, as we know it. Not exactly the best line of work to be going into. Good luck.

 

The Post Office isn't losing anything per year, they're actually turning a profit. Where the entire "losing billions of dollar a year" thing comes in is that the Postal Service is being forced to front-end load the pensions of all it's workers for the next FIFTY years. That's right they're paying pensions for employees that haven't even been born yet. If the Government would release that mandate the Post Office would be in the black the next quarter.

As far as hauling the mail goes, the hours are what the hours are, just like any sort of LTL career unless you're doing the Local P&D all of the terminal to terminal (or in this case Post Office to Post Office) freight moves at night for the most part. Also just like LTL it's all seniority based...you just hire on you're going to have to write your own ticket if you want to advance anywhere further and faster than taking whatever scraps you're handed. I've never waited at the Post Office for 6 hours, or even 1 hour. The mail is scheduled to leave a certain time, and if it doesn't then they have to Late Slip you out the gate, and from my experience they'd rather set their own hair on fire than do that because if they run enough lates based on operations/sorting running behind fire rains down from on high. Management is on the hot seat to streamline facility operational costs, and the one thing that costs them $$$ more than anything is hiccuping an entire section of the USPS logistics system. One trailer leaving significantly late out of a major area like Chicago can ripple effect down market if the next NDC holds their mail waiting for the late shipment to come in from Point of Origin. It's what led to the catastrophic meltdown of UPS & FedEx last Christmas. You keep holding the next link up and eventually things just don't get delivered at all.

 

Run away fast!

 

MCA(Mail contractors of America) Based out of Little Rock was bought out 3 years ago by Pat Salmon Inc. Which ruined MCA. They are very strict and unorganized. I quit because of the buy out after 25 years with MCA. Companies have the option to change. And I also have that option. So that's what I did. Atleast I have the memories of hauling mail and enjoying it.

 

Strict and unorganized don't seem to go together. What happened? I used to work for a 2 power unit operation that did mail and really liked it. I had actually been thinking about Salmon so your input is appreciated.

 

You are right. What I mean by unorganized is because they got rid of MCA's managers,office staff, etc that were driver friendly. You will like hauling mail. I'm just one of those guys that remembers how things used to be and got tired of the changes that companies make. If its not broke, don't fix it. One would think that having 30 years of driving a truck would be something to be proud of. Then one day you realize that the industry has changed and that experience means nothing. Go for it. Sorry to discourage you. You will be on the extra board at first running different routes. Just hang in there and a regular bid route will come your way. I ran nights for 13 years then got a bid run 8am- 7pm with sat and sun off.

 

i am a owner operator was hauling mail for mts out of greensboro nc they went out of business oweing me 62000 dollars who picked up their contracts r they needing owner operators

 

i will do local or dedicated

 

$62000??? Man how did you ever let them get that deep in your pockets??