| Route 15 gets sorted and cased. This is what it looks like on an easy or average day; on busy days there can be magazines and letters stuffing the boxes. This is the route for which I was the official substitute, but I spend less time on it than just 'floating' to many different routes. |
| Frequently I get called to work on any number of routes, and the names and order of streets is too much to retain. A route may do 1-10 houses on one street, then switch to another, because you turn onto it, then continue onto another street, and usually come back to get the houses or boxes on the other side later. |
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| The right side of route 15's case (what we call where the mail is initially placed before pulling down to deliver) is for condominiums only. The problem there is that there is a great turnover of residents and addresses are much more frequently incomplete -- lacking a unit number. Names of residents are much more crucial because so many people have their mail forwarded, or they have moved to another condo, or moved back in. An incomplete address means most likely the letter is returned to sender or thrown out -- unless we spend time searching for the apartment, which I don't want to do. |
| Some places I put the mail into. These are called NBUs -- neighborhood box units. They are nice because one key opens the back and centralize mail for us. |
| A whole battery of the old style mailboxes. |
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| Regular mailboxes are still popular, and sometimes they are just added on one after another instead of having a central box. |
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