Kids at work???

kizhawk721 · Saturday at 7:55 AM

Hi everyone!
I just wanted to ask, How many offices out there allow you to bring your kid to work. You allow them to case mail and load your llv????
Is this the kinder ,gentler Postal Service????
The child is 5 or 6 years old. The Supervisor told her she will not be taking her child out on the route .
Thank you for any responses

ATCBigE · Saturday at 8:10 AM

kizhawk721 said:
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to ask, How many offices out there allow you to bring your kid to work. You allow them to case mail and load your llv????
Is this the kinder ,gentler Postal Service????
The child is 5 or 6 years old. The Supervisor told her she will not be taking her child out on the route .
Thank you for any responses

Gotta have replacement for regular quit. Start them young....

Hey now that's a new way to save USPS. USPS babysitting service. GENIUS!!!

Hey Timmy here is where your mom is. She needs to start walking faster becasue she is slow as !@#%$!

Rt2mailman · Saturday at 2:08 PM

There have always been field trips allowed in the USPS. If homeschooling, kids on field trips can be in small or family "Groups". So, kids brought to work could work out that way.
No passengers are allowed unless approved by management, and of driving age to help in a broken down pov situation.

kizhawk721 · Saturday at 2:41 PM

Rt2mailman said:
There have always been field trips allowed in the USPS. If homeschooling, kids on field trips can be in small or family "Groups". So, kids brought to work could work out that way.
No passengers are allowed unless approved by management, and of driving age to help in a broken down pov situation.

Yes, we have had groups of children come in to see our work stations , but this is a child that's had issues at the child care center and was not allowed to be there as he wasn't listening to rules. The mother brings him to work, he was actually inside the pumpkin handing her parcels to put in her llv . Not home schooled. If something happens to the child ,on the work room floor or the parking lot where we load and leave the office, it would fall back on the Post Office. I guess no one has had this issue in their office.

DB.Cooper · Saturday at 2:42 PM

Rt2mailman said:
There have always been field trips allowed in the USPS. If homeschooling, kids on field trips can be in small or family "Groups". So, kids brought to work could work out that way.
No passengers are allowed unless approved by management, and of driving age to help in a broken down pov situation.

I once had a postmaster that let their grandkids come in a play and be loud running all the hail over the place... I thought it was pretty annoying and not really all that safe... Hails fire

... They got up on some of the empty parcel buggies, the kind with the side bungies, then they were jumping up and down on them like the were a trampoline... wtf....

jaymacgthree · Saturday at 8:02 PM

DB.Cooper said:
I once had a postmaster that let their grandkids come in a play and be loud running all the hail over the place... I thought it was pretty annoying and not really all that safe... Hails fire ... They got up on some of the empty parcel buggies, the kind with the side bungies, then they were jumping up and down on them like the were a trampoline... wtf....

Seen that with a Postmaster and his kids. They wanted to ride around on the carts. I was like wtf. I guess since the Post Office is like a zoo they figure they can bring the animals to play.

hockey94 · Saturday at 8:13 PM

Bringing kids into the PO is a good thing. They will hopefully learn early on that the PO might not be the best career choice.

Shannonboy · Saturday at 8:27 PM

kizhawk721 said:
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to ask, How many offices out there allow you to bring your kid to work. You allow them to case mail and load your llv????
Is this the kinder ,gentler Postal Service????
The child is 5 or 6 years old. The Supervisor told her she will not be taking her child out on the route .
Thank you for any responses

In my old office...they let you bring your kids in for casing, but they couldnt be seen touching mail, and had to sit on stools, but many of the po mgmt pets would give kids rides in u-carts, put em on package carts, and slide the kids around on the sorting floor, weigh their kids on the weigh thing etc...

Shannonboy · Saturday at 8:30 PM

DB.Cooper said:
I once had a postmaster that let their grandkids come in a play and be loud running all the hail over the place... I thought it was pretty annoying and not really all that safe... Hails fire ... They got up on some of the empty parcel buggies, the kind with the side bungies, then they were jumping up and down on them like the were a trampoline... wtf....

Same here....but it was his twin boys, and they were little hellion raised bass-turds just like their dad....who was the worst po mgr. EEEEVVVVEEEERRRRRRRRRR.......

oi veh. · Saturday at 8:35 PM

yeah, we used to have a clerk who did that constantly.

an anonymous call to safety stopped it.

FXDL2003 · Saturday at 8:38 PM

we had a city carrier that did this 2 days a week for a while. his kids were 4 and almost 2 and the PM let him bring them to work until pre-school and daycare opened at 8:15am. Not necessarily right according to the rules but they were helping out a divorced dad for a bit and the kids were great in the office. they did walk around some but mostly from case to case to visit while we worked. It was actually good for morale when they were there. kinda hard to be angry in the morning listening to Elmo and Miss Rachel and a 4 year old singing along to Kidz Bop. We got a new MPOO so now to be safer and more rule conscious they allowed him to change his start time on the days he has his girls. but I thought it was the right thing to do as a human to give him some time to figure out a different system

RammerJammer · Saturday at 9:34 PM

Rt2mailman said:
There have always been field trips allowed in the USPS. If homeschooling, kids on field trips can be in small or family "Groups". So, kids brought to work could work out that way.
No passengers are allowed unless approved by management, and of driving age to help in a broken down pov situation.

When they would bring the groups of kids in I was always tempted to do my Scared Straight improv on em.

Shannonboy · 2026-05-31T08:24:31-0500

I told one of my friends kids when they asked how I could drive from the passenger seat, and I told them that they put me on a wrack in the dungeon in the po and pulled my arms and legs out until I could drive from the passenger side....YOU SHOULDA SEEN THEIR FACES, and then I asked them if they wanted to go down in the dungeon to see it, and surprisingly they all wanted too...

I laughed so hard after that, and so did my buddy, and we called the breakroom "the dungeon" from that day on...

sinister minister · 2026-05-31T10:35:47-0500

Shannonboy said:
In my old office...they let you bring your kids in for casing, but they couldnt be seen touching mail, and had to sit on stools, but many of the po mgmt pets would give kids rides in u-carts, put em on package carts, and slide the kids around on the sorting floor, weigh their kids on the weigh thing etc...

The "weigh thing" is called a scale.

Old Fart · 2026-05-31T12:34:19-0500

Hmmm....things must be different out here......I always thought that it was against postal regulations for anyone but those who were employees, passed background checks, etc to touch the mail, and that except for a moment for family member to bring in forgotten cell or something it was improper for non employees to enter the building. Now, our offices are fairly large, and in suburbia, so that might be different.

Tour groups are a different subject. They're brought by school or some form of chaperone and appointment made up front with PM's.

oi veh. · 2026-05-31T14:52:54-0500

Old Fart said:
I always thought that it was against postal regulations for anyone but those who were employees, passed background checks, etc to touch the mail, and that except for a moment for family member to bring in forgotten cell or something it was improper for non employees to enter the building.

still is, my friend.

still is.

Wilco183 · 2026-05-31T15:02:44-0500

oi veh. said:
still is, my friend.

still is.

Probably an acceptable practice years ago. Then so was this...

neciat · 2026-05-31T15:35:15-0500

Wilco183 said:
Probably an acceptable practice years ago. Then so was this...View attachment 16390

LOL. So was this. I remember one of our "gang" ( childhood neighborhood gang ) got one. When it came in the mail to his house his Mom opened it. It ran up her arm and stood on top of her head for a bit. Then , jumped to the curtains and hung out there for a bit. She was yelling , " get that thing out of here". He ended up being able to keep it. He was pretty cool too after he got comfortable with us. We would all take turns giving him rides on our bikes and we even took him fishing with us all of the time. He was pretty rad.

Shannonboy · 2026-05-31T19:12:56-0500

sinister minister said:
The "weigh thing" is called a scale.

It's just what the kids called it ya dingleberry....we told em it was a scale....and they said, Fish have scales...

DB.Cooper · 2026-06-01T10:10:19-0500

Old Fart said:
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Tour groups are a different subject. They're brought by school or some form of chaperone and appointment made up front with PM's.

The violators I've seen are usually by mngt geeks... Seen them having their spouses in the office having lunch, kids and grandkids in the office running wild... I always figured if a carrier did half of it, they'd be on them like white on rice....