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Aaron McCargo’s Holiday Gift Advice (& A Lazy Mailman Rant)
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Just when I started losing sleep over what to buy my mailman this holiday season, Aaron McCargo stepped up to the plate with this helpful idea:
That’s definitely some advice I won’t be taking. My mailman certainly isn’t on his feet all day. Every time I see him, he’s off in his little white buggy eating a meatball grinder under a shady tree nosing through everyone’s mail. If he wants me to “thank him for all he does” he can start by actually delivering my packages instead of putting up bogus “attempted to deliver” notes and making me drive to the post office because he was too lazy to get out of his glorified golf cart. And if I gave my 6’6, 300-lb mailman a coupon for a pedicure, I think he would try to have me committed. Your mileage may vary.
I can see where this recommendation came from though, considering how how Aaron McCargo feels about manicures…
(Thanks for the tip, Eric / Image via)
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My dad worked for the post office and he was one of the guys who had a “walking route” which was pretty intense.
I probably wouldn’t give much to the guy who drives the truck all day, but I’d definitely do something nice if my postal carrier carried that mail bag all over the street.
I have numerous postal workers….mail delivery, package delivery, big package delivery. Never see them. Maybe they get pedi/manicures as part of their benefits–how many billions is the USPS in the red?
They’re pretty well paid. I think they can handle the occasional manicure or pedicure. They probably could afford to buy each of us one, for that matter.
I’m wondering if Aaron might just conveniently *forget* to give that gift certificate to the postal worker…then he could go get his nails all ‘pertied up’.
My mailman is a real ass and he gets nothing. We use to get our other one a gift every year, but he was super and acutally a really nice man. Tipping is getting out of control. I was in a shoe store last December that had a tip jar and the average shoe cost is 125.00.
You’re kidding Laura??? A tip jar at a shoe store? WTF? Waiters and waitresses get paid below minimum wage, they need tips. The shoe store should pay its employees a living wage so they don’t have to panhandle. I find employees of places like that begging for money to be offensive.
That’s my rant of the day, now I feel better.
LOL no kidding, here in the suburbs our postal workers don’t ever get out of their mail trucks.
My garbage guys are fucking awesome and will totally be getting huge tips this year, but my mail-guy can suck it. I’m constantly getting other people’s mail, and THREE times I got Netflix movies ripped open and taped back closed. Numerous calls to the post office go ignored.
I fucking hate my postal worker.
Yeah I know the feeling with the Netflix DVDs. They switch ours every 6 months…but we had one really obese woman who refused to get out of her truck. She left my daughter’s birthday packages next to the mailbox in the rain. Real Classy.
The rest of them are pretty nice though :D
Did you ever see the mailman in the movie Funny Farm? Well, that’s mine. He just tears down our dirt road kicking up a cloud of dust and throws your mail in the vicinity of your mailbox. All the while laughing hysterically. Very. creepy.
Boomie, you literally stole my post – word for word.
I have a few other things I’d like to give my mailman – a rocket up his ass might be first on the list, not a mani/pedi.
Last night, I got my mail. At 7:48. In the evening. What the HELL was he doing all day?
My mail is often late being received, late being delivered, ripped, or I just don’t receive it.
And the post office wonders why people have turned en mass to emailing?
HATE the US Postal Service. I think its filled with people who couldn’t get jobs at the Motor Vehicle Administration.
If the pedicure is to relieve my mailman’s sore feet, what the hell does he need a manicure for? Last time I checked he had long since stopped walking on his hands and reverted to conventional delivery methods. Aaron’s nails are barfable.
There is a dollar limit on gifts to letter carriers. I’m betting this would be over the limit.
I live in a 100-unit condo and unless I go down to our mail room when he happens to be sorting mail, I never see him. He NEVER actually comes to my door.
Mine is awful, I see him in his little car across the street at 9 am, and when do I get my mail? 4 pm. I live down the street from a post office!!
Then get a P.O. box.
My mailman is chinese and he no understand me. I tell him “Put my mail in my box!” but all he does is laugh and toss everyone’s mail in the street while doing kung foo moves.
I don’t think he warrants a pedicure!
Lucky You No Live China!!!!!
My mailman kicked my puppy, killed my dad, banged my mom, dishonored my sensei, and razed my village! He’s not getting a pedicure from ME!
I’m shaking my mailman in anger!!
My mailman opened up my copy of “How to Pick Up Trashy Women” I hate him!
The guys that pick up the garbage where I live leave the trash can in the middle of the street. The mail carrier put one of those attempted to deliver messages in the mail box even though I was in the front yard.
My Father-in-Law was a mailman before he retired. He had a walking route in a small town in North Dakota. And yes, he walked in extreme weather to deliver the mail. I can also guarantee he wouldn’t have found much use in a mani/pedi.
For Christmas people left him cookies, cakes and gift certificates.
Now I have this odd image of Incoherent McCargo (jr). Sitting in a salon getting his toenails done.
Just like any other job, there are great workers & lazy workers. As a mail carrier I don’t expect a tip but do appreciate anything I do receive because I do go above & beyond for my customers!
Am I the only one wondering why Aaron McCargo Jr. is giving advice on what gift to get your postman? And his suggestion wasn’t even food-related.
My daddy is a mailman. He lives for his job and even volunteers to work holidays–delivering packages on xmas. I don’t see him ever getting and mani pani but he’d appreciate the gift. He’s gotten perfume as a gift before. I like when he brings home boxes of candy and cookies–which I suspect have been regifted to him.
Kate, you’re either ignorant or lying — the U.S. Postal Service has NEVER delivered mail or packages on Christmas day. Ditto that for the private couriers like DHL, FedEx, Purolator, UPS, etc. The only things that get delivered on Christmas day are babies.
I actually received a USPS pkg on Christmas day once. It was sent Priority. They may not deliver on 12/25 in all areas, but apparently they do in some.
Back when he was my boyfriend, my husband had a package delivered on Christmas Day to his house. They told him they thought it might be a gift. It was a gift. They aren’t going to deliver your regular mail but can make a special exception. It was very thoughtful of them.
i got a dhl package on christmas day one year. no clue why i did as i did not pay for hyper expensive zomg need it nao! shipping, but it was a neat christmas gift for myself as it was something i bought on ebay, haha.
but that’s the only time i’ve ever had mail service on christmas.
Let me start by saying, Jillian, I love your website, sometimes it is the best part of my day just to type up this site and laugh! I watch food network a lot and you are right on most of your commentary, and I love it!
I will say, my father is a retired mailman, while I’m sure he would NEVER get a mani or pedi he worked really hard, overtime, walking routes, trying to fit more than one route in a day just to please his bosses. I have seen my share of mailpeople that haven’t worked as hard as he has but that blanket statement really was harsh. People think mail carriers are rich or something, they have to get up at 4am and go to work and work overtime. The ones that don’t deserve the comments but my father worked hard to help me get through college. And he is an honest and good man.
Although I will say again if someone gave him a gift certificate for a mani or pedi he would’ve given it to my mother haha, he kept cookies, liquor and other baked goods though! LOL
I don’t believe she made a blanket statement. She was complaining about her particular postal carrier. As were the others.
And this is a HUMOR website.
Wow. I think we might have the same mailman!
Let me tell you about the ignorant shitheel that delivers my mail. This fucking simp is a disgrace. Once he gets out of whack he delivers my mail to the next box, and so forth and so on. Getting home at the usual hour, you see folks come out to their box and re-distribute the mail to the proper box. God-forbid this mouth breather should have the foresight to look at the number on the fucking box, the number on the house, or the number painted on the curb. Oh hell no. We’ve “axed” the post office to implore this slob to pay a little more attention but all they do in return is “axe” that we be patient. A pedicure, yeah right.
Our mailman at work isn’t getting jack shit from me this year. He sounds a little like Jillian’s mailman, except he doesn’t even give us an “attempt to deliver” notice and instead sends our packages back to the companies. He’s so goddman lazy he can’t drive his little truck up to the front door to drop off a package. It’s not like we’re even that far from the road. I think he’s mad because when we first moved here, he stopped by and asked us how much mail we recieved, and I said not a lot because we have a post office box where we recieve the bulk of our mail. The next day he dropped off a “forward mail” form, but I told him we didn’t want to forward our mail because when we do order things to our street address, we want them delivered to our place of business. Ever since then he won’t deliver anything to us.
BTW, my mailman at home is a delight. He is friendly and polite and always delivers packages TO THE FRONT DOOR. He’s still not getting a pedicure though.
This recommendation was so last year, is Foodnetwork mag, recycling the same old material? Could aaron not come up with something new to say this year?
I agree with Jillian. My mail carrier will spend the time to fill out an “attempt to deliver” form rather than walk the 10 feet to my door. I don’t work, and am almost ALWAYS home. I just always put on the “attempt to deliver” that the cocksucker must “redeliver” LOL. I don’t go to the fucking post office. Last time I was expecting a package & the asshole filled out his little form–I wrote back a note to the effect that if you have time to fill out your form you have time to deliver my package. Why do you refuse to deliver my package? Must I contact your supervisor? Guess what–asshole is now delivering my packages to the door. No wonder the postal service is so shitty & going away. This is the type of people they employ (not all–but it appears a substantial portion).
Postal carriers can not accept $ or gift cards. They can accept food or small gifts (under $20).
I will leave my carrier a tin of cookies.
My trashman will get $… the are great – always put the lid back on the cans, and leave them neatly on the sidewalk. I have had others in the past that throw the trashcans all over the yard/street.
So does that mean that every year when we get our mail carrier a gift card and she takes it that she shouldn’t?
our trash men are jackholes but our mail carrier is awesome!
hahahahaha. yeah men shouldn’t get manicures! aaron mccargo is like a woman! get it? he should stay in the kitchen, shopping, having babies, and not be writing blogs. gender conformity is hilarious
/sarcasm.
Had to square off against the female mail carrier person once whilst we were playing chicken in our vehicles….POS, I tell you. My garbage and recyclers are the very best. They get tips from me in June too, FWIW.
Hey anyone want McCargo’s phone number ?
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Why are you reposting lots of things? No more originals except for next iron chef recaps?
My husband isn’t one of the lucky carriers at the post office. He had job (last yr) of moving the very heavy mail from one end of the huge warehouse, to the other.
This year he is lucky. He got the role of janitorial duty at the post office. It’s not near as hard. He only has to sweep, clean and make sure everything is spic & span.
After seeing “behind the scenes” of the post office, the mail carrier (my case: cute little truck up & down the roads) has the Very Bestest, Easiest Job at the post office.
I think tipping is out of control. A tip jar at a store? WTH?
“Every time I see him, he’s off in his little white buggy eating a meatball grinder under a shady tree nosing through everyone’s mail.” Jillian, I’d start taking video of this loser — during the Holiday season he probably looks for Christmas cards with money in them. More than one postal worker has been busted for doing that.
A couple of other comments: (1) NO ONE should be entitled to a living wage — you should get paid based on what you bring to the table. You have no education, no training, no skills? Then you get minimum wage and do what the rest of us have had to do — work harder, learn more, and do better than the others around you. In other words, EARN those raises and thereby EARN a living wage. (2) Postal workers are definitely overpaid. The only places you can make that kind of money for unskilled labor are the Postal Service or the UAW. You wonder why the Postal Service is losing money at the speed of light and the Big Three can’t make competitively-priced reliable cars? ‘Nuff said.
OK, that’s my rant for today…
Seriously, NO ONE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO A LIVING WAGE? WTF!
Everyone who works should be entitled to a livable wage. EVERYONE. If they suck at their job, they should get fired, not get paid less!
The hardworking and educated should get paid more than living wage. You think it’s fair for someone to have to put years of dedicated work in just to be able to eat and not live on the street? A living wage means they make the bare minimum to pay rent and bills.
If you think another human being doesn’t deserve to make enough to eat or have a home, simply because they’re not very smart and haven’t proven themselves hardworking, then you are a giant asshole.
My mailpeople (I have many, I guess, as we were told my neighborhood is a freakin’ TRAINING ROUTE!!) come any time between 1 and 9 PM. Usually a lot closer to 9, these days. It’s maddening.
No mani/pedi for these guys…
A lot of you sound like the racist ol’ biddy housewives from The Help. Not saying I’ve viewed any racism from these posts but I sure have seen some elitism. Postal workers work way more than your low end lazy pseudo child rearing asses do any day of the week. Even you loser women that work in offices filing papers all day-you are worthless, lazy and you know it. Stop complaining about people that bust their ass to do jobs that you’re fat ass can’t do yourself.
Ina Garten would say your problem with bad postmen lies in your use of “bad” postmen. Only “good” postmen will do!
hahaha, brilliant!!
My postman never gets out of his truck and always leaves us the bogus “attempted delivery” notices too. Lazy bastard! He’ll get a bag of coal from me.