It’s safe enough. Apparently it’s the inside workers who go postal.
Most mailmen (and mailwomen) are pleasant and, like everyone else on the planet, doubly pleasant when you’re talking about them. I usually ask “How’s business?” and they usually tell me.
Lately, the post office’s business has been in a death spiral which is a shame because targeted addressed direct mail is still the best way to generate profitable response and start long term relationship with customers.
One “solution” the post office is likely to try is dropping Saturday delivery. That probably makes sense but, what with unions and the most egregiously moronic Congress in the history of this great Republic, making sense has nothing to do with anything.
“So,” I asked a friendly mailperson, “what’ll happen to jobs in the good old USPS if they ever do get around to dropping Saturday?”
“We’ll lose about 50,000 full time employees.”
“What?”