The worst part is, she doesn't actually look morbidly obese (I know you can't always tell just by looking, or so I've been told). She just seems lazy. I hope that the homeowner files a complaint, the driver could have easily caused damage to the lawn, landscaping, and front walk.

Was she even a postal worker? She looked like she owed someone a favor and did their route. Whatever the case, that was the most egregious act of laziness I have ever seen. And I shop at Walmart!

This wasn't worse than the UPS (or was it FedEx)guy who threw the TV over the fence.

That said, I agree that it didn't look like a postal worker. I have NEVER seen a non-uniformed postal worker in a truck. Not when I see them take their lunch in their truck. Not walking a part of a route, not in the truck, not at the post office going to or from their truck. And I'm pretty sure they don't have a pink version of the uniform.

The closest I've seen to an out-of-uniform worker was the guy who brought the mail into the store I worked in when I was in high school. He wore his uniform shorts. Even in winter. This was North of Chicago, so that could get kinda extreme.

So, I also thought it looked like somebody doing a favor (or paying back one) by doing a postal worker's route.

This DOES, however, make me less surprised about all the mail I send that never shows up at its destination (probably about 5-10% of the mail I send, which isn't much to being with).

Such a shame because I have known some dedicated postal workers who would go above and beyond. Like the guy who would see me walking toward the mailbox (down a hill) in July while hugely pregnant and get out of the air conditioned truck to walk my mail up to me just so I wouldn't have to lug myself back up the darned hill in the heat!

Some postal workers take pride in the amount of walking they do. Maybe she's a new hire, not on board yet with the institutional ethos.

The postal worker who delivers to us drives that same vehicle, and she wears civilian clothes.

If I knew where she lived, I'd take and ATV and do doughnuts on her front yard.

A comment on mail getting lost, my latest experience. The box was about the size of a VHS cassette. It had a tracking number.

I expected the box on a Tuesday, but it actually arrived the Saturday before, or so the tracking information said, at 1105 am.

Tuesday, USPS said they would look into it. Wednesday they said they would look into it. Thursday I spoke to my USPS neighbor and he said he would talk to the driver. Friday it was in my mailbox.

The USPS was "looking into it", they told me: my son took it and didnt tell me, my husband took it and didnt tell me, it was left on the front porch, the side porch, behind a tomato bush, in the garage, it was misdelivered to a neighbor and that it was stolen out of the mailbox.

I guess I'm paranoid, but it is nicely coincidental that when my USPS neighbor talks to my mail carrier about a neighbors missing package, it suddenly shows up the next day, after that same carrier SWORE he put in my mailbox on that past Saturday.

Rant over :-)

In SC, the Postal Service is run by franchisees, so the requirement for a uniform might not be enforced. Same with a code of conduct.

From 2009.

I'm guessing the homeowner was tired of seeing tires tracks on his yard and wondered who was doing it. I'm also guessing that he was a bit surprised by the who - I am.

And, I agree with others here - this is lazyness!

P.S.; where I live in the NJ suburbs it is rare that we see the mail carrier wearing a uniform. Most do not. They are, however, polite and professional and I would be surprised to see that happen in my neighborhood.

Patrick;

Good Lord, man, the last thing she needs is more donuts!

I see nothing outrageous here.

Without even a curb in front of that yard, nor any kind of obviously fragile hardware, one can't expect a stranger to automatically know you don't want them pulling up there.

As for obesity, as far as I'm concerned that's a private matter between the individual and his/her mate, doctor, and/or spiritual adviser, if any. It's nobody else's business.

I disagree. The path obviously narrows from the driveway to the front porch, meaning it's a walkway and not an extension of the driveway. Driveways are wide enough for a vehicle, this obviously is not.

Not a single comment on the obesity and link to diet....all comments only about postal workers and their behaviour and uniform....wow

All said and done, I think most of the world eats high carb and you still do not find epidemic levels of obesity there....take Africa or Asia, most of the diet is high carb, still you do not find much of morbid obesity there....so I think your assertion about the link between high carb and obesity is not very valid. Maybe american diet since the sixties has changed substantially to include substantiall more (coke instead of water, donuts and other fatty+sugary items consumed frequently) and less phsyical activity(Driving everywhere instead of walking or so) and the combination of these has probably lead to an explosion of obesity. In Asia and Africa where the staple diet is still 90% rice which is pure carbohydrate(though complex and not simple like sugar), obesity rates are still quite low, but again, usage of public transport is high, usage of air conditioning and heating is very less and it is still not very common to find people who drink coke instead of water there.

I am not sure of the lower absolute consumption part....people eat pretty heavy meals in Thailand and India and they are still pretty lean. The typical Indian meal fills up a person more than the typical american meal probably especially when it is one where the last course is rice with yogurt.

But lower consumption of sugar--of course, that is covered when I said people don't drink coke instead of water. So it is probably not carbs per se, but sugar(refined stuff) that is the biggest contributor to obesity.