Postal worker
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Sep 23, 2026
AlexHOST
The Postmaster General finally had to step in and say, no, you cannot mail humans.
AlexHOST
It's just one weird chapter in the life of the postal worker, a job that's been the backbone of civilization since ancient Persia.
JordanHOST
I always think of them as the people who bring me junk mail and Amazon packages.
JordanHOST
But you're saying they're basically the original internet.
AlexHOST
Exactly.
AlexHOST
Today we're looking at the postal worker, the human link that connects every single address in the nation from the canyons of Manhattan to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
AlexHOST
Most people think the postal worker started with the blue truck, but we have to go back to 550 BCE.
AlexHOST
Cyrus the Great of Persia set up the first organized system.
Ryan SamuelsHOST
It's not.
Ryan SamuelsHOST
Here is the president of the American Postal Workers Union.
Ryan SamuelsHOST
Now, he's a union guy, so what does that mean? You think that means he's a Democrat? No, it means he's a Republican.
Ryan SamuelsHOST
I mean, it doesn't mean he's a Republican.
Ryan SamuelsHOST
They stopped saying unnamed sources.
Ryan SamuelsHOST
Now they're whistleblowers.
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That the whistleblower says postal workers have described as a bleep show.
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You can insert the expletive there and then made the point right about if even one barcode is wrong, then 10,000 votes could be rejected.
Adam RainfordHOST
But you're living proof that if you just work hard at something, right, and you focus on a thing that something will come out of it or it will lead to something else that you find.
Favel ParrettGUEST
I mean, I was a postal worker and I loved it and I just used to surf and do my postal route and that's it.
Favel ParrettGUEST
And my brother had the first person in my family to go to uni.
Favel ParrettGUEST
He went to art school.
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Favel ParrettGUEST
That's it.
Favel ParrettGUEST
It gave me my career.
Favel ParrettGUEST
That's when I could quit being a postal worker and I go, okay, I'm going to give it a go full time.
Adam RainfordHOST
Was it a sad day stopping being a postie?
Christina Tzavaras EdwardsHOST
But what were you doing before that?
Kathy Ruiz-CarterGUEST
When I started LSSN, I was actually a postal worker in a plant.
Kathy Ruiz-CarterGUEST
So I was working the midnight shift, 10 at night till six in the morning.
Kathy Ruiz-CarterGUEST
Wow.