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Originally Posted by davew
A rural route driver has to arrive at post office, sort mail, put in their vehicle drive the route delivering and picking up mail.
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I think you are conflating two different jobs. A rural route CARRIER does what you say above. He sorts the mail, gets in his vehicle and delivers it to individual mailboxes directly from that vehicle. That person works directly for USPS, or at the very least is subject to all the rules that a USPS employee is subject to. Including pay and overtime rules.
USPS also contracts with freight companies to move large volumes of mail by truck. For example. The office I worked at was part of a network of four Suburban Chicago Offices. A contractor truck would call at each office dropping off mail for each of those offices. A to D. Then it would reverse the route going from D to A, picking up out going mail and taking it back to the Sectional Sorting Center. The people driving those trucks were not USPS employees.
