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This page is for the education and edification of the Postal Service's veteran, new, and prospective CCA (City Carrier Assistant) employees.  It is a one stop repository of links to my articles dealing with issues important to the CCA.  Bookmark and check back frequently, because this is a work in progress.  I will be adding future articles of my own, and links to other websites as well.

The United States Postal Service faces many challenges and changes to begin the new decade. New delivery vehicles and scanners are positives, but the selection of a new Postmaster General and talk of privatization hang over the organization like a cloud of doom. What will 2020 bring?

Reverend Mel Carriere, Ordained by the Church of The Perpetually Independent Mind, puts on the collar and preaches a sermon. The subject? Sin. Specifically how you, the Regular Postal City Carrier, can avoid sinning against (bottom-feeding?) City Carrier Assistants (CCAs).

The Postal Mobile Delivery Device (MDD) is not just for scanning anymore. The little blue machine contains several powerful, under-utilized features that can assist the upstart City Carrier Assistant, and Rural Carrier Associate, to avoid Postal sharks that devour the scanning-challenged.

The installation of Postal Vehicle Cameras is imminent. This raises the question of whether Letter Carriers have an ¨expectation of privacy¨ in the previously sacrosanct realm of the driver´s compartment, or can the Post Office snoop on their sanctuary with impunity?

The Dog Days of mail delivery are upon you. How can you, the struggling CCA, make it home unscathed by doggy dentures?

Okay, you feel you've done your time as a CCA and you're ready to move up, but do you really have what it takes, or should you leave it to the Regulars?

OJI Trainer Mel shares some of his trade secrets for moving the mail more efficiently

Don't just give the finger to your clunky MDD Scanner, learn how to use it!

Your nerves are in a frazzle because you have an interview for Postal CCA coming up. What should you expect?

You've been running your CCA butt off for years, in patient anticipation of becoming regular. Will it be worth it?

 Tempted by the dark side? Discover the dark reality of Postal Supervision before you leap.

 Feeling Lost? Here's how to follow the mail when the mail won't move

 Got some aches and pains? Dr. Mel Diagnoses

 CCA Tips and Tricks - How to Deliver Mail in the Dark

 CCA Tips and Tricks - How to Avoid Slips, Trips and Falls

Name Your Postal Poison - Is CCA or RCA the right choice for me?

                                                                                                                                                    

Newest - Have Satchel Will Travel - The Daily Life of a Postal City Carrier Assistant (CCA)


If you plan on giving the CCA job a try, prepare yourself for the unexpected.  Read Mel's realistic analysis.

CCA Survival: How to Make it Through Your Postal Trial by Fire

Advice for the CCA newbie on how to weather the storm during that grueling initiation period into the letter carrier craft.

So You Want to be a Mailman - The CCA Experience

Explores the rigors of the CCA job for those contemplating taking the dive.  Non sugar coated.

CCA Bootcamp - What to Expect During Your Brief but Brutal Letter Carrier Initiation

This description of your first few Postal training days will either inspire you to jump in headfirst or make you run away screaming.

CCA Confessions - Letter Carrier Revelations Made Public


True confessions from Mel's secret CCA files.