[revwardoc]

SS checks; the 1st of every month the phone calls would start even before the PO opened at 8AM. "Where's my check? I always get my check by 8 o'clock!" Then we'd have to tell them...again...that the carriers don't even finish putting up the mail until about 10 then they do their routes. "Don't you try to give me that crap! I always get my check by 8 o'clock so where is it?" ad nauseum. We would try to convince them to make out the paperwork to have the checks deposited directly into their bank accounts but they'd always come back with stories about the Great Depression and how they don't trust banks, etc. etc. And that's reason #51 why we have the term "going postal".