I will give you my experience with the postal service. After high school, I worked for the post office here in the summer. One year it was in the office, the next it was delivering mail, which I really liked once I got used to all the walking and carrying the heavy mail bag. The pay was 3 times the minimum wage, so it was a great summer job. I filled in for the guys when they took time off, and delivered to all areas in the city. (I was the only female deliverer) I sorted the mail for the route, then went out and delivered. Every day before the guys went to their routes, they stopped at a local cafe and had coffee and BS'd for about an hour. After about 2 weeks, the guys told me to slow down. I was getting finished too soon. I needed to stay out the full 8 hours and it was making them look bad. It was the typical government employee attitude, which is still the same over 40 years later. I also worked at the navy base here once summer. I would walk through the hangers to get to my office, and the guys would be sitting around playing dominoes or shelling pecans. They didn't have any planes to work on. But when the planes came in for work, they worked overtime to get the work done. Unbelievable. That is how our tax dollars are spent.