Five Things I Learned Working At A Mailroom

George: Let me ask you something. What do you do for a living, Newman?

Newman: I'm a United States postal worker.

George: Aren't those the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?

Newman: Sometimes.

Jerry: Why is that?

Newman: Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming. There's never a letup, It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more, but the more you get out, the more it keeps coming. And then the bar code reader breaks. And then it's Publisher's Clearinghouse day!

That’s a quote from Seinfeld in case you were wondering. I’ve worked a few jobs and each of them was very different from the other. From selling porn, moving corpses, to working at pet stores. I like to think that I retain information from each of them that helps me in the next. Yeah. I like to think that.

Till this day my favorite job has been the mailroom. I know that sounds weird but it was a very mentally fulfilling job that I was supposed to temp at for two weeks and ended up being at for nine months. It was located downtown on the 55th floor aka The Basement In The Sky. Here’s some things I learned while there.