"...On paper, Myers' financial story seems improbable. His base salary is around $41,000. Yet, this year, he expects to earn over $90,000, thanks to overtime. But the USPS job is just one part of his financial puzzle. Away from his postal route, Myers is a landlord, earning around $4,500 per year from a rental property. Each piece of the puzzle, no matter how small, is part of his wealth-building strategy. ..."
"“We’ve had two or three cases now where we have mailed a vendor a check and it’s taken four or five weeks to get to their location,” one storeowner said. ... “They just say ‘look, your regular mail carrier is out. We don’t know where your mail is at this point but we’re trying to track it’,” Nywening said. That seems to be a constant across the Mid-South. A Southaven resident still awaiting a passport on June 2, for a trip beginning June 3, made a Facebook post about her issues. ..."