Fire zone is usually room for a fire engine to turn, so serious safety violation

thats messed up this guy should be towed asap

YEAH

The guy is a federal employee and should be cut a break in my book. I would walk right on by and move on to the next guy on the block who was illegally parked.

He would a get a free pass from me.

#5 and #6: then you are not doing your job, and are endangering the lives of residents. Good work!

I agree with the poster of the #6 statement. I would give this guy a break solely based on his type of employment. These guys have a hard job delivering the mail.
The Mailman gets off everytime for this type of offense.

#8 I have a tough job too. So, I'm going to rent a car and park it on the sidewalk. If I get a ticket, can I use your excuse to fight it in traffic court? "Hey judge, I work 60 hours a week, give me a break!"

you do not know what it is to work for the feds...i have for twelve years...benifits suck...medical is non existant.....no dental..no eyeglass plan...favortism..sexism...verbal and physical threats..you dont know...

give them a break..feel sorry for them...

#5, 6, 8, 10: There is no reason to believe this guy works for the USPS. His permit is obviously printed at home. Planetarium Station issues its own (invalid) permits--based on the numbering system, that look nothing like this permit (many of them are posted on this site). There appear to be at least 74 "official" Planetarium Station permits out there, and this guy does not even have one of those. I guess I should not be surprised by your expressions of sympathy since the parking LE personnel apparently feel the same way. But regardless of how easy it is to fool most people most of the time . . . this guy should not be permitted to park like this.

Well I guess if you have a phony permit in your window you have to sell it by having two wheels on the sidewalk, parked right under the no parking, no standing signs. Works like a charm every time. You should print up one of those for yourself there Steve. Remember, two wheels on the sidewalk, that key.

#11,please do not even attempt to tell me how to do my job. Only I can decide which or when to summons a car. If it really troubles you that I give the hard workers of the US Postal Office a break then I suggest you take the next Traffic Agent exam and go on a summons writing binge on behalf of all the other wealthy citizens of that area. I speak for myself and any self respecting cop when I state that these guys are hard working people that deserve a break from the orange envelope brigade. I'd rather summons the preppy citizen who lives in one of the over priced condo's on the block instead of summonsing a working man. Frankly, I relate better with a fellow working man and therefore I always extend them the courtesy. As for the wealthy citizens of this area I always decorate their lavish cars with orange envelope. Although I do not show it I always hide my elation deep inside when I ticket them.

#13 it is my duty to tell you how to do your job since you are obviously failing to do it.

Unfortunately, the wealthy sneer at your summons because they have the money to pay, but that shouldn't be a condition of whether or not a summons is written. Degree of severity should be the indicator of a break, but with the quotas, it's write as many as you can, regardless of of legality.

While true about working for the feds maybe bad news, and no says they don't deserve some perks, the law is the law. We have to obey it and don't like being told "we are your rulers, not your servants and we will obey the laws we find convenient"

Wrong, the law is the law for you...I represent the law and as such I am entitled to certain perks(i.e summons free parking). I choose and pick who gets a summons everyday and usually those who piss me off get several. The yuppy scourge that populate my area of employment really really hate me. I give breaks to the poor and bang the hell out of the rich. I am the great equalizer and the orange envelope is my weapon of choice.

No summonses for me, but for you I have a few. LOL

#11 and #16, a great story about one "working men" cutting each other a break. Here's a different take on what's going on: public employees using their position of trust to steal whatever of value they can from the public, and facilitating theft by other public employees (for example, city LE facilitating theft by purported USPS employees), to confirm their delusion that they are latter-day "Robin Hoods" serving some higher justice than the ordinary variety that the rest of us live by.

You are so confused about the purpose of your job that you can't even acknowledge the obvious fact that this permit is fake. You think you are giving "breaks to the poor and bang[ing] the hell out of the rich" but in fact you are just living out some ridiculous fantasy while this guy who printed himself a patently bogus permit is parking on the sidewalk where kids walk to school each day and where the fire engine has to pass to respond to emergencies. Do you really think that leaving a car parked like this unticketed is "doing the right thing?" If you want to brag about how much corruption you can get away with, be my guest, but you can't pretend that you are doing something noble.

#18. While I do find it strange that you would think that everyone parked on 83rd and Amsterdam would have a "patently bogus" USPS permit on the dash, you might actually just want to take the "if you can't beat em, join em" approach suggested in #12 and dummy one up for your own use.

That being said, just make sure you don't get caught. You might beat a few tickets, but if a Postal Inspector knocks on your door in the middle of the night, you are in for some unimaginable deep dodo.

give the working man a break,,,anybody who works for the feds needs alot of pity....the pay sucks...medical sucks...and it is a terrible place to work

I just made up the same parking permit on my computer in four minutes and I'm going to use it all over the place. If you can't beat them, join them!

Good for you. Welcome to the fold.

u dont understand what it is like to work for them....pity all federal employees

Actually, I have some idea of what it is like to work for the USPS. I have a good friend who was once a lawyer for NALC and handled grievances and arbitrations for lettercarriers. He told me that there is a foot-thick manual that governs every aspect of what postal employees do, right down to the angle at which a letter sorted into a mail slot must lie. Apparently there is an institutional culture that fosters zero-tolerance attitudes on the part of some supervisors towards the smallest infraction by those they supervise. It sounded pretty bad to me.

The astonishing thing about this site is that there are so many apparent LE who think that they have the discretion to exempt classes of people from the law on a whim--other LE; other city employees; any public employees. Why is that any different than, say, deciding not to ticket cars with bumper stickers relating to a certain ethnicity? Or deciding not to ticket cars parked in neighborhoods where mostly black people live? Or where mostly white people live?

Steve you don't know what you are talking about.

Steve you have no clue what it is to be a postal worker. You wouldn't last 1 week. I can tell that by all the crying you do on this web site.

#23-#24, the rigors of postal employment, however severe, are quite beside the points made in this post, which are:

1) This guy has an obviously homemade permit that falsely purports to be issued by the USPS, and since he has engaged in that fraud there is no reason to believe that he actually works for the USPS;

2) Even if he does work for USPS, he is not entitled to park in the fire zone across from the fire house where the fire truck has to turn, and on the sidewalk next to the school where the kids have to walk, and in the no standing zone;

3) Whether he works for USPS or not, he gets away with this because NYPD TEA is not doing its job, under some corrupt notion of "professional courtesy."

Steve How can you say that permit is fake or they give out invalid parking permits? All a Postal employee has to do is place anything that states they are a postal employee (env,box,ID) and they can park anywhere it says PARKING FOR USPS ONLY. I work for the USPS and I can park anywhere it says for USPS ONLY. If I get a ticket and I have because I forgot to put my ID in the window all I did was take a picture of my car and where I parked showing the sign and went to DMV and the ticket was dismissed. There is nothing illegal about parking in USPS ONLY.

This is not "parking for USPS only." It is "No standing fire zone" and "no standing school." And on top of that, there is no valid USPS ID on the dash.

Anonymous, every excuse you've given for this guy is completely inapplicable in this situation. that permit is fake, there are no legal permits in use in this city that look like they were chopped together in word in five minutes. If it were official, it would have identifying information for the correct user on it. And even if it were official, it would still not apply in this area. The simple fact is that everyone is held to the law, ESPECIALLY those that represent it.

i don't understad your beef with the cars being double parked on 83rd st. as a USPS employee it has become a "necessary evil" to double park sometimes because of the limited availability of parking spaces in the area. i have an idea why don't you advocate parking rights for government employees that way we don't have to drive around aimlessly looking for a parking space for hours that way we can concentrate on working and not being ticketed or towed

d1nonly, I am sure I have done more advocacy to expand parking options for public employees through my posts on this site and otherwise than you have ever done, and I'm not even a public employee! I have an idea, why don't you try taking public transportation to work? The IRT and IND stop just a few blocks away, and there are bus lines all over this part of the UWS, so driving is by no means "necessary." That way you won't be slowing down and endangering the rest of the traffic with illegal parking.