Yeah, I worked at Evergreen when they had the USPS contract w/the 727..
The pay wasn't that uh, lucrative. But hey that was almost 20 years ago.
It was fun flying tho for a young guy.
EZ had a pax airplane under contract that was used for carrying the mail. WE had to have a Flight attendant in the back to act as a Cargo smoke Detector.
That was interesting. The engineer was responsible for the fly-away kit. We had to watch the loaders so they wouldn't remove it or any emergency equipment Things had a way of disappearing...
The mail would get strapped in the seats and stuffed in the overhead. One time I went back to watch and the loaders were removing a life raft to make more room for mail. I don't know where they were planning to put it. Maybe take it home for the kids?