Keeping calm, and CARRIER on.
Every Wednesday, I will share a resident of the South Bay contributing to making our community a better place.
Today’s WCW title belongs to Trisha Herd who is working as a mail carrier for the city of North Hollywood after wanting to give something new a try and is loving it so far.
Herd, 27, grew up in Torrance and currently resides in Gardena. Herd graduated from North High school in 2006 and says some of her best memories from school would have to be the assembly's, football and basketball games, her ceramics class and being able to see her friends everyday.
Upon graduating from North, Herd went to CSUN and studied Child Development. While in college, she worked at LA Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness, & after school programs working with the youth. After leaving the education field and obtaining permits in the security field, she worked as an armed officer for ADT, Hustler Casino & hotels in Orange County.
In this past year, Herd decided to pursue the United States Postal Business and is working today on a business route meaning that Monday’s are her heaviest days. “Even though I know what to expect, I still have the worst anxiety when it comes to Monday. Other than that, the week goes by pretty nice,” she says. Despite the chaos, she says that she loves that she gets to be by herself and learn a new city.
Herd has found that being a mail carrier is really like what you see in the movies. “Getting chased by dogs is real life. It sucks that my second day I was chased by two dogs and luckily they were little,” she says.
Each morning, she clocks in at 7 a.m. and first thing she does is checks the vehicle to make sure everything is working correctly. After, she goes inside to case the lose mail such as magazines and newspapers, which she says is called, "pulling down" in the order of your route.
She says she is usually out of the office by 9:30 am and her route starts at about 10 a.m. on Coldwater canyon and usually ends by 2:10-2:20 p.m. She says the neighborhood that she is in is very friendly and she laughs and jokes with the neighbors often. “On hot days, they offer me cold water,” she says.
When she is not working, which is rarely, she likes to relax. Herd works seven days a week so she tries to spend any free time at the beach or going out to eat and or spending time with her family & the babies in it.
She pays it forward by being there for her family and friends by being a good listener and giving the best advice she can. Herd loves the South Bay mostly for its beaches. She says,“I was born in the summer so I'm just a water baby in general, so every chance I get I'm always at the Manhattan Beach strand."
In five years, Herd hopes to be a home owner and traveling the world.
Thank you, Trisha, for being a positive, responsible and efficient member of the South Bay community and providing residents their mail with a smile.