My friend is a mailman, he makes 57,200 a year for working 8-6 monday-friday. It's a federal job so I assume the pay is similar where you live (I'm from Cincy). How it works here is you start at 20 an hour, but since you work 50 hours a week it becomes 30 for the last 10. I'm not sure if that's too many hours for you, but he says it's the easiest thing in the world.