(United States). Postal Service Mail Carriers in the United States pull down an average of $16.26 per hour. The bottom of the pay range sits near $14.44 per hour, and the top verges on $24.32. Residence is the biggest factor affecting pay for this group, followed by career length.
A cross-functional team is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal. It may include people from finance, marketing, operations, and human resources departments. Typically, it includes employees from all levels of an organization.
team rooms are favorable to what Alistair Cockburn calls osmotic communication: the diffusion of information, toward equilibirum conditions, between those who need it and those who have it; instead of relying on explicit communication mechanisms (telephone, email, IM or meetings) this diffusion is by ambient means, for instance overhearing others' conversations or looking at information radiators