US Postal Service Reviews

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If you are coming from any kind of sedentary work (desk job) then be prepared to work harder than you have ever worked. Do not go into this job expecting to just stuff mail in mailboxes.

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I literally became everything for every role. I was a trained as a clerk, but I managed to sort packages, letters, ran the front desk (which included bulk mailing, passport sales, retail sales), ran operations, filled in as temporary supervisor (which seems, to me, above the rank of a contracted employee), worked 7 days at a time for long periods of time, delievered mail on route, became custodian when the custodian retired, performed lawn care, and even drove 2 hours away to Columbus at times to do additional training for newer recruits that came in. Aside from this, the only way to advance your career here is to either wait for somebody to retire, or die. That sounds morbid and extreme, but I was offered multiple opportunities for advancement, and every single one was swept away by either somebody with a higher tenure, or somebody choosing not to retire after all and wanted to stay an additional year or two.

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Lots of Nepotism- people with connections with management will always be favored. High School like environment- there is a lot of drama between the workers. Ignorance if rampant do not expect any high level of understanding/compassion or nuisance here. Management expects you to not have a life and will pressure you to do the overtime- they really do not care for safety and just want bodies sorting mail. The union will not really protect you they are typically in bed with management. Hard Workers are typically punished with doing more work while other workers especially more senior workers will disappear. The whole area is ran very inefficiently they make little to no strides of utilizing newer technologies and so many mistakes lead to inefficiency. Lastly expect some preferences by your skin color, and your sex. Example, if your a man you are expected and will be placed to do the heavier loads, and more taxing sections of the Post Office.

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Micromanagement, no work/life balance, understaffed, low starting wages, inconsistent practices, overworked, treated like a robot or number not a human being, inconsistent disciplinary actions, inconsistent working policies, promotes “safety” and doesn’t provide “safe” vehicles (LLV) extensively difficult/time consuming vetting and/or training process, bi-weekly pay system that has had multiple failures in last yr, no flexibility with schedule aside from being forced to work more, unreasonable and unrealistic work loads, inconsistent end times, not a job for someone who’s not a workaholic or has small children/family/wants to go to school/wants to work part-time or casual, although many starting positions are advertised as being PT or casual.

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Was treated less than for being an amazon sunday employee. Usps employees were mostly rude and were only looking out for themselves. Like every man for himself. Was never told were to put my stuff, where the restrooms were, had no idea who were managers or anyones name for that matter. Got called multiple times during route(s) from whoever was in charge that day harassing me about when Id be done. Started at 630am wouldn't get done until 830pm. Every "manager" wanted things done differently so everyday you'd come in it was a chaotic circus with new circus clowns. Nightmare place to work.

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Obviously it could've been much more without the wage theft and I have to make sure I do every possible scan Everytime so I can maintain the pay I do have.

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Mail volume goes down year after year. I would love to retire from the company, but I'm in my thirties, and I have serious concerns about whether USPS will still exist when I'm at retirement age. If it is still around, I can guarantee that it's going to be a much smaller company than it is today. Plants are being consolidated as I write this.

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6 day workweek. Physical exhaustion from walking 12.8 miles per day (roughly 27,000 steps). Insane hours during holidays (7am-9:30pm, roughly). Outdated, unsafe work vehicles. A company mentality that feels a bit militaristic and treats you like a cog in the machine. Also, you begin as a "Part Time Flex", which, ironically, is more akin to "Full Time Mercenary". They will work you to the bone and squeeze you for everything they can. Literally everyone I went to training with quit within a month or two, and I don't blame them one bit. For some reason I persisted and made it to the other side. I was made "regular" extremely quickly, but one day, I just knew in my heart it wasn't for me and left the job. No regrets.

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Expectations to complete delivery routes are unrealistic. Despite increases in the amount of mail and the enormous amount of Amazon packages there has been no increase in the time allowed to complete a mail route in many, many years and there has been no routes split to accommodate these increases. This forces the carriers to drive in an unsafe manner and break most of the rules taught during the training period. I was put in several dangerous positions while in training strapped into a seat in the back of the mail truck. USPS is separated between Management and Union workers. There is constant disputes. Many managers are not interested in improving the situation. Instead they want to squeeze the employees so that that the managers get promoted and bonuses. All this while the employees (ie the employees in offices and in the field) are forced to work faster and more dangerously. All of my fellow employees were very unhappy with the conditions of their job and constantly bad mouthing the PostMaster who would constantly micro manage and berate them.

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They work you like a dog. There’s competition amongst employees because you are not hired as a regular employee you basically have to wait until someone at your office retires to become a regular clerk and then with that comes additional rights, like you don’t have to clean anymore, you get a set schedule, etc. when you are not a regular clerk, they work you like a slave. 6 days a week, 7 days during the holiday season. They send you to different offices, most of the clerks are very nasty to new people.