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I, along with many other people, have never worked for the Post Office. What are the working conditions like? What made the Post Office such a bad place to work?

I ask because I have come across quite a few people who have 30+ years with the Post Office.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

OTR & LTL - over the mountains - through the woods - coast to coast - sea to shining sea

The OTR & LTL truck drivers of America are positively the driving force of our economy.

 

I would apply even if it says one year because that can be and has been waived in the past.

Apply apply apply... then weigh your options. One year of OTR is hell with the wrong company.

Good luck!

 

Judging from the mailmen on my street they don't seem happy.My regular mailman is on vacation I'm sure glad of that he's a real crab.

 

If you have 20 years in with full benefits and union protection then it just sucks. If you are a new employee then It sucks worse than you can imagine a job sucking. For the first seven months I was a PSE clerk which is basically a probationary clerk. They are the ones that arrive in the morning and toss the parcels in the correct bad distribute all the bulk mail and magazines and the letter trays. I worked Monday through Saturday from 4 AM until 10 AM they did that so that would be 36 hours and tactically not full time so they would not have to pay any benefits. I had no health insurance the first seven months with the post office even though I pretty much worked full-time until near the end. From the start of your shift until the end you are running from place to place trying to catch up and get all the work done but you hardly ever do except maybe one day the week when the volume is low. Even then you hardly ever have time to even take a P in the bathroom. Imagine working at 100% of your physical and mental capabilities for six straight hours. It gave me heart palpitations and I'm not kidding. nothing you've ever did was enough to make the management happy. they would always claim that you're too slow or weren't learning the scheme fast enough. In the old days they used to take a new employee and they would spend a whole week training them to memorize the address ranges and the street names for each route. They decided that was costly so they installed a new computer scanning system for all the parcels which is technically supposed to tell you which route a parsel belongs to so you can throw it in the correct Bin. On high-volume days this system would invariably take a crap and you would have to look up the address is manually to throw the parcels and if you didn't have that memorized it would take too long and they would get pissed off at you. In six months at that station I got about two thirds memorized But could never get the final third and that just wasn't enough for the ##### that they had as a part-time supervisor. Management truly sucks at almost every station. They are the most humorless and Souless individuals you'll ever meet. None of your hours are guaranteed and if they take a dislike to you you can go from 36 hours to 18 hours from one week to the next. I could truly write a book about how bad the post office ### and I haven't even told you about my experience as a carrier yet. Suffice to say it is a horrible job For a new employee. It might be that hauling mail as a contract carrier from hub to hub is better than what I have just described but I wouldn't count on it and I will never ever a lift a finger to help the post office for the rest of my life. I hate that place so much that I would pay three times as much to send something FedEx or UPS rather than use them

 

Don't blame the mailman. They now have GPS locators on all the carriers and if they stop for even two minutes to talk with a customer they get a call from management telling them they are wasting company time and to move along. You do not have time to be a helpful person if you are doing that job. When he gets back to the office he will probably get hauled into the office of the manager and they will tell him that the route that they are on is supposed to take 4.5 hours and it took him 5.2 hours. If you can't make their unrealistic times for completion of the routes they will take disciplinary action against you and eventually you will get fired just like I did. Oh and if you ever need to take a bathroom break in the middle of completion of a route you are guaranteed not to complete it on time and there's nowhere to use the bathroom within five blocks ten blocks of any route.

 

Thanks! I just applied for every one of these, myself. Awesome post!

 

Good luck; hope you find something good.

 

That's rediculous I guess the pay is why the po doesn't care about there employees.You don't like it then quit I have a hundred more that'll take your place.

 

This guy used to post all the time, he was at Schneider, went to the Post Office, and is now working at a car hauler. He starts out sounding positive about USPS, but spells out what is not so great towards the second half.

 

They have a huge recruiting and training budget but for some reason could care less about retention. My stepdad just retired after about 30 years with the post office and he doesn't have contact with anybody he knew from work and doesn't miss it at all. My wife also work for them and had the same experience. We are now team drivers and whenever we have a horrible day driving we just think back to working for the post office and then it seems a whole lot better.