USPS hiring new drivers?

Pontiac Michigan occasionally has jobs advertised. They’re through a Contractor. Mostly part time. Some are 6 hrs a day, 6 days per week. Goofy schedules
. Good for a retiree. The pay is about $/3-$24 hr. Mandatory $5 hr put into a retirement account. Totals around $28 hr. Sounds great till you do the math. The 6 hrs/ 6 days sounds awful. I’d go for 12 hrs/3 days. Time and half after 8. 36 would pay 42. At $28 hr. $1176 gross. Pays the bills. Do some side gigs at my leisure. Maybe get some extra work available on call? Must be a very boring job. Always advertised. The few times I’ve delivered to the Detroit Main Post Office. I understand the POSTAL mentality. Everyone there was an A hole

 

You need a year experience, but I think they will consider military truck driving experience.

https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=b6c6b3c87af50400&from=serp

 

My dad used to swear UPS was a good company to work for, i never bought it. If a company is constantly advertising they are hiring theres a reason for it.

 

I couldn’t work there. Too much micro management. The job I mentioned is at the Pontiac Mi Post Office. One of their Contractors. Apparently tge contract requires them to contribute $5 per hr. Into some this of retirement account. So you’re only paid $23 hr. on a check. $5 hr. The UPS Drivers with seniority do pretty good. I used to run with them sometimes. They’d go from Metro Detroit to Grand Rapids and back home every night. Paid top dollar hourly. Drive 3 hrs. Play cards for 2 hours and head back home. The old guy retired and moved to Vegas. He was pretty happy about everything. Good pension. Who wouldn’t be . A lot of those Guys make as much, sometimes more retired than working. Living in a State that doesn’t tax pensions helps too.

 

Thinking you’re confused usps is the postal service.UPS is a different company united partial service.

 

If you want to save your sanity as a driver never ‘ I repeat don’t ever apply to be a TTO for the USPS especially Las Vegas Nevada PD&C ! This DC center is run by a bunch who have no business running a trucking logistics company. All the driver supervisors are either best friends with the Transportation Manager who has never seen the inside of a truck !

If you’re white wanting to promote in the post office you can forget that ever happening. In Las Vegas PDC the Transportation Manager is extremely prejudice and only promotes his buddies or people who kiss his rear end.. We had a white supervisor and he worked for this manager and another one prior to this one who is Hispanic and the Hispanic manager after 3 years of this white supervisor doing the same position was demoted for quote not being good enough to be a supervisor. Complete discrimination.

If you have more seniority and a new driver is hired that has military background he will be promoted before the man who’s been with the agency more than 10 years and if white forget about it! They even have a supervisor who has had sex in a postal vehicle with several women while on duty, but because he’s of a different ethnicity the post office sweeps it under the rug where if your a driver with no authority, you would be immediately terminated.

So take my advice do yourself a major favor and apply for FedEx or UPS where you’ll receive a decent pension because with 10 years in the post office you’ll receive around 299 dollars for retirement and that doesn’t even cover your medical benefits.

The post office when it was civil service was a very good position but President George Bush messed over the postal employees and gave us a Federal Employee Retirement System, which is for the birds. If you want to retire with at least 1000 dollar pension you need to work at least 20 years to even have a half decent pension. Plus social security on top of the 1000 dollars a month from the post office. I use to love my position but I’m extremely burnt out and I can’t wait to retire in a year ! I have applied many times to be promoted and have been discriminated against because I’m white or have a disability they don’t want to accommodate.

After being with the post office almost 10 years I’m making just under 33.00 an hr. Where UPS and FedEx is at almost 40 an hour which is a complete joke ! Plus at other PD&C’s the TTO’s don’t have to unload their own trucks ‘ but in Las Vegas you have to load and unload your own truck while the Dock personnel just sit on there rear ends instead of unloading the trailer which is their job. If a TTO driver helps out another driver the Dock workers file a grievance against the TTO’s for violating their contract of unloading a trailer when mail handlers are supposed to unload the trailers. It’s a real sleaze ball outfit!

So please if you value your health and sanity stay away from the post office as a career !

 

I see a USPS single-screw day-cab pulling a 45', 12" high tandem trailer every morning from the local mail distribution center; it's a bone-simple Peterbilt with a high-mounted 5th wheel. Judging by the trailer height, he's serving local post offices, and I doubt he goes very far out of town.

FWIW, my last driving job was a 6-week Christmastime USPS extra run; 8 250 mile round trips to the same mail center in the next city east each week, all overnight hours, with ZERO chance of being 'signed-on' afterwards. I drove any of a collection of Mack single-screws, including one with R-series with 4 million miles on the clock. Half of them had E-Z-Passes that no longer worked, and trying to get anybody on the phone from the carrier (based in Ohio) was a fruitless endeavor, so I just kept going the times the EZ-Pass warning lit up entering the Thruway. Most trips I ran empty at least one direction, a few times ran empty both ways....

No, UPS is a company that is very complete; nothing "partial" about it. They deliver millions of parcels each and every day, you know.....