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Those folks are treated liked garbage by USPS management. Often having to work 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week, often not knowing when their next day off is going to be. There needs to be an investigation of the USPS. The employees are also having to carry increasingly heavy parcels and deliver for Amazon.

I worked 18 years as a mail carrier. They’re DRASTICALLY under paid and are worked into the ground.

I’ve been hearing that the post office makes their mail carriers work long hours with hardly any days off. So an example is you will work for eight days straight for 12 hours a day and only get one day off and you repeat the cycle. That would burn out anybody after a while. The old mail carriers started from day one as a career position mail carrier and got there two days off a week but now you start off as a temporary mail carrier until you reach career status and you will not have two days off a week which will burn a lot of people out.

Now multiply the speed by 10,000, add carrying at least 8 trays of mail and packages, AFTER you sort, note, and lift all the packages…out of the office and into the truck. Now open 600+ mailboxes, and get in and out of your truck 150+ times, and you’d just about have it. Plus really strong legs and arms!

My wife been working with USPS for 38 years. She is a rural carrier. She drove her own vehicles for years. Then she received the Grumman LLV. Now she has Metrics Mercedes van. It is a right hand drive. She is looking forward to retiring soon. It a career not just a job. The pay is great, benefits are great, and retirement is great.

not a living wage....they need to pay more. our government can certainly afford it. no wonder they have to do job fair...nobody wants to work for a non living wage.

It's definitely not for the faint at heart that's for sure but I still LOVE the Job!!

Love my job and it pays fairly well, but with the mail plus packages and parcels and the walking and being exposed in all elements plus inflation. Sometimes it can get really overwhelming but I try to stay positive . I think the union is going to get us more pay next contract for sure and I’m sticking around because I want that haha if your lazy don’t come to the post office. Hard workers only

Retired 4 years ago. I still have nightmares.

Much respect to all postal workers. Especially in my neighborhood.

Of course, they're not gonna show what really goes on behind the scenes. I've worked with the company on and off for a year and a half, and trust me, I've seen a little stuff happening there. The 1st couple of months, I was working there as a mail handler for the one at LAX, which used to be on century Boulevard and airport boulevard. Then I transferred over to the north Hollywood location because I knew that my part-time gig at LAX was about to expire. I applied for the CCA position, and that was one of my worst mistakes because it was toxic. The work environment is really toxic. You do a lot of overtime. This means that you can work from 8 hours to all of a center working 16 to 17 hours. And because I live in Inglewood going to North Hollywood, it takes about an hour and a half for me to get there And the worst part about it was I only got like 3 hours of sleep every day and then I mean once I wake up I have to get ready to go back to work. And everyday I was always getting into it with the manager. Because the manager was always being rude to me. It was very chaotic. Probably the only good thing about working for the USPS was the customers that I had. Most of them were pretty cool and chill and some of them would actually give me food and water and I was just happy with that because I was so tired and I needed a break And the breaks is another story You're not even allowed to take a break. Chances are your probably better off working as a cashier, going to school or working for a much better paying stress free job.

Just saying, you are not going to be moving that slow. Also, technically correct that you wear the satchel over one shoulder (safety reasons), yeah lets see how long that lasts when you are carrying heavy loads, it tends to end up going across.

I've never seen any carriers with a smile. Everyone is usually upset

In our area we only get mail once a week. The carriers are running out of time.

Method and technique, like working off the clock. I don't see the postal system surviving the next 10 year, unless they do something about the work load and pay

Former mail carrier here. I quit and I’m so glad I did. You have no life if you take this job and there are other downsides. I can tell you this, if you’re expecting mail and you don’t get it, the mail carrier is not coming back that same day, the mail gets postponed to the next day or the next….

I work for usps only for 2 months,People Think that is a Easy Job But isn't.I learning from the long-term experience,They even told me that.I'm Always say My Respect to all the mail Carrier out there🙏✌️

US PS can’t deliver a package to the right address. I experience this weekly

Give them a roller so they can push the mail instead of carrying 35lbs all day

This job all depends on what type of management you have. There were a couple of nights that corporate was on management's asses and they were making me, a CCA, do rural stuff. But most days at my station, things are pretty tolerable. Our union branch president works at my station, which makes it really easy to ask questions about stupid things management does sometimes. But mostly this job depends on your management and staffing levels. Last year my station's CCAs were working 14 hour days every day. This year we are generally doing 8s on average, maybe 9 or 10 hour Mondays. Some days in the middle of the week can be 7 or even 6 hours sometimes. We have double the CCAs this year compared to last year. Stations with bad management are just asking for trouble, since that leads to low staffing levels, and more work for people who get there, and higher turnover rate when they are actually able to hire someone.