United States Postal Service Employer Reviews

A typical day at work is very busy in the office to case your mail to get it ready for the street for delivery. The hardest part of the job is attempting to deliver mail & packages in the snow & ice. The most enjoyable part is delivering mail when we have beautiful weather...
Co-workers are great to work with...Always helping each other.

I go in early in the morning or later in the afternoon, depending on the work week and what shift I have (usually rotating). I learned a lot about the mail system in that there are so many things that can go wrong that it is a miracle hardly anything ever does. I learned how to distinguish between first class mail and priority mail just by looking at – more... the packages. All of the managers and supervisors are very professional and courteous. The co-workers are professional as well and very laid back and easy to get along with. The hardest part of my job is the manual distribution of mail in the mornings, which can consist of up to 20-25 stalls filled with tubs of bulk mail, sometimes weighing 75 pounds. The thing I enjoy the most about my job is getting to interact with everyone there and working with the people to attain a common goal. – less

i love to clean so this was an ideal job but it was a little town and not much to clean so not nearly enough hours to make it worth the gas to get to the job

great benefits, not a great atmosphere, unhappy coworkers

EVERY SINGLE DAY I DID THE SAME ROUTE. I HAD MY GOOD CUSTOMERS AND I HAD MY DIFFICULT CUSTOMERS BUT LIKE ANY JOB I TOOK PRIDE IN WHAT I DID. THE DOWN SIDE OF THIS JOB IS THAT YOU ALWAYS START OUT IN THE BOTTOM AND YOU WORK YOUR WAY UP. WITH THE ECONOMY IT GOT BUMPED OUT AND LAID OFF AND SOMEONE FULL TIME WAS OFFERED MY POSITION. THATS JUST THE WAY IT – more... WORKS AND YOU GO IN KNOWING THIS JUST HOPING IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN. IN MY CASE IT DID. – less

A typical day for me at work was meeting the company goals, and being sucessful in production for the day. The hardest day for me was when a co-worker did not do his/her duties for the day, and or not coming to work; this would make me have to work harder to meet the production for the day.

1- Daily sorting, delivery and collection of mail.
2- Flexibility to accommodate reasonable customer service demands.
3- Prioritize workload according to budgetary allowances.
4- Cooperation to ensure complete daily delivery of all first class mail.
5- The repetitive physical demands, often in extreme weather conditions.
6- Personal satisfaction from – more... exceeding customer expectations. – less

A recent union agreement cut my pay by 25% and cut out overtime. I no longer feel the USPS is a viable option for a career for me.

The United States Postal Service makes no effort to put competent candidates in managerial and supervisory positions, and as a result, it has the lowest working morale of any company i have ever heard of. For the most part, supervisors are bullying, with absolutely no regard for the welfare of the employees.

Working for the postal service was a great opportunity....but it was interferring with my schooling...but overall it was good

working in departments that was laid back but yet busy at times. I worked on mostly all the machines... I enjoyed working there

enjoyed the work
fun work
good pay
case mail
how to prepare and deliver mail
dogs where scary

Job stability, excellent benefit package, and excellent compensation.

I would start my shift as early as the management team would allow me in the building (especially in the winter months). I would gather my mail and parcels from the dock area and case and organize it all. This took several hours. Then I would load my personal vehicle and embark on my route. It would take hours to deliver the mail.
I learned that this – more... is a very under appreciated field. The Postal Worker risks life and limb daily. The compensation is adequate, but the anquish and frustrations between departments is overwhelming.
The hardest part of this job is dealing with the many layers of unionized workers and management. The most enjoyable part of this job is spending a spring day out on the road greeting happy tax return receivers. – less

It's a great place to start. Great Pay if on full time and depends on the job and location. Benefits nice even with a family. TSP ( 41 K) matching.

Grossly overmanaged. USPS no longer hires career employees, so hires contract employees for cheap.

Enjoyed my career immensely. Higl;y recommend. Had great work relationships.

Management is largely at odds with the workers/union, which breeds a sense of hostility in both directions. PSEs have little to no job security and are essentially floor mats by management, expected to hold up under any amount of pressure and weight. I called out of work sick for 1 day and was questioned for a doctor's note like I was back in elementary – more... school. That unexcused absence counted as one strike against me. While having the title of clerk, we are expected to do the work of mail handlers too. While the USPS "cannot afford to hire anyone," they seem perfectly capable of paying a good deal of overtime to both regulars and PSEs.

Although, coworkers and the pay can make the job enjoyable at times, it hardly seems worth the trouble of dealing with the negative aspects of being a PSE. There's no light at the end of the tunnel, no hope for advancement. We get treated horribly, forced to work up to 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, and the union is really only concerned about protecting the regulars. Management behavior and poor decision-making can be extremely damaging to the work environment. This experience has taught me that, despite carrying more than our fair share of the workload, PSEs are not valued employees of the Postal Service but rather just a means to an end. – less

You came into work and did a daily routine, co-workers were helpful. Most enjoyable was the relaxed environment, and hardest was the job security.

Very Stressful job, The cause of the stress is not the mail delivery but caused by management, Mismanagement lack of business and common sense skills. Very poor money management skills absolutely no team work skills, just threats and threats of personnel attacks being cursed at all the time being degraded in front of other personnel, just plain treated – more... like an animal. The most enjoyable part of job is getting off the clock. They don't have control of you then. – less