Questions and Answers about United States Postal Service

I think the challenges with the schedules is the number one reason why employees are frustrated. The rec site, for example, maybe those schedules look good to a computer, but they are highly impractical for human beings. The seniority process, although fair is dismal. It literally takes several years to get to a point of being competitive. I mean years. Even at five or six years in you still can't get anything that is within the operating hours of daycare centers. Or maybe have an all hours daycare on site. The schedules are so bad if you are a single mom you have to have young children live with relatives. You make enough money to raise a child by yourself but it is impossible to actually work during the hours a daycare center is open. In a branch it's a challenge to get to clock out when your shift is over and make it to a daycare center before they close. The post office will pay a good enough wage for a woman to support her child but they sure don't want to give you the hours in which this is possible. Maybe if they are going to insist on absurd shifts they should offer some all hours daycare to their employees. But I am pretty sure how difficult it is to get an even remotely decent schedule is the number one reason why employees want to leave. You should be able to have both your career and your kids. Having to send your kids to live with relatives is emotionally devastating but that's the life of a single mom in the post office.

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Best part of working for post office (32 years) is pay, benefits
And job security if you work hard, put post office first and
Put up with the occasional
Psycho Supervisor.

No interviews now with covid and new policies. Just fill out application and do everything through email other than fingerprints. Which will be the first time you meet postmaster after accepting job offer

No flexibility

6 weeks into the process so far. Clean MVR. No criminal record. Excellent employment record.
Feb 24 Applied for CCA position #1 and took online assessment. Scored 74.
March 3 Submitted additional information and authorization for MVR and GSI checks.
March 12 Applied for CCA position #2.
March 17 Applied for PSE position and took online assessment. Scored 99.
March 18 Applied for CCA position #3.
March 23 Applied for CCA position #4.
March 24 Conditional job offer for CCA position #3. Accepted offer. Submitted questionnaire and authorization for NACI.
March 25 Conditional job offer for CCA position #1. Declined offer.
March 29 Called by postmaster and scheduled interview.
March 31 Met postmaster for brief discussion of job requirements and expectations. Signed additional paperwork. Told to check email daily.
March 31 Submitted fingerprints.
April 5 Conditional job offer for CCA position #4. Declined offer.
April 7 Still waiting for orientation email.

Most of the time its very hectic trying to get done before your evaluated time so you don't work for free.

Overhaul and drain the swamp of the upper level employees who own stock in Companies contracted by the USPS and are milking the system at the expense of employees forced to work in with outdated, insufficient (in terms of ensuring worker safety) equipment and Supervisors who treat you like a robot. These Supervisors get frustrated and yell at employees very often. Again, a complete overhaul is best, imo.

Give all employees PTO after a probation period! Humans need time off to be good employees. Things like service vehicles, doctor appointments, rest, family matters, and home care.

I get hella hours because I make sure I’m available and answer the phone in situations where others don’t answer. I average 45 hours a week with no sweat AND I’m at a smaller location but it’s a rural postal office and the hours stay open! Everyone that is regular are on their way out of the door so they take any and every chance to call off to go on vacation, union work, whatever!!! And we run the routes!