Job Training

For me, my training was rushed. I figured it all out eventually, but I made a lot of mistakes in the process. It would have been nice to at least have a manual to go over basic SOPs of what I was doing.

Not enough hours of training to make you proficient at the job. More hours would be benificial for retention.

They're going to train/inform the hell out of you. It's your job to pay attention and remember everything they've talked about.

All the jobs get extensive training. The custodians get trained on how to use the sweeper. The Electronics Technician, Level 12 gets the most: In my 21 years as an ET-9/10/11/12, I had at least 50 weeks of formal training at the center in Norman OK, and another year there AGAIN for meetings and other reasons, and about that much vendor training. At least 15% of my time at work was spent in classes and hotels rooms, which beats actually working hands down.

It's been a while since I've been in training-for me it was 2 weeks in a class room type setting. A carrier basically goes over everything you should know regarding being a carrier-that was for 2 weeks. Then you have the driving test ehere they have you drive the mail trucks through a course and have you back into spots. They had a couple of different trucks I had to learn on. That was 15 years ago not sure about now. They then assign you to a post office and have you train for 3 days with a carrier, then you are on your own. I think new carriers should have at least a week of training with a carrier not just 3 days. I'm sure it looks easy, but when it comes to it we deliver many important things to people and it's important it goes to the right place. We come in every morning, sort our mail, get packages, get accountable mail (certified, registered mail), get the mail in order for delivery, then load the truck. It's harder than it looks.

It can be rushed the job is not hard though so you shouldn't have a hard time at all

Exercise walk and move all day for endless miles. Management creates insecurity in employment and very aggressive environment.

not much training, you learn as you go, after a three days

The technical aspect of the work isn't overly difficult to master. What's regrettable about the training--at least initially-- is that you spend 8 hours in a classroom learning more about policies than you do about what to reasonably expect, once you get out onto the work-floor.