US Postal Service Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) reviews

Expectations to complete delivery routes are unrealistic. Despite increases in the amount of mail and the enormous amount of Amazon packages there has been no increase in the time allowed to complete a mail route in many, many years and there has been no routes split to accommodate these increases. This forces the carriers to drive in an unsafe manner and break most of the rules taught during the training period. I was put in several dangerous positions while in training strapped into a seat in the back of the mail truck. USPS is separated between Management and Union workers. There is constant disputes. Many managers are not interested in improving the situation. Instead they want to squeeze the employees so that that the managers get promoted and bonuses. All this while the employees (ie the employees in offices and in the field) are forced to work faster and more dangerously. All of my fellow employees were very unhappy with the conditions of their job and constantly bad mouthing the PostMaster who would constantly micro manage and berate them.

long work hours and no real benefits