US Postal Service reviews

The U.S. Postal Service treatment, hours, and possibility of career conversion are the biggest downsides to the job. The new part time positions they are hiring for have virtually no benefits and your seniority means nothing but a list of who to convert first, in the event your installation ever does convert anyone. You pay union dues with next to no rights as a union member. Your work schedule as part of the new wave of non-career part time employees (PSE, MHA, CCA) is literally whenever they want you to come in. Which is entirely dependent on the time of the year and operation of your particular shift. 5 days a week 2 - 5 hours a day, or 6 days a week 12 hours a day. You have next to no excuse for not coming to work and your obligations outside of work are also your own problem. With such a varying schedule this job can be extremely inconvenient.

You will work a lot. I have gone 6 weeks without a day off. Been with USPS for almost 7 mos now and CCAs get run ragged. Double and triple casing, 1.5-2 hr pivots every day. Mgmt expects you to be done before 6 every day or PDI will come. Union steward grieves it and it goes away, but that doesn't make it right. Mgmt relies too heavily on ODL and CCAs to get work done during call offs and prime vaca time. If you have a family, forget about them, you'll never see them, save for the one Sunday off you get every 3 or 4 weeks. Culture is iffy-there is rampant harassment between the carriers-likely due to the workload and general atmosphere. It is all friendly, but sometimes offensive. You can complain, but mgmt issues PDI for harassment then union grieves it and it goes away.