US Postal Service reviews

I literally became everything for every role. I was a trained as a clerk, but I managed to sort packages, letters, ran the front desk (which included bulk mailing, passport sales, retail sales), ran operations, filled in as temporary supervisor (which seems, to me, above the rank of a contracted employee), worked 7 days at a time for long periods of time, delievered mail on route, became custodian when the custodian retired, performed lawn care, and even drove 2 hours away to Columbus at times to do additional training for newer recruits that came in. Aside from this, the only way to advance your career here is to either wait for somebody to retire, or die. That sounds morbid and extreme, but I was offered multiple opportunities for advancement, and every single one was swept away by either somebody with a higher tenure, or somebody choosing not to retire after all and wanted to stay an additional year or two.

If you optionally do RCA Academy you'll be delivering the mail (letters and packages) probably just as much as an RCA would, except you don't get benefits. You probably won't just work for your office, especially during the holiday season. Other offices will always be wanting help. The post office is short staffed, if you go to RCA training for letter carrying then you will be called in to carry the mail for other offices as much as you are able. Which can be essentially 6 days or more a week for long days if you're up for that. I know of many carriers that have regularly worked without a day off for a very long time. If you don't want that then just don't do the RCA Academy, just stick with ARC training and you'll only be expected to do packages. Finally, the "evaluation" for how long routes should take you to deliver are in my opinion contingent on you being at 110% efficiency every day. You have to work extremely fast and not slow down to the slightest at any point during the day to meet those expectations. Mere seconds wasted on some movements/tasks can mean hours added to your day.