US Postal Service reviews

The reality is the USPS is in financial chaos. Every single thing they do is intended to cut costs. As a CCA, you are filling in for a more expensive, career carrier. You're the cheap help who will be worked to the maximum. Depending on the station, you can expect no set schedule, only the rare day off (perhaps once a week, if you're lucky, and at random times and without notice), injury-prone conditions (especially in winter), and disrespect from some supervisors. The USPS does not want career employees; they're too expensive. And they'd rather have all non-career workforce. So they bottleneck the process of converting to career ("regular"). Be prepared to be exploited for up to two years, then you're going in a bad neighborhood for a while. You will also likely be sent to bad neighborhoods as a CCA. You may even be stationed in a bad area so you're there every day. Listen, if you get injured as a CCA, you are screwed. Theoretically the USPS will pay you for up to six weeks but then you're on your own. In reality they may even fight your compensation for the six weeks. Oh, and you're working Sundays on amazon packages. How depressing.

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.