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US Postal Service reviews

2.8

32% would recommend to a friend

(19,482 total reviews)

Louis DeJoy

17% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

US Postal Service has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19,482 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The US Postal Service employee rating is 20% below average for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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19K reviews
1.0
Oct 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, not excellent for the type of work. Is more a factory job, but in a factory you get at least breaks every 2 hours, and you can go to the bathroom, here they are always o short handed and its so fast pace, they want everything done ASAP so you ant even do that. If I had the chance to go back would not o it, when I made the decision of quitting the manager position with benefits that I had to come in for this thinking that I will make career here just showing that I was a good, hard worker and prepared, with education, experience and skills to go up like in every other company, because they told me the important thing was to have a Foot in for future positions but that's not even true, I'm a USPS employee but I'm more outside that inside. This was supposed to e pros but for this position there's none. Just don't accept it. Everybody thinks because us. Federal job will be so different but it's not, USPS is just full of cry babies, lazy employees that the Union support and spoil, and at some point s going to make the company disappear or get private.

Cons

No good benefits, long hours, they abuse you, you re normally the only one working overtime hours because they can't use the full time outside of their schedule, and guess what outside their hours s when the work really happens, it makes me so mad seeing supervisor, pic and other regulars us lacking standing up for 2 hours and nothing else while you are killing yourself. Poor teamwork, they only care about what they are supposed to do, of course because everybody is afraid he re going to complain and open a grievance because they are cutting their overtime hours that are really yours. I not dare getting overtime, I just want normal hours, normal life, time off too, getting done and out. Employees don't seem to think that the important part of this job is to get the mail out for delivery, the sooner the best, that will cut overtime hours for carriers too. Also I feel exhausted all he time, because beside no having a day off like regulars and working overtime every week, a lot of days I'm by myself in the pm doing 2-3 people jobs that they cant make regulars do because they will get in trouble, I start at 5am and they are not supposed to work me max until 5pm, but I'm the first in and sat out, never earlier than 5:40pm.

2.0
Sep 25, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Best reasons are high pay for realitively easy work, on your own once you're in the field delivering mail, and then getting to work when other don't want to.

Cons

As an RCA you are the lowest of the low on the totem poll. You are constantly mistreated and rarely do you receive any recognition for a job well done. If you do receive recognition for a job well done it comes moments before you are given extra work that a less than stellar coworker failed to complete. As an RCA you also have no choice as to whether or not to work when the weather is terrible, it's a holiday, or there is a large amount of work. Regulars frequently abuse the sick call policy and the supervisors are left helpless to do anything about it. What they can do is threaten the RCAs. A lot of these jobs will be coming open soon as people within the company start looking for more work before the shutdowns and labor cutbacks. Know that you will have to buy your own gas and repair your own vehicle of which both will amount great charges. Think twice before subjecting yourself to this job. The opportunity for advancement is ZERO. Once someone retires the supervisors drag out the promotion of someone into the full time spot for as long as they can. The supervisor class and training postmaters and site supervisors go to must treat them how to downgrade people and keep them subbornidate with little self esteem about an ability to do their own job.

1.0
Sep 7, 2012

Replacing al retiring postmasters with non-career Officer in Charge positions.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The postal service used to be a great place to work for good benefits and job security. No so anymore.

Cons

They provide no benefits, insurance, paid vacation, sick days, nothing, for non-career PMRs even though we are doing exactly the same work as a Postmaster, and generally working 42 - 45 hours per week.

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