I am not please with my experience working at the United States Postal Service. The environment is very toxic and the organization is unprofessionally ran. The plant is filthy and the people are not always friendly. Management have no respect for people.

By far the worst employer. They will cut your hours at a drop of a dime.! They will even change your shift without notice and force you to go to other facilities. They will turn your life upside down as is you are not an important part to their company. You will be jerked around as a non-career. There is a lot of red tape you have to go through in order to be converted to career. I have been there 18 months and have been treated like crap and I was forced to go to another facility to work 10 hours a day six days a week then hours cut till four hours per month for a month and that’s if they called you to come in. Laid off for months only to be called back via a group text.. here I am again with hours being cut from 40 hours per week to 20 hours a week without notice. They have been offering overtime to only one tour every night, but send me and others home who are not regular. The logic does not make any sense why would you cut hours just to pay overtime to people who are making 30+ an hour and their overtime is time and a half or even double.. no rhyme or reason. Do not work for the post office.!!!

The post office is quite literally going to kill my mother one of these days. She works 70-80 hour weeks EVERY WEEK, and rarely receives a day off even when her supervisors are only working 2-4 days a week—and she’s considered part time, which is the ultimate evil scheme of the post office in my opinion, since they can work their “part time” employees until they’re going to collapse and then don’t even have to pay for medical insurance. The post office is nothing but a broken and corrupt system that doesn’t care if employees literally die so long as they keep all their corrupt supervisors in power. Never work at the post office unless you just like being abused daily. This article is an absolute joke, and acting like this system is anything positive said is the greatest offense to the employees who break their backs daily. It should be a crime the way these post offices treat their employees, but the postal investigators won’t ever grow the backbone to do the work to affect actual change to the system.

The USPS doesn’t even rate as a good employer the hours are too long and everything has to be done every day, low pay, and no home life work life balance. They should eliminate delivery drivers the only thing that they should deliver is packages. All mail should be put in PO Boxes. They should also have evaluated routes with no stipulations you get done early you make more money.If you are a poor performer one warning and you are gone. Pay deductions for missed scans and wrong clock rings. They should also have a system in place like the railroad if you don’t get called in you still get paid 75% of your pay that’s how you keep people working for you. They should have every route evaluated to where everyone is off and at home by 4 P.M. The USPS has no home life work life balance and it is ridiculous and it is costing good employees! They also should be raising their pay across-the-board $5 to $10 an hour. And they really need new uniforms and options people need to be allowed to wear shorts as men can only wear pants and women have a multitude of options seems pretty sexist!

Maybe if the USPS would hire people so we could have a day off, we might enjoy our job. I've been working 8 years and I am desperately looking for a new line of work. Money is useless when I hate my job and have no time to enjoy it.

USPS could show they care. They could help retention. My suggestion is to immediately give employees that were mandated to work their scheduled days off compensation they deserve. For each day mandated they should be compensated a sum (100-200 dollars) and given a paid day off. For each day. And for each employee that had an overworked injury that resulted in a medical restriction a very large award should be granted. Without requiring more doctor exams to determine the percent of disability USPS extremist policies gave to these employees.

My position at USPS provides a lot of satisfaction. It is the only reason I stay.
That being stated, USPS is not new at failing basic employees needs. USPS has never held employees basic needs in regard. Not even slightly. Only a pandemic and a labor shortage produced reaponses. Like this article. USPS does not care about employees at all, in my experience.

When you have supervisors (who move into managers) that are not properly trained combined with the poor integrity and work ethic of the employees, it doesn't make for a high rated system. Then add a labor relations department that is incompetent in making equivalent decisions in remedies for synonymous grievances, along with a body of union (APWU) that can barely defend its contract.... The place runs like a shit show! signed: current employee caught between craft employee detailed to a non-supervisory management position

The USPS treats their employees like shit. I have worked for 25 years. If I had it to go over with I would run like hell. The managers are not managing they are just getting paid and harassing employees to get back from a tour of duty there is no customer service and no managers are held accountable. They steal from the PO leaving early not using their time like the delivery sector has to, they get bonuses and do nothing for them and the delivery sector is doing all the work. I have never in 25 years ever been told you are doing a good job or thank you. Delivering tons of packages and not being compensated for it, they can't get anyone to work because no one in management cares and treat employees old and new like shit. Everyone in PO at 31750 Fitzgerald hates their job we have the poorest excuse for managers that I have seen in my 25 years. we have been short on help for years and our PM says he can't get the new hires in school it takes 4 months and then by that time they have found other work or they hire one who has to have surgery and can't start for 4 weeks, she is not even entitled for the job to be held for her but PM just wants to screw everybody over because she is his CLASSMATE .

Love how all of this is blamed on the pandemic. Poor management and overworked employees are a terrible combination. Amazon has ruined the job of a USPS mail carrier. The majority of carriers are not paid correctly. USPS is robbing their employees today and robbing them of their tomorrows. I guess someone will open their eyes when you have no employees left to do the job. Sad that such a respected organization has allowed this to happen. You mention here, vacancies going unfilled, yet board of governors meeting last month said 40,000 positions had been filled since january....as with the political s__t show we have going on in our country, the USPS is no different!!

I love being a contractor. I love my job I have benefits I just buy them myself. Being a contractor is my career. 25 years and going strong. I love my customers. I love letting customers know how important they are. Going above and beyond in service to represent the company I work for is very important. Integrity is the backbone of who I am. I generally love the people I work with and I have worked beside many out standing Postmasters, clerks, contractors and carriers where we shared a common goal as a team. That is until receintly. I have landed in a area where I am no longer allowed to accommodate the customer in the rural area in which I live. I am not permitted to talk with, sell stamps too or help them in any way. The postmaster I work with threatens my job at least once a week. It is a very hostile environment to be in. I have asked for help repeatedly from my AO to no avail. The community is not happy because if I do visit with any of them she tracks me on my scanner and will call those folks to see if we visited and if we did what was it about. The other day she followed me. Then yelled at me. She was so angry she ran out of breath. She never ever asked me what I was doing she just accuses. Always just accuses. I used to try to talk to her, but she just accuses me of being aggressive, threating, and argumentative. When I show up early with dispatch I am required to sit out side with the mail as much as a half hour. I was always thought to get to destination and unload asap as I am a sitting target otherwise. Same when my mail is cased. I am to go out and sit for at least a half hour before I can load my mail and go. I was always thought to case, pull down and go deliver all my mail not leave half of it in the case so I can deliver it on my way for pm dispatch. I have a hour down time that could be utilized by actually delivering the mail. So I was really hoping that I could stay my career for at least another 10 years. But I'm not sure now. I am a great carrier and I take a lot of pride in the Post Office and my job, it will break my heart if I am pushed out by a postmaster that has nothing better to do than make everyone around her feel inferior. My route need a audit very very badly. I would prefer it to be with someone that has no affiliation and can be none discriminate. Thank you. There are a lot of us out here that are contractors that love our jobs and the company that we work for.

I work for USPS. I love being a letter carrier. Working outside is important to me and feeling like I'm part of the community I serve is very nice. I will say that management makes unnecessary changes which do not save time, but do put us at increased risk of injury. Additionally, the level of micro-managing is intense, as is the surveillance. New rules forcing ties and limiting the ways in which we can layer up in winter are recent examples of nitpicking rules which may very well hurt someone. At minimum it has greatly lowered morale as people have already spent their uniform allowance and are now being told that items they have worn in winter for decades such as the polo and shirt jac are no longer acceptable to wear even under a coat. These rules are imposed upon us with little notice right as we go into peak season. That's the kind of stuff that makes people hate a job they love and are proud to do. When management is confronted with how inconsiderate it is they just tell people they can quit. Also a shocking amount of supervisors and OICs in my area are convicted of very serious crimes. People don't care to be pushed around by management with records like that.

This whole article is part of how this company gaslights its employees. I drop mail off throughout an entire city on daily basis. There isn’t single employee out here new or old that has anything positive to say about the usps as an employer. OIG get to retire after 20 years of pencil pushing while the human pack miles hired right out of high school will have to put in twice as many years. God forbid any of these poor bastards gets hurt, they’ll have the godless pencil pusher hunting down any way to shut down or minimize their treatment.

Rural mail carrier for 28 years, 8 as a substitute. When I started in 1985 every route had a sub that worked on your day off. You had to pass the Civil Service exam to get hired. They stopped hiring subs so the few subs we had could get more hours. It got extremely hard to get time off because your route could not be covered. This job is harder than it looks. Now with all the Amazon packages it must really be wearing. So glad I retired with a good retirement plan (Thrift Savings). I would not encourage a family member to work there now.

I knew of one carrier who was in excellent shape. He walked around all day, carrying and delivering mail. No gym fees: In fact, the opposite. He got paid to exercise.

I used to work for 2 government agencies. Got holidays off, I'd never considered, compared to corporate environments.