r/USPS

40 years ago today a part time carrier entered the post office, locked and chained the door and walked through the building shooting coworkers for 15 minutes. 14 dead, 6 injured before he shot himself. This incident was the origin of the phrase "going postal". 😢

Anyone in IT in here? Looking to get my foot into IT, particularly the Computer Analyst/Programmer Associate position. I am currently in IT/AS ASC field with USPS and I have a little computer background and wanted to know what should I be focusing on as far as certifications, training, etc. I am grateful for any help…

Hi, my name is attorney Brett Blumstein. I've been working with federal employees when they get injured on the job for over 20 years. I've seen it all. Although I work with all federal employees, more than half of my caseload are USPS employees.

Why do I work with so many USPS employees? For one thing, there are over 600,000 of you, that's a lot of potential injuries. Another reason is that USPS employees have jobs where you're more likely to get injured than other federal employees. Carry 30 lbs on your shoulder for decades? You're going to have an issue. Drive around in an LLV all day? You're may to get into car accidents. Step into people's yards? You're going to run into dogs. Stay indoors casing mail all day? Possible carpal tunnel.

I see the same categories of injuries with USPS employees over and over, though the details always differ. Sometimes you need to sue a third party, and sometimes the only remedy is workers' compensation (where federal rules are very different than state rules).

I enjoy helping USPS employees navigate the process. Please feel free to ask me any questions. As always, you can also reach me at www.federalesquire.com.

Alright, we just had a huge good ol boy party that cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars. Did we get any news on the contract negotiations? Or did they just talk about how awesome they all are.

Life ain't getting cheaper

Edit: I'm not anti union, Ive been involved in the union for many years as it is our only buffer from being mistreated, however I find the national union to be lacking in every metric, and frankly annoyed at how people seem to forget WE ARE OUT OF CONTRACT

Yes scanner, I am am still working. If I wasn't still completing END OF SHIFT duties I would have fucking left by now. I have a large package pickup on my route that takes anywhere between 30-60 minutes to unload and scan everything depending on how busy it is, but it NEVER takes less than 10 minutes which is how long the scanner gives me before it starts harassing me to go faster every few minutes. Having the scanner scream at me constantly does not encourage me to go faster you jackasses. If anything it just slows me down since I have to stop what I'm doing for a few seconds to make it shut up. I've recently been carrying a water bottle with me when I unload the packages since it's hot outside and I use the "Are you still completing END OF SHIFT duties?" notification as a reminder to take a nice slow sip of water. Gotta stay hydrated right? I swear whoever came up with this crap needs to be banned from ever having a job again.