r/USPS

To everyone that worked their asses off today. To the folks that got their routes done. To the ones that helped splits, or did packages, or met another carrier on the streer. To the 8 hour folks that crammed it into one shift. To everyone that worked 12 nasty ass hours, to the ones on the Overtime list, to the ones that were forced or mandated back out at 7pm. To the folks with 2K in DPS as much as the ones with 4K. Thank you for what you do. I know some- hell, even a lotta y’all don’t have the management that will recognize it. For what it’s worth from some random Supervisor out there: Thank you for doing what you do.

been a carrier for about 2 years I know my route I know every house, every dog, every step. But lately my feet are slowing me down.

By the 6th hour I'm limping. My arches are on fire. I'm taking longer breaks just to sit down and I know my supervisor notices. I'm terrified of getting a talk about my times.

I've tried a bunch of shoes. New Balance, Nike, even some postal approved ones from the uniform catalog. Nothing works longer than a month.

Anyone else feel like their feet are putting their job at risk? What shoes actually got you through a full route without dying?

New RCA here, but basically the regular guy that runs the route messaged me a month ago saying he was planning to take a week off. Cool. I let my other job know, and they said it was cool too. Now she messaged me today saying that she changed the days less then a week left. Schedule still shows me working those days, and managers just kind of shrugged and said it happens, is there anything I can/should do? Because now I'm out those hours at USPS and my other job just because they don't want to use vacation days?

i started working here early this year was converted to regular a week shy of my 90 day mark. now they’re saying we’re in another 90 day probation. they’re saying we’re not “allowed” to call out and at risk of being fired if we call out or put in time.

not being able to put in time or call out for 6 months seems a little excessive.. i want to put in time soon but now im scared to

Which is why she doesn't notice the 3 ETs working on the machine when she pages us back. That woman is a moron just following orders

Please make this make sense. I live on an area that flash floods, it’s well known it’s enough to wash a car over. Happens often.

Why is the mail still running? Don’t they have safety guidelines for this sort of thing?

I am so mad on their behalf, this is reckless.

I remembered I hated this job as A CCA until I started getting used to the work and the pay being nice 2k+. Now I’m a regular and I kinda wanna leave; I mean the job is ok but man I didn’t the pay would drop down so crazy… Now I’m getting like 1400 checks for every 2 weeks???
When I know there’s jobs out here paying that I’m one week!!

The crazy labor and the low pay doesn’t match
I enjoyed the labor as CCA because the pay was kinda good but now it’s like wtf

Hi yall. I love the mail. Mailing processes have always been my favorite part of any job. I'm obsessed with the logistics, the packaging, the regulations, the reliability, the history, the Postal Inspection Service, ect. I don't think people understand how remarkable and important USPS is.

Anyway, first off, thanks yall. I love you guys. Second, if I ever got an interview to work with USPS, do you think my interest in the mail would be off-putting and sound childish, or even fake? Or do you think I should be sincere?

Our City just voted against having an Amazon hub in our area. (For the 2nd time) 60-70% of our parcel volume is just Amazon. We are extremely busy and understaffed. Looks like it will stay that way for some time. 60hrs is the norm for all of us.
This question is for those of you with Amazon delivery services in your area. How does it affect your daily delivery? Did they need to cut routes? Was there a dramatic drop in work load? Did they cut Sunday deliveries? What actually happens!?
Dreaming for some relief here.