So You Think You Can Be A Mail Carrier? | USPS to Conduct One-Day Hiring Blitz Across San Diego Coun

USPS looks to hire postal carriers and employees ahead of busy holiday season

[andrewd.conard]

Those folks are treated liked garbage by USPS management. Often having to work 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week, often not knowing when their next day off is going to be. There needs to be an investigation of the USPS. The employees are also having to carry increasingly heavy parcels and deliver for Amazon.

[truehou]

I worked 18 years as a mail carrier. They’re DRASTICALLY under paid and are worked into the ground.

[ER.]

I’m a letter carrier at the post office. The truth is, I love it. Straight up. And to be clear, I joined at almost 40 years old (I’m 45). I went to college and had a corporate career before this (laid off).

Is there BS? Yep
Can mgmt be BS? Yep
Can your fellow coworkers and carriers be BS? Yep

Guess what? What job DOESNT have that BS?

However, it is manageable. 2 words: low profile.

All you have to do is make it 6 months and if you haven’t figured out how to carry the mail, you ain’t gonna’. It’s tricky but until you get the hang of it, you’ll be in for aches, pains, and more. And afterwards, still aches, pains and more, but not nearly as bad as in the beginning.

And then you’ll be like me: silently laughing about all the IDIOTIC things some of these brat carriers say and think they know about the workforce outside. We got it good. And like I said, in 6 months or less, you’ll be like many of us:

Casing, loading and delivering a full route, on foot (park and loop), standing on one hand, with 3 hours of OT afterward. Perfect day.

You roll in every day with a solid job well done, and you’ll just laugh all the way to the bank. I know I do. 😊

Many comments are about “It suck’s. Don’t work there. Garbage mgmt.”

Well, I work there. I was there today, and will be there again tomorrow. And I dig it: the uniforms, the benefits, the overtime. I dig it.

And that’s what it takes. You want a career with USPS?

You’ll only make it, if you want it. 👍

[kennyb]

Mad Props to all of the Mail Carriers out there! I believe it takes a special breed of folks to work for the USPS. I give my Mail Carrier Lady a bottle of water every time I see her. I never realized why she was so appreciative of such a simple gesture until I started learning about how much they put up with physically and mentally on a daily basis. 👍🏾👍🏾

[argerinejordan]

I was a carrier for 33years. Retired in 2019 and never looked back. Retirement is great!!

[claramcclung]

Now multiply the speed by 10, 000, add carrying at least 8 trays of mail and packages, AFTER you sort, note, and lift all the packages…out of the office and into the truck. Now open 600+ mailboxes, and get in and out of your truck 150+ times, and you’d just about have it. Plus really strong legs and arms!

[blairakana]

I’ve been hearing that the post office makes their mail carriers work long hours with hardly any days off. So an example is you will work for eight days straight for 12 hours a day and only get one day off and you repeat the cycle. That would burn out anybody after a while. The old mail carriers started from day one as a career position mail carrier and got there two days off a week but now you start off as a temporary mail carrier until you reach career status and you will not have two days off a week which will burn a lot of people out.

[ShadowsandCityLights]

We've had so many people quit at our office. Some new and some who've been there a few years. Sometimes it's just not worth it. There's a reason they've had to relax some of their hiring policies.

[gmar]

Former mail carrier here. I quit and I’m so glad I did. You have no life if you take this job and there are other downsides. I can tell you this, if you’re expecting mail and you don’t get it, the mail carrier is not coming back that same day, the mail gets postponed to the next day or the next….

[DangiloHankerson]

Love my job and it pays fairly well, but with the mail plus packages and parcels and the walking and being exposed in all elements plus inflation. Sometimes it can get really overwhelming but I try to stay positive . I think the union is going to get us more pay next contract for sure and I’m sticking around because I want that haha if your lazy don’t come to the post office. Hard workers only

[pastrana]

I work for usps only for 2 months, People Think that is a Easy Job But isn't.I learning from the long-term experience, They even told me that.I'm Always say My Respect to all the mail Carrier out there🙏✌️

[marryellenmonahan]

not a living wage....they need to pay more. our government can certainly afford it. no wonder they have to do job fair...nobody wants to work for a non living wage.

[arienfox]

It's definitely not for the faint at heart that's for sure but I still LOVE the Job!!

[ratmathers]

Been there, done that. Loved the job and pay, but too many managers ruined it for me.
And yes, 6+ days straight and lots of hours is s great paycheck but I'm not selling my soul and life.

[Cobrakailives]

I've never seen any carriers with a smile. Everyone is usually upset

[josephmendoza]

Of course, they're not gonna show what really goes on behind the scenes. I've worked with the company on and off for a year and a half, and trust me, I've seen a little stuff happening there. The 1st couple of months, I was working there as a mail handler for the one at LAX, which used to be on century Boulevard and airport boulevard. Then I transferred over to the north Hollywood location because I knew that my part-time gig at LAX was about to expire. I applied for the CCA position, and that was one of my worst mistakes because it was toxic. The work environment is really toxic. You do a lot of overtime. This means that you can work from 8 hours to all of a center working 16 to 17 hours. And because I live in Inglewood going to North Hollywood, it takes about an hour and a half for me to get there And the worst part about it was I only got like 3 hours of sleep every day and then I mean once I wake up I have to get ready to go back to work. And everyday I was always getting into it with the manager. Because the manager was always being rude to me. It was very chaotic. Probably the only good thing about working for the USPS was the customers that I had. Most of them were pretty cool and chill and some of them would actually give me food and water and I was just happy with that because I was so tired and I needed a break And the breaks is another story You're not even allowed to take a break. Chances are your probably better off working as a cashier, going to school or working for a much better paying stress free job.

[ireneerrico]

Retired 4 years ago. I still have nightmares.

[Logoned]

The USPS is as customer friendly as a moth ball under the ocean.

[yandimorffi]

It would be nice if they would show their actual reality of what it is to be a mail carrier not this political bs.

[lothean]

Much respect to all postal workers. Especially in my neighborhood.