Pros
There are no pros to working for USPS.
Cons
Be prepared to work a minimum 60 hours a week for 9-14 days straight. You touch parcels 4xs, so if you deliver 200 packages a day-thanks, Amazon-that’s the equivalent to lifting 800 packages. The attrition and turnover is awful. Carriers need back or shoulder surgery within 5-10 years. Retention efforts are nonexistent and offices drive employees into the ground. Management has no accountability, and the union is basically useless. We can’t strike, which is deemed a “federal offense,” or stop management from falsifying time records, or asking/pressuring employees to work off the clock, or working employees 12+ hour days. If you stand up against management, expect retaliation. Your coworkers will hate their jobs and all be quietly looking for alternative employment. The environment is absolutely toxic. Almost everyone is tired, sleep deprived and prone to aggressive and/or destructive behaviors. You will live in fear of someone “going postal” and bringing a gun to work. You will spend $1500 to convert a vehicle, pay for your own supplies, and drive old government vehicles that, in some cases, should not be on the road. The postal service allows people to “hold” positions even if they disappear for long spans of time. It’s an acknowledged fact that this is standard practice at post offices across the country, and no one intervenes to fix it because the organization is corrupt bottom to top. It’s pretty much the most corrupt, inefficient, and wasteful organization I’ve ever worked for. Do NOT take this job. You’re not that desperate.