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2.8

33% would recommend to a friend

(19,459 total reviews)

Louis DeJoy

18% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

US Postal Service has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19,459 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The US Postal Service employee rating is 20% below average for employers within the Transporte y logística industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Starting pay is 16.62 per hour

Cons

When I first applied, the interviewer went into a song and dance about how this would be a 360-day assignment with the post office. I was also told I would be sorting mail and would be working nights and receiving a shift differential. I had an interview at another location where I was told the same set of lies. When I arrived for the first day of orientation within the first few hours the instructor told us that we are here only for the holidays. He asked us if we knew this and the room was quiet. These PSE positions are holiday positions.They will trick you at the interview and make you think that you will be working for 360 days. In my case they even went as far as telling me after the 360 days I would be able to work for another 360 days. They are using these PSE employees just to fulfill their needs for the influx of holiday mail. I talked to other people that worked these positions in the past and told me they were laid off after the holiday. The last day of orientation, I was told I would be working with packages instead of the mail position that was talked about in the interview. When I reported to the peak annex location for my first day of work, the entire place was in disarray. We were told there was no water in the building and directed that the restrooms are the port a johns outside. There were no refrigerators to store a cold lunch. The work was backbreaking and very tedious. The people are worked hard to the core. They didn't even let me take one of my breaks because of the heavy workload. These practices are most likely illegal. There should be a lawsuit filed against the post office for the way they treat their PSE employees.

5.0
Nov 22, 2014

I've never hated a job until now

Recommend
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Pros

-having off on holidays -no supervision during most of the day

Cons

-having off on holidays. The day after is always crazy and heavy so you can't even enjoy the holiday. -CCAs always get the work no one wants to do especially if you aren't management's favorite -CCAs never get days off and sometimes have to work Sunday's -no benefits -becoming a regular is impossible -managers are rude -all they do is rush you (creating a heightened risk for injury) and if you do finish in a good time they give you more work

1.0
Oct 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, not excellent for the type of work. Is more a factory job, but in a factory you get at least breaks every 2 hours, and you can go to the bathroom, here they are always o short handed and its so fast pace, they want everything done ASAP so you ant even do that. If I had the chance to go back would not o it, when I made the decision of quitting the manager position with benefits that I had to come in for this thinking that I will make career here just showing that I was a good, hard worker and prepared, with education, experience and skills to go up like in every other company, because they told me the important thing was to have a Foot in for future positions but that's not even true, I'm a USPS employee but I'm more outside that inside. This was supposed to e pros but for this position there's none. Just don't accept it. Everybody thinks because us. Federal job will be so different but it's not, USPS is just full of cry babies, lazy employees that the Union support and spoil, and at some point s going to make the company disappear or get private.

Cons

No good benefits, long hours, they abuse you, you re normally the only one working overtime hours because they can't use the full time outside of their schedule, and guess what outside their hours s when the work really happens, it makes me so mad seeing supervisor, pic and other regulars us lacking standing up for 2 hours and nothing else while you are killing yourself. Poor teamwork, they only care about what they are supposed to do, of course because everybody is afraid he re going to complain and open a grievance because they are cutting their overtime hours that are really yours. I not dare getting overtime, I just want normal hours, normal life, time off too, getting done and out. Employees don't seem to think that the important part of this job is to get the mail out for delivery, the sooner the best, that will cut overtime hours for carriers too. Also I feel exhausted all he time, because beside no having a day off like regulars and working overtime every week, a lot of days I'm by myself in the pm doing 2-3 people jobs that they cant make regulars do because they will get in trouble, I start at 5am and they are not supposed to work me max until 5pm, but I'm the first in and sat out, never earlier than 5:40pm.

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