US Postal Service reviews

Supervisors always want you to go FASTER, FASTER with no regard to your well-being. I NEVER had time for a food or bathroom break on the route if I wanted to make the deadline--I just went without. The heat was HORRENDOUS--I went through bottles and bottles of water every day, stood out in the baking hot sun filling CBU's, and melted to death for hours in the LLV. Management simply told me to get through the boxes faster no matter what. Condescending attitude from supervisors--you are just a body moving mail and parcels around. Blood, sweat, and tears--I can't emphasize this enough. Management is unfeeling and you are guaranteed to sacrifice your life for this job. Not to mention that it takes years (they tell you an average of 6, but it's more like 10-15) to become regular with benefits. I'm tough and can handle a lot of things, but if I wanted to torture someone, I'd make them a mail carrier.

In all honesty I didn't expect this job to be so demanding. First of all you are on a 90 day probation period. They can fire you for any reason they want! I only worked there for about 2 months but it felt like a year. The first walking route they put me on I slipped and fell pretty hard on a sidewalk. Even though I did not go to the doctor I was still told by many people that I would probably not make it past my 90 days. ( I was also told I shouldn't have said anything, which I probably wouldn't have but at the time I thought I sprained my ankle and I caught myself on a hand I have already broken) You go to work they throw you out on a route that you have never done before and they expect you to finish it with no help and no map by 5pm. It's impossible. I never took a lunch because that's a half hour that if you run over 5 you're going to get yelled at. (but don't worry you won't be the only one) It's hot! Very very hot. Driving routes are not as bad because you are in shade and not carrying 40lbs of mail/bag but it's in the 90's all summer long in Kansas no matter how much water I would drink I still was not hydrated enough. Forget about family time. Not one day that I was scheduled to have a day off did I not get called in. However you have to have a day off every 7 days or management gets in trouble. (I often had my 8th day off) I'm sure fall and spring are easier but I started in the summer it was so hot that by the time I got home I had no energy for my small children. I ended up getting pregnant my first month I worked there. I would have stayed if they would have kept me on a driving route but every time I would do a walking route I was have major problems so when I was told I was being switched to a walking route I resigned. After putting in my 2 weeks and telling them that I was pregnant and couldn't handle the heat on the walking routes they had me spend my last week on walking route. Pretty awful of them. One of those days it was pouring (you are not given a rain coat and I didn't know I was going there until I arrived at the other office) there were 4 tornado warning sirens and you just keep delivering the mail. The mail was deteriorating in my arms. After the forth siren we finally received calls to seek shelter. No you will not have a Sunday off. You know that Amazon Prime we all love? Guess who delivers their new Sunday deliveries? You! Newbies get to work every Sunday. Like I put in my pros you are making almost $16 a hour and you get at least a hour of overtime a week but in the long run it the money wasn't worth it for me. **Do not get pregnant!** My husband and I were trying for almost a year before I got this job. Then surprise first month there I was pregnant, unless your body is used to that kind of heat and activity it's not a job for a pregnant girl. 2 weeks after my last day I was in the hospital for a massive bleed, I can't help but to think that if I wouldn't have done those walking routes I wouldn't be having so many problems.