Oct 9, 2012
US Postal Service reviews
2.8
32% would recommend to a friend
Louis DeJoy
17% approve of CEO
27% positive business outlook
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US Postal Service has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19,487 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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3.0
Oct 5, 2012
Good Pay and Benefits.....Thanks to the Unions!
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
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Pros
The 4 major labor unions have negotiated good pay and benefits for blue-color employees. This has benefited all managers in the Postal Service because it raised the bar. Because of the union contracts there is job security and some protection from irrational management.
Cons
The Postal Service is a numbers driven organization. Everything is driven by productivity numbers. While productivity is good for the survival of any organization there should be a clear plan in place to reach reasonable goals. Therein lies the problem. Goals are set and middle level managers are expected to obtain these goals and are basically turned loose to achieve them at any cost. Even at the cost of the welfare of employees. When higher level managers are unable to produce numbers that are acceptable the most common practice they are encouraged to find sacrificial lambs somewhere below them. This is why over 90% of blue color workers in the Postal Service volunteer to be members of labor unions. I only recommend this employer to one who is willing, and able, to handle situations where you will be asked to handle workloads that are unreasonable and sometimes impossible.
1.0
Oct 3, 2012
The worst decision in my life, re-great it 100%
Current employee, less than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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