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Well you can try it to see if its " ideal" exercise. If it walking all day you might hate it within a few days. Really its harder on the body than it look, wait till ad days, those supermarkets ads that you need to carry on your strap all day it sucks.
In my area they will take any able body willing to put with 6 days per week, and never having 2 days off and every Sunday mandatory unless your limbs falls off. Needless to say during interviews, they make it seems like its hardly a tough schedule.
Being a new postal employee involves so much more than just walking. You spend a lot of time sorting and hauling the many packages people now order via Amazon. Packages can be very heavy. And without a day off to rest and recuperate your body's tolerance for this type of physical work can decline fast. I had no idea that a business like the Post Office could require someone to work 7 days a week but I guess they can. You have zero protection as a postal contract employee that any illness or family emergency is cause for immediate termination.
Location: In a perfect world winter does not exist
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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
Some people will always find an excuse to be miserable.
I would have thought by page 7 the junior high posts would have been long gone. Thanks for those who have contributed something worth a dime here. This thread has runs it course unless the poster above has another grand input.
Being a new postal employee involves so much more than just walking. You spend a lot of time sorting and hauling the many packages people now order via Amazon. Packages can be very heavy. And without a day off to rest and recuperate your body's tolerance for this type of physical work can decline fast. I had no idea that a business like the Post Office could require someone to work 7 days a week but I guess they can. You have zero protection as a postal contract employee that any illness or family emergency is cause for immediate termination.
Blame the USPS for setting up expensive pension plans and union workers encouraging bad postal workers to remain on the workforce so all new USPS contract workers are pulling the weight.
Blame the USPS for setting up expensive pension plans and union workers encouraging bad postal workers to remain on the workforce so all new USPS contract workers are pulling the weight.
The pension plan is the federal employees plan. The postal service exist to continue a set of payments to the government's general fund to offset the current payouts to retired postal workers
CCAs and PSEs are not contract employees, they are temporary employees, the senior one in a district receives a career position when one becomes available
I just quit the post office as CCA today. I just had to walk out. Working every single day of the week. I couldn't catch a break. That heavenly call every once in a while saying I had the day off was spent catching up on housework and any grocery or household shopping I couldn't get done working 10+ hours a day. I was lied to from day 1. I was told during my interview with the post master that Amazon deliveries on Sunday were rotated out so we only worked one or two Sundays a month. I was ok with that. After 7 months, I had 1 Sunday off. I couldn't handle it anymore. Today was the last straw. It used to be a great company to work for. Starting wage close to $20-$25/ hr and getting Sundays and holidays off was reduced to $16/hr and working 7 days a week. I live in the Seattle area. People at Starbucks make $15/ hr and have flexible schedules. Yeah the paychecks with all the overtime were nice, but there needs to be a balance between work and life. The USPS is not a good company to work for anymore.
The attrition rate is so high among City Carrier Assistants that the Los Angeles and other districts are trying a one day ride along before spending the time and money to train new employees. With the one national wage in higher cost of living areas the rewards are not great enough for the working conditions.
And once critical mass is passed conditions deteriorate so that 12 or more hours a day six days a week has been forced on 20 year veterans in Los Angeles the past two weeks despite every manual and regulations stating that 12 hours a day and 60 hours a week is the limit
It is a bad job, but last time I checked you could be a mailman without any college. It seems they mostly take who they can get because it's physical labor. I don't know about any where else, but in NJ they've mostly cut the hours and retirement packages for newcomers.
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