US Postal Service Reviews

Pros

Pay. Ability to be outside and on your own will delivering mail. Benefits if you make full time.

Cons

opportunities to make full time are few and far between. Job well done is hardly ever noticed. On call. Have to maintain a vehicle.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to listen to employees. Customers are getting neglected because of the way the business is ran. Best qualified individual is not always promoted.

Pros

Decent salary, with good job security and benefits package, including medical with generous vacation time and benefits extended to immediate family.

Cons

Extremely tedious work combined with an authoritarian mangement style with people skills leading to very poor morale and overall dissatisfaction.

Advice to Senior Management

Should listen more to employee feedback, and work with each other in a matter more applicable to better productivity. Discontinue regimented, military-style, intimidation tactics to achieve goals.

Pros

As a transitional employee working for the postal service carries no obligation to stay, or need to give a notice if you quit.

Cons

The postal service is losing a lot of money and laying off a lot of employees, so the job is not secure.

Pros

Lots of opportunity for promotions
Opportunity to receive professional certifications and advanced degrees
Opportunities to work in many different areas of the business

Cons

With the prevalence of electronic communication, the current business is not sustainable
The package delivery service lacks the ability to view where the packages are like the competitors

Advice to Senior Management

Improve on the tracking capabilities of the packages; competitors ability to track exactly where the packages are far exceeds the postal service abilities

Pros

The money is the only compensation that is worth anything, though you do receive some annual leave each pay period it doesn't amount to much.

Cons

No benefits, no sick leave, no retirement benefits, and they will work you tons of mandatory overtime and not care and then they will change it up and not work you very much at all. You still have to be at their beck and call regardless. You, as a "transitional employee" are at the bottom of the pool and they couldn't care less about you.

Pros

Telecommuting
Federal holidays
Headquarters location / metro access

Cons

Politics
Constant failed restructuring
Bureaucracy
Unfair internal hiring/promotion practices
Ridiculous bad weather policies
Over run with overpaid contractors
Several unqualified long tenured employees with the wrong responsibilities

Advice to Senior Management

Fully utilize educated employees with valuable outside/competitor experience and knowledge
Stop letting tenured managers hire their unqualified friends by suing detail assignments to bypass the open competition

Pros

The benefits are not matched by any other employer I know.
The team and the people I worked with for the most part were great.

Cons

Behind the times
They don't treat their employees well
The staff is waiting for retirement to come
The procedures are behind the time

Advice to Senior Management

Change the way that business is run, because it is quasi government it is difficult, but new ideas and innovation are badly needed

Pros

The pay and benefits are descent if you ever make full time carrier. Being outside delivering mail with no supervision is also a plus.

Cons

Need a nonstop work ethic. Hardly any time to fit in a break, especially during the holidays when mail volume is high. Little or no praise for a job well done from management.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees with more respect and offer praise when earned to motivate employees to continue performing at a high or even higher level.

Pros

Salary and benefits were good and fair

Cons

SATURDAYs and day off rotation

Advice to Senior Management

Getting rid of unneeded management would help. Try cutting losses at the top as well as the bottom

Pros

Treat employees with respect, diverse workforce, good pay and great benefits, defined retirement plan, opportunities for advancement, listen to suggestions

Cons

Bad financial position at the current time. Post offices are closing, salaries are being frozen, some jobs are being eliminated

Advice to Senior Management

Managers are doing a great job keeping the workforce informed about the current situation and what is being done to help move the USPS forward.