US Postal Service Reviews

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.

Pros

the pay and benefits were good

Cons

you better not get sick

Advice to Senior Management

treat people like you would want your son or daughter treated

Pros

The pay was pretty decent.
I was able to lose a lot of weight by doing walking routes all summer, so that was pretty cool.

Cons

Management is a joke. They are the precise picture of everything you never want to work for. Management through intimidation is a big thing. Constantly adding more work to the people who work harder and taking more work from those who don't work as hard, which leads to employee frustration, as it is absolutely impossible to schedule anything after work Monday-Saturday. Constantly pushing the harder workers to go harder, go faster, while simultaneously letting the grumpy, lazy workers have a free ride. Managers who have never actually performed the job for which they are assigned to manage.
Added to this, the constant fear of not having a job, as the USPS is not in very good shape financially.
The incredible bureaucracy of the United States Postal Service makes everything at least twice as hard as it needs to be. But then, I guess that's the government.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your good employees with respect, allow your hard workers to take a full weekend regularly, or at least have two days off regularly. Listen to the carriers about how the mail is delivered. If you haven't done the job before, don't carry a clipboard and act like you know how everything is done. You don't.

Pros

Benefits, national so you can transfer or promote to any location, we all work for delivery to every person, every house - so what you do touches everyone you know.

Cons

Working in mail processing requires shift work and 7 day a week work. In delivery having to work in all elements of weather. Currently the uncertainty of the organization with mail volumes declining and the increase in social/electronic media.

Advice to Senior Management

Right size, explore all the opportunites we have to utilize the network we have where we go to every house, every day.

Pros

The starting pay is excellent.

Cons

Long hours if you are not a regular employee.
As a casual/transitional employee they will work you 20 days or more straight.
If you get injured on the job, even a dog bite, you will be let go!

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate the casual/transitional employees more...they do the hard jobs without reaping the rewards.
Don't have a its "my way or no way" attitude. Only makes employees want to do less for you.
Do the job yourself once to completely know what the job entails.

Pros

You are providing a service to those in your community. The work itself is rewarding and challenging at times even though it is not constant or overburdening. I am pretty much a first responder to any malfunctions that occur while the machine is running. I do some planned maintenance while the machines are idol.

Cons

The company's management is is most of the problem. Very few of them are aware of all that is going on. Most attained their positions due to their lack of performance as a worker or nepotism. They receive bonuses and pay for performance that not of their own doing or knowledge. Many in management really do not know what their subordinates do for 8+ hours a day. Maintenance mangers seldom understand how the machines work and only respond to red highlights around running parameters. When ask by a subordinate how they want something fixed, the manager usually barks " I don't know, just fix it!!"

Advice to Senior Management

Learn what your people do. Learn what the numbers mean. Learn how the different types of mail affects the machines and the numbers you so severely cherish. Do not be afraid to have subordinates how may know more than you. Stop asking us and those between us and you "How long is it going to take to fix????", unless you want us to stop fixing and spend 20-30 minutes discussing our theories on why and how the problem happened and how you asking us every 20 seconds not only delays up but tends to destroy our thought process so we have to go over the same mental processes again and again.

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, friendly co-workers, have different shifts.

Cons

Lazy managers, bad managers, politics, breaks was strictly followed.

Pros

Great pay for part-time work; Good benefits. Can be easy work depending on your job.

Cons

Morale problem. Women often talked down to. Incompetant management can be a problem. Not family oriented. Afraid to call in sick..you are made to feel like a criminal if you do. Can be hard on your back depending on your job there.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat those under you with more respect. And remember that we are all human beings with families and sometimes have to put their needs before the company.

Pros

Good pay for now, good workout, most customers are happy to see you and are very friendly

Cons

Management wants you to do more in less time, customer service is often ignored, routes are longer with less breaks, relays are made longer with less breaks.

Advice to Senior Management

These workers are human, they can only walk so fast and delivery so much at one time. Give them adequate time to do this.

Pros

Benefits, majority of employees, pay package. The satisfaction of providing the general public with a valuable service. Relocation opportunities nationwide.

Cons

Upper management disconnect from real world
Poor training
Micro managed
Incompentent Upper management. All results driven by numbers rathere that employee feedback, brainstrorming, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve on people skills
Get out in the field to see what's really going on
Award those that go well and beyond
Show entry level management skills through "hands on" training (not emails)