US Postal Service Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I have worked for the USPS for 7 years and it has been the most demoralizing job I have ever encountered. I would never recommend anyone I care about to work for the Postal Service."

"Worst job experience ever."

What do you like about working at US Postal Service?

"I like my customers, and the co workers that I work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Go work elsewhere, unless you wanna be treated like crap by bosses."

What don't you like about working at US Postal Service?

"I do not like the bosses that I have to work for."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I suggest that they start to treat all employees equally."

What do you like about working at US Postal Service?

"Vacations, holidays off, and health benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Go to college and get a professional degree."

What don't you like about working at US Postal Service?

"Continuous operation and plant failure. No upward mobility for employees. No one wants to be part of a losing team."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get and use feedback from employees that do the work within the department or operation."

"This is a VERY physically demanding job. I can deal with that aspect, but unfortunately, on top of that, the supervisors and manager are rude and disrespectful. They get upset with you for not knowing things they never taught . Also, every day I show up with a positive attitude and every day they make me feel like crap, even though I am giving it my honest, best effort. I don't believe that kind of negativity makes anything go better. They also all tell you different things and no one seems to be on the same page about how to do anything."

"I worked for the postal service for 18 years and they treat you like your personal life doesn't matter."

What do you like about working at US Postal Service?

"Independent and self managed work outside office for half the day, I find my customer's feedback and appreciation as a measure of my performance very rewarding, the physical work is challenging but enjoyable, quick pace of work is mentally stimulating."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN... back to college, back to your old job, back to unemployment!! And do it while you're young! The average age of a postal worker is 55 and most of the workers I speak to are all afraid for their jobs, pensions and workplace environment. What a way to work!"

What don't you like about working at US Postal Service?

"Lots of talk (key word: talk) about advancement opportunities, but classes beneficial to advancement are constantly cancelled, personal involvement and investment in your job - whether through cost saving suggestions, money making suggestions or workplace environment suggestions - they all go ignored and, at times, not even acknowledged, unlike any place I've ever worked. Personality clashes between workers (and management versus workers alike) are allowed to fester, instead of being taken care of, due to ineffective management, and have resulted in workplace violence and hostility that has blown into fistfights and physical/verbal abuse in the workplace. Again, unlike any place I've ever seen and is VERY physically and verbally intimidating. Management in my office (and others, I must admit) is VERY verbally abusive, abuses their absolute power in the military style run post office system and is constantly very personally insulting. The USPS workplace mantra, a workplace with dignity and respect, free of violence, is constantly ignored by individual managers, making us enjoy our out of office, independent work tremendously due to the incohesive workplace."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would: stop insulting the intelligence of the workforce, and, yes, the USPS unions, so much with financial propaganda - they bring home the actual bacon, not lie to the American postal patron about our financial status - if we overpaid the retirement fund by $81billion (see Jan and Aug 2010 OIG reports), we made a decent profit with nothing but postage revenue, correct, fire the accountants and financial reviewers who, over years, overpaid the retirement fund by $81 billion, and caused the great loss of confidence of USPS employees (and postal consumers alike) in the proper management of the Postal Service, seek employee involvement by LISTENING to ALL the employees - who better to try and save their jobs than the very ones threatened to lose them, work better with my peers (IE - OIG), focus on getting the workforce engaged in the service and pride aspect of their jobs-the rewarding aspects of this occupational atmosphere that serve the personality traits of the longest serving employees, project a more positive outlook for our company so the employees don't feel like helpless dunnage on a sinking ship - not a current productive workplace environment, solicit AND LISTEN TO employee contributions and suggestions - who better to mold the company into the true SERVICE organization it was formed to be than the employees who have direct contact with the people we serve and hear their needs on a daily basis, enforce our ascribed workplace culture in EVERY office by listening to its employees and customers alike, not permitting individual fiefdoms to exist for management's individual personal agendas."

What do you like about working at US Postal Service?

"There is great job security, and great benefits and retirement."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared to work the same job for the rest of your life."

What don't you like about working at US Postal Service?

"There is No origination and no direction, management seems lost most of the time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would get rid of the union and hold people accountable."

"The company is very unstable due to the increased use of the internet."

What do you like about working at US Postal Service?

"Getting a check, and the people I work with keep me coming back."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't waste your time. Spend your time looking for better employment."

What don't you like about working at US Postal Service?

"The management, the lack of work hours, lack of communication with the management. The uncertainty of the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep employees in the loop of upcoming changes and respect employees."

"would not recommend this job as a NON CAREER position, employees are treated poorly, no communication and NO VEHICLES to support your delivery position therefore you must use your own vehicle for your route which you are not told prior to hire."

What do you like about working at US Postal Service?

"The salary and benefits."

What don't you like about working at US Postal Service?

"The lack of input by employees, too many supervisors, their treatment of injured employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the average employee."

"Overworked! You can not have a good work life balance working for the USPS"