So your the reason for all the layoffs.......j/k
http://www.ktvu.com/money/28841838/detail.html
miserable place to work, for sure. Many of the people I worked with were retired military already drawing their military pensions ( some vietnam vets). Every USPS employee is at least 100% overpaid from mailhandler to postmaster general. It's sad when Custodian is the most sought after job....and you nearly need to be a disabled veteran ( like deaf) to get that job.
I became a lead man because nobody senior to me wanted the responsibility for another 50 cents an hour, so I'm a level 5 and everybody else is a 4 and sticks me with the paperwork.
Horrible place morale wise, and it has to be much worse since I quit 9 years ago.
EVERYBODY THERE IS OVERPAID. Most don't give a Shit about their quality of work....I just couldn't do it past 5 years.
Now the USPS doesn't even need to exist, really. We had grunt mailhandlers sucking in like 80-100k with O/T....and cake OT at that. The cake was a blind mailhandler....his wife would drop him off and leave him there for like 12-16 hours a day....do the Math at $20 per hour, like 80k a year.
Abuse was just rampant. There was a union rep guy ( John Longo) that every level of management was afraid of back in New London, CT.on graveyard. He slept at his desk in a dark corner of this 90 year old office, rarely was ever awake. He's retired now, dude got paid to sleep and maybe drink coffee and eat donuts, read somebody's magazines, etc....but he was the union rep ( for just the clerks union).
Your average mail carrier however earns their pay ( sort of). That can be a tough 50k job ( by postal standards) or cake if you have the right rural route. Lots of those people walk many miles a day with a load, some mailhandlers work hard too, most USPS employees are unneeded.
I could go on and on....
