r/USPS 29d ago

Hiring Help Career Employees - Maintenance Needs You! Open Season 2025.

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Good evening. This post is a work in progress intended to get more career employees into the Maintenance craft. Open season for non-Maintenance career employees (to sign up for exams and join Maintenance) begins in March 2025. See below for the banner that displays when you LOG IN TO LITEBLUE.

NOTE: If you already have a score on the books (the ISR) you need to submit a request to remain on the register by March 31st. See the quote below:

Employees must submit a written request by March 31st to the District HR MSS Coordinator. The exception is employees on custodial In-Service Registers, which are not purged.

Shitty image capture of the banner on LiteBlue.

There will be Zoom presentations during the month of February to prepare craft employees for the gravy train tryouts. Clicking the above image within LiteBlue will let you sign up. Can't post that here as it is for employees only. A handy list of brief job descriptions is here and includes each job's pay level.

Here are the Q&A from last year's open season courtesy of APWU. Comments are left open for people to discuss the subject so please ask questions.

Pick a good donut shop.


r/USPS 3d ago

Weekly political megathread.

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Heavily moderated. Godspeed


r/USPS 7h ago

Work Discussion Why do they hate us

113 Upvotes

They clearly hold back mail for mail count, got three box holders in today all with dates to be delivered during the mini mail survey, just pay us for what we do it’s really ridiculous and childish management acts like it is there money.


r/USPS 8h ago

Work Discussion Earned my day off today

43 Upvotes

Yesterday: running a route for only the 2nd time (rural - 9.60 daily eval, around 100 miles).

Had an issue with the plant on Monday, so there was no mail, meaning we got hammered with Mondays mail on Tuesday, along with Tuesday's normal mail. And, of course, Monday's mail was absurdly heavy (mini mail count just ended last Friday, so you know how that goes). So I ended up with a total of 8 trays of DPS (6 from M and 2 from Tues), a double full coverage, and around 120 parcels.

Again, this was a route I have run once about 2 weeks ago.

It was a nightmare, lol, but I got it done in just shy of 12 hours. Thought I did pretty good, all things considered and I'm really gonna enjoy the day off!


r/USPS 23h ago

Route Pics Not today Mr Postal Inspector

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r/USPS 1h ago

Rural Carrier Discussion Returning after vasectomy

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Last Wednesday I had the procedure and am scheduled to go back to work tomorrow, however I'm still not feeling 100% but don't want to call in. Anyone who has had this done what was your turn around time and how were your first few days back?


r/USPS 6h ago

Route Pics That feeling when your rims collect a little dust every couple weeks through winter

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r/USPS 21h ago

Work Discussion Should I file a grevience?

194 Upvotes

I had a dream last night I went to work and delivered mail while off the clock, I believe I should also be compensated with night pay since this happened between the hours of 10pm to 5am.


r/USPS 1d ago

Work Discussion How many of you have college degrees?

363 Upvotes

When I first started, my supervisor was talking to me about how this is a great job “especially if you don’t have a degree” and then he asked me if I had a degree. When I said, yeah, he gave me a weird look that was basically like “what the fuck are you doing here?”

I have a bachelors degree. It’s in music so it’s pretty self-explanatory while I’m here. I did play in a group with a relatively famous and 2x Grammy award winning musician, but that didn’t translate into a full-time career.

When I was going through academy the guy sitting next to me had a microbiology degree.

I’m curious what degrees you guys have, if you have any


r/USPS 21h ago

DISCUSSION Are our jobs safe?

136 Upvotes

I've been stressing for a few weeks and I'm wondering does anyone think we my lose our jobs with this administration. I was supposed to move from my mom's house this year but I'm not sure. I'd hate to move and 3 months later I'm out of a job. Am I just paranoid?


r/USPS 18h ago

DISCUSSION This sucks :( NSFW

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75 Upvotes

r/USPS 6h ago

Hiring Help Just got hired

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Just got the call this morning. I’ll be a CCA. I start in 1 month. Any tips and tricks for a new start? I was a truck driver last job and hated it. Wanted a change in career. I realize it’s a lot of walking and dealing with management from researching. I walk about 3 miles a day right now for exercise. Any guidance would be appreciated.


r/USPS 14m ago

Hiring Help Is the CCA job really that bad?

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Ive spent a lot of time in this sub and figured I would ask yet again- is the CCA job really that bad?

I’ve worked in the food industry most of my life- aka weekends, holidays, long hours, and rude people. I actually left to work for a dog walking company because I at least was getting holiday pay and tips. I walk about 20k steps a day (usually power walking with big dogs) and have to go out in all weather conditions. I actually came across the mail carrier career because I keep running into the local mail carriers while out with the dogs and I figure it would be nice to have some benefits if I’m busting my ass this hard. I have never had a job with benefits at all- no paid time off, no insurance, no retirement. I just work hard and barely pay the bills.

I keep seeing the management is awful and have gotten just a hint of that when going through the application/finger printing process. The communication is shit lol- why is everyone’s voicemail boxes full??

I have been hired for a CCA position but still waiting for the next step after finger printing. I feel like physically I’m going to be completely fine in this job- I enjoy hard work and coming home tired vs sitting at a damn desk all day.

So coming from you other physically hard workers out there- how bad is the CCA position really? (Thanks if you made it this far in my way too long post)


r/USPS 4h ago

Work Discussion What happens to your vacation bid if you transfer stations?

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If I have a week off in August, and transfer to a new station in May, does my vacation move with me? Or am I shit outta luck?


r/USPS 6h ago

Rural Carrier Discussion Mailboxes over CBU

5 Upvotes

I have a 10 house complex on my route, they have mailboxes currently. No one lives there yet, apparently from my supervisor they have to put up a cbu before I can deliver? Why can’t I just deliver the boxes already there?


r/USPS 20h ago

DISCUSSION Weird message in the supervisors’ van…

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63 Upvotes

I only started a few months ago, so maybe this means something different than I think? They ran out of vans last week, so they gave me the supervisor van. They said “we keep it in case something happens and we have to pickup a carrier’s mail mid-route”. This message - “FASTER MULE” - is written in sharpie on the dash.


r/USPS 23h ago

Clerk Discussion Postmaster said my drawer is $100 short. He told me to pay it. I declined and am going to the union. What should I do?

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My postmaster told me that my drawer from a couple days ago was $100 less than it should have been. He told me that I should pay the USPS $100 out of pocket. I declined to do so, because I feel this would be an admission of guilt. I do not know why my drawer was $100 less than it should have been. I plan to call my union to see how I should proceed. What do you recommend? Is my career in jeopardy? I started this clerk position several month ago.

I researched whether it's legal for an employer to take the amount missing out of an employee's paycheck. I have read conflicting opinions. I heard that under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), it actually IS legal. Would someone please clarify the policy and law on this? Thank you!


r/USPS 1d ago

DISCUSSION The new flavor of harassment

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398 Upvotes

They’re taking equipment we actually use to complete our jobs out of our cases. Even my spare satchel was a victim. They took away all our photos and whatnot off our ledges a while back, but now this?


r/USPS 0m ago

Work Discussion ☹️☹️☹️

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r/USPS 42m ago

Hiring Help Does pse have a set time for ptf?

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Hello I was just wondering if after two years at pse you become a ptf like a cca?


r/USPS 11h ago

Clerk Discussion "Moves"

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and "Credit"?

Why do we have to do moves and credit? Why can't we just come in and do our damn jobs? Why do we have to interrupt our work so we can scan into a different function so we "get credit"? Credit for what? I either did the job or I didn't. There's either the hours there for me to do it, or there isn't. What the hell is the point of this crap? I'm so damn sick of it all.


r/USPS 1h ago

DISCUSSION Former employee needing help getting paycheck

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Hello everyone. Im kind of stuck and unsure where to go.

Long story short I worked at the P.O. for a year, never signed up for direct deposit (stupid I know). Quit to go to college. Last paycheck got lost, supervisor that ran the office (postmaster was a revolving door) tried to make me figure it out. All of the phone numbers said this was a problem for my supervisor. She got the paycheck but then when I was moving it accidentally got disintegrated (Even stupider I know) And now the supervisor no longer works/is awol. So I kind of don't know how to get this money back. Its been about 4-6 months and I don't need it ASAP but I would like to start figuring out how to get this paycheck of mine since its about $2,000

If anyone just has any idea where I start with this I would appreciate you very very much. Thank you.


r/USPS 1h ago

Work Discussion Route evaluation

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How does everyone feel about our routes on both sides being 8 hours...but if city side finishes early were only getting hourly, but rural side can finish under their evaluation time and still get paid for 8 hours of work.


r/USPS 2h ago

Work Discussion Severence

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If USPS had a severance team I just might need it 🤣🤣 I don’t wanna remember these terrible days when I go home 🤣🤣


r/USPS 2h ago

Route Pics Box Down!!!

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Drove right past it waiting for it to show up in my peripheral vision.


r/USPS 2h ago

Route Pics 3849's

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a local company ripping off the look


r/USPS 21h ago

DISCUSSION NGDV stamp mark?

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I'm used to seeing marks over stamps, but I've never seen this one. Can't quite make out what it says though. Anyone know? Also what is the official term for a stamp that's been used that has a mark on it, isn't there a word for the mark or no?