After 34 years as a carrier I finally found the right job for me ...... RETIREMENT!

This is the best breakdown I've seen. Clear, articulate and well-spoken. Great job man

Great video!!! I am a PSE now. Distribution and sales and services are bundled together. On a typical day, I get to work at 4 AM and leave at 1230 or 1 pm, depending on how long a lunch break I get. I distribute mail in the morning, and then they put me on the window. If your office is short on personnel, or if you have a person who is frequently calling out, you will be doing both all the time! Some days they split my shift, so I take a two-hour lunch and end up leaving at 2. There are days where I do overtime (which happens a lot), and I end up going around 4 pm. There are some days I take a 30-minute lunch and do 10 hours. Some weeks I work from 8 AM to 5 PM. You literally fill in where you can to accommodate the regulars. Your hours can vary by the day, and you can work as however many days they want to schedule you. For a few months, I was working six days a week. If there is a holiday, best believe you will work that holiday, so you might end up working seven days plus in a row. I wish I had this knowledge before I joined because I know I would crush it as an RCA. It's depressing at times to know you got to work at 4 AM, and a carrier who got to work at 8 AM is going home before you and getting paid like they worked all day. 😩🤣 I sure am glad that I don't have to deal with the elements outside, though. 🙏🏾 As a PSE doing distribution, you're going to sort out a shit ton of mail. Especially now during the pandemic. It's like Christmas all the time. The mail and package volume compared to last year this time is five times the norm. At least for my post office anyway. On average, you're looking at 2000 to 4000 packages a day. You will throw packages in the morning and the afternoon, which will double those average numbers. Much love to all of you all trying to get in. It's not for the faint of heart.

This really help. I’ve been thinking on working for the USPS a lot lately and I’ve been trying to figure what would be the best position for me. Very helpful Thank you✌🏽

well articulated information. well done, thank you.

This helped immensely. Im based in Miami seeking employment with The US Postal Service. This helped narrow down the positions Im looking to land. Thank You!

THANK YOU BRAD! best breakdown I have come across! Concise and well-articulated. The information provided was insightful and extremely helpful. I appreciate your help and thanks again for the vid.

Excellent video ! I’m a PSE @ the Greensboro P&DC and we work 12 or more hours every day ! They try to give us a day off, but it doesn’t happen always; however, PSEs do get penalty pay after 56 hours in a work week.... maybe that’s something you can mention in a more updated video sometime in the future . As a result , there have been some PSEs I have known personally , who have made more than regular clerks in a fiscal year .... me being one of them .... 6 figures easy ! But that’s only bc of the penalty overtime payments ... without that, I would be in the low 60s lol

Pay rates have gone up as of the end of 2021. MHA is up to 17.32 an hour. Also PSE's only load machines that sort mail. Mail handlers are the ones that load and unload mail and move it all around the plant.

This was a great video of simply breaking things down. Thank you!

I can't thank you enough for this video. I just graduated high school and was thinking about working for the post office. This was so informational and helpful.

Good video, NEW RCA'S need to know that THEY are responsible for providing their own vehicle, at their own expense. And explain EMILES.

Gotta ask yourself and really know yourself and your capabilities when starting out at USPS. Do you live to work or work to live? Any job you take here is absolutely abusive starting out as far as the sheer number of hours you work and the physicality that comes with it, but life does get better the longer you've worked there. I've never worked there, but I know friends that have.

Thank you!! This video has been the most resourceful out of all the videos I have found online

Long waiting hiring times, close to 4 months in metro Boston area. Massive hiring because 50% of people who got hired 30 years ago they just at their retirement age.if you don’t have family then go for it. CCA is $17.29 per hour as of 08/05/2020

Watched many postal employment video's, this one is 1 of the better ones,,, FYI

I just got hired for an RCA I will give it a try. I'm scared. I don't know much about mail so I've been watching all of these videos. I'm in my 40s I'm from Missouri. Thank you for explaining everything in detail. I will go see what happens 😁

Rural carrier is the best Job in the PO, I did it for 15 years before going into management. Being a clerk would be #2 if I was to go back and be craft.

Really great information!! Thank you!! I'm currently waiting to get an email of my start date! I have already completed my background the other week. I completed my fingerprints this pass Friday! The position I'm going in as is a "CCA"!

Thank you, the information was very helpful. I am looking for a career change. Keep up the great work.

Thank you. Excellent informative video and easy to follow and understand. I feel better about applying for MHA now.

Mha's n mail handlers dont touch the machines that the mail processing clerks run ...they just remove the mail/letters from the racks when the letters are finished being sorted. Customer service pse's work the window and/or throw parcels at the branches or plant.......I'm a pool clerk that started as a casual mail handler for 5 months then mail processing pse working the machines for 14 months then got converted to window clerk for 7 months then went back on the mail processing clerk side then I just came back to my window/distribution position 4am-1230p depending on the need ....now I'm senior bidder for the bulk mail unit monday thru friday weekends off steady hours and that's what I been waiting on to hopefully be stress free of all the different times I work..... good luck y'all

Thanks so much for this informative video. You honestly just saved my life and that's not hyperbole.

You explain it best out all KZfaq I seen thank you

I'm doing the fingerprint process tomorrow...mail processing assistant...

There are PSEs who work at the plant on processing machines without touching a box. There are regulars at the plant that process mail only….and it’s very easy. At the plant your pay overnight is 19 and day time is 18 with overtime if u wish

I’m RCA almost 1 year. I enjoyed it, I try my best to get done fast as I can no later then 2pm to get evaluation.

In between jobs at the moment and this video was very informative sense im considering on applying at the post office. Thanks man

Thank You for the breakdown that was easy to understand for a new PSE.

I’m pretty sure that PSE Mail Processing Clerk is a job at the processing plants rather than a post office. PSE Sales & Services/Distribution Associate positions are the people that work in a local post office working the window and coming in early to sort parcels and letters for carriers.

I just took 474 assessment and I got 90%... I hope they email me I’m ready to work

This is Ed Bassmaster's younger brother.

Thank you for the information! Just applied yesterday for a position and I'm excited! I hope I get an interview!

Great job explaining the rural carrier job.im a 26yrs service,9 yrs were part time in wait of a full time regular position.I wasted 9yrs.all got was a pay check,no benifits untill you make regular rural carrier and you cant tribute to thrift savings(ira) untill then.more wasted time The TRUTH is bc you work a rt. Outside of town limits your on rural back rds.I was hit sitting still at a mail box rolled over and customer was hit by the mail truck.many surgeries,back to work and back out for new body issues.arthritis starts in body and multiple health probs. Occur.owcp is federal worker comp.let me say how horrible thier process is to get benifit pay in event of injury n body problems.this one of the hardest demanding job that breaks you down.senority is key.full time carriers get 1st choice off all calendar yr. You bottom of pole.regular,s suppose to get a day off,I never saw mine bc postmaster cant supply you a sub. Carrier your working 6days a wk.health n life ins. Is good about 475.00 a month.if you choose this career no what your getting into.talk to former carriers.good luck.

Got a mail handler position. I work tour one which sucks. It’s only a temporary position from the covid thing so it’s not too bad.

There are positions that are career from day one of being hired. I don't know all of them, but here is what I know: Laborer Custodian, Postal Police , Postal Inspectors and some of the Motor Vehicle Operators.

I think being rural carrier sounds terrific.

Very Very nice explanation. I like your video. Thank you.

Thanks so much for making this video Brad! It really helped. I have a couple questions, which USPS positions have you worked for and which ones do you like best personally and why? Are you currently still working as a RCA?

Thank you for the informative, well-detailed video. I've been working as an ARC for just two months, and now I applied for SALES, SVCS/DISTRIBUTION ASSOC, which is a career position. My exam score is 81. Just wondering how much it is possible to get this kind of career position while having just a non-carrier position, which doesn't even lead to career positions like CCA, RCA, and PSE do.

I got a job as an RCA. I was intensively trained how to drive various vehicles the USPS way. Virtually no training how to deliver the mail. I was sent out delivering packages after Amazon Prime Day. It was 105 degrees. due to not being trained to use the bar code reader or how to load the truck, it took me way too long. I suffered heat exhaustion. My supervisor was angry and told me I am not suitable to be a USPS employee. I was scheduled for "Academy" (whatever that is), the next day. I was too sick from heat exhaustion to attend even if I hadn't been fired.

Great job . This helped a whole lot well done. Thank you.

Thanks for your cleared explanation.... I have an orientation on Feb 8 as RCA, I'm still deciding if I'm gonna get the job cuz I want a full time job...

I retired as a 25 year Mailhandler…Couldn’t complain much about that job.But hey,IM RETIRED 😮😮😮😮

Extremely helpful info......Tysm for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing I needed this knowledge

Rca all day might be a ruff start but the best position better than cca lest stress on the body

Thank you for sharing!! Great job!!!

Thanks million for this great video

I am interested in a job, but am now extremely frustrated that I can't apply for a whole YEAR because I failed the initial assessment. AI failed me so I seriously doubt a HUMAN will even consider my application. Just because I didn't get a certain score on a psychological test. I am more than qualified for the job. I feel I must have answered too honestly and so that was considered a negative. Am I shy? Yes. Do I believe in doing more than my job requires? Sometimes, but I feel doing the job is a pretty good accomplishment because few people probably reach that standard. I'm just extremely disappointed. USPS needs to change this.

Fingerprinting is the only thing I am waiting on to have done, they said to email the contact they gave me to schedule an appt, but havent heard anything and it says I only have 5 days, today is day 3, and two emails have been sent, Is there a specific number to call.

I was recently extended a job offer as an MHA and completed the SF85/SF85P form. I know they'll need my finger prints. I'm now waiting for follow up and further instructions. About how long does the hiring process take? Do MHAs usually work a fulltime schedule and are the schedules set or not? I would like to juggle a part time job around this one. I'm anxiously awaiting to see how this unfolds.

I just got the job offer for MHA. I emailed the guy to get my finger prints done and he said once he gets the authorization from Arizona he would schedule me

Thanks my man this helped a lot! Do you think there is a good chance to grow within the organization overtime? Thanks for your input!

Thank you.

I don't think that 70k a year is borderline poverty anywhere.

Thanks for this great video! I was under the impression that you got healthcare benefits from the beginning, but it sounds like you are saying you don't get any sort of healthcare benefits for entire year. Do you get any limited healthcare benefits when you first start the job, or do you have to wait a year?

I love this video hence I am consider this as a job because I really don't know what career path to take, but I have a question. When they call you out of those 7 days what if you genuinely can't work, will they hold it against you? Can you still put in days off ahead of time etc?

Thank you for this video, it was very informative. I am wondering where do you obtain study material for the various exams for the positions that are available. Is that something that the Postal provides upon application?

This video was a god send! I had so many questions on all the different jobs prior to this. I have been seeking employment with the USPS for about 2 months now in North Carolina, mainly focusing on Raleigh or Wilmington area. I just got an offer for Rural Carrier Associate/SRV REG RTE but have been nervous about it stating that I will only be scheduled on Saturdays for sure. I just got out of the Marine Corps, so I am used to having to do physically exerting jobs and working long hours, so I think I would be fine. I also got an offer as a PSE Mail Processing Clerk for Norfolk, VA. I definitely am in need of a job that provides good hours but would prefer to be a carrier. Based off of your experience working in NC for USPS could you provide some feedback as to what you think would be a better choice? Thanks!

CEP?

Do RCAs tend to get more hours than ARCs? Thanks for clarifying the differences between these positions by the way, that was very helpful.

I am trying do hard to get a job with them now .I wanted warehouse but my scores seem to not be letting me in

I've been told an RCA can pick up additional hours at other facilities when not scheduled. Would they be paid RCA hourly for whatever they're doing for other offices, or is it the same evaluative/ hourly based on what you're doing?

Sorry if this is a dumb question. Since mail doesn’t run on holidays and the post office is closed on holidays, will pse mail processors have to work on holidays?

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what is that at 2:36 over your shoulder ?

thanks for the insight!

I applied for SALES, SVCS/DISTRIBUTION ASSOC I made a 100 on assessment 477 I hope receive an offer

Thanks!! I'm 47 and I should of started when was younger. Quick question. ..I'm thinking of getting a job in Los Angeles at USPS and then moving to Wilmington. Any suggestions how I should get my feet wet at USPS in LA?

70k? Whats your route eval? Regulars in my office on there k routes capped at 70k but they were at the end of their career and obviously on the old pay tier which of course was lowered now for the new guys like myself. Did you make 70k as a RCA? because if you did you must of worked a ton of hours year round.

Thanks for this video very helpful! I am also in NC and I have been offered 2 jobs as of right now as an RCA in 2 different towns! I am excited to say the least! I need a career change, but going from 40 hours guaranteed to the one day guaranteed will be hard (luckily I have some money to fall back on). Question? Do RCAs get paid the amount you discussed plus a “mileage” reimbursement? Also what is the least amount of hours you worked as an RCA?

What position is the people who drives the step vans? And how are they paid? I used to drive for FedEx at one point and thinking about doing something similar and USPS has caught my interest.

Do you have any thoughts on whether the USPS is a good place for people to work who have wife/kids? I assume many carriers do, but I have also heard that it is not a job for people who want to see their families.

Great Info. Thank you

i want to work for the postal office but i dont want to do the windows retail customer service

5:40 me!

I dont see description about the city carrier ..with benefits position ...

Waiting 8yrs to become full time sounds crazy to me.. how would anyone with family be able to support them with minimum hours and no benefits

The constant change in volume on this video of your voice is not acceptable.

U said you’ve been working there for 12yrs now, and you have 26yrs left before you can retire. I’ve been looking into getting a job with the USPS and the main thing that attracted me to job is they say you get full retirement after 20yrs of service. Is this not true? Can you clear this up for me please. Because now I’m having second thoughts about it

I'm very interested in trying to make a career out of USPS when I graduate High School in a month or so. In order to see if I like the job do you think I should apply to be a Mail Handler Assistant? Then eventually if I do like the job, and want to make a career out of it try to become a Mail Rural Carrier?

Very informative video. Do you get a set amount of vacation days? If you decided to quit after your year evaluation, is it possible to be rehired?

I heard that if you're working as an RCA sometime they required you to use your own car to do package delivery, is that true?

Helpful one, Thanks!

Dp you know how long the hiring process takes? I submitted an application online and took my assessment exam and when I check online it has me as pre-hire list. But haven't heard anything yet. Its been almost 2 weeks. So wasn't sure if i should reach out or just continue to wait.

Being rural carrier best job

Literally the only thing available right now is RCA but idk if I can if its far from where I live

TY. HELPED A LOT.

This job seems like its for me I like to be actively moving and pay seems to be not bad I live in NY I just don't have a car license, but working on it and definitely not planning on living here forever, but 70k a year is still good for me to reach for I'm single and no kids so I'm going to apply and hope for the best cause college didn't feel like it was for me. Overral doesn't seem so bad, ive heard that post offices are always hiring is that a bad thing ?

Thank you for this video. My question is about the pay, do the pay rate still the same no matter how long you've being in that position or it's rise withing the time?

Do you get any days off as RCA? I’m a senior in high school and I have been considering being a mail man for some time now

DO YOU have to join the union / union dues? or can you opt out entirely / anonymously? thank you!

Im about to graduate highschool and i want to get straight into it. I haven't had a job yet so what are some tips i guess? I'm really looking forward to it

thanks i enjoyed your tutorial on "which USPS is right for you". i like USPS job. i dream of it wherever i am. i preparing to apply for it. is there any other way you can help me? i mean past questions. Dorcas

All of them are good if they would even hire!!

Thanks for the video. So Any position u start as a part time. Does the RCA have that one year n you got to wait to get rehired n once u get rehired u get ur benefits???

When you become a full time RCA, do you get paid salary or hourly? And is the pay rate/salary the same everywhere no matter what state you're in? Also how long did it take for you to become a fulltime RCA?

I just gotten my fingerprinting done last 08/05/21. How long can I expect to wait til orientation/Training?? Also, why do they keep telling me not to quit my other job??? Last question is...she told me I might be scheduled a day or 2 for two hrs a day. Why would they do that??? OK, one more and I'm done.....how do I find out my exam score??? i was never told mine.

Do RCAS have to drive their own vechicle?