Ok maybe I’m old school bit you guys should find some anchors in your route and spend a a moment - and yeah with the new scanner - and just absorb your surroundings and respond.

@@MikeatTrajectories what are anchors?

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It's no joke... been doing routes for only 2 weeks and everyday is no less than 12 miles. One day off last 2 weeks

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Good luck to you bro

I'm doing this for 5 months, and I had lose 20 pounds. I had delivered crazy routes and sometimes easy routes, but I'm not planning on quitting. I am making almost 2000 dollars every week, and last week I got a hold on a route. Keep pushing!!

@@calenocam29 Dope! Thanks I definitely will 💯

I did my carrier academy in Sacramento as well. And yeah they said most people don't last

Truly! The strong 💪

YES! Facts

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Yeah they gotta prove themselves

Same here. I gave out clothes and they quit…. Shit I gave out straps and a bag before 😂

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Sounds like a sweat deal. I would love an office that small.

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Yeah everyone has high confidence until they are thrown to the wolves

Less walking on rural side

just get an office job

@@OMG-si3wnlol too boring. I like rural so far!

@@oreotcat are the hours crazy?

@@OMG-si3wn Not so far but I just started

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Did you try applying for clerk or mail handler?

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Sometimes it is luck 🤞🏻

Congrats

USPS doesn't fire people unless you do something really bad

@@MailmanNick I hope that you’re right. I’m still in my first 90 days.

@@courtneymcbride2001 it's all mind games. They found a carrier playing on her phone when she was running behind. Nothing happened to her. You'll be fine. Work hard and you'll be good

They don't fire anyone unless you do something illegal or get in a fight/threaten someone and even if you fight with someone they don't always fire you, they may transfer you to another station. Best wishes and hang in there; work hard, show up, don't be late and keep to yourself. That's the best advice you can get.

@@shannonk.6528On my shadow day as a CCA, the mail carrier I was supposed to train with...got into a fist fight with another carrier on the loading dock😂. Nobody really gets fired from the post office unless they steal mail,destroy mail or get caught moving drugs.

Stretch, eat right, get enough sleep, buy a massage gun

I liked being a CCA and having the option of holding down routes, it adds a little variety to the job and I honestly didn’t mind getting paid to exercise on walking routes (which was why I took a carrier tech position after conversion). The downside of being a cca was the Sunday parcel delivery and the fact that its kinda of a thankless peon job in general. The upside will be the generous benefits when you are converted to regular and the option for 8 hour days vs overtime. Hopefully your office will have enough retirements to get you converted quickly.

Nick, take it a day at a time. Ask a lot of questions

You rural?

@@MailmanNick CCA

@@alexandermike8009 file a grievance if you keep asking and they don't give you your voucher

I was there for a year and 4 months and I was a regular in 9 months didn’t get my uniform allowance until 4 months after I was a regular already

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Your body will adjust

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I hate they go by numbers. Should listen to the carriers who actually carry the routes

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Once you get a flow, it's easy.

😂 all our help quit

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On my current hold down

Yeah except you'll probably be walking all day

Take your lunch. It’s so hard for management to fire you and they’ll always have something to say about something. Don’t punish yourself for this job. They’re going to take the 30mins out of your paycheck regardless if you take your break or not. TAKE YOUR BREAK.

2 10 minute breaks and a lunch. I usually get a Gurnee and a half of packages on city 18

I would say I get a gurney and a half too, but only 7 little relays. About 2 hours mounted tho

One more day! Full schedule next week

Not a lot of jobs are I've noticed

Are you talking about Amazon Sundays?

@eddiew2325 yea. But also during the week. It's been a weekly constant struggle.

@@oscarr8415 hear ya. That’s how it is with management

They say we’re humans but then treat us like robots 🤖

A lot of overtime over here

Manhattan New York or Illinois?

@@MailmanNick Manhattan New York

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Yeah roads can be bad. Make sure you have a phone on you

Facts, but the bar is so low. As long as you show up you're good.

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I would talk to your management and say you want to switch crafts

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That's what other older regulars tell me

Same all the about to retire carriers said their literally retiring because it’s gotten so bad they don’t want to be there for it so they’re deciding to leave it’s going to be an issue in the future when you can’t retain employees especially when your not making a living wage unless your killing your self with 12/14 hr days working 6 days out of the week

Top pay is $37. You build up annual leave every check. After 2 years you'll get sick leave too

Doea usps fired cca after contract? I know after 1yr you will have 5 days rest without pay after that does it end there if you dont get regular

@@arnold688 they bring you back usually after

@@arnold688 If you make it past 90 days and you aren’t causing problems, you won’t be let go, even after the 5-day break in service.

Yeah you're basically a sub until you get your own route

@@MailmanNicksub for real workers, I’m cool with, it’s the lazy grown ass men that kill the moral.

Hopefully after the election and our new contract things will get better

@@MailmanNick I’m actually starting in a few weeks as a cca. When do you think the next contract takes place? I couldn’t find a clear answer online

@@ProfJul it's being negotiated as we speak should have been last year

More money for us though

It’s easy to accuse someone of faking… but, there is a very real injury rate in this line of work. Not all ppl are created genetically equal. Some breakdown faster, easier than others.

@@theRickLC trust me, I know lol. I'm definitely not saying there's not legit injuries though

You're at the bottom as a CCA

Unnasigned back in September

They can keep using you if the CCA's and ptfs are maxed out. If not that's a grievance if you're on the 40 hour list

Ok and what do you mean by maxed out

@@juliomunar2164 ODL have to work 12 hours before mandating or it's a grievance

Ok but with that paperwork that should confirm me being a regular

@@juliomunar2164 if you got your conversion date yes. I got my news a week and a half before I think

Most people have this image of the post office that's why our turnover rate is so high

I hear you...but I don't think it's a USPS problem. It's a problem with ALL jobs. People don't want to work, no matter the job. Congratulations on the job though. Stick with it. It's a good job and one that doesn't get too boring

Little exaggerating but it really depends on the office. My office has only a few nice routes, but an all driving office might not have as many bad routes.

It’s a crapshoot sometimes. We had a PTF go regular in a few months because the regular was out for months with a hernia. Maternity leave, medical stuff, divorce, relocation, who knows?

Depends on the office but I'd say as quick as 3-5 years if you are in office with many 60+ year old postal workers.

Desperate for help

So I’m nervous I hope they give me an orientation day soon 😭

I have another question… I forgot to disclose a car accident that happened but was not my fault. Would they still hire me ? Because I did put the accident that was my fault from 2022 but I did not disclosed the accident where someone did a hit n run in 2023 to me… ahhhh overthinker

@@aylinn5777 im sure you'll be fine. They are desperate

My friend works for the LA one as well and she said they are in high need of help although during our information session/ finger print process they let some people go who did not bring a pen to fill out the I9 ???

I don't like saying because I have a few stalker type people following me

With things like medicine it's very important

@@MailmanNick True

That's why we have a lot of former military they are used to it

@@MailmanNick yes we had a vet who they found in the back of his vehicle crying he had been working 40 days straight carrying 2 routes a day , I did the same had to double bag every day carrying routes with 2/3 sets of dps and flats at times with ads . They would even save expired ads that regulars wouldn’t deliver and throw them on us with the new set of ads it was very intense were I was at because the managers had their little cliq and we would carry their weight and nothing was done about it

@@MailmanNick out of 7 ccas I was the only one there after a month now I’m a regular trying to get into management to help change the culture

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In my area yes. Main reasons I hear are management, long hours, and not wanting to start at the bottom. No patience.

@@MailmanNick I can't understand why the Postal Service with so many Program Managers and other Analyst figure out why people are quitting and changing some of their rules to help people to stay. People need a stable schedule and you can't burn out people with a new job, new people and working them tons of hrs just starting out. Some of relatives recently quit due to terrible managers , no schedules, calling them in on their only day off etc.

@@jimmywalters3071 in my office they have a schedule and 1 off day and they still quit.

@@jimmywalters3071I refused to come in on my off day after being scheduled 12 days in a row and I got taken off the schedule by my POS manager, then forced to resigned. But I'm going to back for another try. I loved all the walking routes though except the ones with too many long staircases (those kill your knees).

@@MailmanNick When my niece worked for the Postal Service .. she quit after 3 months .. I asked why and she said , (as a single mother)..she couldn't plan anything , had to work every weekend.. was given off on a Tues . but managers constanlty called her on her only day off and told her she had to come to work .. she had appts for this day planned.. but they didn't understand it .. and gave her lots of problems. She wasn't trained properly and given many different routes everyday .. and couldn't learn one or two routes .. she it was the craziest job she every had .. she is in her 30's. She quit and went back to her waitress job at a Buffet .. with a set schedule. She says her pay was better at the Buffet ....and when I told her to wait it out and become regular .. she said she couldn't wait for years to become regular. The upper management should be calling the people who quit and try to understand why they are quitting .. and change some things around for the Temps.

Put 2 weeks before academy. With orientation there will probably be gaps in between working

Training could be better

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Only goes up from there

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Lol getting great benefits to do a sweet route I wouldn't be in a rush to retire neither

South suburbs

Why not

Mind games for sure

Haha 😂 dude racism at my first office was ridiculous like literally managers were calling us the 🫘 er group behind our backs it was bad when a couple of us filed grievances we were pretty much ignored because the manager/supervisor had a higher up as a parent

Our office they just gave the white ppl wayyyy more hours and said it was our work ethic...

I basically got 15-16 hours a week while the white ppl got no less than 30

Facts. lazy people go into management

@@MailmanNick Yes!

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Yeah it's all by design making this generation weak. Part of the agenda

@@MailmanNick I don’t even get along with the military vets of this generation. They work but it isn’t the same work ethic as me or the other old timer military vets. I went to boot camp in a completely different era.

I like Oklahomans.

Got out of the Army, Vn. vet 68-70, first hired in my city after the 72 strike and had to deal w/ww11 vets. First lesson learned, trust no one. @@GenX_US_Marine

It's hard to explain because casing is knowing where things go and that comes with time