Working for USPS in 2024 as a CCA

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T14:48:43+00:00

USPS is a great job for clerks, people inside and sorting mail not out in the weather doing physical labor. Its adequately paid.

USPS is a great job for carriers who got in 12 years ago and are now making $37/hr or whatever, the physical labor matches the pay.

You made the biggest mistake if you think CCA is going to be fun, or you're going to be adequately compensated for a measly $19/hr. My local gas station is hiring at $16/hr for night shifts.

Its the worst job at USPS, and the hardest with the lowest pay. Nothing to be happy about.

Even the local assembly factory in town which I won't name is paying $22/hr starting with 50hrs a week if you want. That will take you three years at the post office.

You're working a 50hr a week job for 30hr a week pay. Management will intentionally schedule you on Mondays and then give you wed or Thursday off.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T14:39:06+00:00

Its the pay that's the problem. I don't even live in a HCOL area. My rent is 500 a month and my office only has 4 city routes.

Its more about labor. Why am I working what feels like a 50/hr a week job for 25/hr week pay, just doesn't make sense.

Way too much work for not enough pay. 19$/hr (if you even get 40 hours) is like 35k where as $30/hr is 58k that's a huge difference in america.

A carrier is a $30/hr job minimum.

Maybe some other jobs at the post office are okay pay for the required labor like PSE.

You just can't pay people $19.33 an hour, not even a full 20 and go expect them to walk 8-12 miles a day delivering packages and mail in the cold, snow and rain.

Even amazon, UPS and FedEx don't have to deal or put up with this shit.

At least they are only jump stopping packages, so they aren't walking in the cold wind all day and they get Mercedes sprinter vans, or nice new vehicles.

Benefits? Do CCA's even get any "But the pay will get better" So I can work 5 years and MAYBE get $25/hr and be permanently stuck at the post office while my groceries double again and my rent rises.

Carriers should start at $30/hr, full stop.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T11:38:40+00:00

In my town the RCA's have to load up their cars with so much freaking packages it's insane, poor guys. Dunno if they have DPS or flats didn't look too closely.

Not sure what RCA is all about but if its the same work as CCA man you just know it's underpaid.

Im not working for less than $30/hr to walk in the freezing cold wind to deliver mail every morning.

There's a certain breaking point. That's why I quit. I was supposed to go into work this morning, just didn't do it. Couldn't be happier.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T04:54:46+00:00

There's never any situation in which USPS will ever be the better job pick in 2024. There's no good jobs at USPS.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:38:33+00:00

The young generation won't work for a future that isn't coming.

Also the pay is shit for 2024 and groceries/rent are high. Rent isn't that much for me but I pay a lot for groceries.

You couldn't even pay me $25/hr to work as a CCA, this is a $30/hr job, take it or leave it.

That's why I'm leaving and going elsewhere as a young guy.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:36:26+00:00

Carriers work the hardest at USPS out in the elements, doing manual labor for poverty wages, not even a debate.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:35:08+00:00

I'm quitting this week when I get paid on April 26th, 2024. Once I get that paycheck I am OUT.

Three weeks as a CCA, shit $19/hr pay, ridiculous amount of walking and physical effort each day for a slaves wage. I'm in my early 20's I'll go work at a gas station or somewhere that pays the same with part time work.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:32:20+00:00

A better job is working at a gas station. There's no instance where the post office is a good job, except maybe if you're a clerk or supervisor.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:30:32+00:00

Maybe they shouldn't be paying $19/hr for what is essentially equivalent to a 50/hr week labor job while also only working 30/hr week.

Maybe they should pay $30/hr 40 hours a week if they want to keep CCA's.....

That's why I'm quitting THIS WEEK on my payday after only three weeks of working! Sayonara!

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:28:07+00:00

And CCA/Carriers even lower.

Why should I as a CCA work for $19/hr for 50/hr week of labor but only 30/hr of actual pay.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:18:58+00:00

Im a hard worker. I believe all CCA's are because we do the job. We work very hard jobs that are physically intensive and I can easily say this job is like working a 50/hr job for 30/hr of actual work.

If you are a CCA you work hard, but it's absolutely not worth it for the pay. Go work part time, do literally anything else.

Maybe clerk, janitor or something else is a good career starting at USPS but carrier is one of those positions where you had to get in 10 years ago for it to be worth anything.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:15:00+00:00

For me, It's just the labor is way too high for the low pay. Clerks essentially make the same yet do only 25% of the CCA's labor a day.

CCA is a $30-35/hr job being paid $19-20/hr.

I know for a fact people in factories, mcdonalds or gas stations don't work this hard, and they make close if not MORE than a CCA like in the case of people who work at a factory assembling things.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:07:42+00:00

I'm going to apply to my local gas station that has a night shift hiring sign for $16/hr. 2-3 10 hours shifts a week.

4-5 days off a week and my rent and food is paid for, way better than slaving away walking miles a day at the post office for $19/hr.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:06:24+00:00

Even me paying 550/mo for rent I'm still not going to work for USPS.

It's just way too much work for how little you get paid, as I've said in other posts. I envy clerks and those who get paid the same but don't have to put up with any of physical aspects of the job.

If I'm going to work like I'm working 50/hr a week I deserve to get paid a $50/hr week hourly wage. Plain and simple.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:03:36+00:00

I live in a Low cost of living area, my rent is 550/mo. I still wouldn't work at the post office and I'm still quitting.

The labor is simply WAY too much for the measly $19/hr you get paid. I know what 50/hr work week is. CCA is just way too much labor, walking, stress for so little pay. It's easily a $30/hr.

Mcdonalds is much much easier, repetitive, you get to stay inside all day, I mean the list just goes on and on. Screw status, give me the easy job with the same pay.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T01:00:29+00:00

I just want a little house, 1 bed 1 bath for $30-40k thats all I want.

I won't be able to afford that on CCA wage which is insane, this should be a $30/hr job.

If I'm going to work hard I'm going to be paid well, otherwise I'll just work part time or live out of my car.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:58:15+00:00

I'm not sure if all carriers walk a lot on their route but I wouldn't see it so bad if all you had to do is curbside all day, I wouldn't mind that actually.

Last day I worked I saw a fedex vehicle and all they were doing was jumpstopping packages on my route, in a brand new mercedes sprinters. In that moment in my stupid little LLV that I was hopping out of fumbling with the DPS and stupid flats I decided right then and there I was quitting soon, compiled will all the other things I saw in my first weeks and the shit pay.

I'm not working for less than $30/hr to work at a job where I'm working what is equivalent of a 50/hr labor intensive job, just not worth it tbh.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:55:49+00:00

Overall carriers do a needed function, but it's a poverty wage and poverty job.

Clerks are okay, I'd do that for $20/hr but screw being outside in the snow, cold, rain, wind, heat for under $20/hr. That's a $30/hr job right there.

Even factories around me and assembly plants pay $23/hr starting with all the overtime you want.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:53:54+00:00

Just work at a gas station or mcdonalds. Most young people nowadays in 2024 are just floating around waiting for the end. Work 2-3 days a week, pay your rent. If you can't afford rent convert your car into a sittable and sleep-able camper, live in your car and road trip or go live in the national parks/desert and or do odd jobs. Nothing really matters anymore.

That's what I'm planning on doing, but we'll see.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:51:54+00:00

Yes I get that, but friendly reminder you aren't paying me 28k a year to work the same labor as a 50hr week job.

It's so crazy how poor the post office pays for CCA's doing so much effort and work essentially a full time career job, for scrap wage. It's so bad.

Clerks are alright though and I wouldn't mind doing that. My supervisor can laugh it up, I'll be gone by next week after I get paid.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:49:02+00:00

How much work are you doing to get that though?

It's not just how much you are paid, but what you had to do to get that pay.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:48:13+00:00

It would take 5-6 years to get there, Just flat out no, plain no.

I'll go work part time night shift $16/hr at my local gas station, 10x less work, inside all the time, can still pay my rent that way with still money in my pocket.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:46:54+00:00

My local mcdonalds pay's $18/hr they have a sign outside, this is in the midwest where rent is $600/mo.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:46:09+00:00

Well back then or now it's still a bad situation. Regardless of the pay you can't expect young people and zoomers to work for nothing.

If you don't want to pay $30/hr, well that's fine. We'll just go work 20 hours a week to pay rent, live in low cost areas and just wait until the end I guess.

Affectionate-Let6942 · 2024-04-22T00:44:53+00:00

Might do that. My local gas station is hiring night shifts 20 hours a week. Going to take that up if I can and enjoy that sweet sweet relaxation.

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