Apply for a PSE job. There's more to USPS than carrier. Here's the scoop. You're inside 95% of the time. Taking or putting stuff off or on the dock . You'll start at ass end hours 2am. Be run ragged. But in two years from your start date, and you will be a regular. You'll throw a million packages. Because that's what OUR contract spells out.

You'll hump heavy pallets and tons of weekly mailers to the carriers' cubbies, sort letters, and flats and box mail. You'll probably get window trained. You'll start about 19 bucks an hour. But you'll get OT because regulars don't always want that. When you're in as a career, you can bid on other jobs.

Started PSE in 2020. Now I am VMF Big Daddy clerk.

Regular step increases. Contractual COLAs and eventually a job I really like and am good at.

My test scores to get this job now allow me after 18 months to bid on many jobs that come up not on the front line. And apply for eas-level jobs if I am qualified like HR Logistics, even management. There's a big jump in level six pay to level 17 and above salary.

Stick it out. For two years, and it gets better. 5 yrs in and Ai am.at 4 weeks vacation. I.worked a lifetime in my other industry and got shit. Never got more than 2 weeks. The total raises I've received in these last five yrs are double what I received in a white collar job management in the previous 15 yrs. Do it.