Comment on How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)?
FatherPeanut@pawb.social 1 week ago
I do not know the internals as far as desired, but USPS was developed to be completely self-reliant, as in no funds should be extracted or provided to/from any government’s budget. Massively oversimplifying here, this means that managers are incentivised to push workers they do have, and avoid hiring new workers where extra aid is needed. Throw in a burecracy that does incentivize lower performing carriers to be promoted, and now there’s a a management issue.
For those looking to get into the postal service, the crappy management is a hurdle to deal with, and the hiring procedure is a manifestation of that.
LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Got any other career paths you can reccomend me just in case working for delivery is impossible. I REALLY enjoy making deliveries and doing special errands.
coalie@piefed.zip 1 week ago
FedEx, dominos
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In addition to FecEx and Dominos, there’s other restaurants, Amazon, UPS, newer Chinese-owned final-mile carriers, Uber including Eats/Pets/Courier/etc., Lyft, Doordash, medical couriers, legal couriers, etc. etc. It’s tougher outside the cities, and it’s all kind of a neo-Victorian dystopia of poor wages and no support, but if what’s you actually want to do, “driving places cuz other people can’t or won’t” is a very doable job-description in the US. Just make sure you’re factoring in car expenses if you do the gig-based ones.