Posted on 11/19/2022 10:49:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
This United States Postal Service (USPS) worker wants you to become a postal worker — and his main selling point is a six-figure salary.
The USPS is experiencing a worker shortage across the country. It’s causing delivery delays and forcing staff to work overtime. Missouri postman and TikToker Lukas posted a screenshot of his paycheck to recruit more workers.
Lukas shared that he earned $4,423 in two weeks and six figures in a year. But it did come at the cost of working an additional 23 hours of overtime.
“We need help and the post office pays well,” he said. “The post office pays well and we’re hiring. We need help desperately.”
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100k for a 60 hour workweek is not big bucks. Not these days.
Old Ben Franklin must be spinning in his grave.
Plus, all of the mail in ballots a Postal worker can collect, being he knows who is deceased and who moves, he could make a LOT more selling them on eBay.
A local PO here is looking for a Postmaster.
Starting pay: $14.81 an hour. McDonalds pays more.
We need help and the post office pays well ............. To assort mail in ballots?
> Starting pay: $14.81 an hour. McDonalds pays more. <
You are on to something there. I was talking to my mailman the other day. Evidently there are two classifications of workers in the postal service. Permanent employees are paid well. Temporary ones are paid poorly, even if they work full-time.
My mailman was temporary, even though he was with the postal service for three years. He hangs on, he said, because he hopes that some day he’ll be made permanent.
Yes, but do you get the full government medical? That’s worth a fortune per month.
govt workers are making out like bandits and the govt will force people of modest means out of their houses with propety tax inflation...sounds totally American to me...
Unlike other Federal employees, post office workers do not receive locality pay adjustments. A postmaster in Loudoun County, Virginia (richest county in the USA) makes the same as a postmaster in McDowell County, West Virginia (among the poorest counties in the USA).
> Yes, but do you get the full government medical? <
From what I gathered from the conversation (post #7) , there are no benefits. It’s kinda like being a substitute teacher. Hourly pay, and that’s it.
If I’m wrong here, hopefully someone with more knowledge about the USPS will correct me.
High salaries in these jobs mean you’re doing the job of 2 people.
Salary gets raised by an outside authority and people get fired for fuminancial reasons
That’s all.
The government probably figures it's cheaper to pay someone overtime to get the work done, than hire someone and pay a salary plus benefits. I worked for NY State, and most jobs that existed had to be covered by overtime if someone called in sick, or there wasn't enough extra staff on duty that specific shift, to put in that position for 8 hours. That was the State's prison system. Some jobs they would close down instead of hiring overtime, and would force people to double up on the areas they were responsible for. For quite a while, when I was the Kitchen Sergeant, I would be the only supervisor in the prison, in the mess hall, covering the morning meal, simply because the State had proclaimed zero overtime.
You probably aren't wrong. Those temporary workers are not Union members, so they wouldn't get the same pay or benefits that specifically apply to Civil Service employees, or the benefits that are negotiated in the contract.
I used to work at USPS and I know a few people who still work there. If you’re on the over time list making 100k isnt that strange. If you want to work Sundays you can bring in 140k just because you end up doing an entire day at double pay.
Mail carriers are being worked to death. The union is useless. USPS forces mail carriers to work close to 80 hours/week. They earn a ton of money for overtime, but at what cost? That’s why new people quit soon after they get a PO job now.
A whole 23 hours of overtime??? In a year???
I used to do that in one week....
OR averaging 23 hour of OT a week???
My son was hired. He is leaving out it can take 10 yrs to become full time. Meanwhile, no health benefits, paid holidays, and you will be lucky to get 40hrs a week
I have stopped virtually everything going through usps. I mainly get ads and junk mail.
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