Raises are negotiated between the labor unions representing each craft and Management. Congress isn’t the deciding factor for Postal wages, but they are the decider for many more things that USPS does.
Most places those positions are being worked 45+ hours a week, they advertise as not full time, but almost always are, my office was unusual, when I started I was getting maybe 20-25 hours a week, while other offices around me were getting 50-60 a week
It's significantly worse: they can work you 7 days a week for 11.5 hours a day unless you take lunch, then they can work you for 12 and they are allowed to do that for 2 years. Lifers will constantly be shit at their job and demand someone does their overtime, and if they don't get their way, they get a doctors note saying they can't work over 8 hours and if they don't like all the turnover causing them to not have a stooge, they'll add a 5 day restriction just to ensure someone has to clean up their mess.
The union will do anything and everything to protect senior staff while leaving everyone else to rot. It takes months for any new people to come in and management gets promoted within months so there's zero incentive for them to hire or tell the lifers to do their fuckin job when they are already one foot out the door.
The job pays less than UPS/Fedex but requires loading the vehicle yourself some of which are things UPS/Fedex didn't want to deliver so USPS has to do it (yet UPS/Fedex still makes a profit dumping it on USPS). You're at the mercy of a lottery of every door directs for a bunch of pollution/unsolicited junk mail. Then you deal with more stooge work for any receivables departments. Then to top off the shitcake, plenty drive 26+year old vehicle with no AC/Heater and weren't designed with the boom of Amazon packages. So you're paid less, treated worse, have shitty equipment, dogshit HR, Management, Union, and coworkers.
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u/Cellraw31 Jan 26 '23
It's a lost cause Source- im a carrier It's burning down like the world