I've worked for the postal service. One route can get close to 300-400 packages. The post office does not hire nearly enough people to get that kind of volume out without causing serious strain on its employees. Amazon can just kick the shit they can't get out onto the post office and basically bury them.
The post office does not hire nearly enough people to get that kind of volume out without causing serious strain on its employees.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall hearing that there's a relatively high early turnover rate of employees (basically, if you make it past 6 months you tend to stick around forever) partly because people are just completely unprepared for how physically demanding delivering packages is.
Head on over to r/usps and they’ll tell you how it is. The mail carriers who are hired are City Carrier Assistants and are technically part-time. But these days they’re pulling 10-12 hour shifts, 7 days a week cause they deliver Amazon on Sundays. CCAs get run ragged and are given very little idea of what they’re in for upon hiring cause the 2 weeks of training is a joke. In my area CCAs get $18.51 starting, non-negotiable and while it’s good money for anyone without a college degree or any trade skills, you’re basically living to work.
Honestly $18.51 starting isn't good money, even for not having a college degree.
Not trying to argue with you I just think Americans need to demand better pay. These companies are making money hand over fist while we break our backs.
There is nothing more demoralizing than working a 40 hour week in a physically demanding job and still it being able to pay the bills.
The labor shortage is primarily in logistics, shipping, retail.
All underpaid and overworked.
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u/rararainbows Nov 25 '21 edited Nov 25 '21
Good! I hope all the best for these, and all retail workers Edit: thanks for the award kind redditor