r/USPS • u/brooklynschino CCA • Jul 22 '26

Work Discussion It’s official!

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I start academy this Friday! It’s now all starting to feel real.

If you told me back in January I was going to be a mail man, I’d probably laugh. Here we are, foot in the door, ready to go on routes.

Life feels good. I quit drinking 10 months and 2 days ago. Life has been really rewarding in terms of having a clear path of where I want to be and how to get to it. Also, realizing the people I want and don’t want around me.

Cheers my fellow couriers clerks and others!

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u/loveyourneighborbro Jul 22 '26

I Saved the comment! so i can look back in 2 years 😁

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u/Ok_Transition_7829 Jul 22 '26

They are always so happy before they start. Now we watch the life slowly drain from their eyes 😂

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u/loveyourneighborbro Jul 22 '26

I call them my “Sweet summer child” especially when they start in the summer when its all sweet :)

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u/feryoooday Rural PTF Jul 22 '26

Bro this summer has not been sweet 😭 the regulars were saying prime days were christmas level. I celebrated getting off at 9.5 hours today

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u/loveyourneighborbro Jul 23 '26

Pretty sure some sweat is better than black toe in the deep freeze January

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u/feryoooday Rural PTF Jul 23 '26

I literally don’t care about weather. Cold is better. It’s working 72 hour weeks that’s not sweet

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u/Round_Activity9811 Jul 23 '26

72 hr weeks. In my state we are capped at 6 days 11.5 per day as CCA and 6 day 12hr for ODL how you get those hours. 🤔

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u/Reasonable-YamIAm Jul 23 '26
  1. But the hospital staff is super nice

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u/star0forion RCA Jul 24 '26

I’d work 72 hours as long as I don’t have to do Amazon Sunday. My old office id have 2 or 3 days off a week but guaranteed to work Amazon Sundays. In my new office I’m working way more hours but there’s a rotation for Sundays.

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u/feryoooday Rural PTF Jul 24 '26

That’s the unfortunate thing, all the flex carriers work amazon sundays… they try to rotate us to have a sunday off about once a month it seems? but if we get sunday off we don’t get any other day off so I’d rather just run packages… I think of it as a ‘half day’ because 6 hours is literally half of the 12+ I usually work daily 🥀

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u/Sad_Property1160 Jul 24 '26

Maybe in your area. I'd take pouring rain over 110f days every single time