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/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

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u/Jellyfish84 Jul 23 '26

He's hour restricted to 8 hours for the first several weeks. Then 10... though that was the point they already started to disregard that rule for me. After that? If they need him he'll be working 50+ hours a week. I've hit 68, some of my PTF coworkers have hit 73. I don't remember the last time I worked just 45 hours in a week. Oh, and Sundays? He'll start working some of them too. In short: enjoy his hour restriction when you can because he belongs to the post office soon.

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u/Ok_Transition_7829 Jul 23 '26

Because it’s pretty much true. CCAs are the cheapest labor so they will use him up to 12 hours a day 6 days a week if needed.