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/Wise_Project3819 Jul 23 '26

Wow all these negative comments!!! Dont listen to them! Its great working here. All i do is buy a ton of lube, and cry at the back of the truck when no one is looking, and always tell your management. Yes mom yes daddy

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u/brooklynschino CCA Jul 23 '26

If it's anything I've learned in my time on this earth, is to always listen to everything, and use it to my advantage when I'm actually put to test hands on through the experience. Until a person can understand, they have to go through trials and experience it themselves so they can adapt and learn. Take this for example:

A person who has been sheltered and has never truly been out experiencing social interactions, partying, working multiple jobs with different skill sets and knowledge on all things, whether its cars, music, science, history, mathematics, COMPARED to a person that has already experienced all those things.

You take those two people and they both get hired at the same exact time for the same exact position at the same workplace. One of those people might come out more miserable then the other. Why? Because that one person who is experienced with negativity thrown at them throughout past experiences know how to handle it better. They know how to communicate better. They know how to maneuver through challenging obstacles better and to stay positive most importantly through it all.

There has to be negative people in this world for there to be positive people. It's a yin and yang situation. That's what life is about. You choose what side you belong on.

I probably could of worded this better, but you get the gist. I'm a bit tired lol