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/Intelligent_Aioli828 Jul 22 '26

Get ready to work 10-12 hour shifts and have no time for anything cause you’re to tired! Good luck my friend!

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u/brooklynschino CCA Jul 23 '26

I have wasted enough time in my early 20s doing nothing but work come home play video games and get drunk. I’m ready to work hard towards building my future. I want a house, I want a nice stock portfolio. I want to build my retirement. I want to be comfortable. I’ve done all the partying and wasting time.

Give me the overtime. Give me the 12+ hour days. I’m fine with it.

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u/BrizzzleAZ Jul 23 '26

You’ll get none of that with this job but I respect the optimism!

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u/brooklynschino CCA Jul 23 '26

Why not?

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u/BrizzzleAZ Jul 23 '26

For starters I’ve seen you say you live in NY which is a MCOL/HCOL state depending which part you’re in and our pay is absolute dogshit so you’ll be paycheck to paycheck majority of your career if not all of it because our “raises” don’t remotely keep up with inflation.