We used to tip our mail carrier and give the Christmas presents, just like the trash removal people. Now I have to beg for them to take the trash they’re supposed to. My mail is horrendous. My neighbors and I constantly get each other’s mail, and that’s because they’re not being paid enough, or their deadlines are too ridiculous.
They still do. Here's how the USPS is so messed up: for pretty much forever, USPS workers would pool all their overtime for retiring workers. People in their last years would work mad overtime (as much as they wanted) and earn like 100k+ working 60-80 hours a week. Their pension is based on their highest earning years, so their pension would be like 50k a year for life. And the average age of retirement in the USPS is like 58. So you get 50k a year for life retiring in their 50s. And it gets even worse- after they retire, they then re-apply after a short time and get rehired, and they are paid at their retiring salary and they still get to collect pension on top of this. This is why the USPS has over 300 billion in unfunded liabilities, their unions/workers basically commit fraud/scam to pull in crazy money and now the organization is completely screwed/bankrupted from that. Dejoy is the guy they brought in to stop this nonsense which is why he is so maligned, so many people that have been working at the USPS realize they need to get out now if they want to do their pension fraud scheme, so now there are lots of new workers who don't know what they are doing. My uncle was a postal worker and did this scheme, he retired at like 56 with a 100k pension. Now these guys are whining because the chickens are coming home to roost. Everything attached to public sector work is basically fraudulent schemes in pay/pension. Most government and government adjacent work does this scheme. The country is bankrupted from it, and people in the private sector no longer can pay the taxes to upkeep with the fraud and these people have the cajones to whine about how they should be getting paid more when they are the reason everyone is broke these days.
My grandpa had a summer home and lived in a huge 3 floor home. He fixed a lot of lives between dad, uncle, and his sisters. He had to have been doing pretty good at the post office.
School teachers make just $10,000 less than nurses yearly. They get 3 months off, don’t have to physically move patients no matter what the size and don’t work shifts. They’re getting enough money
My father was a letter carrier for 35 years a proud member of the NALC. He retired in 2000 and before he did he was able to provide a solid middle class lifestyle for his three kids and sent us all to college. He was so well thought of by his route families and businesses he was often given baked goods and at Christmas the cards with tips inside always blew my mind. This new reality breaks my heart.
Our communities used to be lively, social media and isolation has led to newer gen’s to abandon these ideals. As a gen z myself I wish we still had these type of connections still
@@MichaelClemons00 Older generations made social media a poorly regulated cesspool. Older generations in government pushed for this to happen to the post office or let it happen quietly when they made it a for-profit insitution. Gen Z wasn't there to fuck it up.
I was a plumber for over 20 years. We got zero holidays since plumbing break's every single day. Are benefits sucked and the hours we worked sucked. The only good thing about the job was the people you meet and the joy of a job well done. Winter time was so busy that I could leave my house before the sun would rise and not get home from work till 2 or 3am. I was paid well enough to support my stay at home wife and two children. Not rich not well off but support. You deliver mail you have government benefits you get every holiday off with pay. I put in more hours in my 20 years then most put in with 40 years. We all never make enough welcome to the club.
The greed has already destroyed the backbone of this country. No moral or virtuous country would have elected a sexual predator, convicted fraudster, and well known conman into office... twice. There is no backbone left when that criminals opposition couldn't even stand up to the greedy and call for fair minimum wages, criminalization of stock buybacks, journalistic integrity laws, and heavy taxation of the highest earners. No, there is no backbone left. All that's left to do is wait for the collapse that forces the hand of the government either through violent revolution or truly tumultuous times like the Great Depression for 75%+ of the population to force a return to the socialist tempering that FDR instituted to reign in the greed. Until then, all we can do is not stand out too much to our autocrat, aristocrat, and oligarch overlords.
People don't respect other government job that isn't cop. It disgusting how fireman have to beg, postman work like dog but got fund for military equipment
We are controlled by the bankers and our political tyrants. time to walk away from this government and start our own or revolt. Do we really want to pass this on to our children to fight against after it gets even worse???
I'm a caregiver and one of my clients raised SIX kids on a mailman salary. Family of 8 survived on the pay of a mail carrier. Today, 1 person can barely survive on what they make. Absolutely disgusting.
@@rebeccaspratling2865 This is simply not true.... Median wage of over $27.00 an hour. If you spend all your money on BS then you can never have enough money.
My buddy was a carrier in Dowers Grove. Became so underpaid and depressed he went missing for a year. Then they found his body in the woods a year later.
My dad is a retired rural mailman. He started at 7am and was home a little after 1pm everyday. He made good money. If you consider inflation he lived a far better life than I do as a server engineer.
@ 😂 that would be an awesome way to call yourself a waitress. I work in IT. I have been working in Microsoft for about 15 years but am currently changing to Linux and AWS. Would have been a very high paying job 20 years ago and now it’s above average at best. Like I mentioned my dad lived a better life than me and he can barely write and didn’t finish high school. He retired at 54 because he had a years worth of PTO saved up and he receives a pension.
@@garygerard4290server engineer is an IT professional that specializes in massive computers. Think of a computer 10x the size of your current PC with 5x the power.
@@jdb2722It’s crazy how much wages have dropped for IT. 20 years ago some kid fresh outta highschool could get certified and get in the industry with 0 college debt making good money. If I’m correct. These days hiring managers won’t give you a call unless if you have a bachelors in IT or CS with a minimum of 5 years experience just to make $65k-$75k, which may sound decent but historically IT has paid above average. If wages had kept with the times the average salary for an experience IT worker should be in the $115k-$160k range. $75k would have been the starting salary adjusted for inflation.
I’ve been a carrier for 20 years and everything in this video is right. It got worse around 10 years ago when the Post Office hired more management, and started tracking every minute of our day with our scanners. Bottom line is management in my office who make 10 to $20,000 more than me get bonuses upwards of 5 to $10,000 dollars to cut our hours and harass us and they don’t even touch the mail!!!
My understanding is that the USPS management is NOT union but the rest of the workers are. This naturally sets management against the people who actually do all of the work. Who thought that was a good idea?
They should track where you are every minute of your day while you are supposed to be working, not parked under a shade tree napping. Also, y’all need to stay off your phones when driving.
I work for a FedEx contractor. I love my middle management bosses. They got my back all the time. If I cannot take something because it's too heavy or I've got too much stuff to deliver, they'll help me out and deliver the stuff for me. They wash my truck, give me snacks and drinks when we get busy, and are very fair people. I wouldn't be shocked if USPS is way more fucking problematic than a majority of FedEx. I see some pretty shitty trucks for FedEx workers on the subreddit, but overall it might vary depending on geographical location.
@@z0tw I did 15 yrs with Fedex. A SCAB company who run their workers into the ground and fire them without cause. Favoritism and nepotism is the rule. If they ever get ahold of the post office, you can say goodbye to sixty cent stamps.
Teachers as well. Speaking for myself. If I didn’t have adult family members sharing the rent with me, I’d be homeless. Old car, purchase only necessities. Conserve water, power and my mental health.
I work as an engineer for a top grocer in the US, union job, all the guys who have been there for 30 years were top middle class. Bought houses, sent kids to college, nice vacations etc. All of us that are now starting out the last 5 years don’t even qualify for apartments on our income. It used to be that they made double the average minimum wage in each state. And now we’re barely above it. Not even a liveable wage
Where are you? Come out to California. I make $68.07 an hour as a engineer for a hospital, plus $5 an hour for being a relief. That's $151k a year. Not the best, but not the worst either.
LIE-berals and their Woke allies WANT THINGS THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIE-berals DO NOT WANT US TO OWN ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To own a car or a fishing boat or an atv means you are using FOSSIL FUEL and LIE-berals DO NOT PERMIT THAT - thus LIE-berals consider it a GOOD THING to impoverish the public so they will not have any toys that LIE-berals do not approve of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In related news- LIE-berals want us to EAT LES MEAT and to consume less sugar and less fried stuff- so again they are happy to impoverish us in order to limit our ability to buy junk foods and fast foods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIE-beral social engineers are working diligently to IMPOVERISH US ALL in order to meddle with and gain GOVT CONTROL of our lives and to make it easier to BUY OUR VOTES - as LIE -berals have figured out we will sell them our votes more cheaply if we are ECONOMICALLY DESPERATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@dannythompson1948 yeah and i make 50,000k a/y in wisconsin and i am well fed, have a 177,770$ home at 2.5% on 3 acres and im chilling. get the fuck out of that state. "151k, not the best" lmaooooooooo
@@dannythompson1948 try living on 15k, then I’ll be impressed, lol.. You’re missing the point. Pay to play as the American way is a means to stay impoverished, hm’k?
My Letter carried saved y neighbors life. She came and told me he hadn't picked up his mail in 2 days. We involved the police and they found him on his floor nearly dead and he was rushed to the Hospital by ambulance. She is wonderful caring person and a badass to boot! That is a brutal Job!!!!
I’ve seen multiple times letter carriers saved lives. This happens a lot. Postmen are the only people that see every house every day. They walk or drive every street people live on.
My partner works for a popular courier company and most of their trucks dont have ac and break down a lot and were in phoenix az where it gets 120. They also are tracked and dont get bathroom breaks, alot of the workers use bottles to urinate and a bucket with catlitter if they have to defecate, all in the back of the hot trucks in summer.
Those Trucks/Jeeps are old and raggedy. No A.C and shake/vibrate bad when going over 50 mph. I once had to deliver mail in 113 degrees. Solution is drink a lot of water and have cold water and a cold wet towel around your neck to keep cool
It's illegal not to have heat but it's legal to not have air...from my understanding and I have a government job that was what I was told smh it's wild
No one makes enough anymore in the bulk of jobs. Nothing pays enough for rent. It's depressing and completely unacceptable. This country has gone completely to corporations and we are all suffering. It has to change
@@royharper2003 bottom 80% getting exploited mercilessly. get a grip wake up. bottom 60% living paycheck to paycheck litterally. This due to Wallstreet serving shareholders pumping up any asset they can find,extract profit and leave carcass behind. Single family homes being bought up by private equity skyrocketing average home prices doubled . get a grip. Colluding to raise rents via apps for landlords. Raised rents 76% in Phoenix in 5 years. Illegal. Sickening.
It's only gonna get worse with the corporate billionaires owning trumps election results. It's over with for we the people unless we fight back. The unions supported trump after Biden fought for the UAW workers and was the first president to walk a union picket line. Biden brought UAW jobs back to the USA, he also reinstated their retirement that trump allowed them to lose. This is why America is like we are, uneducated voters or don't care. No excuse for ignorance!
@@Tim9460-o9t Only in countries where women are free to choose. The birth rate in oppressive nations continues to rise. A really interesting fact that is never expressed by finance owned businesses, including media and governments, is that the population of humans on the earth has only exploded just in the last 200 years, since we started using fossil fuels. The impact of 8 billion humans in our current modern civilization is nothing short of a disaster for our planet. But, people that only see what is around them, believing what they are told, cannot see it. The documentary by Jeff Gibbs, “Planet Of Humans” is more honesty than you will ever hear inside our world run by those who crave electronic currency and power, and have no intention to help life on earth, they only want to control profiting off of us.
@@Servi-e5g it is what it is i did not negotiate the contract. It's honestly going to take 2 years at least to drive most places. And from what I've seen from my center most new drivers are coverage drives which jumps you to 80% of top rate. Around 38 but you are not guaranteed hours to drive just if they need you.
It’s 1.3% per year of a three year contract. Plus biannual COLA (Cost of Living Adjustments) for the duration of the contract. Plus regular step increases on the pay scale and retroactive pay for the negotiation period. This video is so misleading and the comment section is completely ignorant
@@PerryCaravello-fz7jn so are you saying mail carriers make enough to live comfortably and raise a family? I don't think all of the things you mentioned implies that they are making a proper livable wage, like most jobs in today's economy everyone is getting screwed over in the paycheck department
@@Wholebakedcooky What is “living comfortably” to you? Postal workers have to put in the time to get to a more “comfortable” part of the pay scale. They currently are starting at 46k (at the 45th percentile of individual income earners in the US) as a fulltime employee and top out at 75k. Once they quit complaining and ratify a labor contract, they’ll get between a 4-5k a year increase with retroactive pay. There are few jobs that provide 11 paid Federal holidays, a pension (FERS), a matched 401k (TSP) up to 5% of your base salary, 75% of your health and dental premiums and 26 vacation and sick days starting out that increase throughout your career to 40 sick and vacation days per year.
@@PerryCaravello-fz7jn living comfortable is not sleeping in your car, worried about medical bills, or having hot water... 45k doesnt seem too bad in the middle of the country where living expenses isnt as high but about a mail carrier in a dense city like New York or Chicago. Thoae are not cheap cities to live in. Im just trying to understand why you think having less is more especially in the wallet department. Just give people a better wage if they do a necessary job, as if there isnt enough money at the top to share more of.
My grandfather got married, bought a house and raised 3 kids on a postal salary in the 60's and 70's. It's ridiculous what's happened to this job over the years.
@@rudymurillo9334 I'd prefer some of my mail by paper. I don't want to have to use an e-mail, sign up for this, opt out of that, every time I want to send a bill. Yeah there's competition and I'm sure the USPS could use a reform or two, but taking down a nation-wide service like that isn't the best idea.
Back in 1989 , our local letter carrier personally checked up on EVERY household on his route after the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in California ;, when we thanked him , he replied “did you think I was just a mailman ? I am a civil servant and this is part of my job .” DeVoy is despicable!
I was at a networking event and met a nice senior lady. I told her I was going back school for CS. She says "why would I want to do that? You don't want to start a business?" Which was understandable because there were a lot of entrepreneurs at this event? Then I said I might start a software agency. And she gave me a disappointed look. She says" wouldnt you like a government job? The post office is hiring and its stable work with a pension" Bless her heart
steel is right. there is no reason to hire you. it's competitive enough for me in my field within a company with 18 years of experience, competing against other top companies in our field. all of us would eat a noob goldfish like you alive if you tried to compete.
My parents grew up with teachers as some of the most successful people in their communities. They were confused when I told them I couldn't afford to be a teacher and quit. Older people don't know how much houses cost and pay hasn't kept up with the times. Also teacher pensions are no longer a thing in North Carolina.
I worked as a letter carrier assistant for 8 months, then quit. Forced OT, literally had no schedule. It was simply show up every day at 6:30 to clock in. They would tell me to go home if it was my day off that day, (after driving half an hour to get there) I had 1 day off every 2 weeks. Management was always calling me, 'You're too slow, speed it up'. I never knew what time I'd be going home. The day I quit I showed up to clock in and the manager said, 'The route isn't ready, don't clock in yet. Go sit in the break room for a half hour or so, we'll let you know when to we're ready for you to clock in'. I'm amazed they get anyone to stay.
Had an uncle started as a mail carrier just after WWII in a small town. He had a wife and 2 kids - Susan & Jr. and a Collie - no joke. The kids played ball and piano, mom stayed home and went to the 'beauty parlor' every week for hair and nails. They were not rich, but not poor and retired really comfortable.
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Houses back then were 1200 sq.ft., no air conditioning, one tv maybe, and it was black and white, one telephone and it had a dial on it. Sure, I grew up in those days and we were middle to lower-middle class. My mother went to work in '65 when I started 8th grade. She practiced her typing and passed the test and was hired to work in a high school library. Most people these days would not want to live like people did back then - not enough fancy things, like buying a cup of coffee every morning and buying lunch on your lunch break. Did I mention that most kids took lunch to school in a brown bag. The rich kids had a fancy lunch box.
I worked as a mailman for 5 years and still only had 1-week vacation, made $20 an hour, lowest seniority, lowest paygrade, everything. Basically still a new employee even after being there for 5 years. How? Because they are exploiting the new generation with non-career positions.
@@fireboltaz hey I could sit here and say you didn’t try hard enough in life in general since you were just a mailman lmao but I’m not an asshole. In defense of the other guy, there’s probably about 5 r*tarded managers there who are supposed to be doing there jobs and they know when people are supposed to get raises regardless if they’re asked for or not and they’re just told not to give them out. Unfortunately not everyone is as wise and kissass as ole fireboltaz!
My brother is a mail carrier, and he can testify to the dismal working conditions at the usps. It's a damn shame the Federal government doesn't take care of the working class.
It's not the taxpayers duty to take care of anybody but their own family. You think the federal government has their own money. They don't. They TAX, meaning they take from productive people and give it to unproductive people to buy their votes.
Federal government doesn't control the USPS, it's an independent government agency. I remember long ago of the Biden administration trying to replace Dejoy, but that was deemed impossible. I think the end goal is to privatise mail carrying and eventually kill off USPS or leave it broken enough that 'competition' can form. If that happens, you can expect all manner of capitalist shenanigans. I'm guessing it'll happen soon enough though, since the USPS has taken a lot of blows over the years and people with money are always looking to make more money and jonesying for it's downfall. A lot of America's government programs were eventually broken down and left vulnerable enough for the top to pick them clean.
Bc the working class doesn’t depend on daddy government. So they’re doing everything in their power to take that last bit of freedom from the man. That last little whiff. We used to be able to thrive as a middle class. Without the help of the government. But no they want us sick, poor, and reliant. They want us to look upwards to them praying they’ll drop a crumb. But they never do. And they don’t even clean plate they waste it. Throwing the crunbs away right in front of our eyes.
I've been noticing this trend for a long time now. Retail sales used to be a livable wage. People worked at JcPenney, Macys, Sears or Hudsons were adults who raised a family on working retail. Now it's Walmart and Target, it's all teenagers making min wage. Or it's Amazon with young drivers. Working at a bank used to be a good paying job. Now Min wage. Working as a mechanic used to be a very good job, now it's just above min wage. Mowing lawns and landscaping used to pay well, now it's all migrant workers. Construction used to pay well, now that's all migrant workers. Working a call center used to pay well, now that's done in New Delhi. Working on an assembly line used to pay really well now it's like $30-40K/year if it's not done in Mexico or China.
Summed up nicely. Accurate too. I am aware of this as well. Yet the people suffer& are blamed. By our own govt. They make it all possible being complicit.
Organized Building Trades still pay decently and have great benefits. They are only prevalent in high cost of living areas though. Where I live everyone leaves for the South as soon as they can with nice pensions.
And for what to deliver freaking junk mail. The mail system needs to be overhauled somehow and let them compete with ups and fedex but its gov. They suck at competing the only way they can is when they shut down the competition
@@blackfox1665 They are limited by law on how they compete. Should get more informed before assuming they don't try to stay competive with private industry. Congress is fucking over the postal service, the postal service wants to be better.
Surprised they aren't labeling them 1099 independent contractors . That's what most companies do and have been doing for the past 20-30 years . An its not right .
This just in: these same kinds of problems are happening in every industry, not just the mail service. I do agree with everything stated, this is just awful
The reason why this becomes more media worthy is because there is 59k of them. If 59k are living paycheck to paycheck it effects the economy more than most other industries. Also there’s mail carriers literally everywhere. So it becomes more widespread.
@@thomasrial4444 i think you missed the part about everyone struggling.. Something like 55% of american workers are min wage and cant pay rent. I left america over this, make alot less but can pay all my bills and provide for my family. I am not sure if id ever be able to get back to america at this point. Not sure I want to but i loved my people
That's all part of a master plan. People are scared to mail their ballots in in my state because the Postal Service has been so mismanaged. Again, all part of a master plan.
They want to privatize everything! Destroy it, as proof that it doesn't work, then sell the periodized replacement. Again, moving public funds into private hands.
Ima 55 yr old Desert Storm Navy Vet and i APPLAUD the postal workers!!!! Ppl are always telling us vets thank u for our service.....well i THANK AND SALUTE them for their public service to we the people of USA. Im disabled and on very low fixed income, but im super blessed to manage to pay my mortgage, bills, necessities and groceries every month. But i always say God loves a cheerful giver and there is no excuse not to show appreciation to public servants and essential workers. I put care packages together that include a few grocery items, snacks and necessities to gift to my mail courier at least once a yr, usually around Christmas. Then write a letter of thanks placing it inside the care package. This yr i am adding one random Instacart shopper/driver to my care package list. Cuz they also get crappy treatment. I wish i could help more folks, but at least 2 will feel appreciated.
I work security and make 31 thousand a year More like 27 after taxes come out I've been threatened with tasers firearms and Lord knows what else I make $15 an hour
For far too many years employers have demanded loyalty from employees, but not returned that same loyalty. There is always someone less qualified than us that is willing to do our jobs for less pay.
The system is working as intended. Keep people desperate and always on the cusp of destitution. Companies don't care about their workers. You're literally a 'human resource'. Once you're depleted, you're discarded and replaced with someone new. And the cycle continues.
@@Perfidiondefinitely started when companies stopped 401ks and basic retirement plans. I get sad when I see all the elderly people back to work because they're retired and broke because of this very circle about to get worse.
Thank you for taking the time to cover this. Y’all did a fantastic job explaining an insane amount of details into 13 mins 🙏 - A letter carrier in Massachusetts.
easy fix remove retirement... people wont be crying for wage they ll just move to better jobs i dont know what was the point of makin a deal with the devil that in 30 years he gonna give me what he owed me lmfao you most be asleep to be dreamin this much ...
My brother worked for USPS until he passed away last year at the young age of 60. He often spoke about the working conditions but he was 2 years away from retiring. Working at the Post Office used to be a good job
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@@yugotime1598 Hahahaha! There you are, head still up your butt, struggling to say something negative about this. You wail against corporations because you can never get hired by one of them. In your job application under "experience", you can't even put "McDonald's Fry cook", because is just so much beneath you isn't it? I'm sure you live under your mom's basement and when asked why you won't try to find a job you dream up one BS excuse after another, always so convinced that nobody understands you or appreciates your hidden genius. Yeah, I know your kind, they spend most of their day trying to find a better overpass to live under. Hint: if you ever do go for an interview, it's best not to start out with your usual, "I just want you to know that I hate your fugging guts, you user of the proletariat!" Always remember, showing them the size of your wanker is off-putting.
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I was a CCA for 2 years and career carrier for 1. Started in 2021 and it’s sad how things have not changed a day since I quit in 2023. Management harasses you constantly, your scared your gonna be robbed anytime you step out that door of the post office. Much respect to my fellow letter carriers and former letter carriers.
It really depends on where you are. Here in SD the COL is cheap, and Sioux Falls is safe. 19.33 an hour is enough, especially for a cheapo like me. Our union branch is full of nice people who will fight to get you every dollar you deserve too. Management is also tolerable. Everything about being a carrier depends on your station.
@watamatafoyu Yes, Charlie did. A matter of fact, we all did. And, times we're different back then. Seemed, everyone was middle class, and earned fairly good wages for those days. Vietnam War was raging and kids were dying young, but life in general in the U.S. was better for most.
My dad worked for the usps for 40 years. He passed this year. I saw the effects first hand. Support your local letter carriers and post office workers. I always give them drinks when it’s hot and a nice gift for Xmas. Much more than the government has done for them and I’m doing the bare minimum
@@jd-py5nmgift cards or cash if you really want to get them something but honestly just a Christmas card with a thank you goes a long way for me we busy our asses out here and any sense of appreciation is enough
I’m 45 years old, as a kid I used to want to be like my towns postal workers. I seen them as happy people with nice houses. In my teens I learned It was a position that paid good, had a solid pension & didn’t gouge for healthcare…now it’s shocking what the single postal worker we have goes through. She’s laid off every so often so she doesn’t become “full time” then re-hired a few days later. This is awful. I don’t know how it’s not illegal.
My husband is a CLC and I can confirm everything in this video is 100% TRUE!!! He works so hard at his job, is so friendly to his customers, and yet is treated like absolute GARBAGE by management . He buys the office coffee for the break room out of his own paycheck to boost morale because management can’t even spare $15 to do that for their employees. Its disgraceful.
at least your husband has a wife that loves him has your hubby ever met a welder?😂 try smacking iron all day and carrying heavy metal a old welder told me the pay hasn't increased since 1970 for my trade.
Worked as a letter carrier for 7 years. Loved the job, hated the awful management. It should be noted that they purposefully promote the absolute cream of scum and villainy into management positions. If you have empathy, they don't want you
@hatless_spider, THEY, management, want YOU to actually work, not like the useless, WOKE, Democrap, young employees, that have NO WORK ETHICS, whatsoever. Man up, if YOU can't handle the job, snowflakes, get a REAL JOB, somewhere else.
💯 Second this. My hubby is a letter carrier and one of the managers recently was in jail for a DUI. She was not fired for it and came back to work like nothing happened
Integrity held me back. Not just the post office. You aren't promotable in this country if you have too much integrity. Happened to my hubs too. We were flabbergasted.
@@garygerard4290Of course, this works perfectly in the North, where most teenagers that don't have access to a heated vehicle can freeze to death, solving our population problem. Maybe YOU should go deliver the mail in Alaska for $8/hr.
@@garygerard4290 This is your neoliberal solution. Make adults lose their jobs to teenagers being exploited for 12.50 an hour? Fu¢k your idea, it's terrible.
@@brianronan1905 you've been saying this everywhere! I am now *positive* you are an ex us-president! Because you clearly hate US Americans! Nobody hates Americans like the bought politicians, who rule over us. Go back into your cave, Bill! 😂
@ I’m not saying that the two shouldn’t coexist. I’m saying that the government purposefully neglects the USPS in a concerted effort with corporations in order to take over every last bit of it. If you look around this country right now, every time private equity gets its hands on something, nothing positive comes of it. The newly acquired assets always get liquidated and nothing replaces them, leaving a giant hole in the system.
Shoutout to Louis DeJoy and republicans attempt to defund and privatize the mail and… everything. So glad DeJoy got mentioned. The failure to remove him is pathetic.
@@rridderbusch518 It's a perfect example of the "Rules, norms and loopholes" situation that Jon Stewart talked about. Republicans find loopholes to get what they want done and Democrats find rules that stop them from doing anything.
It's been a while, so don't quote me exactly, but the board are the ones to remove him. Until there are more Dems on that board the repubs and dejoy will keep doing what they do 😡 I have no idea if the board can be expanded and don't know about the length of time the appointee has but it ain't going to change until the board changes !
Postal Service is quite literally the only federal agency listed in the Constitution That doesn’t mean you need buildings upon buildings of administration
Well I wish this report included some factual numbers. As a quasi-governmental agency with collective bargaining the USPS has pay scales that they adhere to so a glimpse at those would’ve been informative. They mentioned a new tier of employment said the be a carriers assistant so I’d be curious to see what the particulars are on that status. When I worked for the USPS there were casuals, T.E.’s (phased out), part time flexibles and regulars at least as far as city carriers and there was the rural carrier division which were on a different type of pay structure.
@Michael-cx1zi CCA starts out at 19 dollars and some change, with a 50 cent raise after completing your first 360 days+ the 5 day break. They have to hire you after 2 years now though. It took me 6 years to go regular.
@@Michael-cx1zi City Carrier Assistant (CCA) is the equivalent of the old TE, except that with a CCA, you are guaranteed a career appointment (within 2 years, I believe) CCA is pre-career, TE was non-career.
You cant get mail anymore when homeless And without address and mail you get no jobs or tax paperwork Its the cycle Study every keyword angles of mail system of the Roman empire and its collapse Corruption greed and turns in on it self International human rights 1948 and US constitution rights to mail, but we violated if have not permanent address to have a PO box application sent to YOU CAN'T GET OUT Roman empire deprived people from mail rights and permission or permits by class of citizens It comes down to the same bs And this country payed $1 day for unskilled workers FOR 200 yrs and land was like 2-5 dollars an acre without inflation Now everything is a commodity and financiallized another international violation of human rights to housing It's the pyramid scheme before the great depression then WW2 12 generations till Total corruption and greed KJV Great reset 😮 Add a comment...
Dejoy was put in to end the postal service and this is how he's doing it; make it as undesirable a job as possible, push out as many workers as possible and raise rates until it's only practical to use a private company like the one he owns.
This. The capitalist dream is to have everything privately owned and run for profit. Hospitals? Show us the money! Electricity? Show us the money! Education? Show us the money! The Postal Service? Show us the money! These people will not be content until everything is owned and monetized, preferably by them.
I'm a former USPS CCA - I didn't make it to the end of my initial contract phase (120 days). I absolutely loved what I was doing, but I was not being treated well and the working conditions were horrifying. The LLV and FFV trucks are too old and not safe. I watched too many trucks at my office get towed back in that had caught on fire. They're 100% right about the no heat, no a/c - slipping on ice, heat stroke, and frostbite are real dangers as well. Not to mention you can't use the restroom most places so you're forced to pee and poop into whatever bottle or container you have. We weren't even given proper uniforms and had to save up money just to buy clothes and shoes that met postal regulations. I had several weeks where I worked 14 days or more in a row with no day off. The regulars at my office were saints with what the conditions had to deal with. I couldn't handle it. There were days I would come home and just openly sob. Three of my regular route coworkers tried to help me keep my spirits up (they were the nicest and toughest ladies I know) but in the end, I couldn't sacrifice my mental health and physical health. This is not a job for anyone with any kind of disability. The post office has become a meat grinder that makes you feel like you'll never be good enough, fast enough, or strong enough to make it to a regular route. This used to be a great job, but it's become a nightmare. I don't let anyone I love apply for the post office. I leave out beverages, snacks, and hot hands packets for all my carriers no matter who they drive for (UPS, FedEx, and Amazon too). It's one of the toughest jobs to have right now. I hope that changes soon, because it shouldn't be this bad.
Many former decent-paying jobs are no longer necessary and have died out. We don't keep riding horses just to keep stable boys employed. We don't make pumping your own gasoline illegal just to keep gas pump attendants employed.
@ not everyone who works at USPS is a mail carrier or sorter or something lol. My dad was in an upper management position before he retired. Also not sure what you think professors make but my parents definitely made more than that 😂
Ok, so you lied. When someone says "I make a McDonalds salary", nobody is going to think you're talking about an upper management six figure salary lmao. And now you say "parents" instead of just your dad.
@@Freek314wages are severely unadjusted for inflation. Typical gaslighting tactic. Blaming the middle and working class for systemic issues but not the top wealthy🤡🤡
@ she was never able to own a home. The postal service has never been genuinely fair with their employees. She was a card carrying union member but got repeatedly stiffed. She got passed over for 10 pay steps and not even the union would help her recover her lost wages. She got enough to survive and pay her bills. It’s going to get worse. Their goal is to privatize the postal service.
THAT is becoming common knowledge! More offices closing all the time where I live. Costs more to send even a tiny item then the overpriced item costs itself! And our carriers changing because of forced 15 damned hour days! Another disease spread by greed and garbage. Sure deals were made w these head postmasters by the same ones intent on ruining the country!
Carrier here. My wife and I both carry and are about to have our first kid. We don’t have traditional maternity or paternity leave. We have to use our vacation time and sick time to take care of our newborn for the first few months. I don’t know how we’re going to do it.
Not to dismiss your situation, but that's pretty much what most of the workers in the US face. The Family Medical Leave Act gives you 12 weeks of leave, but no where does it give you 12 weeks of paid leave. But now that the country is going to be run by out of touch megalomaniacal billionaires, I am sure things will start getting better /s
Its irresponsible to have children if you have to use your sick days to get by. Not your fault, you were born on a planet with too many people. Supply and Demand. Humans are not worth as much as they used to.
Sorry that your country has let you down. Your government should enact better laws to protect every day workers like you. I hope you guys strike and make so much noise they cannot ignore you
Not only are us mail carriers being worked like crazy, but supervisors are constantly being yelled at for unreal expectations. Then their anger becomes our anger and it just keeps going. It's sad, but i do love my job and hope it gets better
One of the things I've heard other carriers say is this job is really hard on relationships. Mostly due to the crazy schedule and stress. I tend to agree.
As a former letter carrier of over 10 years, I came in when you could be hired on as a career employee. The CCA was the beginning of the end. The PO is now wondering why theft is so high, it’s the majority of CCA’s. I left the PO and went to Dept of HS. I doubled my PO money in 6 years with DHS and I don’t have supervisors hiding in shrubs watching me. Best move I ever made! I am retiring in 7 months. Funny thing is, is that I have never been called in to the supervisors office in the 10 years I’ve been there. When I was a shop steward at the PO I was in the office every other week. What a joke.
Here in Canada our postal workers are on strike too. I honk my horn every time I drive by their picket lines because they deserve to make way more! Hell, we all do
You're taking rockets out of Elon's mouth with that kind of talk. You should be ashamed of your greed. "Wah, I want food every day, and to stay dry when it rains."
There really should be an investigation into the way this contract was negotiated. Over 500 days to come out with a 1.3% raise? This is a man who makes almost $300,000 a year and was just given a raise higher than the starting salary of a carrier. He lied over and over to carriers about what it would contain. He got everyone's hopes up. People should be furious. The public needs to know what a piece of garbage Renfroe is.
It’s a sad state of affairs. Standing outside and picketing what a piece of 💩 your union president is. How can the public support that? He’s your guy and you elected him.
@@tissuepaper9962 Not at all. Renfroe is worthless. What’s ridiculous is that he can’t be fired or impeached. It’s also within the rules to drag negotiations out almost 2 years. NALC bylaws need to be changed. Seriously, most of carriers anger is over Renfroe.
I recently worked for the USPS . I quickly figured out no one gives a shit about anything at the Postal Service . 4 months later I decided I did not want to be associated with the post office and it's members and quit . I was there for 4 months and got ZERO training but had to run a local post office . Fuck that ...see ya!
Another factor in how the job has degraded over the years is online shopping...so many addresses along a daily route require parking and carrying boxes to the door rather than just rolling on past a mailbox at the curb. Extra minutes add up to extra hours to clear the truck each day, especially around holiday season.
@@KirksCORNER1983 brother, how does that boot taste? stop talking down to your fellow worker and start demanding better from your employer. You shouldn't have to literally run around to avoid being reprimanded.
@tissuepaper9962 I did because I wanted to get done and get customers their packages I took pride in it. Seems carriers these days take NO pride in their job and it surely does show!.
Thank You MPU! This really needs talked about. I just quit the USPS last spring, it was a nightmare job. I was a RCA, who lost money instead of making money, after two years of employment. The management are the problem! It starts at the top with LeJoy, and trickles down to all levels of management. Everyone thinks your making bank because most of us grew up hearing how well the job pays. That’s not the case at all, and the one guy is correct, they will try to screw you any chance they get. You have to keep track of every minute you work. I got hurt and they just railroaded me until I quit. I am completely amazed they haven’t just went on strike nationwide.
I was your 19th like, also I resigned dec 1st after 3 months. I'm feeling so justified knowing this video was created then. I had no idea and should of done my research
@@aalmondmilkMy guess is these cronies at USPS are using the terrible conditions at other delivery companies as an excuse to continue degrading their workers.
Trump and Dejoy haven't even been in office a full month yet, and this has been going on longer than that. The Democrats had 4 years to fix this. They're all bastards.
Exactly. Competition lowers wages. Plus, the USPS bought employees on credit in the past, with promises of pensions. Now. they're paying out their profits (and then some) to retirees who lived longer than estimated. That's why they've needed bailouts from taxpayers.
Wait...how on earth does USPS keep raising the prices on postage the most in history yet cannot pay their workers? Wtf garbage is going on here?!? Something is definitely fishy here- rotten to the core. Now that I know, I will be doing more for my letter carrier!
As a letter carrier in stl,mo, we appreciate our customers like you that want to know what's really going. The post office act like they don't have money. Bullshit cause they raise postage for customers and then do wasteful spending on things carriers don't need or want. Like scanners that have pen point accuracy to micro manage carriers, replacing certain mailboxes or collection boxes that don't need to be replaced. But ones that need replacing, they neglect. Making merchandise for workers when majority of us don't utilize it or it's something we may have already.
@alexhayes7853 Oh wow, so massive misappropriation of funding... Sounds like anything to avoid actually paying people. Wow. So, as a customer in KCMO, what would letter carriers like from us customers that would be useful and help your day? I was thinking a little cache of snacks, hand warmers for winter, a tip here and there?
@@aubz81 well you done the same, you get your 2-3k check, and then if you have the option would you want to waste $500 on something or $1000 on that same something? You would chose the cheap-per $500 to save you money for other things no? Same shet, is just cheaper to provide low cost benefiits than an actual wage and it always be cheaper, for labor is always the most expensive cost of any operation.
@@aubz81 If your delivery guy is a commoner, do a tip so he comes back and delivers your stuff well and not broken. If not, a water, coffe or some 25$ fan would do.
I wasted 9 years at USPS. The restructuring led to lower pay, the management was writing me up for things I didn't even do, and was constantly being harassed by my direct supervisor. This all led to a day where I almost ended it all. USPS absolutely needs to be held responsible for the unfair treatment of its employees. It's a tough job and I support the workers doing it. However, the management sucks and should absolutely be held accountable for what the are doing and have been doing for years. I'm happy to see the unions finally standing up. Hang in there guys and gals. You are the real postal workers, not the manager jerks sitting in the office all day.
Never let a job cloud your thinking like that. I'd sooner be homeless, & I have been a few times, than give up on life... it's the only one we get, hang in there ✌🏼
@nolongerblocked6210 I'm definitely good now. I left the post office a year and a half ago. I work a job I absolutely love in an industry I'm passionate about.
Now let’s not forget. Mngmt received a hefty raise of over 10%. N our absent National Union President Renfro gave himself a $50,000 a year raise. N our Union dues increased. As will our health benefit premiums.
The unpaid mandatory overtime gets me. Like, not only is that obviously bad for the worker, but it also exacerbates unemployment when people are forced to work longer for less hours. People should be able to work their 8 hours and then pass the torch to the next shift!
as a letter carrier, we do get paid overtime, only during the month of December does it get cut to 1.5x for all worked hours [rather than our penalty rate which is 2x for anything over 10hrs worked in a day]
@@TheAxlSnaks makes no sense to me. it is the busiest time of year. they’re making the most money at this time of year and they are giving you less. working likely more overtime (cause you’re understaffed) when it’s supposed to be the month you spend the most time with loved ones. what do they tell you to explain why you get paid less at this time of year?
As someone who isn't in America, the notion of employer mandated overtime, let alone unpaid overtime, is insane to me. Who is going to work compulsory overtime for zero dollars? America seems to hate working people and yearns for the days of indentured servitude. Also, Louis DeJoy looks like a comic book supervillain.
I spent $10k on a RHD vehicle for this job. Had to take a loan I am still paying. Vehicle is almost 20 years old have spent a few thousand so far getting it up to speed. Still more to be done. No support from the company. Every full week I work comes out to about 60 hours. For that I get paid 4 hours of overtime. Salary based on 45 hours. So 11 hours free to the company per week right now, and it used to be more when my salary was only 42 hours! Rural carrier on a 60 mile route with Amazon driving in very shitty conditions. This is not a job anymore it is a SCAM. Period.
Branch 78, out of Columbus, Ohio here, retired since '11. I'm aghast to see this video. It got pretty rough at times during my twenty-seven years on the job, but this is shameful. I remember when they rolled out the scanners and promised they were never going to be used in a disciplinary fashion. I guess that didn't pan out well. Stay strong. Jesus only!
Growing up in the 90's, I remember people always saying mailmen made good money.
We used to tip our mail carrier and give the Christmas presents, just like the trash removal people. Now I have to beg for them to take the trash they’re supposed to. My mail is horrendous. My neighbors and I constantly get each other’s mail, and that’s because they’re not being paid enough, or their deadlines are too ridiculous.
They still do. Here's how the USPS is so messed up: for pretty much forever, USPS workers would pool all their overtime for retiring workers. People in their last years would work mad overtime (as much as they wanted) and earn like 100k+ working 60-80 hours a week. Their pension is based on their highest earning years, so their pension would be like 50k a year for life. And the average age of retirement in the USPS is like 58. So you get 50k a year for life retiring in their 50s. And it gets even worse- after they retire, they then re-apply after a short time and get rehired, and they are paid at their retiring salary and they still get to collect pension on top of this. This is why the USPS has over 300 billion in unfunded liabilities, their unions/workers basically commit fraud/scam to pull in crazy money and now the organization is completely screwed/bankrupted from that. Dejoy is the guy they brought in to stop this nonsense which is why he is so maligned, so many people that have been working at the USPS realize they need to get out now if they want to do their pension fraud scheme, so now there are lots of new workers who don't know what they are doing. My uncle was a postal worker and did this scheme, he retired at like 56 with a 100k pension. Now these guys are whining because the chickens are coming home to roost. Everything attached to public sector work is basically fraudulent schemes in pay/pension. Most government and government adjacent work does this scheme. The country is bankrupted from it, and people in the private sector no longer can pay the taxes to upkeep with the fraud and these people have the cajones to whine about how they should be getting paid more when they are the reason everyone is broke these days.
@@johnnycab8986 making stuff up must be so fun.
@@stoplosslolwut Truth hurts.
My grandpa had a summer home and lived in a huge 3 floor home. He fixed a lot of lives between dad, uncle, and his sisters. He had to have been doing pretty good at the post office.
Public school teachers and mail carriers should be the definition of middle class
And tradespeople. I'm a skilled mechanic with a two year degree and don't even get paid enough to cover rent on a small place and basic necessities.
@rustyjeep2469 the plumbers here arrive in golden carriages
School teachers make just $10,000 less than nurses yearly. They get 3 months off, don’t have to physically move patients no matter what the size and don’t work shifts. They’re getting enough money
Mail people should make minimum wage. It's not skilled work.
@ you’d accept mail from a Burger King worker? What I find in my bag is seldom what I asked for
My father was a letter carrier for 35 years a proud member of the NALC. He retired in 2000 and before he did he was able to provide a solid middle class lifestyle for his three kids and sent us all to college. He was so well thought of by his route families and businesses he was often given baked goods and at Christmas the cards with tips inside always blew my mind. This new reality breaks my heart.
Our communities used to be lively, social media and isolation has led to newer gen’s to abandon these ideals. As a gen z myself I wish we still had these type of connections still
@@MichaelClemons00 Older generations made social media a poorly regulated cesspool. Older generations in government pushed for this to happen to the post office or let it happen quietly when they made it a for-profit insitution.
Gen Z wasn't there to fuck it up.
This is what happens when you try to run agencies that are Republic benefit as a business. It takes the people out of it then they just become numbers
That guy is disgustingly hideous
So? He's from the old times
I was a plumber for over 20 years. We got zero holidays since plumbing break's every single day. Are benefits sucked and the hours we worked sucked. The only good thing about the job was the people you meet and the joy of a job well done. Winter time was so busy that I could leave my house before the sun would rise and not get home from work till 2 or 3am. I was paid well enough to support my stay at home wife and two children. Not rich not well off but support. You deliver mail you have government benefits you get every holiday off with pay. I put in more hours in my 20 years then most put in with 40 years. We all never make enough welcome to the club.
But your senator has no problems passing a pay raise for themselves in congress
Only 1 party is historically AGAINST unions
Exactly. They also seem to like the insurance benefits they don’t want all of us to get. Rich people should never rule the middle class in a democracy
@@iamchaunceman then don't vote them in office.
@@iamchaunceman We're not a democracy, we're a Republic, if we can keep it.😕
@@thanhquankyThe only ones who can afford to run for office are the wealthy.
The GREED at the top will destroy the backbone of this country. It's a matter of time before we ALL are unable to make it. ROME IS BURNING!
End goal communism we all be poor except poltical class like cuba marxist ! Moron vote for more taxes & bigger government
We're right in the middle of it breaking the backbone. So much money moving upward only. The pigs are taking over the farmhouse.
The greed has already destroyed the backbone of this country. No moral or virtuous country would have elected a sexual predator, convicted fraudster, and well known conman into office... twice. There is no backbone left when that criminals opposition couldn't even stand up to the greedy and call for fair minimum wages, criminalization of stock buybacks, journalistic integrity laws, and heavy taxation of the highest earners.
No, there is no backbone left. All that's left to do is wait for the collapse that forces the hand of the government either through violent revolution or truly tumultuous times like the Great Depression for 75%+ of the population to force a return to the socialist tempering that FDR instituted to reign in the greed.
Until then, all we can do is not stand out too much to our autocrat, aristocrat, and oligarch overlords.
People don't respect other government job that isn't cop.
It disgusting how fireman have to beg, postman work like dog but got fund for military equipment
We are controlled by the bankers and our political tyrants. time to walk away from this government and start our own or revolt. Do we really want to pass this on to our children to fight against after it gets even worse???
I'm a caregiver and one of my clients raised SIX kids on a mailman salary. Family of 8 survived on the pay of a mail carrier. Today, 1 person can barely survive on what they make. Absolutely disgusting.
I agree.
and with orange man coming in its just going to get worse for the USPS.
based merely off of his previous time in office.
@@rebeccaspratling2865 This is simply not true.... Median wage of over $27.00 an hour. If you spend all your money on BS then you can never have enough money.
Social Security is WORSE.
@@crazysquirrel9425 that shits gonna get ripped apart over the next 4 years 🤣🤣
My buddy was a carrier in Dowers Grove. Became so underpaid and depressed he went missing for a year. Then they found his body in the woods a year later.
That is mental illness and personal issues. Nothing to do with a USPS job.
The work can tear you down. Have to have a reason to keep pushing.
My dad is a retired rural mailman. He started at 7am and was home a little after 1pm everyday. He made good money. If you consider inflation he lived a far better life than I do as a server engineer.
does 'server engineer' mean a waitress?
@ 😂 that would be an awesome way to call yourself a waitress. I work in IT. I have been working in Microsoft for about 15 years but am currently changing to Linux and AWS. Would have been a very high paying job 20 years ago and now it’s above average at best. Like I mentioned my dad lived a better life than me and he can barely write and didn’t finish high school. He retired at 54 because he had a years worth of PTO saved up and he receives a pension.
@@garygerard4290server engineer is an IT professional that specializes in massive computers. Think of a computer 10x the size of your current PC with 5x the power.
@@jdb2722It’s crazy how much wages have dropped for IT. 20 years ago some kid fresh outta highschool could get certified and get in the industry with 0 college debt making good money. If I’m correct. These days hiring managers won’t give you a call unless if you have a bachelors in IT or CS with a minimum of 5 years experience just to make $65k-$75k, which may sound decent but historically IT has paid above average. If wages had kept with the times the average salary for an experience IT worker should be in the $115k-$160k range. $75k would have been the starting salary adjusted for inflation.
@@garygerard4290 I think he/she means they are servicing computer servers.
I’ve been a carrier for 20 years and everything in this video is right. It got worse around 10 years ago when the Post Office hired more management, and started tracking every minute of our day with our scanners. Bottom line is management in my office who make 10 to $20,000 more than me get bonuses upwards of 5 to $10,000 dollars to cut our hours and harass us and they don’t even touch the mail!!!
My understanding is that the USPS management is NOT union but the rest of the workers are. This naturally sets management against the people who actually do all of the work. Who thought that was a good idea?
@@sorrynormal6551managers are not laborers; they don't belong in a union.
@@sorrynormal6551 Oh you have no idea how hostile the work environment is between management and the union employees. THE WORST!
They should track where you are every minute of your day while you are supposed to be working, not parked under a shade tree napping. Also, y’all need to stay off your phones when driving.
@@jonhall3151 don't choke on that boot.
Middle managers tracking employees so they don't take breaks...
Why not just take out middle management and hire another 5 workers?
Right on the money! It’s all about the model that companies use. Managers are more disposable than actual workers. A lot of them don’t know that.
@@salometipsandtricks2786 How does that help this conversation?
I work for a FedEx contractor. I love my middle management bosses. They got my back all the time. If I cannot take something because it's too heavy or I've got too much stuff to deliver, they'll help me out and deliver the stuff for me. They wash my truck, give me snacks and drinks when we get busy, and are very fair people.
I wouldn't be shocked if USPS is way more fucking problematic than a majority of FedEx. I see some pretty shitty trucks for FedEx workers on the subreddit, but overall it might vary depending on geographical location.
@@z0twYou’re lucky. PO managers get bonuses for working us like dogs.
@@z0tw I did 15 yrs with Fedex. A SCAB company who run their workers into the ground and fire them without cause. Favoritism and nepotism is the rule. If they ever get ahold of the post office, you can say goodbye to sixty cent stamps.
Teachers as well. Speaking for myself. If I didn’t have adult family members sharing the rent with me, I’d be homeless. Old car, purchase only necessities. Conserve water, power and my mental health.
PUBLIC UNIONS ARE ANTI-AMERICAN😘
Teachers ok i agree (you do study to become teacher right?) but mailmen? Then who should get the lowest salaries?
You make 19 an hr ?
@@rener44average teacher makes 24
GET RID OF THE PUBLIC UNION AND YOU WILL HAVE MORE MONEY!
I work as an engineer for a top grocer in the US, union job, all the guys who have been there for 30 years were top middle class. Bought houses, sent kids to college, nice vacations etc. All of us that are now starting out the last 5 years don’t even qualify for apartments on our income. It used to be that they made double the average minimum wage in each state. And now we’re barely above it. Not even a liveable wage
Where are you? Come out to California. I make $68.07 an hour as a engineer for a hospital, plus $5 an hour for being a relief. That's $151k a year. Not the best, but not the worst either.
LIE-berals and their Woke allies WANT THINGS THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals DO NOT WANT US TO OWN ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To own a car or a fishing boat or an atv means you are using FOSSIL FUEL and LIE-berals DO NOT PERMIT THAT - thus LIE-berals consider it a GOOD THING to impoverish the public so they will not have any toys that LIE-berals do not approve of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news- LIE-berals want us to EAT LES MEAT and to consume less sugar and less fried stuff- so again they are happy to impoverish us in order to limit our ability to buy junk foods and fast foods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-beral social engineers are working diligently to IMPOVERISH US ALL in order to meddle with and gain GOVT CONTROL of our lives and to make it easier to BUY OUR VOTES - as LIE -berals have figured out we will sell them our votes more cheaply if we are ECONOMICALLY DESPERATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@NotAshleyMoon the post master general that Trump appointed is who gutted the post office.
@@dannythompson1948 yeah and i make 50,000k a/y in wisconsin and i am well fed, have a 177,770$ home at 2.5% on 3 acres and im chilling. get the fuck out of that state. "151k, not the best" lmaooooooooo
@@dannythompson1948 try living on 15k, then I’ll be impressed, lol..
You’re missing the point. Pay to play as the American way is a means to stay impoverished, hm’k?
My Letter carried saved y neighbors life. She came and told me he hadn't picked up his mail in 2 days. We involved the police and they found him on his floor nearly dead and he was rushed to the Hospital by ambulance. She is wonderful caring person and a badass to boot! That is a brutal Job!!!!
I’ve seen multiple times letter carriers saved lives. This happens a lot. Postmen are the only people that see every house every day. They walk or drive every street people live on.
How in the world do these cars still not have air conditioning. That should straight up be illegal.
Ups driver here. We were supposed to get ac, but it's probably not coming for at least 10 years. You just get used to the heat.
My partner works for a popular courier company and most of their trucks dont have ac and break down a lot and were in phoenix az where it gets 120. They also are tracked and dont get bathroom breaks, alot of the workers use bottles to urinate and a bucket with catlitter if they have to defecate, all in the back of the hot trucks in summer.
Those Trucks/Jeeps are old and raggedy. No A.C and shake/vibrate bad when going over 50 mph.
I once had to deliver mail in 113 degrees. Solution is drink a lot of water and have cold water and a cold wet towel around your neck to keep cool
It's illegal not to have heat but it's legal to not have air...from my understanding and I have a government job that was what I was told smh it's wild
Post office just announced new electric vehicles with AC. I don't recall when they will start the replacement prices.
No one makes enough anymore in the bulk of jobs. Nothing pays enough for rent. It's depressing and completely unacceptable. This country has gone completely to corporations and we are all suffering. It has to change
not everyone is suffering, get a grip
@@royharper2003Homelessness increased 22% last year.
The system is failing.
@@royharper2003 bottom 80% getting exploited mercilessly. get a grip wake up. bottom 60% living paycheck to paycheck litterally. This due to Wallstreet serving shareholders pumping up any asset they can find,extract profit and leave carcass behind. Single family homes being bought up by private equity skyrocketing average home prices doubled . get a grip. Colluding to raise rents via apps for landlords. Raised rents 76% in Phoenix in 5 years. Illegal. Sickening.
It's only gonna get worse with the corporate billionaires owning trumps election results. It's over with for we the people unless we fight back. The unions supported trump after Biden fought for the UAW workers and was the first president to walk a union picket line. Biden brought UAW jobs back to the USA, he also reinstated their retirement that trump allowed them to lose. This is why America is like we are, uneducated voters or don't care. No excuse for ignorance!
as long as your ok just screw the others! Thats why we are in this mess. When you are in need maybe people won't care about you! Good ridance!
The greed worldwide is causing the birth rates to drop. Wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. It’s sad.
Feminism is causing it. But true, the Democrats have made everyone poorer.
@@Tim9460-o9t Only in countries where women are free to choose. The birth rate in oppressive nations continues to rise. A really interesting fact that is never expressed by finance owned businesses, including media and governments, is that the population of humans on the earth has only exploded just in the last 200 years, since we started using fossil fuels. The impact of 8 billion humans in our current modern civilization is nothing short of a disaster for our planet. But, people that only see what is around them, believing what they are told, cannot see it. The documentary by Jeff Gibbs, “Planet Of Humans” is more honesty than you will ever hear inside our world run by those who crave electronic currency and power, and have no intention to help life on earth, they only want to control profiting off of us.
birth rates are dropping because no sane person wants to bring kids into this mad world.
GREED 100% !!
Let it drop. Then maybe there wont be a million people to compete for jobs with
As a UPS driver, and proud Teamster, fight like hell for that new contract, and solidarity from your fellow delivery people! ✊🏼
What's your hourly
@力塞 this year it could be 23 if it's your first year driving. Or around 45 if your 4 years plus driving
@jacobarispe973 why is the starting salary so little? Package handler is like 21
@@Servi-e5g it is what it is i did not negotiate the contract. It's honestly going to take 2 years at least to drive most places. And from what I've seen from my center most new drivers are coverage drives which jumps you to 80% of top rate. Around 38 but you are not guaranteed hours to drive just if they need you.
Hard to do, when literally going on strike is illegal
Anything below a $1/hr boost,is not a *raise* . Its a slap in the face and kick in the balls.
It’s 1.3% per year of a three year contract. Plus biannual COLA (Cost of Living Adjustments) for the duration of the contract. Plus regular step increases on the pay scale and retroactive pay for the negotiation period.
This video is so misleading and the comment section is completely ignorant
@@PerryCaravello-fz7jn so are you saying mail carriers make enough to live comfortably and raise a family? I don't think all of the things you mentioned implies that they are making a proper livable wage, like most jobs in today's economy everyone is getting screwed over in the paycheck department
@@Wholebakedcooky
What is “living comfortably” to you?
Postal workers have to put in the time to get to a more “comfortable” part of the pay scale. They currently are starting at 46k (at the 45th percentile of individual income earners in the US) as a fulltime employee and top out at 75k.
Once they quit complaining and ratify a labor contract, they’ll get between a 4-5k a year increase with retroactive pay.
There are few jobs that provide 11 paid Federal holidays, a pension (FERS), a matched 401k (TSP) up to 5% of your base salary, 75% of your health and dental premiums and 26 vacation and sick days starting out that increase throughout your career to 40 sick and vacation days per year.
Warehouses raise 25 cents to 75 cents 😅😂😂😂😂😂
@@PerryCaravello-fz7jn living comfortable is not sleeping in your car, worried about medical bills, or having hot water...
45k doesnt seem too bad in the middle of the country where living expenses isnt as high but about a mail carrier in a dense city like New York or Chicago. Thoae are not cheap cities to live in.
Im just trying to understand why you think having less is more especially in the wallet department. Just give people a better wage if they do a necessary job, as if there isnt enough money at the top to share more of.
My grandfather got married, bought a house and raised 3 kids on a postal salary in the 60's and 70's. It's ridiculous what's happened to this job over the years.
carzy you've never heard of inflation
@royharper2003 And that's supposed to be an excuse? These are hard-working people that got squeezed out of the middle-class.
A lot has happened. There wasn’t fedex, UPS, DHL etc.. that provide much better service and email and text that got rid of letter mail.
@@rudymurillo9334 I'd prefer some of my mail by paper. I don't want to have to use an e-mail, sign up for this, opt out of that, every time I want to send a bill. Yeah there's competition and I'm sure the USPS could use a reform or two, but taking down a nation-wide service like that isn't the best idea.
Back in 1989 , our local letter carrier personally checked up on EVERY household on his route after the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in California ;, when we thanked him , he replied “did you think I was just a mailman ? I am a civil servant and this is part of my job .” DeVoy is despicable!
DeJoy.
@@mendynoma4272 NoJoy
@@mendynoma4272 whose dejoy or degrinch
too bad he doesn't live up to his name. Despicable
@@Barbara-jn2gw He does live up to his name… de-joy as in taking away joy. Think of degrade, deceased, deflower.
I retired from the USPS in 2009 at 56. Watching this video reaffirms that I made the right choice.
I retired at age 34
Don’t worry Trump will fix everything 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@eddiew2325 I retire inside your mom every night.
@@eddiew2325what investments and what career choice?
@@dynaryda8857 he went homeless.
I was at a networking event and met a nice senior lady. I told her I was going back school for CS. She says "why would I want to do that? You don't want to start a business?" Which was understandable because there were a lot of entrepreneurs at this event? Then I said I might start a software agency. And she gave me a disappointed look.
She says" wouldnt you like a government job? The post office is hiring and its stable work with a pension"
Bless her heart
Easier said than done. How can you start a business with no background in the subject matter?
Well I'm considering a business doing web development, I'm studying computer science CS@@steelresilience
steel is right. there is no reason to hire you. it's competitive enough for me in my field within a company with 18 years of experience, competing against other top companies in our field. all of us would eat a noob goldfish like you alive if you tried to compete.
My parents grew up with teachers as some of the most successful people in their communities. They were confused when I told them I couldn't afford to be a teacher and quit. Older people don't know how much houses cost and pay hasn't kept up with the times. Also teacher pensions are no longer a thing in North Carolina.
@@steelresiliencethat’s why he’s going to go to school for it?
I worked as a letter carrier assistant for 8 months, then quit. Forced OT, literally had no schedule. It was simply show up every day at 6:30 to clock in. They would tell me to go home if it was my day off that day, (after driving half an hour to get there) I had 1 day off every 2 weeks. Management was always calling me, 'You're too slow, speed it up'. I never knew what time I'd be going home. The day I quit I showed up to clock in and the manager said, 'The route isn't ready, don't clock in yet. Go sit in the break room for a half hour or so, we'll let you know when to we're ready for you to clock in'. I'm amazed they get anyone to stay.
Had an uncle started as a mail carrier just after WWII in a small town.
He had a wife and 2 kids - Susan & Jr. and a Collie - no joke. The kids played ball and piano, mom stayed home and went to the 'beauty parlor' every week for hair and nails. They were not rich, but not poor and retired really comfortable.
WOW
maybe we will have our own good ole days too. but i have a great sense of humor.
@@MadameRougarouLeia That is obvious Mme Rougarou, it shows in your name.
Louisiana Rougarou?
I hope you younger ones do, and that sense of humor is your best treasure - that and a good gumbo pot.
@@gmfutube your comment made my day. Mais oui, very louisiana ;) we been eating on this pot of gumbo all week lolo ur psychic! And gmfutube, im old. Im like 50 now. Feels crazy, survived! I send you many well wishes from the acadian soul!!
Houses back then were 1200 sq.ft., no air conditioning, one tv maybe, and it was black and white, one telephone and it had a dial on it. Sure, I grew up in those days and we were middle to lower-middle class. My mother went to work in '65 when I started 8th grade. She practiced her typing and passed the test and was hired to work in a high school library. Most people these days would not want to live like people did back then - not enough fancy things, like buying a cup of coffee every morning and buying lunch on your lunch break. Did I mention that most kids took lunch to school in a brown bag. The rich kids had a fancy lunch box.
I worked as a mailman for 5 years and still only had 1-week vacation, made $20 an hour, lowest seniority, lowest paygrade, everything. Basically still a new employee even after being there for 5 years. How? Because they are exploiting the new generation with non-career positions.
I guarantee there were opportunities for you to advance in your workplace. You probably took no effort to do it. So it’s your problem
Post Office being run by a drumpf appointee. All downhill after he was put in charge.
@@fireboltaz you quite literally don’t know what you’re talking about.
@@otydal as a 20 year veteran and now a government employee I do.
@@fireboltaz hey I could sit here and say you didn’t try hard enough in life in general since you were just a mailman lmao but I’m not an asshole. In defense of the other guy, there’s probably about 5 r*tarded managers there who are supposed to be doing there jobs and they know when people are supposed to get raises regardless if they’re asked for or not and they’re just told not to give them out. Unfortunately not everyone is as wise and kissass as ole fireboltaz!
My brother is a mail carrier, and he can testify to the dismal working conditions at the usps. It's a damn shame the Federal government doesn't take care of the working class.
You don’t see Indians and Asians complaining in America 🤷♂️ maybe you whyts should get more education instead of focusing on race
It's not the taxpayers duty to take care of anybody but their own family. You think the federal government has their own money. They don't. They TAX, meaning they take from productive people and give it to unproductive people to buy their votes.
Federal government doesn't control the USPS, it's an independent government agency. I remember long ago of the Biden administration trying to replace Dejoy, but that was deemed impossible. I think the end goal is to privatise mail carrying and eventually kill off USPS or leave it broken enough that 'competition' can form. If that happens, you can expect all manner of capitalist shenanigans. I'm guessing it'll happen soon enough though, since the USPS has taken a lot of blows over the years and people with money are always looking to make more money and jonesying for it's downfall. A lot of America's government programs were eventually broken down and left vulnerable enough for the top to pick them clean.
Bc the working class doesn’t depend on daddy government. So they’re doing everything in their power to take that last bit of freedom from the man. That last little whiff. We used to be able to thrive as a middle class. Without the help of the government. But no they want us sick, poor, and reliant. They want us to look upwards to them praying they’ll drop a crumb. But they never do. And they don’t even clean plate they waste it. Throwing the crunbs away right in front of our eyes.
I've been noticing this trend for a long time now. Retail sales used to be a livable wage. People worked at JcPenney, Macys, Sears or Hudsons were adults who raised a family on working retail. Now it's Walmart and Target, it's all teenagers making min wage. Or it's Amazon with young drivers.
Working at a bank used to be a good paying job. Now Min wage.
Working as a mechanic used to be a very good job, now it's just above min wage.
Mowing lawns and landscaping used to pay well, now it's all migrant workers.
Construction used to pay well, now that's all migrant workers.
Working a call center used to pay well, now that's done in New Delhi.
Working on an assembly line used to pay really well now it's like $30-40K/year if it's not done in Mexico or China.
Summed up nicely. Accurate too. I am aware of this as well. Yet the people suffer& are blamed. By our own govt. They make it all possible being complicit.
Organized Building Trades still pay decently and have great benefits. They are only prevalent in high cost of living areas though. Where I live everyone leaves for the South as soon as they can with nice pensions.
Trade jobs still pays well, like HVAC, electrician, plumber, welder.
@@Vagabond_Etranger it REALLY depends... use to work as a welder and only made $16 an hour welding dump trailers together... even "trades" are hurting
Unpaid mandatory overtime?! That's disgraceful. Utterly disgusting
Yeh? Biden/Harris changed it so overtime pay was mandated for more people. A trump Judge blocked it. Good luck all of us under trump/vance.
Coming soon to a company near you! Can't tax overtime pay if you don't pay it in the first place.
And for what to deliver freaking junk mail. The mail system needs to be overhauled somehow and let them compete with ups and fedex but its gov. They suck at competing the only way they can is when they shut down the competition
@@blackfox1665 They are limited by law on how they compete. Should get more informed before assuming they don't try to stay competive with private industry. Congress is fucking over the postal service, the postal service wants to be better.
Surprised they aren't labeling them 1099 independent contractors . That's what most companies do and have been doing for the past 20-30 years . An its not right .
This just in: these same kinds of problems are happening in every industry, not just the mail service. I do agree with everything stated, this is just awful
The reason why this becomes more media worthy is because there is 59k of them. If 59k are living paycheck to paycheck it effects the economy more than most other industries. Also there’s mail carriers literally everywhere. So it becomes more widespread.
@@thomasrial4444 i think you missed the part about everyone struggling.. Something like 55% of american workers are min wage and cant pay rent. I left america over this, make alot less but can pay all my bills and provide for my family. I am not sure if id ever be able to get back to america at this point. Not sure I want to but i loved my people
Where did you go to and how did you manage to leave?
When they complained about working more than 8 hours a day they lost me. They seem a bit out of touch with the rest of the work force.
I’m a nurse with 15yrs experience and they barely wanna pay me 28hr to take care of kids on ventilators. No benefits. No dental. Nada.
I started almost 20 years ago at 17 an hour after 20 years new carriers are starting at 20 in the city. Poverty wages
How much do you make now?
The rich never have enough. Pathological greed
Get rid of DeJoy. All of us rely on the Postal Service and he is deliberately destroying it.
Perfect Trump appointee. Just like all the other ones he is appointing to basically destroy the department they are supposed to run. Nightmare.
Trump and Dejoy haven't even been in office a full month yet, and this has been going on longer than that. The Democrats had 4 years to fix this.
That's all part of a master plan. People are scared to mail their ballots in in my state because the Postal Service has been so mismanaged. Again, all part of a master plan.
They want to privatize everything! Destroy it, as proof that it doesn't work, then sell the periodized replacement. Again, moving public funds into private hands.
Louis DeJoy, who used to own UPS, and who was appointed by Trump, is the cause of all this.
Ima 55 yr old Desert Storm Navy Vet and i APPLAUD the postal workers!!!! Ppl are always telling us vets thank u for our service.....well i THANK AND SALUTE them for their public service to we the people of USA. Im disabled and on very low fixed income, but im super blessed to manage to pay my mortgage, bills, necessities and groceries every month. But i always say God loves a cheerful giver and there is no excuse not to show appreciation to public servants and essential workers. I put care packages together that include a few grocery items, snacks and necessities to gift to my mail courier at least once a yr, usually around Christmas. Then write a letter of thanks placing it inside the care package. This yr i am adding one random Instacart shopper/driver to my care package list. Cuz they also get crappy treatment. I wish i could help more folks, but at least 2 will feel appreciated.
$56K doesn't go far these days.
Harris Biden inflation destroyed the US.
Before or after take home?
I work security and make 31 thousand a year More like 27 after taxes come out I've been threatened with tasers firearms and Lord knows what else I make $15 an hour
@@badoishere leave
Depends on where you live. Plenty in the Midwest , but nothing on the coasts.
I know a mailman that works 16 hour days and sleeps in his car to save commute time😵💫
For far too many years employers have demanded loyalty from employees, but not returned that same loyalty. There is always someone less qualified than us that is willing to do our jobs for less pay.
The system is working as intended. Keep people desperate and always on the cusp of destitution. Companies don't care about their workers. You're literally a 'human resource'. Once you're depleted, you're discarded and replaced with someone new. And the cycle continues.
These corrupt leaders need to be exposed and embarrassed for the frauds and pigs that they are.
Not true,they're getting deported.
@@Perfidiondefinitely started when companies stopped 401ks and basic retirement plans. I get sad when I see all the elderly people back to work because they're retired and broke because of this very circle about to get worse.
#Bigfacts!!!!!
Thank you for taking the time to cover this. Y’all did a fantastic job explaining an insane amount of details into 13 mins 🙏
- A letter carrier in Massachusetts.
easy fix remove retirement... people wont be crying for wage they ll just move to better jobs i dont know what was the point of makin a deal with the devil that in 30 years he gonna give me what he owed me lmfao you most be asleep to be dreamin this much ...
Be safe the winters are terrible . A fellow Massachusetts resident
Whats your wage? I work for UPS and i make WAY more than I thought i ever would.
@@jessicalacasse6205 sucks to suck, grow up
My brother worked for USPS until he passed away last year at the young age of 60. He often spoke about the working conditions but he was 2 years away from retiring. Working at the Post Office used to be a good job
@Yasmine1962, YOUR brother, like YOU was a LOSER, in life, and HE deserved EVERYTHING he got, for being a good, SLAVE, Cry me a river, Babygirl
@Yasmine1962,,YOUR comments, are irrelevant, NO facts, are in order, You are cautioned about "improper thinking". Accordingly, YOUR comments and channel, will be deleted, for violating Community Guidelines, YOU are dismissed, back to YOUR basement, Babyboy
@@saminaneen oh look, a troll.
@@saminaneen lmfaoooo
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I was a CCA for 2 years and career carrier for 1. Started in 2021 and it’s sad how things have not changed a day since I quit in 2023. Management harasses you constantly, your scared your gonna be robbed anytime you step out that door of the post office. Much respect to my fellow letter carriers and former letter carriers.
It really depends on where you are. Here in SD the COL is cheap, and Sioux Falls is safe. 19.33 an hour is enough, especially for a cheapo like me. Our union branch is full of nice people who will fight to get you every dollar you deserve too. Management is also tolerable. Everything about being a carrier depends on your station.
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This topic deserves more attention!
Itoterslly is on a congressional hearing. The top brass was under fire from senator Harley. The top is over payed and the system is broken c
Our letterman gave me my first puppy. 🐶
This was in 1964
He was a terrific person and genuinely liked throughout the whole neighborhood.
Did he have a good life on that job?
@watamatafoyu Yes, Charlie did.
A matter of fact, we all did.
And, times we're different back then.
Seemed, everyone was middle class, and earned fairly good wages for those days.
Vietnam War was raging and kids were dying young, but life in general in the U.S. was better for most.
@patriciaeddy7629 In 1974, we gave one of our dog's 8 puppies to our mail carrier. He would keep us up to date us on her for years!
I give my carrier a Christmas present every year, because I appreciate her. Thank you mail carriers!
My dad worked for the usps for 40 years. He passed this year. I saw the effects first hand. Support your local letter carriers and post office workers. I always give them drinks when it’s hot and a nice gift for Xmas. Much more than the government has done for them and I’m doing the bare minimum
any gift suggestions or ideas?
@@jd-py5nmgift cards or cash if you really want to get them something but honestly just a Christmas card with a thank you goes a long way for me we busy our asses out here and any sense of appreciation is enough
@@jd-py5nmI usually leave an envelope with some cash. It’s up to you what you want to give, I give a good amount since my dad worked usps.
@@jd-py5nm I just give him an envelope with some cash. It’s really up to you.
For those asking about gifts. I usually give an envelope with some cash. It’s really up to you.
I’m 45 years old, as a kid I used to want to be like my towns postal workers. I seen them as happy people with nice houses. In my teens I learned It was a position that paid good, had a solid pension & didn’t gouge for healthcare…now it’s shocking what the single postal worker we have goes through. She’s laid off every so often so she doesn’t become “full time” then re-hired a few days later. This is awful. I don’t know how it’s not illegal.
Honestly that could be illegal. I’d encourage her to get a free consultation with a workers rights attorney
My husband is a CLC and I can confirm everything in this video is 100% TRUE!!! He works so hard at his job, is so friendly to his customers, and yet is treated like absolute GARBAGE by management . He buys the office coffee for the break room out of his own paycheck to boost morale because management can’t even spare $15 to do that for their employees. Its disgraceful.
But if they have to spend $15 on that then DeJoy and his cronies will go homeless and everyone will be bankrupt infinitely.
I believe MAGA would call you a Crybaby, no?
@@sheepmaysafelygraze8360 by coffees for employees not entitled ungrateful scumbag management
at least your husband has a wife that loves him has your hubby ever met a welder?😂 try smacking iron all day and carrying heavy metal a old welder told me the pay hasn't increased since 1970 for my trade.
Because narcassist traits are rewarded in thos society instead of looked down upon like it use to be.
He died before collecting pension. Thats what they want.
Worked as a letter carrier for 7 years. Loved the job, hated the awful management.
It should be noted that they purposefully promote the absolute cream of scum and villainy into management positions.
If you have empathy, they don't want you
@hatless_spider, THEY, management, want YOU to actually work, not like the useless, WOKE, Democrap, young employees, that have NO WORK ETHICS, whatsoever. Man up, if YOU can't handle the job, snowflakes, get a REAL JOB, somewhere else.
💯 Second this. My hubby is a letter carrier and one of the managers recently was in jail for a DUI. She was not fired for it and came back to work like nothing happened
@sheepmaysafelygraze8360 that sounds like upper management material
@@sheepmaysafelygraze8360 WTF!
Integrity held me back. Not just the post office. You aren't promotable in this country if you have too much integrity. Happened to my hubs too. We were flabbergasted.
Makes me MAD as hell and SAD at the same time!
I am so sick 🤢 of higher ups taking and taking and taking!!!!
Their starting wage should be 27.00 per hour. They are one of the foundations of our society!
What about cutting deliveries to Saturdays only?
It could be handled by teenagers at $12.50 an hour.
@@garygerard4290I wouldn’t want a teenager to sort or deliver my mail. Looks easy but it’s easy to make mistakes often.
@@garygerard4290Of course, this works perfectly in the North, where most teenagers that don't have access to a heated vehicle can freeze to death, solving our population problem.
Maybe YOU should go deliver the mail in Alaska for $8/hr.
@@newtrotic let him cook
@@garygerard4290 This is your neoliberal solution. Make adults lose their jobs to teenagers being exploited for 12.50 an hour? Fu¢k your idea, it's terrible.
I'm in a six figure household, and we're text book middle class. The meter keeps moving higher and higher.
It’s a concerted effort to privatize the USPS.
Good
@@brianronan1905 you've been saying this everywhere! I am now *positive* you are an ex us-president!
Because you clearly hate US Americans! Nobody hates Americans like the bought politicians, who rule over us.
Go back into your cave, Bill! 😂
@@brianronan1905good? You want worse service?
UPS uses USPS for "last mile" deliveries. UPS happy with status quo.
@ I’m not saying that the two shouldn’t coexist. I’m saying that the government purposefully neglects the USPS in a concerted effort with corporations in order to take over every last bit of it. If you look around this country right now, every time private equity gets its hands on something, nothing positive comes of it. The newly acquired assets always get liquidated and nothing replaces them, leaving a giant hole in the system.
Everytime I see one I say "thank you for your service" because I love them and they work hard
Shoutout to Louis DeJoy and republicans attempt to defund and privatize the mail and… everything. So glad DeJoy got mentioned. The failure to remove him is pathetic.
@@Commented_Commenter DeJoy has a *lifetime* appointment put in place during DJT's first term. And who are "they"?
Globalization isn’t a one party agenda.
@@rridderbusch518 It's a perfect example of the "Rules, norms and loopholes" situation that Jon Stewart talked about. Republicans find loopholes to get what they want done and Democrats find rules that stop them from doing anything.
Democrats did a lot for the postal workers...
It's been a while, so don't quote me exactly, but the board are the ones to remove him. Until there are more Dems on that board the repubs and dejoy will keep doing what they do 😡 I have no idea if the board can be expanded and don't know about the length of time the appointee has but it ain't going to change until the board changes !
Buckle up folks it's about to get a lot worse in the American Oligarchy.
Postal Service is quite literally the only federal agency listed in the Constitution
That doesn’t mean you need buildings upon buildings of administration
Well I wish this report included some factual numbers. As a quasi-governmental agency with collective bargaining the USPS has pay scales that they adhere to so a glimpse at those would’ve been informative. They mentioned a new tier of employment said the be a carriers assistant so I’d be curious to see what the particulars are on that status. When I worked for the USPS there were casuals, T.E.’s (phased out), part time flexibles and regulars at least as far as city carriers and there was the rural carrier division which were on a different type of pay structure.
Its not, you're wrong.
@Michael-cx1zi CCA starts out at 19 dollars and some change, with a 50 cent raise after completing your first 360 days+ the 5 day break. They have to hire you after 2 years now though. It took me 6 years to go regular.
@@Michael-cx1zi City Carrier Assistant (CCA) is the equivalent of the old TE, except that with a CCA, you are guaranteed a career appointment (within 2 years, I believe) CCA is pre-career, TE was non-career.
You cant get mail anymore when homeless And without address and mail
you get no jobs or tax paperwork Its the cycle
Study every keyword angles of mail system of the Roman empire and its collapse
Corruption greed and turns in on it self
International human rights 1948 and US constitution rights to mail, but we violated if have not permanent address to have a PO box application sent to
YOU CAN'T GET OUT
Roman empire deprived people from mail rights and permission or permits by class of citizens
It comes down to the same bs
And this country payed $1 day for unskilled workers FOR 200 yrs and land was like 2-5 dollars an acre without inflation
Now everything is a commodity and financiallized another international violation of human rights to housing
It's the pyramid scheme before the great depression then WW2
12 generations till Total corruption and greed KJV
Great reset 😮
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Dejoy was put in to end the postal service and this is how he's doing it; make it as undesirable a job as possible, push out as many workers as possible and raise rates until it's only practical to use a private company like the one he owns.
Truth
This. The capitalist dream is to have everything privately owned and run for profit. Hospitals? Show us the money! Electricity? Show us the money! Education? Show us the money! The Postal Service? Show us the money! These people will not be content until everything is owned and monetized, preferably by them.
I've seen the same thing happening to the VA over the years. In this case, the private delivery companies are worming their way into USPS leadership.
How can we kick him out? What can we do?
..and this "DeJoy", he was appointed Postmaster General by whom? Wasn't it the "man of the people"?
I'm a former USPS CCA - I didn't make it to the end of my initial contract phase (120 days). I absolutely loved what I was doing, but I was not being treated well and the working conditions were horrifying. The LLV and FFV trucks are too old and not safe. I watched too many trucks at my office get towed back in that had caught on fire. They're 100% right about the no heat, no a/c - slipping on ice, heat stroke, and frostbite are real dangers as well. Not to mention you can't use the restroom most places so you're forced to pee and poop into whatever bottle or container you have. We weren't even given proper uniforms and had to save up money just to buy clothes and shoes that met postal regulations. I had several weeks where I worked 14 days or more in a row with no day off. The regulars at my office were saints with what the conditions had to deal with. I couldn't handle it. There were days I would come home and just openly sob. Three of my regular route coworkers tried to help me keep my spirits up (they were the nicest and toughest ladies I know) but in the end, I couldn't sacrifice my mental health and physical health. This is not a job for anyone with any kind of disability. The post office has become a meat grinder that makes you feel like you'll never be good enough, fast enough, or strong enough to make it to a regular route. This used to be a great job, but it's become a nightmare. I don't let anyone I love apply for the post office. I leave out beverages, snacks, and hot hands packets for all my carriers no matter who they drive for (UPS, FedEx, and Amazon too). It's one of the toughest jobs to have right now. I hope that changes soon, because it shouldn't be this bad.
The leaders could easily make USPS a good place to work and make money. The refusing to because they're trying to kill it.
best country in the world though, if you believe the commercials.
My wife worked for usps for 22 years. Tired of being asked to work 83 hours a week, she quit. Now working for Costco, life is much better.
My dad raised us upper middle class on a USPS salary and just retired. Those opportunities no longer exist.
Many former decent-paying jobs are no longer necessary and have died out. We don't keep riding horses just to keep stable boys employed. We don't make pumping your own gasoline illegal just to keep gas pump attendants employed.
@ never said or implied that would be a better outcome but thanks I guess?
upper middle class is lawyers, doctors, professors, etc... you're saying you had that on one USPS salary and he wasn't selling method on the side lol?
@ not everyone who works at USPS is a mail carrier or sorter or something lol. My dad was in an upper management position before he retired. Also not sure what you think professors make but my parents definitely made more than that 😂
Ok, so you lied. When someone says "I make a McDonalds salary", nobody is going to think you're talking about an upper management six figure salary lmao. And now you say "parents" instead of just your dad.
I will always Stan for the USPS. One of the coolest organizations in America, and it’s in the constitution! They deserve far, far better ✌🏻🇺🇸
Another troubling situation we are witnessing across this country that few seem to care about.
This is simply not true.... Median wage of over $27.00 an hour. If you spend all your money on BS then you can never have enough money.
@@Freek314what’s bs….rent?? Kids?? Car maintenance??? If you’re not a carrier you don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
@@Freek314you live in lala land. Keep parroting that bs, you’ll get popped eventually.
@@Freek314wages are severely unadjusted for inflation. Typical gaslighting tactic. Blaming the middle and working class for systemic issues but not the top wealthy🤡🤡
My mom was a letter carrier. She passed away in June. I’m so glad she’s not here to suffer through this BS it’s gonna get really bad people,
@likesoldier777, Yo momma, was well paid, for HER government slavery, quit YOUR crying, NOBODY cares, when are YOU moving from her basement, Babyboy?
What kind of life did she build on her wage vs what mail carriers can do with theirs today?
@ she was never able to own a home. The postal service has never been genuinely fair with their employees. She was a card carrying union member but got repeatedly stiffed. She got passed over for 10 pay steps and not even the union would help her recover her lost wages. She got enough to survive and pay her bills. It’s going to get worse. Their goal is to privatize the postal service.
@@watamatafoyu She was what WE call, a GOVERNMENT LOSER, basically a welfare case, and she drank her way, through life, a REAL ZERO, Babyboy
@@likeasoldier777 YO MOMMA, was a govt. SLAVE, and a LOSER, cry me a river, cry me a song< LOSER
Bro. I'm convinced they're steeling the money.
THAT is becoming common knowledge! More offices closing all the time where I live. Costs more to send even a tiny item then the overpriced item costs itself! And our carriers changing because of forced 15 damned hour days! Another disease spread by greed and garbage. Sure deals were made w these head postmasters by the same ones intent on ruining the country!
Carrier here. My wife and I both carry and are about to have our first kid. We don’t have traditional maternity or paternity leave. We have to use our vacation time and sick time to take care of our newborn for the first few months. I don’t know how we’re going to do it.
This is unacceptable! You deserve maternity leave and I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this❤💜 I don’t think people are aware of this either
Get a new union.
Not to dismiss your situation, but that's pretty much what most of the workers in the US face. The Family Medical Leave Act gives you 12 weeks of leave, but no where does it give you 12 weeks of paid leave. But now that the country is going to be run by out of touch megalomaniacal billionaires, I am sure things will start getting better /s
Its irresponsible to have children if you have to use your sick days to get by. Not your fault, you were born on a planet with too many people. Supply and Demand. Humans are not worth as much as they used to.
Sorry that your country has let you down.
Your government should enact better laws to protect every day workers like you. I hope you guys strike and make so much noise they cannot ignore you
the richest country in the world.... what a joke.
Not only are us mail carriers being worked like crazy, but supervisors are constantly being yelled at for unreal expectations. Then their anger becomes our anger and it just keeps going. It's sad, but i do love my job and hope it gets better
Supervisors are part of the problem! You all just keep the turds rolling down hill and kiss ass to upper management while doing their dirty work.
This isn't unique to the post office, they just have a Union that brings attention to the situation.
My fiance is a letter carrier and omfg this video was so needed
One of the things I've heard other carriers say is this job is really hard on relationships. Mostly due to the crazy schedule and stress. I tend to agree.
I am a government worker, and housing prices currently in TN are ridiculous.
the wealthiest country your people are getting screwed more than us here in so called...third world
Look at your health benefits..the worst on earth
and what “third world” country is this?
As a former letter carrier of over 10 years, I came in when you could be hired on as a career employee. The CCA was the beginning of the end. The PO is now wondering why theft is so high, it’s the majority of CCA’s. I left the PO and went to Dept of HS. I doubled my PO money in 6 years with DHS and I don’t have supervisors hiding in shrubs watching me. Best move I ever made! I am retiring in 7 months. Funny thing is, is that I have never been called in to the supervisors office in the 10 years I’ve been there. When I was a shop steward at the PO I was in the office every other week. What a joke.
Here in Canada our postal workers are on strike too. I honk my horn every time I drive by their picket lines because they deserve to make way more!
Hell, we all do
You're taking rockets out of Elon's mouth with that kind of talk. You should be ashamed of your greed. "Wah, I want food every day, and to stay dry when it rains."
In the u.s. letter carriers are barred from striking by federal law. Land of the free my arse! 😢
Thankyou.
That’s because the cost of living went up BUT wages didn’t rise along with the cost of living!!
There really should be an investigation into the way this contract was negotiated. Over 500 days to come out with a 1.3% raise?
This is a man who makes almost $300,000 a year and was just given a raise higher than the starting salary of a carrier.
He lied over and over to carriers about what it would contain. He got everyone's hopes up. People should be furious.
The public needs to know what a piece of garbage Renfroe is.
It’s a sad state of affairs. Standing outside and picketing what a piece of 💩 your union president is. How can the public support that? He’s your guy and you elected him.
@@willaerley7140 anti-labor troll, begone.
@@tissuepaper9962 Not at all. Renfroe is worthless. What’s ridiculous is that he can’t be fired or impeached. It’s also within the rules to drag negotiations out almost 2 years. NALC bylaws need to be changed. Seriously, most of carriers anger is over Renfroe.
The NALC is the issue, they are terrible always have been.
I recently worked for the USPS . I quickly figured out no one gives a shit about anything at the Postal Service . 4 months later I decided I did not want to be associated with the post office and it's members and quit . I was there for 4 months and got ZERO training but had to run a local post office . Fuck that ...see ya!
Another factor in how the job has degraded over the years is online shopping...so many addresses along a daily route require parking and carrying boxes to the door rather than just rolling on past a mailbox at the curb. Extra minutes add up to extra hours to clear the truck each day, especially around holiday season.
Move faster. When I worked at ups and delivered I would run to each door then back to the truck. Every usps worker I see walks super slow.
@@KirksCORNER1983
Be curious what UPS pay/benefits are compared to USPS.
You’re the problem, and I could work circles around you
@@KirksCORNER1983 brother, how does that boot taste? stop talking down to your fellow worker and start demanding better from your employer. You shouldn't have to literally run around to avoid being reprimanded.
@tissuepaper9962 I did because I wanted to get done and get customers their packages I took pride in it. Seems carriers these days take NO pride in their job and it surely does show!.
I am so sorry about all the ill treatment that the mail carriers have to endure.
Thank You MPU! This really needs talked about. I just quit the USPS last spring, it was a nightmare job. I was a RCA, who lost money instead of making money, after two years of employment. The management are the problem! It starts at the top with LeJoy, and trickles down to all levels of management. Everyone thinks your making bank because most of us grew up hearing how well the job pays. That’s not the case at all, and the one guy is correct, they will try to screw you any chance they get. You have to keep track of every minute you work. I got hurt and they just railroaded me until I quit. I am completely amazed they haven’t just went on strike nationwide.
I dont understand how they even hire anyone at $19 an hour. You can walk into an Amazon warehouse and get hired on the spot making that much.
I was your 19th like, also I resigned dec 1st after 3 months. I'm feeling so justified knowing this video was created then. I had no idea and should of done my research
Middle class is dying
@@Matanumithe middle class has been dead since 2008
Have you tried working at Amazon? You actually have to do work there
Amazon makes money the USPS does not
My niece quit her job as a letter carrier because of the toxic work environment.
so did my friend. i worked with fedex for a year and it is not better there either
@@aalmondmilkMy guess is these cronies at USPS are using the terrible conditions at other delivery companies as an excuse to continue degrading their workers.
Is it possible they are destroying the post office in order to privatize it. Privatizing has been the talk for years.
Everybody is getting shafted except for the 1%
When I was young we had the same older black mailman in our neighborhood for years upon years. We LOVED him. He carried a leather mail bag.
Thank you more perfect union for your work and reporting.
Dejoy (Trump Appointee) is the greedy bozo that is the issue, ask how much DeJoy is getting paid, kick him out.
Who's going to kick him out!!!?
It's obvious corruption has been running rampant for decades with no accountability
This is our Fate😮
DeJoyless has a $110 million dollar net worth, he doesn't even need to be the Postmaster General!!
@@stevegray2634no, but considering he comes from the competition he sure stands to make more if he can effectively erase it as a competitor.
Trump and Dejoy haven't even been in office a full month yet, and this has been going on longer than that. The Democrats had 4 years to fix this. They're all bastards.
This is bad. Living in poverty is bad.
Another factor is that the USPS was overwhelmed by Amazon. They were losing millions delivering Amazon packages
But it helped DeJoy's Amazon stock so it's all good. 😄
They set the price for Amazon just like they set the price at the post office
Exactly. Competition lowers wages. Plus, the USPS bought employees on credit in the past, with promises of pensions. Now. they're paying out their profits (and then some) to retirees who lived longer than estimated. That's why they've needed bailouts from taxpayers.
@@randygraham926Try again, the post office has been delivering Amazon well before DeJoy took the position.
Actually usps has a contract with Amazon. We deliver roughly 30-40% of their packages
Wait...how on earth does USPS keep raising the prices on postage the most in history yet cannot pay their workers? Wtf garbage is going on here?!? Something is definitely fishy here- rotten to the core. Now that I know, I will be doing more for my letter carrier!
As a letter carrier in stl,mo, we appreciate our customers like you that want to know what's really going. The post office act like they don't have money. Bullshit cause they raise postage for customers and then do wasteful spending on things carriers don't need or want. Like scanners that have pen point accuracy to micro manage carriers, replacing certain mailboxes or collection boxes that don't need to be replaced. But ones that need replacing, they neglect. Making merchandise for workers when majority of us don't utilize it or it's something we may have already.
@alexhayes7853 Oh wow, so massive misappropriation of funding... Sounds like anything to avoid actually paying people. Wow. So, as a customer in KCMO, what would letter carriers like from us customers that would be useful and help your day? I was thinking a little cache of snacks, hand warmers for winter, a tip here and there?
@@aubz81 well you done the same, you get your 2-3k check, and then if you have the option would you want to waste $500 on something or $1000 on that same something? You would chose the cheap-per $500 to save you money for other things no? Same shet, is just cheaper to provide low cost benefiits than an actual wage and it always be cheaper, for labor is always the most expensive cost of any operation.
@@aubz81 If your delivery guy is a commoner, do a tip so he comes back and delivers your stuff well and not broken. If not, a water, coffe or some 25$ fan would do.
Everyone's been lied too for so long they've got no clue.
I wasted 9 years at USPS. The restructuring led to lower pay, the management was writing me up for things I didn't even do, and was constantly being harassed by my direct supervisor. This all led to a day where I almost ended it all. USPS absolutely needs to be held responsible for the unfair treatment of its employees. It's a tough job and I support the workers doing it. However, the management sucks and should absolutely be held accountable for what the are doing and have been doing for years. I'm happy to see the unions finally standing up. Hang in there guys and gals. You are the real postal workers, not the manager jerks sitting in the office all day.
Never let a job cloud your thinking like that. I'd sooner be homeless, & I have been a few times, than give up on life... it's the only one we get, hang in there ✌🏼
@nolongerblocked6210 I'm definitely good now. I left the post office a year and a half ago. I work a job I absolutely love in an industry I'm passionate about.
then why did you stay? right now McDonalds pays $18. your union screwed you, bro.
@@vegasprogambler5336 I don't work for USPS anymore.
Why are there no more good jobs in America!! Greed has destroyed this entire country!
Now let’s not forget. Mngmt received a hefty raise of over 10%. N our absent National Union President Renfro gave himself a $50,000 a year raise. N our Union dues increased. As will our health benefit premiums.
The unpaid mandatory overtime gets me. Like, not only is that obviously bad for the worker, but it also exacerbates unemployment when people are forced to work longer for less hours. People should be able to work their 8 hours and then pass the torch to the next shift!
as a letter carrier, we do get paid overtime, only during the month of December does it get cut to 1.5x for all worked hours [rather than our penalty rate which is 2x for anything over 10hrs worked in a day]
@@TheAxlSnaks makes no sense to me. it is the busiest time of year. they’re making the most money at this time of year and they are giving you less. working likely more overtime (cause you’re understaffed) when it’s supposed to be the month you spend the most time with loved ones.
what do they tell you to explain why you get paid less at this time of year?
As someone who isn't in America, the notion of employer mandated overtime, let alone unpaid overtime, is insane to me. Who is going to work compulsory overtime for zero dollars? America seems to hate working people and yearns for the days of indentured servitude. Also, Louis DeJoy looks like a comic book supervillain.
@Perfidion we get paid overtime - what they posted is false
We get paid for any overtime worked. If it's mandatory overtime, blame the holiday season. We get paid for overtime worked.
This was amazing! I loved this. Thank you for attending the branch 41 rally and documenting our fight. ✊🏿
So glad I am no longer with the USPS. Worst job ever.
They make rural carriers supply their own right-hand-drive vehicles! Fucking wild
I spent $10k on a RHD vehicle for this job. Had to take a loan I am still paying. Vehicle is almost 20 years old have spent a few thousand so far getting it up to speed. Still more to be done. No support from the company. Every full week I work comes out to about 60 hours. For that I get paid 4 hours of overtime. Salary based on 45 hours. So 11 hours free to the company per week right now, and it used to be more when my salary was only 42 hours! Rural carrier on a 60 mile route with Amazon driving in very shitty conditions. This is not a job anymore it is a SCAM. Period.
@@matthewcostanzo7425That’s crazy. Most of our rural carriers get done early.
@@willaerley7140
I now see mail carriers working late hours...up to 9pm delivering mail. Didn't used to be like that.
@@JusticeAlways It happens, especially in undesirable areas. No one wants do walking routes in seedy neighborhoods.
My dad did a rural route in an old Jeep Wagoneer, and sat in the passenger seat with his left foot on the gas and left hand on the wheel.
Workers of the world unite
non bankers of the world unite=against the bankers
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
@@NeighborhoodOfBlue and a world to win
Little too late lol
@@NeighborhoodOfBlue time to revolt?
Branch 78, out of Columbus, Ohio here, retired since '11. I'm aghast to see this video. It got pretty rough at times during my twenty-seven years on the job, but this is shameful. I remember when they rolled out the scanners and promised they were never going to be used in a disciplinary fashion. I guess that didn't pan out well. Stay strong. Jesus only!
Columbus stand up!! ✊🏾 upper Arlington carrier here
Everyone used to be middle class.
Even top 10% were not that far away from middle class.
Now its kings and peasants.
I worked USPS for 2 months. I couldn’t do it, super hard work, super long hours, too little pay, too much work for 1 person
You were probably a clerk.
@@vetbcrazyrural route
Been here 8 years as a clerk. Averaging about 60 hours a week. The overtime is great. The pay could be a lot better.