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City or Rural carrier?
city
Good score!
Rural carrier work is a fuck
Messed my back up something fierce doing it
Have a friend who had to pay $2500+ out of pocket to have her own personal vehicle fitted with right hand drive and they cut her like 6 months in. Now she gets to drive on the wrong side of the road!
I had a LLV, but they scheduled me like 60 hours every week and ran me ragged
Constantly shat on me for taking 10+ hours on the route I was assigned when it should have been two separate routes because of the mail density
Final straw was when they had me deliver a team lift package solo (which was what fucked my back up)
All in all, best to stay away from the RC positions unless you know you're gonna get treated right
Congrats, can confirm that rural carrier positions are not worth the extra couple bucks they throw at you per hour.
The city carrier union is older and generally stronger than the rural one. Yes, they're two separate unions to weaken bargaining power.