Former Letter Carrier Company Review
Pros:
Some freedom at outside delivery, average salary, okish benefits, some CUPW Union job protection (but beware some union reps might be too cosy with management), paid 12 days training period

Cons:
Greedy cheapskate big corporate head management, slow & tedious application process, high pay deductions (for pension & benefits) with no way to opt out, uncaring micromanaged corpoate culutre, unresonably high amount of workload on some days, outdated tools technology

Canada POST head office has STOLEN from workers with "Salary over-payment" Recovery/clawbacks. This discourages employees from working any weekend or late overtime. Canada Post Head office has unilatterly stolen this from my salary, and I tried to contest this with local team leaders / supervisors and union memebers, but all to no avail.

Canda Post HR is extremely slow to respond, taking 3 months or longer from initial online application to even hear back from them. Their hiring process is extremely tedious, slow and inefficent, with multiple reqruied on-site interviews, background checks, physical and written tests, just for some simple labour-related work. The inital 12 days delivery agent training is also extremely tedious and strict with easy-termination clauses, and the only upside is that is it paid training. Also they should have make it easier and faster for new hirees to become full time, newbies shouold not have to wait about 18 months or longer to go from temp to get full time benefits. I heard other companies only has about 2 months probation or even shorter.

It is the breaucrats' own fault for being so excessively greedy with all the extra requirements and regulations in the job; this is supposed to be a simple delivery job with heopfully reasonable workload, but they had to over-complicate things with excessive micro-mangement, and the greedy management's penny-pinching has overburdened the workers workload excessively.
The supervisors are unreasonably overly picky about shoe attires and flyers, and are unsympatheic with the over-burdend workload on routes (especially on heavy-volume/multi-flyer days), and punishes employees frequently with formal discplinary interviews / mock-trials, which you have to rely on the local CUPW union reps as your defense lawyers against the oppressive management.
Also as a result, Canada Post still uses outdated tracking scanners (blackberry "ZEBRA" PDT from the 1990's era), which is slow to boot up and frequently jams or runs out of batteries.

Posted on 27 December 2022 by Rater #6 | Flag as inappropriate

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