Three Great Fears Of Everyone Who Is Starting On Their Postal Service Job

Don’t ever think that you are the world's greatest coward simply because you are scared about your new post office job. You feel that since this is a new field for you and you know nothing about it, that makes you feel frightened. Do not worry too much. Everyone feels anxious when they are approaching their first job. You could be a postal clerk or anything else. You can learn on the job. It is not too hard.

Let us focus on some of your greatest fears and perhaps how you can handle them:

Job Insecurity

Most likely as postal carrier, you fear so much about your personal security. If you are delivering a parcel and someone has this huge and fearsome German Shepherd, well, you know very well that you do not want to tangle with such. It sounds funny, but many a mail carrier has been assaulted at one time or another. The good thing is that with time, you will learn how to be secure as you deliver mail to different households.

Job Loss

Everyone who is employed gets this fear. It’s just funny how life is. When you do not have a job, you could give anything to be employed. When you get the job, your greatest fear is that you could get fired for no reason, and lose your job. Millions of people starting to work in the post offices globally are not guaranteed of job security. They fear they will lose the job anytime. And with the 21st century development, many people even fear that post offices don’t matter as much as they did in the past. The job loss fear is unfounded. Even if you lost your job, that would not be the end of living for you. In any case, unless we get into something akin to the great depression, well, the truth is that the USPS is a good employer and does not fire people just for the kicks. Thus, if you are a hard worker, you will keep your job.

Not enough training for the job

This is one of the biggest worries that many people who are looking to take up the post office jobs face. Well, ideally, you are supposed to have an on the job instructor the first day, second day and even the third day of your working for the US postal service. However, in many cases, that is not what happens. You will have your on the job instructor the first day, make the rounds with him in the small postal service cars. But you will do the groundwork, the actual walking, ringing doorbells, making people sign for parcels and so on. If you get lucky, the instructor will accompany you the second day. However, on the third day, many newbie mail carriers find themselves all alone, doing their designated routes alone. One other thing … you may not get enough time to be acquainted with your routes. At the same time, you will be expected to do the job in the same duration of time as the regular workers. If a route is supposed to take 4 hours, that is what you will be expected to do, whether you are on your second day on the job or not. It can get really stressful.