The worst job of my life....run - Rural Suburban Mail Carrier Canada Post Employee Review

When I got hired, I thought I had found a job to retire at. But this was BY FAR, the worst job of my life and unless you work there......at least as an RSMC or Letter Carrier, you have no idea. The amount of work you are given as a brand new employee is.....stupendous. You are given only three days of training to try to learn everything, and in those three days you are thinking "man this is awesome, we got done our entire day in 5 hours!".....but that's because you are with someone who has been on that route for 20 years and knows it like the back of their hand. Once you are solo......you get the biggest routes, with ZERO help(unless you count having someone come help you sort for 10 minutes). On average these routes had over 15 tubs of mail to sort(averaging 70-100 letters in each tub), 6-8 tubs of magazines to sort, 170-240 packages a day to sort/deliver, and finally the 5-10 flyers a day(usually 500-700) you get that needs to be delivered to every mailbox. ALL while using your personal vehicle.....while your reimbursement is 40$ a paycheck for gas. I would start sorting at 6 am, not even be on the road to deliver until at least 1pm. Then you are out delivering until 7-8pm, with zero breaks. On my first couple of days I kept hearing "man they are costing me so many minutes". I had no idea what that meant, but soon learned to plan my day by minutes, sometimes seconds. because lets say it takes you a minute to fill the mailboxes with one flyer....but you have 7 flyers, and you have lets say 50 boxes on that route to fill.....that is 5 hours of your day on just flyers!!!!!!! But then you come to learn that the mailboxes only have very very very very outdated sized slots for each house, so instead of being able to just drop all the packages for that neighborhood into the box, you can only leave 2-3 max for the ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, so you are forced to drive to each separate house....while looking at a map that is literally from the 1980's(no joke, I had to get a supervisor to reprint the map, which proved EXTREMELY difficult, because the map was so faded). But also, you are given no GPS, so guess what! if you cant find a house, its your own cell data you will be using. Imagine one of the biggest companies that is in the delivery business not providing a GPS in 2018, the tech over at this dump is literally in the dinosaur age. The worst part for a rookie, are long weekends. Most of the senior staff take a vacation day extra every long weekend, and I was like "Why?"......let me tell you why. Because then YOU have to do their route. So here is how it works usually, on Mondays you are expected to deliver Saturday and Sundays mail, so every Monday is a nightmare......but if you come back on a Tuesday, you have to deliver three days worth of mail/magazines/packages/flyers IN ONE DAY! and as a rookie, when you walk up to your station for the day and see what you are expected to accomplish, the insurmountable hill of Olympus now standing before you....its enough to break any man. This job made me go back to school, I'm DEAD serious. I found two jobs working 7 days a week to save up for school after I quit, because working TWO jobs was easier then Canada Post.