Impossible to get hired full time, you have to be there for many years and may still not see full time status. They would typically call you in for a shift 10 minutes before they need someone

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Modern Canada Post

Letter Carrier (Former Employee) - Windsor, ON - 28 June 2021

This is not the job it used to be. Declining mail volume has given management all the leverage. The routes are way too long now, 800-1200 points of call is the new norm. Employee turnover is high, injuries are high, morale is low and it takes forever to get your own route. And yes, it will be a horrible route. Management has tried for decades to make the routes longer and they succeeded. As a relief carrier, you could be delivering mail until 8pm some days. Then back at it again the next day.

Pros

Good pay and benefits

Cons

Long hours, long routes, not enough help for relief carriers, injuries, management

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Feeling of personal appreciation
Fair pay for job
Clear sense of purpose

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Trust in colleagues
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Great job

Postal clerk (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 19 April 2021

I love working at canada post. Training is good. Great place to work and wage is above fair. The job is not hard and is enjoyable. The only con is if you are a casual employee you don't get hours. I went 3 months without being called in for an assignment but when I do work I really enjoy the work.

Pros

Paid breaks

Cons

Not enough hours given

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Fast paced and I love it

Letter Carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 15 December 2020

I love my job Working for Canada post has changed my life I went from working dead end factory jobs to having a career. The work life balance is sometimes more work then life especially in peak seasons such as holidays. This job is for anyone that enjoys working alone but also working with the public.You have to be self motivated and prepared to walk I take between 40 and 50 thousand steps a day while carrying upwards of 35-50 pounds on your body.

Pros

Benefits, good pay, fast paced, no time to be bored

Cons

Can be very time consuming when you first start

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Good Security after the initial term period

Letter Carrier & Mail Service Courier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 19 March 2020

It’s overall a good company to work if your not the type to go to college or university. It has comparable red tape to any public sector job, the organization is built from the top down as opposed to grass roots which can lead to issues if your a self starter. It offers good job security once you become an indeterminate employee

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Immature, dysfunctional

Sorter (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 24 November 2019

The union are iiars. The union leader and workers complain about the corporation and management. Nothing is their own fault. They don't want you to work too hard or apply yourself because that makes other union workers look bad. You get online training on how to handle customers' packages. You see so many throw fragile items, or put them in the monos where they can get crushed. I try to remind them about package handling and they respond with throwing the package with attitude. And yes. I would emphatically say it is a toxic work environment. Always the complaints, immature high school gossip, and employees harassing others.

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Training is in depth, however, unfocussed.

Mail Carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 21 November 2019

The training is very well done, unfortunately placing new people with veterans is not a strong way to train. The classroom training is focused primarily in an academic setting. Three weeks in a classroom and three days with one person and one specific route is not realistic.

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Good Company to work for Good pension, medical plan working hours

Superintendent Windsor Mail Operations (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 10 November 2019

Canada Post is a good company to work for. Job security , pay, medical plan and pension are great. There is great com-oratory between peers and co-workers. Canada Post has been changing quite a bit over the last few years with the increase in parcel delivery and declining mail volumes

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Horrible

Letter Carrier / Letter Sorter (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 21 October 2019

On the list for a year now. No advancement. Work in horrible conditions. Management doesn't care about you. New route everyday. 12 hour work days. Insane amount of parcels and admail. Long routes. Unsupportive management. Paid 19/hr to work yourself to the bone. No vacation time. Have to be available to be called in at their whim.

Pros

Exercise

Cons

Overworked, underpaid

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Letter carrier

LETTER CARRIER (Former Employee) - Windsor, ON - 17 September 2019

Working sorting mail, standing for long periods of time, as well as walking a route. Meet people whom are not too keen of canada post, so you have to deal with the public, good or bad. Weather is a particular problem...You have to do the job whether you want to or not.

Pros

Breaks, Lunches

Cons

Can be long days, Heavy mailbags

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Letter Carrier (Former Employee) - Windsor, ON - 15 May 2019

Really enjoyed working there. The compensation was good, plenty of opportunity for overtime during the holidays. People were very friendly. Nice place to work.

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Great experience

Windsor, Ontario - Operations Supervisor (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 21 March 2019

Canada Post is a very secure and thriving company with opportunity for advancement. The ability to grow within the corporation and learn from it's operations are second to none.

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Toxic environment

Postal Clerk and Letter Carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 17 November 2018

Be prepared to work in an unsafe and toxic work environment. no one cares about your safety or your rights including a crooked union! you will receive the heaviest work with minimal guidance, not to mention less pay and they only hire you as a causal.

Pros

Get paid

Cons

Toxic Work Environment

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Fun work and challenging

MAIL PROCESSOR (Former Employee) - Windsor, ON - 11 September 2018

I worked in the processing plant. My work involved sorting, weighing and coding the mail. It was a lot of physical work, which I enjoyed. However, I was hired as a part-time casual employee. Therefore, during peak times (Christmas) I would get plenty of hours. After the holiday season, hours would really drop off and sometimes I would only be called in one shift per month.

Pros

Fun, challenging work

Cons

Little hours.

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Great!!

Letter Carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 10 September 2018

I love my job as a letter carrier. Get to me alot of new people not everyday but most of the time. I bring them good news like checks, packages ect , but the time of the month thoeirs thoses bills. Well get the good stuff with the not so good lol.

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great job

msc/letter carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 18 August 2018

it has been a great job for the last 18years..super people ..they are thorough with training and you are offered extra training with cpr courses ..whmis..first aid..union training and health and safety

Pros

great pay and benefits

Cons

can go on strike every 5 years when contact renewal

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well run operation

postal clerk (Former Employee) - Windsor, ON - 21 March 2018

I would be given a list of things that needed to be done at the start of the shift and I would then do them and hand the final total to the supervisor at the end of the shift. The hardest part of the job was lifting the heavy bags of mail to be dumped and then sorted.

Pros

everyone worked well with each other

Cons

n/a

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Sorting Parcels

Postal Clerk (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 27 March 2016

Great job to go into every day! great people. I sort online parcels. Nothing about the job is hard as i tent to learn quickly and management has always been fair and good.

Pros

good pay

Cons

short hours

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Part-time very few hours.

Letter Carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor Ontario - 26 May 2015

I have only recently started at Canada Post. Everybody is very friendly and easy to work with. The job seems quite manageable for full time employees but part-time employees are thrown into some of the hardest situations by covering different routes each time we're called in. The nature of the job requires part-time employees to be on call which is very hard considering I have only been getting called once a month. This job will not pay your bills.

Cons

Never getting called

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A typical day at work

Letter Carrier (Current Employee) - Windsor, ON - 8 October 2014

I take great pride in being a letter carrier. I love my job. First thing in the morning, I gather my containers of mail and start sorting. When finished sorting, I gather my parcels and start scanning them. Tie out all mail and put parcels in number sequence to be delivered. Load up my truck and head off to deliver mail for the day.

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