Postal Worker Survey Reveals That the U.S. Postal Service Is a Terrible Place to Work

An employee survey that postal officials tried to keep under wraps proves what countless postal workers have been saying for years: The USPS is generally a horrible, dysfunctional place to work.

On nine of the 13 questions — from how supportive immediate supervisors are, to development opportunities, to fellow workers’ commitment to quality — the USPS scored in the bottom 1 percentile. In other words, for each of those nine questions, about 396 companies scored better than the USPS and only three, at most, scored the same or worse.