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I read an article a long time ago about how the drive to cut costs resulted in carriers being expected to meet unrealistic goals that took virtually no account of their workload, and at the same time being incredibly micro-managed by superiors and force-fed a lot of pressure and criticism for failure to meet essentially "feel good" targets set by management to make management look good and like they were efficiently cutting costs. This made huge chunks of the postal service feel trapped and very angry, as well as overworked, and that's when you started hearing about workers "going postal."

I'm not sure how much that has changed these days. It's pretty standard now to run operations understaffed and just pile the work on others until a workplace becomes provably ridiculously unmanageable and unproductive, or someone quits or has a heart attack or something and legal worries crop up. So I wouldn't be surprised to see the postal service still dangling from a branch of that tree of management theory.

On the other hand, you can work in the postal service behind a counter, too, which looks extremely easy in some post office branches, and merely not very at all in others. I'd probably go for the indoor job if it were me, to save my back and keep the frustration level low.