I'm looking to possibly pick up a couple of P/T positions locally since I'm about to go back to school.
Right there this tells me that Express won't work for you. A 'couple' of part-time jobs and going to school - Express has NO FLEXIBILITY when it comes to other employment or schooling. If you have a scheduling conflict - you are EXPECTED to make the other event which conflicts with Express scheduling 'go away'. Express considers itself to be 'primary', even for part-timers, even for part-timers going to school. If you want to work for Express, that is your number one priority in their eyes.
I worked part-time while going to school.
The benefit was that I had a fixed worked schedule that was easy to plan my class work around.
The down side was that I couldn't just take unpaid time off if something came up. I couldn't take classes which conflicted with my work schedule in ANY WAY - and management wouldn't even think about altering work schedules to fit my needs. Their operational needs came FIRST - my needs second. As long as I arranged my life around the work schedule that I had (it was fixed, they didn't jerk it around), I ran into no problems.
I ended up using my sick and personal days to accommodate the occasional need which conflicted with Express employment. We got 5 sick and 4 personal/floater days each year. I had to use them very carefully to facilitate my getting through my graduate program.
Many part-timers in Express do have either another job, or are going to school. They have difficulty in getting time away from Express if their other commitment has something that would require them to spend a few days in 'training', or covering for a sick employee, or a short term internship.
Express management has NO ISSUE with requiring part-timers to work outside their scheduled shift (especially in the 2 weeks before Christmas - they think they own you then), but if another employer has similar requirements of you - Express will give you no leeway.
You can't schedule vacation to cover events at school or other employment to prevent conflicts. Vacation is 'bid' with all the other employees, and low seniority employees get whatever is left over. Since every station has Couriers going to school - the higher seniority Couriers will grab up vacation time that is around finals, spring break, or other times of the year when people going to school want time off.
Working at Express slowed my progression towards completing my program by about a year - but I needed the insurance. The tuition reimbursement was a joke - that really doesn't act as an incentive anymore given tuition rates.
If you are needing a 'full income' while going to school (2 part-time jobs), then Express WON'T work for you. Too many conflicts will arise and you will either end up quitting Express or getting fired for excessive tardiness (getting into work late from the other part-time job or school).