tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50941948501428187472024-02-22T02:46:38.897-08:00Postal Service JobsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094194850142818747.post-69172452703622280782016-01-13T00:38:00.003-08:002016-01-25T03:47:50.810-08:00Finding Post Office Jobs<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finding
available post office jobs is not an easy task. First, you have to
figure out what type of postal job you are interested in. The various
types of postal jobs available at United State Postal Services
includes: post office clerk, postal carrier and mail clerk. Other
local post office jobs include corporate jobs, sales and marketing
jobs, and data technology jobs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
USA Postal Service (USPS) delivers billions of pieces of mail each
week. The USA Postal Service worldwide has over a million employees.
Postal jobs involve processing, sorting, and delivering mail and
packages along with providing customer service and supplies in post
offices. Most postal service workers are mail carriers, clerks, or
mail sorters and processors. Postal clerks wait on customers at the
post offices, whereas mail sorters, processors, and processing
machine operators sort incoming and outgoing mail. Mail carriers
deliver mail to hundreds of millions of addresses throughout the
world. Postal workers are visible every weekday, including Saturdays
delivering the mail.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Postal
employees typically retire rather than leave postal careers. In fact,
the retention rate for most federal employees is very good compared
to the general public. This goes against the public perceived
image that postal workers are unhappy and over-stressed workers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even
though, the postal service has hundreds of thousands of employees,
the public often only sees a handful. There are many different jobs
within the USPS including customer server and main processing..</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jobs
are available nationally as well as around the globe. As with every
employer, a postal worker can transfer or perhaps be transferred to a
different position or location. Popular work destinations for the
general population is also reflected with postal workers. So
attractive locations in warm cities in California and Florida are
sought after.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Postal
workers gain instant recognition from their community. They are
usually automatically popular and trusted. Postal workers appear on
television, in movies, and are often depicted as welcome members of
communities. Therefore it is not surprising that many people
take the postal exam to get jobs working for the USPS.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094194850142818747.post-50587459866753312482016-01-13T00:36:00.002-08:002016-01-25T03:47:56.553-08:00Postal Battery Exam 473<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXlJ7cm0_pYr6Uc1oKbPtFxqav3_gQ5TJ3Hdl5yiDF5NFcwVLdwATpWaNXExZ95klGKJz4zx9-5VUzuGZ3sPkAexA6jqjdyzWZ35h7hC0gAGO8vEKIbi7kPDu677LOqQipNpfXg0HfQ/s1600/Postal+Battery+Exam+473.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXlJ7cm0_pYr6Uc1oKbPtFxqav3_gQ5TJ3Hdl5yiDF5NFcwVLdwATpWaNXExZ95klGKJz4zx9-5VUzuGZ3sPkAexA6jqjdyzWZ35h7hC0gAGO8vEKIbi7kPDu677LOqQipNpfXg0HfQ/s1600/Postal+Battery+Exam+473.jpg" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The
United States Postal Services has developed a new entrance exam
called the Test 473 for Major Entry Level jobs. This new test
is also referred to the 473 Battery Exam.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Mail
room clerks, carrier, mail handlers, and postal distribution
personnel must pass the 473 Postal exam. Your overall hiring
potential is based on your test results on the Postal exam, your
previous work experience and education. Those with related
previous work experience will score naturally higher overall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The
473 Battery Exam got its name from the fact that there are 473
questions on the Postal exam. The Postal exam covers the
following:</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Part
A</b>, covers your ability to check address. There are 60 questions
and you have 11 minutes to determine if two address are identical to
each other or not.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Part
B</b>, assesses your ability to complete forms. There are 30
questions and you have 15 minutes to complete missing information on
forms presented in the exam.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Part
C</b> is made up of two parts. Section 1 of Part C has 36 questions
and you have six minutes to assign the proper code to addresses based
on the directions provided in the exam.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Section
2 of Part C of the postal exam is designed to test your memory
skills. There are 36 questions and you got 7 minutes to answer
the questions. You have to memorize assigned codes for
addresses ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The
last part of the exam is Part D. There are 236 questions. Those taking the exam are given 90 minutes to answer questions that
are designed to evaluate your experience and characteristics
that are related to working as a postal worker.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Part
D, will ask questions about yourself. Things you like to do and
things you don’t like to do. They will ask questions to find
out if you have experience in different areas of work. It’s a
personal profile so the more honestly you answer the questions the
better it will enable the U.S. Postal Service to find a job that fits
your characteristics. This is one part of the exam that you
cannot prepare for so concentrate on the other parts when you are
studying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Address Checking</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The
postal clerk exam is intended to underline your skills on the job if
necessary. Address checking is obviously a huge component if you work
for the postal service. There is a section devoted entirely to
checking addresses in order to evaluate your attention to detail, and
if you can work quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">When
you are checking addresses, look for differences in street numbers,
street names, abbreviated words like Dr. Rd. Ave. St.
etc. City names and state abbreviations can throw you. NY
looks similar to NV if the handwriting is unclear. Work as
quickly as you can scanning the address from left to right. The
smallest detail will make the difference if two addresses are
identical or not. If you want to challenge your eye scanning
skills, practice teaching yourself how to scan from right to left. The eye has a natural tendency to start from the upper left corner of
any reading material first. But forcing yourself to scan an
address from right to left will force your eye to move slower, thus
better able to catch discrepancies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Random
guesses will not help your score so it is to your benefit to get
through as many questions as possible and to give each your full
attention.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Coding & Memory</b></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Attention
to detail is probably the single-most important skill for anyone
testing for postal clerk jobs. The second most important skill
for this career path is your memory. The coding and
memory section of the postal clerk and carrier exam text your ability
to remember your ability to focus.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">72
coding and memory questions ask you to identify codings
sections for details related to addresses and delivery routes. You are given a “coding guide” listing a series of address
ranges on one side and delivery routes on the other. It
will be your task to match the address range to the delivery route
without using the coding guide after you’ve reviewed it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
best tip for excelling at the coding & memory section is the same
with the address checking section, to stay completely focused on the
task at hand and pay close attention to the smallest details. Take the coding & memory sections of practice tests before your
test date. At first, the coding guide will appear
overwhelming. After reviewing a few of them, you will begin to
see a pattern in that the guide is devised in a logical format so
that addresses can be quickly associated with delivery routes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
quick side note on memory. We all have a memory. We all
have the ability to convert information to our short-term memory, our
long-term memory and our remote memory. Short-term memory
is where we store information temporarily. For example, if you
are working as a temp you may have a badge number for a particular
office, but once that assignment is complete, you probably forget all
about that badge number.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Long-term
memory is where we store information for the long haul. Family
member names, important telephone numbers and passwords are
usually stored here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remote
memory is where we remember things on autopilot. For example,
language is in our remote memory. Once we learn how to speak,
we never forget.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Personal Characteristics & Experience Inventory</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">There
is a section on the postal clerk exam called a Personal
Characteristics and Experience inventory. This is the
longest section on the exam and you can’t really prepare for
it. In fact, you are encouraged </span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: normal;">not </span></span></em><span style="color: black;">to. Let’s go over what your test reviewers are looking for in the PC &
E section.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your
personality is a large part of this section. The questions
aren’t intended to determine whether you are a good or bad person,
rather, they are intended to reveal if your personality traits would
bode well in the post office environment. For example, you will
be asked to answer a series of agree/disagree questions that will
shed light on your ability to work under pressure, and as a
cooperative part of a team.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Experience section is probing to find jobs that you have had
previously that demonstrate similar aptitudes and skills for the post
office job function. Jobs that might have required long hours
standing, for example, would be important to mention. Did you
have any jobs that required you to stand in one place for a long
period of time, like a retail sales associate? Likewise,
performing inventory in a retail environment might show that you can
work very quickly while also paying attention to detail. Repetitious tasks in any previous job will be good opportunities to
show that you are a good candidate for the post office.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Government Forms</span></h2>
<div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There
are 30 questions in the forms completion section on the
postal clerk anc carrier exam. Questions ask you to fill in
fields on various forms. You don’t need to, nor should you even
try, to memorize the government forms in advance of the exam in order
to answer the forms questions successfully. The process that
you go through when you fill out medical forms are you local
physician’s office are filled out the same way as the US Postal
Service forms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When
you get a form, look at its title to determine exactly what that form
is about. Glance through the form quickly to see if there are
sections you can skip if they do not apply. As you move down through
the form fields, note questions that say something like ‘if you
answered yes, proceed to question #8′. Also, as you work down
the fields, make sure you fill in the blank appropriately; for
example do not write your city’s zip code in the home telephone
number field. Pretty self-explanatory tips. This section
really boils down to focus and taking your time to deliberately
complete the form fields.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You’ll
have fifteen minutes to answer the 30 questions in the Forms section
on the exam. Again, don’t worry about memorizing all the
forms. Undoubtedly there will be one you haven’t seen
before. If you stay focused on what the form is about, and
exactly what detail the form field is looking for, you’ll score
well. In fact, in this section you are not penalized for
incorrect answers. Rather, you are scored on the completion rate of
your forms. Be sure to fill in every answer!</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094194850142818747.post-72061546182191241832016-01-13T00:27:00.003-08:002016-01-25T03:48:00.740-08:00Veterans Preference<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Veterans are
given preference for employment in Federal Jobs. If you are a
veteran, a certain number of points will be added to your basic
rating on the exam, so long as you make at least 70% on the exam.
This is what the law dictates: if you have served in the Armed Forces
of the United States, you deserve some kind of priority in government
employment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether
you are a veteran who participated in Iraq or Afghanistan - or even World War II, Vietnam war, or
Grenada war - you will receive this preference so long as you were
honorably discharged or separated from the Armed Forces of the United
States.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
you are claiming the ten-point veteran disability preference, you are
more fortunate than someone who is eligible for the ordinary
five-point preference. Why? Because veteran eligibles who have
service-connected disabilities and have extra ten points are placed
first at the top of the register in the order of their scores, except
for scientific and professional jobs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That
simply means that you’re followed by all other eligibles, including
the five-point preference veterans, who are listed according to their
ratings. So if you’re a ten-point preference veteran, you’ll be
on the top of the list, even if your basic score is lower than the
top scorers. You’ll bump the other eligibles as if to say, “Move
down, move down, move down!” The so-called preference
eligibles who receive five points additional are listed with
the other eligibles (civilians) according to scores. On the other
hand, if you are a five-point preference veteran, it does not mean
that you will be ahead of those who make higher scores than yours. If
you score 75, including your five points, you won’t be listed above
a nonpreference eligible who scores 76. However, if you are a
preference eligible, you’ll be listed ahead of the nonpreference
eligibles who make the same scores as you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Standard
Form 15</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
you’re claiming veteran preference, you’ll have to fill out and
submit Standard Form 15 to prove that you really served in the Armed
Forces of the United States.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because
of the veteran preference, many who have retired from the Army, Navy,
and Air Force have been appointed to postal positions and other
Federal agency jobs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In
the competitive tests for appointment to positions in the Postal
Service, these preference benefits are given to veterans under
certain conditions:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five points are added to the basic rating of an examinee who scores
at least 70 percent (the passing grade). If you make a score of 70,
your final score will be 75; if you score 98 on the exam, your final
score will be 100. (The maximum points any veteran can get is 100.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ten points are added to the basic rating of an examinee who scores 70
percent or above and who is:</span></li>
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<ul><ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">a.
a disabled veteran or a veteran who has received a Purple Heart
award. Physical requirements are waived for persons who receive this
preference, so long as they can do efficiently the duties of a postal
worker.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">b.
the wife of a disabled veteran if the veteran is physically
disqualified by his service-connected disability for civil service
appointment to positions along the line of his prewar or usual
occupation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">c.
the widow of a serviceman who died on active duty while serving in
the Armed Forces, but only if she has not married again. (The law
does not say whether she’ll be disqualified if she falls in love
again.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">d.
the mother of a deceased or disabled veteran son or daughter, if she
is either widowed, divorced, or separated, or if her present husband
is permanently and totally disabled.</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Veteran
Preference Explained</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With
regard to the veteran preference, the <b>Postal Bulletin</b>, in
its issue of May 30, 1985 stated:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">“The
following revises Handbook P-11, Personnel Operations, Section
241.31. The principal change is to incorporate the minimum service
requirements for veterans preference as provided in Section 408
of Public
Law 87.306, enacted
October 14, 1982, which amended Title 38 U.S.
Code of Federal Regulations Section
3103A. To obtain veterans preference in Federal employment, a person
who enlisted after September 7, 1980 (or began active duty on or
after October 14, 1982, and has not previously completed 24 months of
continuous active duty), must perform active duty in the Armed Forces
during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign
badge has been authorized, and serve for 2 years or the full period
called or ordered to active duty. The time limit does not affect
eligibility for veterans preference based on peacetime service
exceeding 180 days from 1955 to 1976. This change is effective
immediately and will be included in a future transmittal letter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><b>Kinds of Veteran Preferences</b></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five point preference is given to
honorably separated veterans who served on active duty in
the Armed Forces of the United States:</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
</div>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">during a war; or</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the period April 28, 1952 to July 1955; or</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In
any campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been
authorized (exception: a person who enlisted after September 17,
1980; or began active duty on or after October 14, 1982, and has not
previously completed 24 months of continuous active duty must perform
active duty in the armed forces, during a war or in a campaign or
expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized, and serve
for 2 years or the full period called or ordered for active duty. The
law excepts a person who is discharged or released from active duty
(a) for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty, or
(b) under 10 U.S.C. 1171 or 1173 for hardship or other reasons.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">For more than 180 consecutive days any part of which occurred after
January 31, 1955, and before October 15, 1976. (An initial period of
active duty for training under the 6-month Reserve or National Guard
Program does not count.)</span></li>
</ol>
<br />
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Special
Consideration</b></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Veterans
can file application with the Office of Personnel Management or the
Postal Service after an examination has closed. If
a current list of eligibles exists the veteran can apply within 120
days before or after separation. Ten-point preference veterans can
apply anytime to be placed on an existing eligibles list.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">All
veterans, regardless of when they served on active duty, may file an
application for any examination which was open while he or she was in
the armed forces or which was announced within 120 days before or
after his or her separation, provided the veteran makes the
application within 120 days after an honorable discharge. A disabled
veteran receives 10 points preference and may file an application at
any time.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Veterans
Readjustment Points (VRAs)</b></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">VRA
appointments were originally limited to Vietnam Era Vets. Public Law
102-568 - October 29, 1992 greatly expanded VRA appointments to
millions of post Vietnam Era Vets. You may be eligible for a
non-competitive federal government job appointment. By law, federal
agencies may hire qualified veterans of the Armed Forces directly
under the Veteran’s Readjustment (VRA) program. Successful
completion of the VRA program leads to a permanent civil service
appointment.</span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><b>The
features of the law are:</b></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you served on active duty between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975,
you have either 10 years after the date of your last separation from
active duty, or until December 31, 1955, whichever is later.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you first entered active duty after May 7, 1975, you have 10 years
after the date of your last separation from active duty, or until
December 31, 1999, whichever is later.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The U.S. Postal
Service which employs over 800,000 employees all over the country is
comprised of Corporate headquarters, located in Washington, DC,
Headquarters Field Units, and 10 area offices that have eighty-five
districts.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Positions</b></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Individuals
are employed as craft/bargaining unit employees and non-bargaining
unit employees. Such craft/bargaining employes are clerks, carriers,
mail processors, mail handlers, mark-up clerks, and flat-sorting
machine operators. Non-bargaining unit employees may include computer
programmers, nurses, accountants, and information specialists.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-UjW3egg4mo8agfy89p7AvcbsLiLaExJFdOAWmjnuOUPGcn0xREJVHwY-A8UXsfyHjMOVVHXHxa9hXmwgTusJd1lO5jNG8IZRl9BiD_B0i36QPf0sv6P0NF-URYfZ7bahIOxgksOIlQ/s1600/Postal+Employee+Salaries+%2526+Benefits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-UjW3egg4mo8agfy89p7AvcbsLiLaExJFdOAWmjnuOUPGcn0xREJVHwY-A8UXsfyHjMOVVHXHxa9hXmwgTusJd1lO5jNG8IZRl9BiD_B0i36QPf0sv6P0NF-URYfZ7bahIOxgksOIlQ/s320/Postal+Employee+Salaries+%2526+Benefits.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There
are four types of positions in the U.S. Postal Service. That is,
employes or workers are known as follows:</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
</div>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Full-Time Regular: </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part-Time Flexible</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part-Time
Regular</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Casual</span></li>
</ol>
<br />
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Full-Time
Regulars</b> are permanent employees who are guaranteed 40 hours
a-week work. They have holidays’ pay (even without working), and
they are given full benefits as full-time federal employees. They are
sometimes called “permanent” employees.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Part-Time
Flexibles</b> are career-appointed employees. However, they are
not guaranteed 40 hours a week; that is, they can work only for 30 to
40 hours a week depending on where they work. They are, however,
employees who receive full benefits. In other works, after working
for four hours, they can be sent home if there’s no more work to be
done. All postal workers start as flexibles; that is, their time is
flexible. They may be assigned from one shift to another as the need
arises. They usually work overtime during the Christmas season.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Part-Time
Regulars.</b> They may be considered as “regular”
part-timers. They are similar in some ways to “flexible”
employees, but they are work on a set schedule.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Casuals</b>.
They are temporary employees who work mostly during the Christmas
season, which may last only for a few weeks. Their pay is less than
the other Postal Workers’. Like the Part-Time Regulars and the
Part-Time Flexibles, they are paid per hour.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Salaries</b></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Postal salary system consists of several pay schedules. They are the
Postal Service (PS) for bargaining-unit employees and the Executive
and Administrative Schedule (EAS) for non-bargaining-unit employees.
The pay period for employees begins on Saturday and covers a two-week
period ending on Friday. Postal employees are paid every two weeks
following the end of the pay period.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Benefits</b></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
U.S. Postal Service offers excellent benefits. Such benefits include
life and health insurance, retirement plan, savings and investment
plan with employer contribution, and annual and sick leaves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The
major job categories in the U.S. Postal Service are </span><b>Carrier
(City, Rural Carrier, and Rural Carrier Associate)</b><span style="color: black;">, </span><b>Distribution
Clerk (Manual)</b><span style="color: black;">, </span><b>Mail-Up
Clerk (Automated)</b><span style="color: black;">, </span><b>Distribution
Clerk (Machine-LSM Operator)</b><span style="color: black;">, </span><b>Mail
Handler</b><span style="color: black;">, </span><b>Mail
Processor</b><span style="color: black;">,
and </span><b>Flat
Sorting Machine Operator</b><span style="color: black;">.
To get any of these jobs, you must get a high score on the 460 Exam
and 473 Battery Test. The 460 Exam is for the Rural Carrier Associate
only and the 473 Battery Test is for the other seven positions.</span></span></div>
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<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">City, Rural
& Rural Carrier Associate</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> Level
5<br /><b>Salary Range:</b><br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open
to the general public<br /><b>Examination Requirement:</b> Must
pass the 473 Battery Test and 460 Examination</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
a carrier (whether city or rural) you’ll be required to sort, rack,
and tie mail at the post office before you start making deliveries
within your route or area of delivery. In sorting letters, you must
arrange them in the same order as the streets occur on the route.
Letters and magazines for occupants of an apartment complex must be
tied together with a rubber band or a belt. If you make a mistake in
reading an address, the letter may go into the wrong home mailbox,
causing a delay in delivery. The next day, you may find a note that
says, “This is not ours. Opened by mistake.” The letter might be
a “deadline” letter, an order from the court, or a warning from a
creditor.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
a carrier, you’ll maintain required information, record changes of
addresses, maintain other reports, and forward
undeliverable-as-addressed mail.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In
some ways, a rural carrier’s duty is different from that of a city
carrier. If you are hired as a rural carrier or a rural carrier
associate, you’ll be a jack of all trades; you’ll also be a
“walking post office.” You may carry stamps, scales, and other
equipment and supplies to serve the people of the rural area you
cover.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For
this reason, you must know how to compute the cost of a piece of mail
or a package whether it’s going to a neighboring city, Somalia, or
Russia.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black;">Distribution Clerk
(Manual)</span></b></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> L-5<br /><b>Salary
Range: </b><br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open to the
general public Examination <b>Requirement:</b> Must pass
the 473 Battery Test.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A
clerk may be the jack-of-all-trades position in the U.S. Postal
Service. If you score high on the 473 Battery Test and land a job in
the Postal Service, you can be a manual distribution clerk.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
a distribution clerk, you’ll work indoors and will handle sacks of
mail weighing as heavy as 70 pounds.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />You’ll sort mail and
distribute it by using a complicated scheme, which must be memorized.
(See How to Score 95-100% on Scheme Tests, a chapter in The Book of
U.S. Postal Exams by Veltisezar Bautista.) You’ll place letters or
flats (magazines and pieces of mail in big envelopes) into the
correct boxes or pigeonholes.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
a distribution clerk, you’ll also dump sacks of mail onto conveyors
for culling and sorting; you’ll load and unload sacks and trays of
mail on and off mail transporters, such as APCs (All-Purpose
Containers) and BMCs (Bulk Mail Containers). As a clerk, you may also
be assigned to a public counter or window, doing such jobs as selling
stamps and weighing parcels, and you’ll be personally responsible
for all money and stamps.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Mark-Up Clerk:
Mail Forwarder</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> L-4<br /><b>Salary
Range:</b><br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open to
the general public<br /><b>Examination Requirements:</b> Applicants
must pass the 473 Battery Test and a typing test.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mark-Up
clerks process mail that is undeliverable as addressed. Previously
they were just known as mark-up clerks, but now they are known as
mark-up clerks, automated. Your duty as a mark-up clerk, automated,
consists of keying on the machine, and other related jobs.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mark-up
clerks used to mark undeliverable-as-addressed mail with rubber
stamps that said “Return to Sender, Address Unknown,” etc. (But
not with the words “Return to Sender, Went to Heaven or Hell!”)
They used to stick, pre-printed labels with new addresses on
envelopes. These labels were inserted between change-of-address
cards, arranged alphabetically in an index card tray.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today,
CFS (Computerized Forwarding System) units are installed in USPS
sectional centers throughout the country. If a CFS unit is to be
established by a post office, or if a CFS unit needs additional
employees, postal officials will have to give a 473 Battery Test.
Those already in the service may get these jobs, if they wish, by
bidding for positions. But they must pass a special written and
typing test. Civilian employees in military headquarters or offices
may also request transfer to mark-up clerks, as in other positions.
But they must pass the written and typing test.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Distribution Clerk,
Machine (LSM Operator)</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> L-6<br /><b>Salary
Range:</b><br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open to
the general public<br /><b>Examination Requirement:</b> Must pass
the 473 Battery Test and the LSM training.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Distribution
Clerks, Machine or Letter Sorting Machine (LSM) Operators are clerks
who operate a machine (called a console) that is attached to a giant
letter-sorting machine. The console has a keyboard similar to that of
a piano. Some people say that if you’re a pianist or know how to
play the piano, you’ll be a good LSM operator.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There
are two kinds of LSM operators. One is assigned to learn one or more
distribution “schemes”; the other is assigned to key ZIP codes.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every
post office has its schemes, based on its Zip codes. For example,
Warren, Michigan has four ZIZ codes: 48089, 48091, 48092, and 48093.
The scheme involves the routes to which letter carriers are assigned.
For instance, a carrier may be assigned to Route 38, which covers
certain streets. Sometimes a street is divided into several routes.
Also, letters must be diverted to their proper routes. This is the
job of an LSM operator (distribution clerk, machine). A manual
distribution clerk sorts letters according to their route by putting
letters into pigeonholes on a case.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
you’re assigned to key schemes, you must hit the right keys (two)
on the machine (all numbers), as you read the addresses on envelopes
that are moving from right to left at the speed of about 50 letters
per minute.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
you’re assigned to key ZIP codes, you have to key only the first
three numbers in the ZIP code. Your speed must be about 60 letters
per minute. The letters you’re keying may go to different ZIP codes
(for instance, Mt.Clemens: 48043, 48044, 48045, and 48046).</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Mail Handler</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> L-4<br /><b>Salary
Range:</b><br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open to
the general public<br /><b>Examination Requirements:</b> Must pass
the 473 Battery Test.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
you get a job as a mail handler, you’ll work mostly in the dock
area, the canceling section, and the operation area. As the title
indicates, you’ll load and unload mail onto and off trucks and
perform duties incidental to the movement and processing of mail.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
a mail handler, your duties include separating mail sacks to go to
different routes or cities; canceling parcel post stamps; rewrapping
parcels; and operating canceling machines, addressographs,
mimeographs, and fork-lifts.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Mail Processor</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> L-4<br /><b>Salary
Range:</b><br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open to
the general public. Occasionally, positions are open only to current
employees.<br /><b>Examination Requirement: </b>Must pass the 473
Battery Test</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
you’re appointed as a mail processor, you’ll process mail using a
variety of automated mail processing equipment. You’ll work at the
optical character reader (OCR) mail processing equipment.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Among
your duties are starting and stopping equipment, culling and loading
mail, clearing jams, sweeping mail from bins, and performing other
related tasks.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Flat Sorting
Machine Operator</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Grade:</b> L-5<br /><b>Salary
Range</b>: <br /><b>Persons Eligible to Apply:</b> Open to the
general public<br /><b>Examination Requirement:</b> Must pass the
473 Battery Test</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
a flat-sorting machine operator, your major duty is to operate a
single- or multi-position operator-paced electromechanical machine in
the distribution of flats. (Flats are mailed material mostly
contained in manila envelopes and other self-sealed mail, and are fed
to the machine by an operator to go to different cities or routes.)
You may also be assigned to work in other areas as needed.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here
are other jobs open to the Public. (Applicants are required to pass
examinations.The total qualifications will be evaluated on the basis
of the results of the writgten test and the review panel’s
evaluation of the applicant’s work experience.)</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Area
Maintenance Specialist,</b> Grade: L-7<br /><b>Area Maintenance
Technician,</b> Grade L-8<br /><b>Assistant Engineman,</b> Grade:
L-5<br /><b>Automotive Mechanic,</b> Grade:
L-6<br /><b>Blacksmith-Welder,</b> Grade: L-7<br /><b>Building
Maintenance Custodian,</b> Grade L-4<br /><b>Building Equipment
Mechanic,</b> Grade L-7<br /><b>Carpenter,
Grade:</b> L-6<br /><b>Clerk-Stenographer,</b> L-5<br /><b>Clerk-Typist,</b> L-5<br /><b>Data
Conversion Operator</b><br /><b>Electronics Technician,</b> L-<br /><b>Elevator
Mechanic,</b> Grade: L-7<br /><b>Engineman,</b> Grade:
L-6<br /><b>Fireman</b><br /><b>Fireman-Laborer</b><br /><b>Garageman,</b> Grade:
L-5<br /><b>General Mechanic,</b> Grade: L-5<br /><b>Industrial
Equipment Mechanic,</b> Grade: L-6<br /><b>Letter Box
Mechanic,</b> Grade: L-6<br /><b>Machinist,</b> Grade:
L-7<br /><b>Maintenance Electrician,</b> Grade: L-7<br /><b>Maintenance
Mechanic</b><br /><b>Mason</b><br /><b>Mechanic Helper,</b> Grade:
L-4<br /><b>Motor Vehicle Operator,</b> Grade:
L-5<br /><b>Oiler,</b> MPE<br /><b>Painter, </b>Grade:
L-6<br /><b>Painter-Finisher</b><br /><b>Plumber,</b> Grade:
L-6<br /><b>Postal Machines Mechanic,</b> L-6<br /><b>Postal
Maintenance Trainee</b><br /><b>Scale Mechanic</b><br /><b>Stationary
Engineer, </b>Grade: L-7<br /><b>Trailer-Trailer Operator</b></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3gvHoEez2Xyxn4y66Pu3ea13hcQaN1hwyLla2SIBetoRI_FS6kD1allyc7I555KF41_CoRXi3ptvUky5DK0OTb9C8OfzfMJuaC7cpVLld3rRgjimdaqtXbnhf8QzJt5akkscDjiYJA/s1600/US+Post+Office+Employment+Qualification+Requirements.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3gvHoEez2Xyxn4y66Pu3ea13hcQaN1hwyLla2SIBetoRI_FS6kD1allyc7I555KF41_CoRXi3ptvUky5DK0OTb9C8OfzfMJuaC7cpVLld3rRgjimdaqtXbnhf8QzJt5akkscDjiYJA/s320/US+Post+Office+Employment+Qualification+Requirements.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Age
Requirement</b></span><br /><span style="color: black;">The
general minimum age requirement for positions in the Postal Service
is 18 at the time of employment. For high school graduates or for
persons certified by local authorities as having terminated formal
education for adequate reasons, the minimum age is 16.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Applicants
who are less than 18 years of age, who are not high school graduates,
and have not terminated formal education may participate in the
examination if they will reach 18 within two years from the date of
examination. For carrier positions which require driving, applicants
must be 18 years of age or over. There is no maximum age limit.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Citizenship</b><br />All
applicants must be citizens of or owe allegiance to the United States
of America or have been granted permanent resident alien status in
the United States.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether
you are from the Philippines, Haiti, or Nicaragua, provided you are
an immigrant, you are eligible to take a postal exam and to be
employed in the USPS.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Qualification
Requirements </b><br />Many positions, such as clerk and carrier,
require passing an entrance exam: but some do not. To be a plumber, a
machinist, or a maintenance mechanic, you have to pass a written
exam. Your rating will be based on both the written test and on your
qualifications. But you don't need to pass a written exam, for
example, if you're a physician, a nurse, a psychologist, or a
computer programmer. Your rating on these jobs will be based on your
education, training, and experience. In the written tests, the
passing score is 70 (excluding the extra five or 10 points for
applicants entitled to veterans preference.)</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Education
Requirements</b><br />The Postal Services does not indicate that you
must be a high school graduate to be eligible for any position.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So
unless it is stated specifically that you need a college degree to be
qualified for a certain position, such as doctor, nurse, or engineer,
you will be considered for any position if you meet the requirements
and win over other competitors.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Physical
Requirements</b><br />Applicants must be physically able to perform
efficiently the arduous duties of any position. For instance, the
physical requirements for a carrier are different from those for a
maintenance electrician. The carrier must be able to carry a load of
70 lbs. and must be on the road in all conditions. The electrician
must be able to perform the duties of the position, which may involve
standing, walking, climbing, bending, reaching, and stooping or
prolonged periods of time as well as intermittent lifting and
carrying of heavy tools, tool boxes, and equipment on level surfaces
and up ladders and stairways.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like
your car, you should always be in top condition. No matter how cold
or how hot it is, your body should be in good condition to withstand
the conditions of the roads and the climate.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But
most important of all, you must score 95-100% on the exams to be able
to be called for employment.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although
the passing score is 70%, you need to score 95-100% on exams. Why?
Because usually, only those scoring 90-100% are hired due to the
large number of those taking the exams. In short, the competition is
too keen.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Training
Requirements</b><br />Applicants for some positions may be required to
complete satisfactorily a prescribed training course or courses
before assignment, reaasignment, or promotion.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Operator’s
Permit</b><br />Some positions may require driving a government
vehicle. Such positions include city carrier, rural carrier,
garageman, and electronics technician.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Road
Test</b><br />As an applicant for carrier or any other position
requiring that you drive a government vehicle, you must demonstrate a
safe driving record and pass a postal road test. If you fail the road
test the first time, you cannot be hired, but you may be given a
second chance later. Some people who have taken this test complain
that it is more difficult than the state road test. That’s because
safety is the name of the game in the Postal Service; to pass this
road test, you must show that you follow traffic rules, drive safely,
and deliver letters, magazines, and parcels to the addresses without
damage.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><b>The
Key to Employment</b></span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Employment hinges on one thing and one thing only: ‘how well you
do on the exam.' This rule is strictly enforced with no ifs, ands, or
buts. You could have a Ph.D. and still not be hired if you didn't
come through on the exam. It doesn't matter whether you're a United
States citizen or an immigrant, man or woman, black or white, brown
or yellow, you name it. It's your exam score that counts. Make
95-100% on exams and you'll make it!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094194850142818747.post-28606573501991392962016-01-13T00:18:00.001-08:002016-01-25T03:48:14.337-08:00How To Get A Job In The United States Postal Service<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It
doesn't matter whether you're an electrician, a professional person
or just a high school graduate. It doesn't matter where you were born
or where you grew up. If you're a U.S. citizen or an immigrant, you
can get a job in the U.S. Postal Service by one of two routes
--either by getting high scores on postal entrance examinations or
(if you're a doctor, nurse, or any other professional) by getting a
job without any examinations.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
</div>
<h2>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Civil
Service Eligibles</span></b></span></span></h2>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You cannot apply for a job with the USPS
without being a civil service eligible (except for technical
positions such as doctors, engineers, computer analysts, etc. To be
an eligible you must pass the postal exams. The Postal Service gives
different exams for different positions, such as clerk and carrier,
mail handler, mark-up clerk (automated), distribution clerk
(machine), rural carrier, and other positions.</span></span><br />
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8HMVuPf3oos_kLPb8fHjy9QF7SSRO3S-WpPIe8mMylTGif_ZjuBJE9Y2ajFevx_A4VUodhdyETBKGgAg37CWUaIKmQjJ6_XUCmeQQwa_j1yzRBGtyCWyMMdG-zmTjY8DzcckMRCkyWg/s1600/How+To+Get+A+Job+In+The+United+States+Postal+Service.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8HMVuPf3oos_kLPb8fHjy9QF7SSRO3S-WpPIe8mMylTGif_ZjuBJE9Y2ajFevx_A4VUodhdyETBKGgAg37CWUaIKmQjJ6_XUCmeQQwa_j1yzRBGtyCWyMMdG-zmTjY8DzcckMRCkyWg/s1600/How+To+Get+A+Job+In+The+United+States+Postal+Service.jpg" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post
Offices throughout the country give exams to compile a “register of
eligibles” from which they can take people, according to their
ranking, to fill current and future vacancies. Tests are given by
management sectional centers, general mail facilities, and bulk mail
centers of the U.S. Postal Service. For instance, the Pittsburgh MSC
gives examinations for its associate offices with the area covered by
150, 153, 154, 156, and 260 (West Virginia) zip codes. To know if
there are exams to be given in your area, call the sectional center
of the U.S. Postal Service. A directory of U.S. Postal Testing
Centers is contained in the Book of U.S. Postal Exams.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although
the Postal Service says that 70 is the passing score, your hair will
turn gray while you wait to be called for employment if you score
only in the 70s. The records show that only those who score from 90
to 100% are usually called by the Post Office for employment, because
hundreds and even thousands of people take and pass the exams and the
Post Office can afford to be selective. The rule says that those at
the very top of list of eligibles (in your area) have the first
choice to work in the city where you live or to any city of your
choice. You can take postal exams in any city.If you make a high
score, you may request that your eligibility be transferred to the
city where you want to live and work, or you can work where you took
the exam. If your eligibility is transferred, you'll lose your
eligibility in the city where you took the test. When you are an
eligible, you can postpone your employment in the Post Office for a
certain period of time and still remain an eligible.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
</div>
<h2>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Marking
the Answer Sheets</b></span></span></h2>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bautista also reveals that questions on the
exams are so tricky that you need to use techniques and strategies to
get high scores.He also says that one must know how to mark the
answer sheets to obtain high scores, from 95-100%. He says that if
you know this secret, you'll increase your chances of making 95-100%
by 30 percent. This secret is contained in his book. No other postal
exam authors have revealed such a secret, probably not knowing it
because they have not taken any postal exams. Bautista took the exams
and scored 95-100%.</span></span><br />
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember:
employment hinges on one thing and one thing only: “how well you do
on the exam.”</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This
rule is strictly enforced with no ifs, ands, or buts.You could have a
Ph.D. and still not be hired if you didn't come through on the exam.
It doesn't matter whether you're a United States citizen oran
immigrant, man or woman, black or white, brown or yellow, you name
it. It's your exam score that counts.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094194850142818747.post-83199339521632885682016-01-13T00:17:00.001-08:002016-01-25T03:48:46.129-08:00Frequently Asked Questions About Postal Service Jobs<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have
wanted a Post Office Job for a long time and I don’t exactly know
how to go about getting one. Can you tell me how I can apply for a
job with the Postal Service?</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First, you must know where you
want to work, and then call the testing centers in that area if they
are having any forthcoming examinations. They give applications for
examinations, if there are openings; that is, if they will be hiring
people. In short, you cannot just go to a local Post Office and apply
for a job and present a resume pertaining to your qualifications. You
need to wait for an exam to be given.</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">To get
a job with the Post Office, do I need just to score 95 to 100% on the
exams? Any other qualification requirements?</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You
need to score 95-100% on the exams. Although 70 is a passing grade,
you need to score 95-100% to beat the competition, because thousands
of job seekers take a single examination. Veterans, however, need not
get 95 to 100% on postal exams to get hired, because they are given
preference in federal employment, particularly those veterans with
disabilities. However, you need not be a college degree holder in
order to get a job with the Post Office. Even if you’re only a high
school graduate, you can get a job with the Postal Service, if you
score 95-100% on the exams, beating even a Ph.D if he or she got only
80%. Hiring is based not on education, but on what score you get on
the exam. New employees are hired from top of the Register of
Eligibles, because they are hired based on their scores. It’s
that simple.</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">How shall
I know the dates and locations of the testing facilities and the
phone numbers in my area or near my area?</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">To
know where entrance exams are being given right now or next week,
call the testing centers in your area or in the area where you want
to work. Testing centers are usually Postal sectional centers in
different regions of the country. Unfortunately, you can’t a list
of these testing centers from any Post Office. A directory of U.S.
Postal Testing Centers is included in the </span><span style="color: black;">The
Book of U.S. Postal Exams & Post Office Jobs:How to Be a Top
Scorer on 473/473-C/460 Tests & Other Postal Exams to Get a Post
Office Jobs</span><span style="color: black;"> by
Veltisezar B. Bautista, who scored 95-100% on different exams. The
directory is complete with addresses and phone numbers. For info
about the book, </span><span style="color: black;">click
here</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Is there
a special time of the year that you have to go and get an exam or do
they take applications all the time?</span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Exams
are not held during a special time of the year. Job seekers can’t
apply for exams all the time. Exams are given only when local post
offices need new workers to replace retirees or those who left the
office or to add employees to their present force due to expansion.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="orphans: 1;">
</div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">How can
I prepare for the entrance exams?</span></div>
</span></span></h2>
<br />
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Since
the competition is stiff, you must prepare for the exams by
purchasing one or two postal exam reviewers, if you want to have a
chance in getting a Postal job. Remember, a local Post Office will
hire only a small number of employees after an examination is given.
One of such reviewers is </span><span style="color: black;">The
Book of U.S. Postal Exams & Post Office Jobs:How to Be a Top
Scorer on 473/473-C/460 Tests & Other Postal Exams to Get a Post
Office Jobs</span><span style="color: black;"> by
Veltisezar B. Bautista.</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div>
<h2 style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>I’m presently
in the army, can I take the test while I’m still in the service or
do I have to be out already?</b></span></span></h2>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Here’s
a paragraph from excerpted from the book </span><span style="color: black;">Post
Office Jobs: How to Get a Job With the U.S. Postal Service</span><span style="color: black;"> by
Dennis V. Damp:</span></span></div>
<div style="orphans: 1;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">“Veterans
can file an application with the Office of Personnel management (for
those seeking government jobs, outside of the Post Office) or the
Postal Service after an examination has closed. </span><span style="color: black;">If
a current list of eligibles exists the veteran can apply within 120
days before or after separation.</span><span style="color: black;"> Ten-point
preference veterans can apply anytime to be placed on an existing
eligibles list.<br />“All veterans, regardless of when they served on
active duty, may file application for any examination which was open
while he or she was in the armed forces or which was announced within
120 days before or after his or her separation, provided the veteran
makes an application within 120 days after an honorable discharge. A
disabled veterans receives 10 points preference and may file an
application at any time.” </span>
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