Carrier (City)

Carrier (City) -- OMJ Reference #ADD Salary: $26.36/hr. Is This the Right Job for You? • Some Heavy Lifting • Standing and Walking for Extended Periods • May Work Evenings, Weekends and Holidays • Outdoors • Driving • Interacts with Customers Benefit Information This is a career position which offers excellent benefits. Newly hired employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). Upon hire, employees are eligible to contribute into the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is similar to 401(k) plans and offers matching employer contributions. We offer the option to enroll into the Health Insurance, Group Life Insurance, Dental, Vision and Long-Term Care Insurance Programs as well as Flexible Spending Accounts to cover eligible out-of-pocket health care and dependent care (day care) expenses, accrued vacation and sick leave. In addition, the Postal Service offers a variety of employee discount programs ranging from tuition discounts to cellular service. Job Overview As a Career (Part-Time Flexible) City Carrier, you'll deliver mail on foot or by vehicle while staying active and serving your community. This entry-level, career-appointed position provides benefits, uniform allowance, and opportunities for overtime. Work schedules and hours fluctuate based on operational needs and may include weekends and holidays. You'll support full-time carriers by covering routes and assisting with high mail volumes, and over time transition into a full-time position. FUNCTIONAL PURPOSE: Delivers and collects mail on foot or by vehicle under varying road and weather conditions in a prescribed area; maintains professional and effective public relations with customers and others, requiring a general familiarity with postal laws, regulations, products and procedures commonly used, and with the geography of the area. May be required to carry mail weighing up to 35 pounds in shoulder satchels or other equipment and to load or unload container of mail weighing up to 70 pounds. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery along an established route. Rearranges and relabels cases as required. • Withdraws mail from the distribution case and prepares it in sequence for efficient delivery by himself or a substitute along an established route. Prepares and separates all classes of mail to be carried by truck to relay boxes along route for subsequent delivery. • Handles undeliverable mail in accordance with established procedures. • Delivers mail along a prescribed route, on foot or by vehicle, on a regular schedule, picking up additional mail from relay boxes as needed. Collects mail from street letter boxes and accepts letters from mailing from customers; on certain routes may deliver mail that consists exclusively of parcel post, or the collection of mail. • Uses portable electronic scanner as instructed. • Delivers and collects charges on customs, postage-due, and c.o.d. mail matter. Delivers and obtains receipts for registered and certain insured mail. Signs for such matter, except insured mail, at the post office before beginning route and accounts for it upon return by payments of the amounts collected and delivery of receipts taken. • Deposits in the post office mail collected on the route upon returning from the route. • Checks, and corrects if necessary, mailing cards from advertisers bearing names and addresses of customers or former customers on the route. • Furnishes customers with postal information and provides change of address cards and other postal forms as needed. • Reports to supervisor all unusual incidents or conditions relating to mail delivery, including condition of street letter boxes and centr