| Finding local post office jobs is not an easy task. | | | | of mail, about 700 million pieces a day. |
| First, you have to determine what type of postal job | | | | - The USPS delivers more in one day than FedEx |
| you are interested in. Some of the more popular | | | | does in a year and more items in one week than |
| postal jobs include: post office clerk, postal carrier | | | | United Parcel Service does in a year. |
| and mail clerk. Other local post office jobs include | | | | - Each carrier delivers over 40 tons of mail per year. |
| corporate jobs, sales and marketing jobs, and | | | | - An average carrier delivers more than 2,300 mail |
| information technology jobs. | | | | pieces per day on approximately 240,000 routes. |
| The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers billions of | | | | - The USPS employs over 700,000 workers in the |
| pieces of mail each week in all types of weather. | | | | U.S. |
| Postal employment worldwide consists of millions of | | | | - The average salary of a postal worker is $48,000 |
| employees operating thousands of Post Offices | | | | annually. |
| vehicles. Postal jobs involve processing, sorting, and | | | | - The US has the most affordable postage in the |
| delivering mail and packages as well as providing | | | | world. A first-class stamp costs 41 cents in the U.S., |
| customer service and supplies in post offices. Most | | | | 75 cents in Japan, 49 cents in Germany and 71 cents |
| postal service workers are mail carriers, clerks, or mail | | | | in Britain. |
| sorters and processors. Postal clerks wait on | | | | - The USPS has annual revenues of over $75 billion. |
| customers at post offices, whereas mail sorters, | | | | Finding and Applying for Local Post Office Jobs |
| processors, and processing machine operators sort | | | | The process of obtaining a job with the US Postal |
| incoming and outgoing mail. Mail carriers deliver mail to | | | | Service is sometimes confusing. The best approach |
| hundreds of millions of addresses throughout the | | | | to finding a postal job is illustrated in the steps below. |
| world. | | | | |
| Facts about the United States Postal Service | | | | 1. Determine the type of position you are interested |
| - The USPS is financially independent from the federal | | | | in. |
| government, generating all its own revenues with no | | | | 2. Determine the location where you want to work |
| subsidies from American taxpayers. | | | | 3. Determine if there are any of your desired |
| - The postal service employs more U.S. workers than | | | | positions open in the locations that you want to |
| GM, Ford, and Chrysler combined. | | | | work |
| - Postal Service employees are one of the few | | | | 4. Apply for the open positions online or at your local |
| groups of federal workers with the right to bargain | | | | post office |
| collectively for wages and conditions. | | | | 5. |
| - In 2007, the USPS delivered over 200 billion pieces | | | | |