Letter Carrier - Delivery Agent and Postal Clerk

Canada Post; Halifax; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization that is an e-commerce powerhouse, delivering billions of items annually. As a Delivery Agent or Postal Clerk, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that customers receive their mail and packages efficiently. This temporary, on-call position offers extensive training and the potential for permanent employment. With opportunities to grow within the company, you can start your career in a dynamic environment that values trust, respect, and delivering for others. If you're ready to make a difference in your community, this is the job for you!

Benefits

Competitive Pay

Classroom and On-the-Job Training

Opportunities for Permanent Employment

Qualifications

• A valid driver's licence with a safe driving record for at least 3 years.
• Physical ability to lift and carry mail items regularly.

Responsibilities

• Sort and prepare deliveries at the depot for the day.
• Deliver mail and packages by foot or vehicle to customers.

Skills

Customer Service Experience

Driving Skills

Physical Fitness

Ability to Work in All Weather

Education

Valid Class 5 or Class G Driver's Licence

Tools

Material Handling Equipment

Job description

Job Requisition Id: 187684
Business Function: Delivery Agent or Letter Carrier
Primary City: Bridgewater
Other Location(s):
Province: Nova Scotia
Employment Type: On Call Relief
Employment Status:Temporary
Language Requirement: English Essential
Number of Vacancies: 5
Salary: $23.81
Job Closing Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2025/04/05

Job Description

Canada Post is an exciting place to work! And you can be part of it!

We deliver billions of items to Canadians each year – you can be a big part of making this happen.

In this role, you may be called upon to do on-call delivery agent OR on-call postal clerk work:

1. On-call delivery agent (also known as a letter carrier): You’ll be the face of Canada Post in your community and make sure customers and businesses get the mail and parcels they’re waiting for.
2. On-call postal clerk: You will have the opportunity to work various shifts, including days, evenings, overnights, and weekends. This temporary on-call position is an excellent opportunity to learn about the business of mail operations, as well as the great jobs available at Canada Post.

Job Responsibilities

As a Delivery Agent - What will you do?

1. You’ll start your day in the depot, sorting and preparing the day’s deliveries.
2. You’ll load and drive a Canada Post postal vehicle.
3. You’ll then spend most of your day outside, delivering mail and packages by foot or by vehicle to customers on your route.
4. You’ll return to the depot to unload the day’s incoming mail and packages for later delivery.

Job Responsibilities (continued)

As a Postal Clerk - What will you do?

1. You’ll work inside a sorting facility, sorting mail and packages.
2. Work various shifts (may include evenings/nights and weekends).
3. Operation of material handling equipment.
4. Receiving and accepting mail items.
5. Sort, scan, sequence, and batch mail items.
6. Transfers and dispatching of parcels and packets.
7. Perform other postal clerk duties as required.
8. Completes reports and documentation.

Qualifications

What must you have?

1. A valid Class 5 or Class G driver’s licence with a safe driving record for at least 3 years (driver's abstract required).
2. The physical ability to lift mail items weighing up to 22.7 kg (50 lb) and carry items weighing up to 15.9 kg (35 lb) regularly throughout the day.
3. The ability to work in all types of weather.
4. The availability to be on-call, possibly evenings and weekends.
5. The ability to read, write, and speak English and/or French.

These help, too!

1. Experience in customer service.
2. Experience making deliveries or working as a driver.
3. Experience working in a production environment is an asset.

In return, we offer:

1. Competitive pay.
2. Extensive classroom and on-the-job training about your duties and safety on the job.
3. Opportunities for permanent employment.

Other Information

Today’s Canada Post - Canada Post is an e-commerce powerhouse, delivering billions of items every year. We help small businesses grow. We enrich lives in remote communities. We connect Canadians with each other and to the rest of the world. And we do all this by providing residential and business customers with the best possible delivery experience in the country.

We like to promote from within and can offer you a career rather than a job. While, like all of our delivery agents, you’ll start out on a temporary, on-call basis, you’ll have the opportunity to grow with us and obtain a permanent position … even try out new jobs in different areas of the company.

Canada Post’s values and behaviours

Our Values - Trust, Respect, and Deliver represent our fundamental promise to ourselves, our expectations of one another, and our shared duty to our country.

Our behaviours – Make the call, Know the destination, Deliver for others, Ignite our pride; embody our values, bringing them to life and guiding our actions.

We’re committed to living these values and practicing these behaviours every day. Learn more about the values and behaviours by visiting the Canada Post website.