CARRIER (CITY) - CAREER JOB W/BENEFITS

United States Postal Service; Essex Junction (VT); On-site; USD 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a City Carrier, responsible for delivering mail and maintaining public relations. This full-time role offers excellent benefits, including retirement plans and health insurance. Applicants must have a valid driver's license and driving experience.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Flexible Spending Program

Paid Vacation

Sick Leave

Qualifications

• Must have a valid state driver's license and safe driving record.
• Experience driving passenger cars or larger for at least two years.

Responsibilities

• Routes and cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery.
• Delivers mail on foot or by vehicle under varying conditions.
• Handles undeliverable mail according to established procedures.

Skills

Driving

Public Relations

Job description

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This job was posted by https://www.vermontjoblink.com: For more information, please see: https://www.vermontjoblink.com/jobs/1255328. This job has an exam requirement. Currently, applicants for this posting who do not yet have an exam score are being invited to take the exam. Examining will continue until capacity has been reached.

DRIVING REQUIRED:

Applicants must have a valid state driver's license, a safe driving record, and at least two years of unsupervised experience driving passenger cars or larger. The driving must have taken place in the U.S. or its possessions or territories or in U.S. military installations worldwide. Postal Service employment is conditional upon your meeting medical suitability, general eligibility and suitability, and background check requirements. Therefore, if you receive a job offer, note that it will be conditional upon you meeting these requirements, even if you are allowed to begin working first.

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 Program 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.

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

1. Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery along an established route. Rearranges and relabels cases as required.
2. 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.
3. Handles undeliverable mail in accordance with established procedures.
4. 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.
5. Uses portable electronic scanner as instructed.
6. 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.
7. Deposits in the post office mail collected on the route upon returning from the route.
8. Checks, and corrects if necessary, mailing cards from advertisers bearing names and addresses of customers or former customers on the route.
9. Furnishes customers with postal information and provides change of address cards and other postal forms as needed.
10. Reports to supervisor all unusual incidents or conditions relating to mail delivery, including condition of street letter boxes and centralized delivery equipment.
11. Becomes proficient, when assigned to a route, in the casing of mail on other routes as assigned.
12. Works professionally with other employees in the office.
13. May, as a substitute carrier, perform clerical duties and be required to pass examinations on scheme of city primary distribution.
14. In addition, may perform any of the following duties: check hotels and other establishments to ensure that mail for residents undeliverable as addressed is not improperly held; deliver stamps or other paper supplies to contract or classified stations and other designated delivery points; serve at carriers' delivery window; receive and register where practical, all letters and packages of first-class matter properly offered for registration; case mail and make deliveries on other routes as assigned.

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Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Government Administration

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