How do I become a postal worker?

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All full-time U.S. Postal Service candidates for the positions of clerk, carrier, custodian, mail handler and maintenance technician must take the Battery 470 exam. These positions are government jobs with excellent benefits. The candidates with the highest scores are the first ones to be interviewed.

Things You’ll Need:

Novell Self-study Materials

Postal Forms

Step1 Understand that you must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen or a legal resident, and without any felony convictions to be employed by the U.S. Postal Service. If you have a general equivalency diploma (GED), the minimum age is 17 years.

Step2 Contact the human resources department at your local post office for local job openings, applications and the next testing date.

Step3 Obtain a study guide to help you prepare for the mandatory exam. You will be tested on number series, address checking and memory. Ask your local post office for information on obtaining study guides, or get the prep guide shown under Related Books.

Step4 Check the post office's National Directory Book for phone numbers of national post offices to learn about openings and exams in other areas.

Step5 Be prepared to answer questions about your abilities when you're called in for an interview.

Besides the Online information on www.usps.com you can also walk into any US Postal Service building and ask for an application form, which you can fill out right away and hand to the appropriate employee (i.e. the Manager).

You can search the USPS website for job opportunties.

http://www.usps.com/employment/welcome.htm?from=home&page=employment

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Start by licking lots of stamps. Maybe some one will see you and give you a job. Welcome as one of my friends!

http://www.postaljobs.com/

This is not an official USPS website but it explains the exam process.

You can get study guides to prepare for the tests. My intelligence is above average, but the postal test made me feel like a moron. I took the test in a large hall filled with about 1000 other applicants. A few minutes into it, I abandoned all hope of ever becoming a postal employee.

As the crowd was breaking up, I heard comments that the test was easy. People said they had "aced" it.

If you are a minority woman veteran, your chances go way up. Even if you do lousy on the test you might get hired, so go for it. My hope was to work the swing shift and go to college during the day. I knew a guy who became a lawyer this way. You could get stuck working graveyard, however.

There are casual or temporary positions that you can apply for at some locations that do not require a test, but they also are not permanent and have no benefits. To get a postal job with benefits, you have to wait until they are giving the postal exam, every 2-4 years. There are good books to help you prepare for the exam. Then after you have been tested you will be listed on a register by grade. Veteran's can get 5 or 10 extra points added to their score depending on whether they are disabled or not. When an office has a vacancy, they will request a register of people who chose that office as one of the three they were interested in working. First they will go for a group interview where the job will be explained to them. If they choose to continue, then they will be sent for a drug test and will have a one-on-one interview with the selecting official. The selecting official will choose one of the top three candidates who pass the drug test and background checks. It can be very hard to get on with the postal service, but if you do, the pay is excellent and the benefits are great.