USPS: Letter Carrier Positions Are Available
Letter carrier positions available
Employees can apply through eReassign.
The Postal Service has a limited number of city letter carrier positions available, and current employees are encouraged to apply.
What are the advantages of becoming a city letter carrier?
- Base salary ranges from $44,292 to $57,704 per year
- Daytime work hours
- Interaction with customers
- Outdoor work
- Typically off on Sundays and holidays
- Uniform allowance
Why become a city letter carrier now?
- Taking advantage of this option will provide the greatest selection of jobs and job locations, and increases the chances of finding a job near the applicant’s home.
- Letter carrier seniority begins as soon as the applicant starts.
For more information, employees should contact their local Human Resources office or visit eReassign on LiteBlue to review job listings and locations.
USPS to start campaign encouraging Postal Employees to become Letter Carriers
Filed under: APWU, postal, postal employees, postal news, usps
Reassignment Opportunities to the City Carrier Craft
January 3, 2012
Mr. Cliff Guffey
President
American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
1300 L Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005-4128
Dear Cliff:
As a matter of general interest, the Postal Service will initiate an awareness campaign regarding bargaining unit reassignment opportunities to the city letter carrier craft. The program is intended to provide career clerk, mail handler, maintenance, and motor vehicle craft employees with information on volunteer reassignment opportunities to the city carrier craft. Read more
Video: Neighborhood mailman reassigned after budget cuts
One Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood is saying goodbye to the mail carrier they’ve come to know and love for almost a decade. He’s being re-assigned because of budget cuts. Read more
Florida letter carrier regrets taking one day of sick leave in 43 years with USPS
Filed under: letter carriers, postal, postal news, usps, USPS News Link
Miami, FL, Letter Carrier Samuel Dukes has one regret in his 43 years of service — he once had to use a day of his sick leave.
“I dislocated my knee, but I was able to come to work the next day,” Dukes said. “I came to the Post Office looking for a job and now I do what I need to do — come to work every day.”
Such dedication has helped Dukes — who works at the Quail Heights Post Office — accrue more than 4,000 leave hours. He’s reluctant to use them since he views sick leave as a benefit similar to an insurance policy.
“You might need that policy some day, and if you do, you won’t have to worry about getting a paycheck,” he said.
source: USPS News Link
Video: Pennsylvania Letter Carrier tackles accused burglar in Wilkes-Barre
A Scranton, PA letter carrier tackled an accused burglar on East South Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA – WNEP-TV
‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Food Donations Stolen From Fresno Home
“A Fresno woman claims her food donation was ripped off Saturday. A U.S. postal worker was supposed to pick up the groceries as part of the nation’s Stamp out Hunger campaign. Instead, someone in a random vehicle reportedly took the bag of food. Stamp out Hunger is the largest one-day food drive in the country put on by the U.S. Postal Service.”
source: KGPE TV CBS47 – Serving the Counties of Fresno, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and Tulare in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California
Rudy Tempesta, longest-serving letter carrier in the United States
“Rudy Tempesta, 85, the longest-serving mailman in the United States. For 65 years, first in New York City, and since 1959 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina he’s been delivering good news and bad, checks and bills, letters and magazines, catalogs and packages. For the past 20 years, his route has been a seven-mile stretch in the central part of Chapel Hill.”
full story Parade Magazine
In 2009, Rudy was honored for 60 years of safe driving. Read more
Alert California Letter Carrier Foil Burglars Attempted Getaway After Robbing House
Filed under: letter carriers, postal, postal news, press releases
Carrier Praised for Exceptional Diligence During Burglary
FREMONT, California — The two young burglars at Fremont’s Gibraltar Drive thought they were prepared, mid-day, with a car positioned, motor running. After grabbing jewelry, irreplaceable family heirlooms and other valuables, they dashed down the street and hopped into their get-away car, failing to notice someone who would foil their attempt to escape: Fremont Letter Carrier Colleen Meade.
As the car made a quick turn, gunning toward an escape route from the neighborhood at high speed, Meade looked up while she was busily checking a bundle of mail. Meade took matters into hand, immediately jotted down the license plate number, the color of the vehicle, and a notation on the physical descriptions of the perpetrators. Then she phoned the Fremont Police Department.
“We are deeply grateful for Ms. Meade’s exceptional diligence and concern and commend her for her courageous and quick action,” wrote Robert and Lupe Perez in a letter to the Postmaster General of the United States. The grateful homeowners who have lived in the neighborhood since 1965 went on to say, “We all very much appreciate her exceptional service, in addition to her warm and friendly manner. She always goes out of her way and takes that ‘extra step.’ She is a huge asset to the USPS.”
source: USPS
Video: Eleanor Norton-Letter Carriers Are Indispensable To The American People
Filed under: Congress, politics, postal, postal news, usps, videos
Video from the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing on “Pushing the Envelope: The Looming Crisis at USPS.” The hearing examined the current fiscal situation of the Postal Service, the long-term outlook, and potential areas for postal reform. March 2, 2011.
Lately, Postal Workers have been under constant assault from various groups. In fact, it seems like Postal Workers have become “poster children” for the direct cause of USPS financial woes. So, it is refreshing to hear at least one voice at the recent hearing on USPS express appreciation for Letter Carriers.
Here is the video clip of Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Delegate to Congress representing the District of Columbia:
“I have walked with my letter carrier. He is an indispensable party to the American people…Far beyond delivering the mail.”
Mail Carrier Tries to Get Job Back After Helping Boy
Sherry Rios, a South Jersey mail carrier, is fighting to get her job back after being fired for what she said was a split-second decision to help a boy in danger.
View more videos at: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com.