City Carrier

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. Requires a general familiarity with postal laws, regulations, products, procedures, and the geography of the area. May carry mail weighing up to 35 pounds in shoulder satchels or other equipment and load or unload containers of mail weighing up to 70 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery along an established route.
• Rearranges and relabels cases as required.
• Withdraws mail from the distribution case and prepares it in sequence for efficient delivery along an established route.
• Prepares and separates all classes of mail to be carried by truck to relay boxes along route for subsequent delivery.
• Handles undeliverable mail in accordance with established procedures.
• 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 customers; on certain routes may deliver mail that consists exclusively of parcel post or collect mail.
• Uses portable electronic scanner as instructed.
• 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 at the post office before beginning route and accounts for it upon return by payments of amounts collected and delivery of receipts taken.
• Deposits in the post office mail collected on the route upon returning from the route.
• Checks and corrects, if necessary, mailing cards from advertisers bearing names and addresses of customers or former customers on the route.
• Furnishes customers with postal information and provides change of address cards and other postal forms as needed.
• Reports to supervisor all unusual incidents or conditions relating to mail delivery, including condition of street letter boxes and centralized delivery equipment.
• Becomes proficient, when assigned to a route, in the casing of mail on other routes as assigned.
• Works professionally with other employees in the office.
• May perform clerical duties and pass examinations on scheme of city primary distribution as a substitute carrier.
• Checks hotels and other establishments to ensure mail for residents undeliverable as addressed is not improperly held.
• Delivers stamps or other paper supplies to contract or classified stations and other designated delivery points.
• Serves at carriers' delivery window.
• Receives and registers, where practical, all letters and packages of first-class matter properly offered for registration.
• Cases mail and makes deliveries on other routes as assigned.

Requirements

• Must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the U.S. Postal Service's requirement to be drug free.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status.
• Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.