USPS CARRIER (CITY) Career Job

Routes or cases all classes of mail

• Rearranges and relabels cases as required.
• Withdraws mail from the distribution case and prepares it in sequence for efficient delivery.
• Prepares and separates all classes of mail to be carried by truck to relay boxes along route for subsequent delivery.

Delivers and collects mail

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Additional Duties

• 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 as a substitute carrier, perform clerical duties and be required to pass examinations on scheme of city primary distribution.
• 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; serves 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.