Post Office Jobs

The new 4th edition includes a new 473 Postal Exam study guide and provides all the information needed to locate job vacancies, prepare for exams, and explore all jobs including those that don't require entrance tests. This updated edition covers all occupations from janitors, general maintenance and technicians to truck drivers, mail carriers, clerks, administrative, and clerical positions. The author provides an insider's perspective on what it takes to go from job hunter to hired, and everything in between. Damp worked 35 years for Uncle Sam. This is the only Postal Service career guide that includes related civil service job options, the new updated 473 Postal Exam and study guide and prepares the reader for interviews, and covers ALL occupations. The book helps job seekers to: Identify ALL vacancies; Match your skills to postal jobs; Locate postal exam test dates; Study for the 473 Postal Exam; Complete job applications; Prepare for job interviews; Apply for jobs that don't require exams; Explore civil service options.

Describes salaries, job descriptions, and skill requirements for a variety of Post Office jobs.

This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--fought their way into postal positions and unions and became a critical force for social change. They combined black labor protest and civic traditions to construct a civil rights unionism at the post office. They were a major factor in the 1970 nationwide postal wildcat strike, which resulted in full collective bargaining rights for the major postal unions under the newly established U.S. Postal Service in 1971. In making the fight for equality primary, African American postal workers were influential in shaping today's post office and postal unions.

Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Sample resumes and forms filled out so that you will see the documents real people used to find employment in the postal service.