CITY CARRIER ASSISTANT
United States Postal Service
Austin Texas
Salary: Neg Per Hour
DRIVING REQUIRED
- Applicants must have a valid state driver’s license, a safe driving record, and
at least two years of
unsupervised experience driving passenger cars or larger. The driving must have taken place in the U.S. or its possessions - or territories or in
U.S. military installations worldwide.
BENEFIT INFORMATION
- Non-career 360-day term with possibility of reappointment. May lead to career position. Benefits include paid leave at the rate of 1 hr for every 20 hrs in pay status, holiday pay for 6 holidays, and pay raises per NALC National Agreement. Immediately
- Eligible for USPSHB Plan with a $125 Postal premium contribution towards Self Only.
- Employer contribution towards greater than Self Only is 65% (75% for subsequent appointments). Upon reappointment to a second 360-day term after a 5-day break in service eligible for: health insurance under FEHB; dental and vision insurance through FEDVIP;
- Flexible spending accounts through FSAFEDS and long-term care insurance through FLTCIP. Wounded Warrior leave available if eligibility criteria are met.
- Effective Plan Year 2022, the Postal Service will make a bi-weekly contribution
equal to 75% of the total
- premium for any CCA employee who wishes to participate in the USPS Plan for self, self plus one, or family coverage, regardless of year of employment.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery along an established route. Rearranges and relabels cases
- Withdraws mail from
the distribution case and prepares it in sequence for efficient delivery
independently or by another
- 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 mailing from customers; on certain routes
- may deliver mail that
consists exclusively of parcel post, or the collection of 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, except insured mail, at the post office before beginning route and accounts for it upon return by payments of the amounts collected and delivery of 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.
- 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 CCA,
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.
EXAMINATION
REQUIREMENTS
- Applicants must
successfully complete the Virtual Entry Assessment – MC (474).
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Applicants must be
physically able to efficiently perform the duties of the position with or
without reasonable accommodation.
- CCA duties require
arduous exertion involving prolonged standing, walking, bending and reaching,
and may involve handling
- heavy containers of
mail weighing up to the allowable maximum mailing weight.
ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS
- CCAs must work their assigned tour and days of work. CCAs must follow Postal Service policies and procedures for personal conduct at work, including adhering to rules and regulations.
- CCAs are required to provide service to the public. They must maintain a neat and professional appearance and demeanor in such interactions, including wearing an approved uniform.
- Applicants must have a
valid state driver's license, and demonstrate and maintain a safe driving
record.
- Qualified applicants
must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the U.S. Postal
Service's requirement
to be drug free. - Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status.
SPECIAL NOTE
- Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.
Job Overview
Posted Date: 08 Nov 2023
Location: Austin Texas
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Company Information
The United States Postal Service, also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U.S., its insular areas, and its associated states.
Name: United States Postal Service
Web: https://www.usps.com