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Tuesday, December 17, 2024, from 9am-11am at EmployNV Business Hub, 4001 S. Virginia St, Ste 11, Reno, NV 89502

* POSITION:* City Carrier Assistant TYPE: Full Time and Part Time LOCATION: Reno, Sparks, and surrounding areas SALARY: $19.33/hr., paid bi-weekly

TO APPLY: Applicants are required to apply online at www.usps.com/employment to be considered for this employment opportunity. You need to have a valid email address to apply as communication regarding employment opportunities, examinations, interviews and background checks will be conveyed by email.Please note, employers may close jobs on the website at any time.

SPECIAL NOTE: Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.

JOB DESCRIPTION: City Carrier Assistants (CCA) deliver and collect mail on foot or by vehicle under varying road and weather conditions in a prescribed area; maintains customer service with customers and others; requires general familiarity with postal laws, regulations, products, and procedures commonly used, and geography of the area. Position is a 360 day term with possibility of reappointment and may lead to career position.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Two (2) years driving experience.
• Minimum High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Minimum 18 years of age or older for insurance purposes.
• Successful completion and passing score on Postal Service Test 473.
• Valid Driver's License; DMV Printout if selected for hire.
• Position requires great attention to detail.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, and reach. Ability to handle heavy containers of mail weighing up to the allowable maximum mailing weight (70 pounds).
• Company has strict grooming standards.
• Company has strict accuracy/honesty standards.
• Customer service skills required.
• Able to provide I-9 documentation.
• Employer conducts pre-employment drug screening and background check.

* JOB DUTIES:*

• Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery along an established route. Rearranges and re-labels cases as required.
• Withdraws mail from the distribution case and prepares it in sequence for efficient delivery independently or by another carrier 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 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 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 route, in the casing of mail on other routes as assigned.
• Works as a team with other employees in office.
• May as a CCA, perfo m 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.

BENEFIT INFORMATION: May receive Wounded Warrior leave provided eligibility criteria are met. No other benefits are available for this position.