Postal Clerk

The Postal Clerk is responsible for performing basic postal operations, including receiving and processing personal and official mail. The incumbent must maintain control systems for the accountability of unclassified communications and route mail to organizational segments and individuals.

• Sort and process outgoing letters and flats using trays, sacks, and standard process.
• Operate hand-held scanning equipment to process incoming and outgoing accountable mail.
• Screen and process directory mail to ensure proper endorsements, address, and delivery processes.
• Prepare outgoing materials for dispatch, ensuring date stamping, verifying signatures, and facing materials.
• Run mail through sealing, metering, or canceling machines.
• Bundles and bags mail according to U.S. Postal Service regulations.
• Sort bulk mail and prepare labels and envelopes.
• Screen mail of assigned receptacles for evidence of non-use, old mail, and incorrectly pitched mail.
• Manually load and unload vehicles carrying mail, operating conveyor belts, roller, or other mail-handling equipment.
• Sort mail using scheme charts, exercising judgment to determine if mail can be sorted and delivered as addressed.
• Repair, rewrap, and endorse received items that are damaged.
• Identify and separate ordinary and accountable mail.
• Prepare reports, files various postal-service forms for notification to customers, and assigns receptacles and combinations to customers.

• Must have a minimum of 1 year of General Experience.
• General Experience is progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of the position.
• Applicants must possess a valid Italian driver's license type "B".
• Incumbent must complete Hazardous Material handling and processing training, and be able to obtain and maintain a DD285 (Postal Handler Card).