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USPS is hiring automotive technicians

Charles R

Charles R

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I also thought I should mention that this pay scale is national. Everyone gets the same rate, (Except Alaska and Hawaii) and what this means is that once you get in, you can transfer anywhere in the country that has an opening, and you keep the same pay, bennies, and seniority. Further, this is one of very few ways to get hired in at a full time position that offers the bennies from day one. Most positions are contracted and have to wait 6 months, to a year, before those options are available.
And more more thing on that subject. The vast majority of hiring it's done from within the company. We have techs that were once carriers, and HR personnel that were once mechanics. The possibilities for job mobility are vast.

I'll also mention...
You'll be tested. And surprisingly, we get quite a number of people who fail those tests.

Besides the normal reasonably basic modern knowledge, we test people on knowledge of drum brakes, and make them "stab" a distributor in the testing process. If either of those things is foreign and unfamiliar to you, you may struggle.
 
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FXCLM5

FXCLM5

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is the drug screen pretest or continuously randomly during employment?

is this going to be actually working for the federal government usps or some spinoff side company.

i would work for the goddamn usps fixing mailman van thingamajigs, prolly need like 6 months of understanding every common repeating problem and service them like madman.

is there a pension, and is retirement offered @ 55?
 
Charles R

Charles R

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KilpatricK said:
Drum brakes.....Distributors??? WTF is this, the stone age???:rofl
Click to expand...

Yes! Lol. The current national fleet of about 180,000 mail trucks were built between 1985 and 1994! They're actually Chevy S10's with the old "iron duke" 4 banger. :) (A few of them, built in 2000, are Ford Explorer based)

However, the request for a new fleet truck is already out. The expectation is that within the next 5 years a new truck will be rolled out. Keep in mind, we also service 2ton box vans, 7 and 11 ton big rigs, staff cars, and even service the postal inspector fleet. All totaled, the USPS is actually the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world.


FXCLM5 said:
is the drug screen pretest or continuously randomly during employment?

is this going to be actually working for the federal government usps or some spinoff side company.

i would work for the goddamn usps fixing mailman van thingamajigs, prolly need like 6 months of understanding every common repeating problem and service them like madman.

is there a pension, and is retirement offered @ 55?
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Pre test drug and background checks.
Real federal USPS position, No spinoffs in sight.
The current pension plan is a bit different than the days of old... But, yes you end up with a retirement fund that is designed to match your highest base salary reached. I'd have to pull out my documents to explain it without making mistakes though.
Your retirement option time is an age + years of service equation, that also includes any time spent in the military.

If you're a decent mechanic it takes about a week to figure these things out! Haha! The pattern failures are extremely well known at this point, and any of us could tell you anything you hadn't figured out.

Come join the fun! It sure beats working your butt off for finicky nit picky customers.
 
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