How to Become a USPS Mail Carrier Without Taking Exams

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How can you get a job as a mail carrier at the local United States Post Office without any prior training or taking exams. The job is called a TRC. TRC stands for Temporary Rural Carrier. Only it isn't really temporary you can be a TRC for years. The TRC job is a substitute mail carrier job. You only work when regular carriers take days and on their scheduled Saturdays off. Currently the position pays $13.05 an hour plus about $0.60 a mile for the rural mail route distance. When a real carrier or RCA position opens up you will be the first choice because you already know the job. How do you become a USPS mail carrier without taking the United States Postal Service carrier exam?

Things You'll Need

• Automatic transmission vehicle to deliver mail
• Lift up to 50lbs
• Good driving record
• Valid Driver's license for at least 2-years
• Social Security card
• Pass drug test
• Pass physical
• Attend scheduled job interview
• Be available on-call work
• Be available Saturdays
• Be available part-time, casual work
• Be available full-time for two weeks of rural carrier training and job orientation

Instructions

1. 

   Go to several USPS post offices in your surrounding area during regular business hours Monday through Friday to ask about available jobs.

2. Ask the postmaster if the office is accepting job applications for a USPS Temporary Rural Carrier (TRC) or Postmaster Relief (PMR) position. They don't usually advertise they are found by word of mouth usually. If the postmaster isn't taking applications ask if you can leave your name and number. These jobs open up frequently. Also ask if he or she knows of any post offices looking for TRCs.

3. Fill out the USPS job application and return it to the post office as soon as you can, preferably by the next business day. Include any documentation requested such as a local police clearance.

4. Go to your required drug test as scheduled.

5. Arrive at your scheduled job interview on time and dressed conservatively.

6. Go to your scheduled physical which only involves filling out a questionaire. A nurse, a USPS employee, feeds the completed questionnaire through a scoring machine. If anything is flagged, you may need to obtain written documentation from your doctor saying you are physically able to work. For example, "Have you had an MRI in the last 5 years?" If you answer yes, your doctor will need to certify that you are able to work without limitations.

7. Go to job orientation for four or five days about 8 hours a day. You are paid for all of these hours at your current hourly rate.

8. 

   Attend Rural Associate Training for one week. Where you will learn to sort mail between classes. You learn to case mail, scan mail, and deliver mail. You are paid for all of these hours at your hourly rate.

9. 

   Practice driving your mail deliver car from the passenger side. Stop and start quickly at mailboxes without hitting them.

10. 

    Job shadow the regular carrier and ride around in the car on the rural mail route you will deliver.

11. Begin delivering the mail each time the regular carrier takes a day off. Congratulations, you are a TRC, a USPS temporary employee. Register online to take the Postal Service Exam. After you take it you will be on the list for the RCA and regular jobs. RCA positions currently start at $17.98 plus mileage. When a job opens up in one of the three post offices that you registered for during the exam, you will be first choice for the job. Why? Because you are already trained and can start almost immediately. Not only that, but you will be proficient in days instead of months.

Tips & Warnings

• Work hard

• Try to make yourself available

• Volunteer to work in other offices, for pay of course, so they know you.

• It is hard work

• Some customers are rude

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