Rural Carrier Associate; RCA

This role delivers and collects mail along a rural route using a vehicle, providing customers with a variety of services, including selling stamps and money orders, and ensuring mail security.

• Sort mail in delivery sequence for the assigned route.
• Receive and sign for accountable mail.
• Load mail in vehicle.
• Deliver mail to customers along the prescribed route on a regular schedule, collect monies and receipts for accountable mail, and pick up mail from customers' roadside boxes.
• Sell stamps, stamped paper and money orders; accept C.O.D., registered, certified, and insured mail and parcel post; furnish routine information concerning postal matters and provide requested forms to customers.
• Return collected mail, undeliverable mail, and submit monies and receipts to the post office.
• Prepare mail for forwarding and maintain records of change of address information.
• Prepare a daily trip report and maintain a list of the customers on the route.
• Conduct special surveys when required.
• Maintain an inventory of stamps and stamped paper as needed to provide service to customers on the route.
• Provide for mail security at all times.

• Have a vehicle suitable for use on the route.
• Live within easy commuting distance of the facility location.
• Be physically fit to load and unload trays and containers of mail and parcels weighing as much as 70 pounds.
• Be able to work indoors and outdoors in all types of weather.
• Work is typically available on Saturdays and may be required on an as-needed basis to cover absences.