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USPS to Hire Postal Retirees for Holidays

Do you know a retired craft employee who may like to make some extra money for the holidays?  If so, help spread the word about this special opportunity for annuitants!

Temporary employees must be available to work between November 24, 2018 and January 4, 2019.

Holiday-Hiring

Retired postal employees have the knowledge, community connection, and ability to provide great service, which makes them excellent candidates for reemployment in holiday term positions. At this time, the following positions are open through September 24, 2018:

  • Annuitant Holiday Clerk Assistant at $17.19 per hour
  • Annuitant Holiday City Carrier Assistant at $17.29 per hour
  • Annuitant Holiday Transportation Assistant Motor Vehicle Operator at $18.24 per hour
  • Annuitant Holiday Transportation Assistant Tractor Trailer Operator at $18.62 per hourRetired postal employees who are eligible for reemployment should have already received a letter from the Postal Service with details on how to apply. If you know retirees who did not receive a letter and are interested in employment, they can apply and HRSSC (Shared Services) will determine their eligibility.

    Special conditions apply to each temporary position being offered so interested annuitants should be sure to check their letter, or simply follow these instructions:

  • Open a web browser and type www.usps.com/careers
  • Under USPS Account, click “Search Now”
  • In the keywords field type *Annuitant* exactly as shown
  • Select the “State” to narrow your search results
  • Click “Start” to display job opportunitiesThe U.S. Postal Service does not plan to hire annuitants to supplement the EAS workforce for the holiday season.  

APWU: Applications for USPS Holiday Temp Jobs Due Sept. 24

19 thoughts on “USPS to Hire Postal Retirees for Holidays

  1. What’s up with the drug testing.
    My entire office couldn’t pass a pee test tomorrow.
    That includes PM and clerks.
    This sink is sinking faster then the titanic.

  2. I tried to go back last year. All they said was that I had to take a drug test. So I went to the authorized testing facilty 25 miles away to take the drug test. Then they contacted me and told me that I had to go to Orientation training at a facility that is 200 miles from my home. Long story short, I said to heck with it. If they really want retirees to come back they need to change these practices. Most companies value their retirees. Not the USPS.

  3. Just getting the invitation was enough to make me want to throw up! Seeing the amount of what they offered , I did throw up . I would rather pickup empty cans on the roadside! After 31 years my body is just worn, they don’t care , and the union officials should go back to their routes for at least 1 month a year while in office to see what has become of the job they once lnew

  4. If they really cared about getting experienced retirees they would simply pay the top rate of a carrier/hour($30/hr), and not some cheaper amount. After all they are saving the difference of the salary , from the ot, and they don’t have to train anyone. The retirees know more than the supervisors. For only $17, why carry mail when you could clean the banquet tables and sweep floors in a comfortable msc as a custodian.

  5. I tried this last year and quickly regretted my decision. First, you have to get drug tested even though you just completed a 30+ year career. The local specimen collection facility I was sent to was very busy, and it was a hassle. As a retired Mail Processor, I was expecting some kind of work either at a sorting facility, or helping out in the lobby at a station during the busy season. Instead, I was assigned to sort parcels (mostly heavy Amazon packages) at a station during the wee hours of the morning. I was in a very congested area with a bunch of PSEs who resented my being there because they thought I was cutting into their hours, and probably because they thought I was going to screw off and get paid for doing very little. The station supervisors were nasty and didn’t respect my prior service at all. They refused to give me a schedule and told me that I would work when, and as long as they needed me. When I explained that, as a retiree, I had hoped to have a fixed schedule and some reasonable expectation of respect, they told me that they had no plans to treat me any differently than their most junior PSE employee. I could tell that they didn’t really want me there, and I lost all desire to torture myself any longer. I politely resigned after two weeks, and I will never do it again. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

  6. ROFLMFAO!.. seriously? why thr heck would i want to do that at the absolute worst time of yr? hillarious!!!!!! screw you guys!

  7. And you have to have a drug test for 2 months of harassment, and stupidity? Their just hoping you get hit and killed while delivering boxes so they don’t have to pay your pension. I don’t even drive past the PO cause I don’t want to dredge up bad memories much less go back there for their slave wage. I have to admit they have the good sense to never call me, I guess they don’t want to hear me laugh and hang up.

  8. like a battered wife…..the low self esteem dolts always go back……postalized walking dead zombies.

  9. Re: The instructions above.
    1. Open a web browser and type http://www.usps.com/careers

    I was able to successfully access the website.

    2. Under USPS Account, click “Search Now”

    “USPS Account” does not exist. Clicking a “Search Now” button opened a new page.

    3. In the keywords field type *Annuitant* exactly as shown
    4. Select the “State” to narrow your search results

    On the new page the “keywords field” does not exist. On a hunch I clicked on “Search Jobs”. This opened another new page that contained a “full text search” field where I was able to type Annuitant NOT exactly as shown above (WITHOUT the * *), and able to select the LOCATION (not “state”).

    5.Click “Start” to display job opportunities The U.S. Postal Service does not plan to hire annuitants to supplement the EAS workforce for the holiday season.

    It took me about fifteen minutes to figure out for myself how to get to the required information instead of what should have been about 45 seconds. Consequently, I would like to apply for a job replacing the mental genius that authored the above instructions. I will require a salary of $52,000, and include full benefits. My employment will be a “holiday term position” ending in January; that’s all the time I’ll need to get this page squared away. You can move my predecessor to tour one somewhere to monitor a barcode scanning machine…no thinking required.

  10. Are these open to non postal retirees? Civil service government retiree but not post office, VA Hospital. Thanks.

  11. Why would any retired Postal worker want to go back and work for the uncaring stupidvisors? Just think of the Postal clerk in Oakland, Ca. that fell on the floor and laid there for twenty minutes before management called EMS! And think of the carriers that call in during the hot summer and say they don’t feel well because of the heat. Management always says take water breaks, but be back on time! No thanks.

    • OMG! Can you imagine how much fun it would be to have a supervisor yell at you for not being fast enough, while your collecting your civil service pension? What are they going to do, fire you?

    • Some people may find themselves in serious financial situations or want extra Christmas money. I personally got my “invite” to go back to work this Christmas season a few days ago and as far as I’m concerned, it was a waste of time and postage. I delivered 32 Christmas seasons and I have had enough.
      As all city carriers and rurals too, but maybe a lesser extent since they don’t have walking routes, just occasional NDCBU’s, can tell you the job wears you out to the point you couldn’t go back if you wanted to. That’s my case, not that I wanted to go back anyway, although the last batch I worked for in management I certainly had no complaints with.
      But my list of physical wear and tear is only average, some not as much perhaps, but many a lot worse for the wear. Let’s see: two hernias and surgeries, shoulder surgery, and a bad back that prevents me from doing too much of anything outside mowing the lawn and helping with housework. I walk every day when schedule and weather permits, but I have a couple blown disks in my lumbar that hurt like a bitch, and the doc says they won’t do much until I start getting nasty cases of sciatica. Luckily I don’t have that yet, but I can see the writing on the wall.
      Maybe today’s crop that has come on board after DPS and the drop in volume as far as flats and back breaking loads we retirees dealt with will help preserve their bodies a little longer.

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