SANTA BARBARA, CA — The U.S. Postal Service announced it has challenging employment opportunities in the Santa Barbara area for temporary employment. These Postal Support Employee (PSE) positions are in a mail processing facility and offer limited benefits including paid vacation and health benefits after the first 360-day term. The salary range is between $12.00 and $14.60 an hour.

Applicants must be age 18 or older at the time of hire (or age 16 with a high school diploma) and be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status. Testing is required for all positions. Qualified applicants must also successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the Postal Service’s requirement of a drug-free environment. Qualified applicants must live within the metropolitan area (i.e. commute distance) of the vacancy office and will be required to attend an interview and prescreen activities in the facility location, vicinity, or district office.

All applicants must be able to perform moderate to heavy lifting, carrying, prolonged standing and walking for eight hours or more. We are hiring for both evening and midnight shifts.

The location of these positions is the Santa Barbara Processing and Distribution Center, 400 Storke Road, Goleta, CA 93199. For more information, and to apply online, visit us at www.usps.com/employment.

How to Apply for Post Office Jobs
Written applications for employment will not be accepted. Applicants must now apply online for posted vacancies by accessing eCareer USPS at our website: www.usps.com/employment and completing an online application.

It is suggested that you visit this site frequently so as not to miss out on employment opportunities.

Listed are a few tips on how to find current vacancies on the website:

• Go to: www.usps.com/employment.
• Next screen: Under “Search Select Jobs and Apply Online”, click the link, “Search jobs online”.
• Next screen: Under “Job Search”, select the location and scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the start button.

You will see all the current posting of vacancies for the state you selected. If the city you want is not listed that will indicate there are no vacancies for that location.

We highly recommend that you visit the eCareer section on the www.usps.com/employment website, which provides Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to help you with the eCareer application process and other general information.

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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $67 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.