SALINAS, CA — Looking for a job?  Not only is the United States Postal Service hiring, a special job fair is being held to help job-seekers with the online application process.

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, the Salinas Post Office is holding a job fair to assist applicants looking for employment in Salinas and surrounding areas as City Carrier Assistants.  There are three sessions to choose from, with each lasting approximately one hour. All applicants are requested to sign up via email for one of the three sessions at the following location:

Steinbeck Station
100 W Alisal St
Salinas CA 93901

Job Fair Sessions

Session 1
9:00 a.m. email salinasjobfair1@gmail.com

Session 2
10:30 a.m. email salinasjobfair2@gmail.com

Session 3
12 noon email  salinasjobfair3@gmail.com

Applicants should visit website on a regular basis for updates at www.usps.com/employment. Search under California and Customer Service/Delivery for openings in your area.

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A self-supporting government business, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 151 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 nearly 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 $65 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 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. 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 for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.

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