SPRINGFIELD, MO — The U.S. Postal Service is gearing up for the busy holiday mailing season by offering temporary employment at the Springfield Main Post Office, located at 500 W Chestnut Expressway.

Approximately 80 temporary (casual) mail handler and temporary Postal Support Employee (PSE) Mail Processing clerk positions are available. These temporary appointments are for the period November 16 through January 11, 2014. The hourly wage is $10.50 for casual mail handlers and $14.89 for PSE Mail Processing clerks, with varying shifts and days off. Mailhandlers and PSE clerks are expected to perform various duties, such as unloading tractor trailers and handling the distribution of mail.

These job opportunities with the Postal Service earn competitive wages with an additional premium for hours worked between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., with varying hours of work per week.

Applications are being accepted from Preference Eligible Veterans and Non-Preference Eligible. First consideration will be given to all Preference Eligible Veterans. Those interested in working for the Postal Service, may apply at www.usps.com, select “Careers” at the bottom of the page, click on “Search Jobs Online,” select “Missouri,”, click “Start,” then click on the link for the appropriate job.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

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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 — 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 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, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. 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.