First of all thank you so very, very much for you help. Next thing is do you know a quick way, to get your medical records from Veteran's Affairs. And do you know if the post office has are right to request you medical records so they can look at them? Or is it just a process to get the job?

Here are a couple links to get you started. The first is for EL-312 Employment and Placement Handbook. Don't let the "handbook" part fool you, its a pdf file that is 305 pages long.

http://www.chicagopostalworker.com/Subject...Emp%20Placement.pdf

 The second is EL-307, Reasonable Accommodations. Its another pdf file. It will seem a lot of the information is the same, but some parts are different.

http://www.chicagopostalworker.com/Subject...0Accommodations.pdf


 I got these links form the www.chicagopostalworker.com website. It has a lot of good links for publications. You should take some time and read these pubs that I gave you links to. When I hird on, I went directly into the maintenance department, but as far as I can tell, these are postal wide publications that cover everyone.

Oh, by the way I am applying for city carrier. If that helps any.

And do you have to send your medical records to them when they ask you for it?

So where in the world do I find this information at? Because for some reason, I think I am going to have some very, very serious problems. Do you have a site I can go to, or can you email me that information. Please. Thanks for the help by the way.

Where do I find this information at?



       
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Remember that if you have to go a route similar to mine, for every correspondonce you write, always quote the pub and paragraph number for each point. This will help to keep then from saying, "thats just not true". It would also probalby help you by letting them know you've done your homework and are prepared to fight for the job. If your successful and get hired, you'll find there are alot of rules and publications, but a lot of personnel don't know what they are. And either the hiring personnel don't know what they are or they try to act dumb to see if you'll just go away quietly.

Here is a short stroy that turned into a long one.

Like epicon66 was saying, they will try to stop you from hiring on. When I was being hired, I had to do the medical exam that your getting ready to do. I was rated at 30% by the VA. The doctor checked me out and told me she was required to make a medical assessment of whether I could do the job I was being hired for for at least 6 months with no expectations of problems from my VA ratings. The doctor stated in her report that I currently showed no symptoms or abnormalities to prevent me from being hired, but since I was rated at 30%, there was no way to be sure.
 The post office hiring official took that info and tried to deny hiring me, by simply stating that I was not fit to work at the post office. I had already expected that and had read up on the procedures the post office must take to deny a vet pref with 30% or more rating. The post office didn't follow precise procedures, by not following the proper timeline for my appeals. I also requested a "reasonable accommadation" for my ratings with specific requests to overcome what might be considered a disability. I didn't really need them, since I was asking for reasonable accommadations for things that would not interfere with my performance. I don't have diabetes, but it would be like me asking for permission to bring a hypodermic to work with insulin to overcome that disability. Not that I'm downplaying diabetes. So I played that card. The reasonable accomadation request has to go to district level personnel instead of the hiring official. The hiring official has to give a very good reason for not hiring a 30% or more rated vet. Since I had requested the reasonable accommadation, there was no good reason for not hiring given, and had pointed out some facts regarding their "illegal" hiring practices in the same letter, the matter was dropped and I was hired within 2 weeks.
 Not every story will go this way, but this one is mine. Read up on the hiring practices and pay particular attention to hiring vets, hiring timelines for denial, and reasonable accommadation requests.

they will try to say you are unfit for service but fight them

Also, will this medical check up stop me from getting the job at all? I get 60%. Don't know what to expect. It has me nervous. What do I need to say to them?

What should I expect during the post office medical examaniton. And why do they want to send a copy of your rateing from Veterans Affair. Can this stop me from getting a job? Is this the last step?

C'mon fellow Vet we are just bustin your B_lls a little humor never hurt anyone- much. besides if you do ever get hired you'll find out what the rest of us have about working at the Post Office errr as a cotton picker on potters plantation- Vets are blackballed, family members run the PO and if you had any up in HR then you wouldnt even be having this conversation. But good luck.

thanks to steve martin for for his advice, since I am a tough skin person, the people that responded saying that I cant add, well I had a tough monday morning, just seeking some advice from some vets and I get a bozo response for not adding my numbers up, well that just goes to show you that this web sites sucks.....

besides not being able to add which is a strike against you (unless you want to be a nepovisor) you are a vet which the postal service is trying to eliminate from service so as downsizing continues they dont have to deal with the "Burden" of dealing with rules pertaining to vets.

/m372 Congratulations! You have already failed the math test.LMAO

Not true you want to score as high as possible because if anyone scores higher than you they will be hired first. If you score 77points with your military service points, you will be placed at the top of the 77 scores providing another vet with 10 points doesn't bump you

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