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I am retired US Navy with 30% disability rating trying to get hired by the USPS. The USPS web site has only RCA job openings and I have taken the exam and waiting for a call. I would like to get a permanent job. Are they kept shrouded in secrecy? I'm in Reading, PA and looking for City Carrier or Clerk position, F/T or PTF. The Lacaster, PA district office has a bad phone number and can not get through. Can my fellow veterans help me out in putting me in the right direction?

Don MacKenzie

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Hey guys, check out Ron's book about his expeiences in the processing plant. He is also a retired Navy Senior Chief trying to make life better in the P.O. As the saying goes "your best bet is to hire a vet"
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Rick Owens
Postal Employee Network

rcox357 - From what I understand it would not be in your best interest to buy time in the PO with your Navy retirement. The way I heard it, you would be converting your military time to postal time and would lose it. (ie, no retirement check from the Navy) The best option would be to continue drawing your retirement and wait for a full time position. Then build a retirement with the PO so you can get 2 of them.

I'm not sure if the new Postal Reform Bill changes any of that since the PO no longer has to pay the military retirement of PO career employees.

I would definately research it fully before making a decision.

I am retired Navy with 20 years of honorable service. I was wondering how the "Payback your military time" works. I am an RCA who only gets 24 hours a week and need to know what I have to do to switch to a craft that pays at least 40 hours per week.

has anyone else had their hours changed so as to avoid being paid double sunday premium? Our union has not helped us at all here and I would like to know what others have done to get the unions attention or get their hours back to normal. All of us in maintenance that were affected are veterans also. If you have a phone number to a good union rep. I would appreciate that too. I don't talk to ours.

Happy late veterans day, to all the brothers and sisters out there. I was with the 25th outta schofield hawaii.

Hey geo Milwaukee is always hiring. My state rep is from there and he stated a mailhandler made 142,000 last year. Oh the guy's a vegetable today.

finally got a hold of someone from OPM in Indy, paper work was on desk and it just so happend that they were getting ready to do it, received it four days later. Now I guess I need to send it to Human resource for finally tally to find out were I stand on pay back toward retirement?

thanks for the info, I have submitted the information twice, once before the change over for human resource and now after but I will give them a call

Chris,
you need to call OPM, there you will get the information you need.

12 yrs dav been working for the postal service for 18 months in MO. Sent off all info so I can have my military time evaluated so I could buy back for retirement, I was originally seperated temp. medical retirement as SFC on TDRL after OIF, then given 60% disability and severance pay. Haven't received info back yet and its been greater than a month how long should I wait before checking on this?

Hey JAMO, do you happen to know if they plan on doing any hiring in the Milwaukee area?

Hey Paige want 60 to 70 hours come to Lacrosse Wi

I am a PTF. I am the only PTF on my tour. The PTF's on the other tour and at the stations are getting at least 40-50 hours a week to my 30-36 hours. I have filed a grievance. It got to step two and then my Union Pres kind of got his job taken away. It wasn't his bid job but no one has that as their bid job so he was doing it. But ever since then nothing else matters. What should I do? And where can I find all this information?