Hey y'all! I'm a City Regular in a small town, with previous experience in the rural craft. I occasionally see rural routes remain vacant long enough to be posted to the public (after being offered district wide): Routes and communities with which I am very or somewhat familiar, and I feel I'd be a decent fit to take over and serve their customers and community. I'm wondering if anyone has seen a current career employee apply for these public-only positions without actually risking their job? Perhaps a tentative resignation, contingent on being hired in the posted position? There are two CCA's in my office that would benefit from my current route becoming open, and --seeing the challenges these rural routes face-- the routes might be better off with my experience and knowledge rather than someone that applies from the street. Thank you for your experience and wisdom!
Has anyone seen a career employee successfully apply for public or street career rural regular job postings?
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Shannonboy
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Ally is correct. Put in for it, and resign if you get it....I'm wondering why though....every city rt. I've seen, or worked on is cakewalk compared to almost any rural rt. Are you sure this is what you want? You make less, have, if possible, an even more WORTHLESS union, lose your seniority....I mean....not trying to be rude, but this sounds like the dumbest idea I've heard in a while....its just an opinion, but hey, whatever is best for you my friend...
tonsillitis
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yep if you already high on the pay grade and go back to bottom thats a lot of money lost unless he/she dont want extra money. i wouldnt switch unless im a cca.
jaymacgthree
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I've been told you need to resign prior to applying because the job announcement usually says something to the effect of: current career postal employees are ineligible to apply. Rumors of being able to apply to career jobs while a career employee abound but I've never seen anyone able to do it.
Shannonboy gives excellent advice- I don't know of a single City carrier who would switch to Rural Carrying because they don't like the workload, being rushed, receiving no overtime(except in extreme cases) and the possibility of providing your own vehicle to destroy for the Postal Service. The public career posting is generic also so you would really need to do your homework to ascertain what the RRECS data says about the weekly hours and mail/package volume and whether you have to provide a vehicle.
Side note: Verify the posting you are interested in is in fact for Full-time Regular and not PTF as those can look rather similar and don't spell it out in the terminology we usually use. The non-scheduled days and salary range data are the clues to if it is Regular or PTF. Specified Salary Range for Regular routes are given as a standard 40 hours a week but you need to find out if that is the evaluation or not. Again do your homework because it's not the same as city carrying where you work 40 and get paid 40.
Shannonboy gives excellent advice- I don't know of a single City carrier who would switch to Rural Carrying because they don't like the workload, being rushed, receiving no overtime(except in extreme cases) and the possibility of providing your own vehicle to destroy for the Postal Service. The public career posting is generic also so you would really need to do your homework to ascertain what the RRECS data says about the weekly hours and mail/package volume and whether you have to provide a vehicle.
Side note: Verify the posting you are interested in is in fact for Full-time Regular and not PTF as those can look rather similar and don't spell it out in the terminology we usually use. The non-scheduled days and salary range data are the clues to if it is Regular or PTF. Specified Salary Range for Regular routes are given as a standard 40 hours a week but you need to find out if that is the evaluation or not. Again do your homework because it's not the same as city carrying where you work 40 and get paid 40.
stillfirstclass
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interpretation or conclusion—an informed judgment formed by analyzing objective.... lets go with this instead
