The Post Office Clerk

Describes salaries, job descriptions, and skill requirements for a variety of Post Office jobs.

The book you're about to read is my story working in the post office as a clerk and union officer. Some cases I worked on and my investigations, and how I dealt with management. You will read about how 5 unions merged to form the American Postal Workers Union. The reorganization act and when the United States Postal Service became an independent government agency. You will read about the shootings inside the post offices, and shooting elsewhere. The misappropriation from management, clerks and union officers. you will read about some of the cases postal inspectors investigated outside the post office. Finally you will a little about the two loves of my life and how I went quietly into retirement.

A one-stop resource for postal service job applicants, this book contains exams for more than 50 employment categories, including the 473, 473-C, and 460 tests, which are used for more than 90 percent of full-time positions, such as carriers, mail handlers, and distribution clerks. This updated edition offers a detailed discussion of Part D of the 473 Battery Test, additional test-taking tips and strategies, and new chapters on acing the Scheme Test, types of post office jobs available, and where the jobs are.

Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age. Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski’s life from the mid-1950s to his resignation from the United States Postal Service in 1969, interrupted only by a brief hiatus during which he supported himself by gambling at horse races. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter