• FULL-TIME The full-time position offers you a guaranteed work week and steady number of hours.
  
• PART-TIME REGULAR This position is nearly identical to the Part-Time Flexible except that you will be working a set schedule.
• PART-TIME FLEXIBLE In this flexible position you will be a career-appointed employee. Generally your total number of hours in a work will be near 35-40, however, you may get more or less depending on the office you are working at. Your work week will also be flexible, as is implied by the job title. This is where nearly all employees will start as a career employee.
• CASUAL As a casual employee, you will be hired to work through a busy season of the year, such as Christmas. This employment will generally only last a couple of weeks, up to a maximum of 60-90 days.

Below is given a brief job description for a few positions. This is included to give you a general ideal of the type of work you will most likely be required to do.

• CLERK - Sells stamps, accept overnight express mail, weigh packages, register and certify insured mail.
• CARRIER - Delivers and collects mail, sorts and arranges mail for delivery in the morning, with residential areas delivered once, and some commercial areas delivered twice each day. Collects on COD items and obtains receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail.
• MACHINE DISTRIBUTION CLERK - Sorts and distributes mail by using a complicated computer coding system which automatically drops mail into its proper slot for its destination.
• MAIL HANDLER - Loads, unloads, separates, and moves bulk mail by hand or forklift. Also cancels postal stamps and operates addressographs and mimeographs.
• MAIL PROCESSOR - Operates mail processing equipment, bar code sorters and optical bar code readers, performs troubleshooting and maintenance on equipment, collates and bundles processed mail, transfers mail to other areas, and loads mail into bins and onto trucks.
• MARK-UP CLERK - Operates an Electro - Mechanical machine to process mail that is classified as "undeliverable as addressed." Uses computer databases, including change of address, address-correction, and mailers’ databases to track and reroute mail to proper destination.