postal exam

[Ray McIntireJr]

Going thurs. to take the postal exam. Have to be there at 8 in the am so I took tonight off cause its a 2 hr drive to the exam site. The hell-hole I'm working now is either gonna close or be sold and the chances of having the same pay scale and benefits package as we do now is highly unlikely. Wish me luck.

 

[Todd Z]

Good luck.....



Remember to bring your own target for the shooting part of the test !!!... HAHAHAH :lol::lol:

 

[Casey B]

Good luck on the test? What is covered on their exam?

 

[Fred]

Good luck. And good luck getting a postal job.



LOL@ ToddZ! :lol::lol:

 

[TomT]

It's a standard civil service exam. Based on what I've seen, it's not your score that counts but your race.

 

[Deleted deleted]

I thought the only bonus you get is not from race, but from previous military service?

 

[A1cntrler]

Previous military service is what they told me when I was applying 5 years ago. I was in the military and about to get out. They asked me if I was a disabled veteran, as those were the only military persons that were allowed to fill out applications. Now 5 years later I will likely be getting booted out of the military for medical reasons, and might try the USPS again for employment.

 

[Jose Santana]

Hey TomT why don't you just wish the guy luck and shut the hell up.... No one was asking you to dredge up some old contraversial grabage... :angry:

 

[Casey B]

There is a postal exam but no standard civil service exam that I'm aware of. I worked for DOD at two different assignments and didn't have to take any exam. I even turned down a job with the postal system on base which didn't require an exam. Maybe overseas locations are different than local PO's.

 

[Dale Paris]

Jose,



aww man, take a pill for the tude. It was a joke, after all,



you may not have liked it, but holly cow, give the guy a break.

 

[Sed Thompson]

You get zero points for race (any race) but you do get 5 points for military service and I think 5 more for being a disabled vet. You can get disabled vet status with a zero percent disability rating which means you have medical issues, but not enough to get any money from the VA. Good luck on your test.

 

[Jose Santana]

Oh Dale sorry... Ha haaa...... I don't think so.

 

[TomT]

Bite me joseymack.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Yes, there is a perception that a lot of minorities, especially female minorities work in the post office and the state DMVs and other government employee positions.



Does one perceiving such things make them racist or just observant?



BTW, all the postal employees I run into are white...same with the DMV. But, maybe that's where I live, and I certainly wouldn't think it’s that same way in NYC, or Texas, or Calif...but maybe in Mayberry.



Good luck Raym2.



TJR

 

[Dale Paris]

Tom, dont ask twice, he just might, lol



I live in CA, and the DMV, in my area, is about 20% "other then white"

while the post office in about 20% white,



but who care? they all do their jobs, so why does it mater?



Good luck on the test, ray, and let us know how it turned out

 

[Ray McIntireJr]

WHOA! WHOA! Put your skirts down girls! I mean I didn't want to cause an uproar like that.

 

[Jose Santana]

TomT come on is that all you got.....?

Just for the record don't be such a prick... Your comment was just what it was, what we call

in spanish an INDIRECTO.... figure it out...

And I will bite you with a right cross to your jaw

 

[Fred]

Ooooooh! Violence! That just makes me TINGLE!

 

[TomT]

joseymack. I would have put more thought into it if I had thought you were worth it. I didn't.

 

[Jeffrey Travis]

Ok, time to relax a bit......it's story time.



So, back in the day (92-94) when I lived in Rochester, NY I used to write mortgages and this coincided with the time that the term 'going postal' arose. (Going OJ was a distant second)



I wrote a mortgage for a dude that was retired from the Army (I had noticed on the gov't papers that he had submitted that he was a grenade expert) and was now working for the USPS. Well it came down to him having very bad credit and we had to decline his application. Oh boy, how do you break this news?



Needless to say, I called him from Nevada to let him know about his declination. That was an embellishment, I called him from the office because we were located in the basement of the office building and we had all put up sandbags preparing for any explosives that may find their way in. Ok, so it wasn't that way either but I do have to say I was a bit nervous.



Fast forward 6 months and he calls me again to try and see what could be done. At this point, he was now divorced (second wife) and only had to worry about his 3 of the 6 kids that were part of that union but his credit was still waaay too bad to be able to do anything for him.



I was glad he did not take it personally.



So what have we learned here children?



1. Not all USPS employees will shoot first, ask questions later no matter what their secondary skills are

2. Keep good credit if you want to buy a house

and

3. 6 kids only works for the Brady Bunch and devout Catholics, Mormons or the Amish, and that is questionable



Raym2 - hope the test went well.



Can't we all just get along,



JT#14