USPS mail carrier J.B. Dillon sorts mail to be delivered to customers on his Longmont route. (Matthew Jonas, Longmont Times-Call 2013 file photo)
The United States Postal Service is looking to fill more than 900 positions across the Front Range.
USPS is hiring for jobs ranging from temporary clerks to mail handlers and carriers. About 400 are seasonal-only jobs, per USPS. The remaining 500 or so have no definite end date and could potentially lead to a permanent USPS job, according to spokesman David Rupert. Hourly wages range from $10 to $16.65, and shifts and days off vary.
Per the post office, anyone interested in applying should visit , click on “search now” and select “Colorado” to find all in-state listings. There will be frequent updates to the listings, according to USPS.
The uptick in hiring is due to what USPS projects to be a “record holiday mailing season.” The USPS’ 1,600 clerks and mail carriers deliver about 1.7 million pieces of mail per day on the Denver area’s 790 mail routes. USPS estimates that it will locally handle as many as 6 million pieces of mail — 500,000 of them parcels — per day in the days preceeding Christmas.
U.S. retail e-commerce sales have been on an upward trajectory, according to this graph from the the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce..
This explosive growth in shipping can be partially attributed to U.S. retail e-commerce sales, which have consistently been on an upward trajectory for years. According to U.S. Department of Commerce statistics, U.S. retail e-commerce sales for Q2 2015, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, were $83.9 billion, an increase of 4.2 percent from Q1 2015. E-commerce sales in Q2 made up 7.2 percent of total retail sales of an sales estimated $1,171.5 billion. On an unadjusted basis, Q2 2015 U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2015 total $78.8 billion.
