{"id":798092,"date":"2026-05-15T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/798092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:46:16","slug":"usps-holds-philadelphia-hiring-event-amid-carrier-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/798092\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Holds Philadelphia Hiring Event Amid Carrier Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"735\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778845576_398_United-States-Postal-Service.jpg\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" alt=\"United States Postal Service\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\tImage via USPS<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2014 The United States Postal Service will host a career fair Saturday in Philadelphia as the agency recruits for carrier, automotive technician and maintenance positions across the region.<\/p>\n<p>The hiring event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Postal Service\u2019s Philadelphia District facility at 3190 S. 70th St.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, openings include city and rural carrier positions as well as automotive technician and maintenance roles.<\/p>\n<p>USPS spokesman Paul Smith said the event is intended to recruit workers locally for positions within the Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have city and rural carrier positions available as well as auto tech and maintenance positions,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time of appointment, or 16 years old with a high school diploma, according to the Postal Service. Candidates must also pass a criminal background check and, where applicable, maintain a safe driving record.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service said eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents or citizens of American Samoa or another U.S. territory for at least five years.<\/p>\n<p>Support the local news that supports Chester County. MyChesCo delivers reliable, fact-based reporting and essential community resources\u2014free for everyone. If you value that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/mychesco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here to become a patron today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image via USPS PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2014 The United States Postal Service will host a career fair Saturday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":798093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7414,14490,1448,2830,1311,67,586,118707,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-798092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-hiring","10":"tag-job-fair","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-united-states-postal-service","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116578431151412212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}