Transport, Delivery and Logistics - Postal Delivery Worker
Transport, Delivery and Logistics - Postal Delivery Worker
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A postperson collects, sorts and delivers letters and packages to homes and businesses.
- Sort the mail for your route, by hand or using machinery
- Load and unload delivery vans
- Walk for up to 6 hours a day to deliver mail
- Use a hand-held computer device to get customer signatures
- Pick up mail from post boxes, post offices and businesses
- Deal with wrongly addressed or returned mail
- Move mail to and from processing centres, delivery offices, railway stations and airports
As a Postal Delivery Worker, you could work from a warehouse, a vehicle or on the road.
Your working environment may be physically active and outdoors in all weathers.
You may need to wear a uniform.
Postal Delivery Workers tend to work between 30 to 43 hours a week. You could work early mornings.
Starting: £16,000
Experienced: £25,000
You can apply directly for delivery work. Royal Mail often recruit temporary staff. This can be a useful way for you to get some experience and apply for permanent jobs as they come up. You don't need any specific qualifications to work for Royal Mail.
You could do an express delivery operative intermediate apprenticeship, if you want to work as a postperson with driving and collections duties. You'll usually need some GCSEs, usually including English and maths, or equivalent, for an intermediate apprenticeship. If you have an EHCP you may be able to apply under the DfE exemption which allows the apprentice to use Entry level 3 English and Maths qualifications. The apprentice would have to successfully achieve all other aspects of the apprenticeship requirements, become occupationally competent and achieve Entry Level 3 in English and Maths before the end of their apprenticeship.