An Act to increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the field service of the Post Office Department.
PL 84-68 (S.2061), enacted 06/10/1955

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Public Law 67 
CHAPTER 136 
June 8,1955 
IH. R. 5224] 
Coast Guard. 
Enlisted person-
nel. 
63 Stat. 524. 
AN ACT 
To amend title 14, United States Code, entitled "Coast Guard", to authorize 
certain early discharges of enlisted personnel, and preserve their ri;j;hts, privi-
leges, and benefits. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the analysis 
of chapter 11 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by insertin«^ 
following and underneath item 369 in such analysis, the following 
item: 
"370. Discharge within three months before expiration of enlistment." 
SEC. 2. Chapter 11 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting, immediately following section 369 thereof, a new section, as 
follows: 
"§ 370. Discharge within three months before expiration of enlistment 
"Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, any enlisted man 
may be discharged at any time within three months before the exi)ira-
tion of his term of enlistment or extended enlistment without prejudice 
to any .right, privilege, or benefit that he would have received, excejjt 
l)ay and allowances for the unexpired period not served, or to which 
he would thereafter become entitled, had he served his full term of 
enlistment or extended enlistment." 
Approved June 8, 1955. 
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A N 
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June 10, 1955 
[S. 2061] 
To increase the rates of basic compensation of officers and employees in the field 
service of the Post Office Department. 
Be it enaeted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be 
Postal Field ^itgd as the "Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955". 
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sation Act of 1955. 
TITLE I—DEFINITIONS, COVERAGE, AND EXEMPTIONS 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 101. For the purposes of this Act— 
(1) "Department" means the Post Office Department estab-
lished by section 388 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. C, sec. 361), 
and the postal field service of the Post Office Department; 
(2) "postal field service" includes all operations and organiza-
tion units of the Department, other than the departmental opera-
tions and organization units in the headquarters offices of the Post 
Office Department at the seat of the Government, and includes 
postal inspectors assigned to the headquarters offices of the Post 
Office Department at the seat of the Government; 
(3) "employee", unless the context otherwise indicates, includes 
postmasters, officers, supervisors, and all other persons employed 
in the postal field service, regardless of title, other than persons 
who provide services for the Department on a fee, contract, job, 
or piecework basis; 
(4) "position" means the duties and responsibilities assigned to 
an employee, other than duties performed on a fee, contract, job, 
or piecework basis; 
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(5) "key position" means an existing position, described in sec-
tion 208 of this Act; 
(6) "salary level" means the numerical standing in the Postal 
Field Service Schedule assigned to a position in the postal field 
service; 
(7) "basic salary" means the rate of annual or hourly com-
pensation specified by law, exclusive of overtime, night differen-
tial, and longevity compensation; 
(8) "basic compensation" means basic salary plus longevity 
compensation; and 
(9) "persons" has the meaning prescribed for such word in 
section 1 of title 1 of the United States Code. 
^^ stat. 859. 
COVERAGE 
SEC. 102. This Act applies to all positions and employees in the 
postal field service. 
TITLE II—RANKING OF POSITIONS 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 201. (a) The Postmaster General shall determine the person-
nel requirements of the postal field service, and fix the number of 
supervisors and other employees in such service, except that not more 
than one assistant postmaster may be employed at any post office. He 
shall define the various positions other than the key positions specified 
in section 203 of this Act and the standard positions of postmaster in 
a fourth-class office and rural carrier. 
Pie shall assign each such posi-
tion to its appropriate salary level in the Postal Field Service Schedule. 
He shall ascertain the appropriate salary level of a position (1) by 
comparing the duties, responsibilities, and work requirements of the 
position with the duties, responsibilities, and work requirements of 
key positions described in section 203 of this Act, and (2) by ranking 
the position in relation to the key position most closely comparable 
in terms of the level of duties, Tesponsibilities, and work requirements. 
(b) In ranking positions, the Postmaster General shall apply the 
principle of equal pay for substantially equal work and give effect to 
substantial differences in difficulty of the work to be performed, in the 
degree of responsibility to be exercised, in the scope and variety of 
tasks involved, and in the conditions of performance. 
(c) There shall not at any one time be more than forty employees in i7!2o,reJtricaoni! 
positions assigned to salary level 17, twelve employees in positions as-
signed to salary level 18, four employees in positions assigned to salary 
level 19, or fifteen employees in positions assigned to salary level 20. 
(d) The Postmaster General's determinations under this section 
shall be the basis for the payment of compensation and for personnel 
transactions. 
APPEALS 
SEC. 202. Any employee, either individually or together with one 
or more other employees with a similar grievance, may appeal at any 
time, in person or through his representative specifically designated 
for that purpose, to the United States Civil Service Commission to 
review (1) if such employee is in a position other than a key position 
described in section 203 of this Act, any action taken by the Postmaster 
General under section 201 of this Act, in order to determine whether 
his position has been placed in its appropriate salary level in accord-
ance with such section, and (2) if such employee is in a key position 
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described in section 203 of this Act, any administrative action taken 
or determination made under this Act, in connection with such em-
ployee, in order to determine whether such employee has been i^laced 
correctly in a key position on the basis of and in accordance with the 
descriptions of key positions and the assignments of such positions 
to salary levels specified in section 203 of this Act. 
The Commission 
shall act upon such appeal at the earliest practicable time, and its 
decision on such appeal shall be certified forthwith to the Postmaster 
General who shall take action in accordance with such certificate. 
KEY POSITIONS 
SEC. 203. Key positions in the postal field service consisting of 
standard, related tasks connnonly performed in that service are 
described and assigned to salary levels in the Postal Field Service 
Schedule, as follows: 
(1) POSITION.—JANITOR—LEVEL 1. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Cleans, sweeps, and removes trash from work 
areas, lobbies, and washrooms. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Sweeps and scrubs floors and stairs, dusts furniture and fixtures, 
cleans washrooms and washes windows (except exterior glass in high 
buildings). 
(B) Moves furniture and helps erect equipment and fixtures within 
offices of the building. 
(C) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Cleans ice and snow from the sidewalks and driveways, and 
tends the lawn, shrubbery, and premises of the post office, 
(ii) AVashes walls and ceilings. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or other 
designated supervisor. 
(2) POSITION.—ELEVATOR OPERATOR—LEVEL 
2. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Operates a freight or passenger elevator. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Operates elevator. 
(B) Cleans cab of elevator and polishes metal 
fittings. 
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(C) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Pushes handcarts of mail on and off elevator or assists in 
loading or unloading material carried on elevator. 
(ii) Tends the heating plant or performs cleaning duties in the 
vicinity of the elevator. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to an elevator starter or 
other designated supervisor. 
(3) POSITION.—ORDER FILLER—LEVEL 2. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Selects, assembles, and makes ready for shipment 
items requisitioned by postal field establishments. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
Is assigned any of the following duties: 
(A) Separates sheets of the requisition form, fastens copies to clip-
boards and places on appropriate conveyor line. 
(B) Clarifies writing on carbon copies of requisitions in order to 
minimize errors in filling requisitions. 
(C) Sets up and prepares shipping containers. 
(D) Places in cartons on conveyor lines the quantities of items 
requisitioned from an assigned station, indicating action taken opposite 
each item. 
(E) Fills and labels bulk shipping orders and moves bulk material 
to dispatch area. 
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(F) Replenishes from stock items stored in individual stations and 
keeps stations neat and orderly to facilitate filling of requisitions. 
(G) Transports bulk and individual shipments on hand trucks. 
(H) Assembles materials for each requisition where conveyor lines 
converge. 
(I) Places cartons on assembly table for coordination and packing. 
(J) Checks requisition copies and items to assure that proper action 
has been taken. 
(K) Directs items not requiring packing to dispatch area. 
(L) Combines shipments to reduce packing. 
(M) Transmits bulk slips and shipping labels to the appropriate 
person. 
(N) Labels bulk and individual packages with printed labels to 
avoid hand labeling. 
(O) Prepares labels by use of appropriate rubber stamps. 
(P) Seals cartons with stapling machine or tape. 
(Q) Packs supplies for shipment. 
(R) Stacks and trucks completed orders. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or other 
designated supervisor. 
(4) POSITION.—CLERK. THIRD-CLASS POST OFFICE—LEVEL 2. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Sorts incoming and dispatches outgoing mail for 
a small number of points of separation and destination; provides a 
limited number of services at public windows. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Sorts incoming mail for general delivery, lock boxes, and one 
or more delivery routes. 
(B) Postmarks and prepares mail for dispatch by train or other 
mail route; closes, locks, and affixes labels to pouches and mail sacks. 
(C) Performs services at a public window, such as selling stamps, 
stamped envelopes, or other routine functions. 
(D) As the needs of the service require, may perform other related 
duties incidental to the operation of the post office. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a postmaster. 
(5) POSITION.—GUARD—LEVEL 3. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Makes rounds of the post office building, and 
punches clocks at designated stations. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Patrols buildings, punching watchman's clock where furnished, 
checking door and window locks, noting and reporting fire hazards 
and other irregularities, such as running water and unclosed doors 
and windows. 
(B) Sounds fire alarm. 
(C) Preserves order in corridors and, when necessary, detains per-
sons for interrogation by post-office inspectors or local police. 
( D ) In addition may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Gives directions to the public in building lobby, 
(ii) Raises and lowers the flag. 
(iii) Retrieves lost and found articles and delivers them to the 
appropriate place. 
(iv) Obtains names of victims, doctors, police, and witnesses in 
the event of accident. 
(v) Guards property entrances and prevents damage to prop-
erty by the public. 
(vi) Tends the heating plant of the building. 
(vii) Operates elevators on a relief basis. 
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(viii) Does incidental cleaning and laboring work. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a lieutenant of the 
guard, a building superintendent, or other designated supervisor. 
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(6) POSITION.—FILE CLERK—LEVEL 3. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Sets up and maintains files on one or more sub-
ject matters. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Prepares new file folders and maintains existing folders in 
correct order as prescribed in the established filinjr system. 
(B) Transmits folders or information contained therein to author-
ized personnel (for example, forwards personnel folders to requestinj^ 
supervisors, or copies data from folders to satisfy requests). 
(C) Opens, sorts, and searches file material, and maintains files in 
up-to-date condition. 
(D) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Types from rough draft or plain coj)y. 
(ii) Answers telephones, 
(iii) Prepares requisitions for supplies, 
(iv) Operates a mimeograph machine. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a designated super-
visor. 
(7) POSITION.—TYPIST—LEVEL 3. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Types material such as forms, corres])ondence, 
and stencils from rough draft or plain copy. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) In accordance with instructions and information furnished by 
supervisor, types forms, standard reports, and documents such as in-
vitations to bid, orders, contracts, invoices, personnel actions, and 
related materials. 
( B ) Types correspondence and memoranda from rough drafts or 
general information. 
(C) Cuts stencils for instructions, circulars, and other general uses. 
(D) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Transcribes from a dictating machine. 
(ii) Operates a mimeogra ph machine. 
(iii) Files, checks requisitions, prepares vouchers, and answers 
the telephone. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a designated super-
visor. 
(8) POSITION.—MAIL HANDLER—LEVEL 3. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Loads, unloads, and moves bulk mail, and per-
forms other duties incidental to the movement and processing of mail. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Unloads mail received by trucks. 
Separates all mail received 
by trucks and conveyors for subsequent dispatch to other conveying 
units, and separates and delivers working mails for delivery to 
distribution areas. 
(B) Places empty sacks or pouches on racks, labels them where 
labels are prearranged or racks are plainly marked, dumps mail from 
sacks, cuts ties, faces letter mail, carries mail to distributors for process-
ing, places processed mail into sacks, removes filled sacks and pouches 
from racks, closes and locks same. Picks up sacks, pouches, and out-
side pieces, separates outgoing bulk mails for dispatch and loads mail 
onto trucks. 
(C) Handles and sacks empty equipment, inspects empty equipment 
for mail content, restrings sacks. 
(D) Cancels stamps on parcel post, operates canceling machines, 
carries mail from canceling machine to distribution cases. 
(E) Assists in supply and slip rooms and operates addressograph, 
mimeograph, and similar machines. 
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(F) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Acts as armed guard for valuable registry shipments and 
as watchman and guard around post office building. 
(ii) Makes occasional simple distribution of parcel post mail 
requiring no scheme knowledge. 
(iii) Operates electric fork-lift trucks, 
(iv) Rewraps soiled or broken parcels. 
(v) Performs other miscellaneous duties, such as stamping 
tickets, weighing incoming sacks, cleaning and sweeping in work-
rooms, offices, and trucks where such work is not performed by 
regular cleaners. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or other 
designated supervisor. 
(9) POSITION.—GARAGEMAN—LEVEL 3. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Performs a variety of routine services incidental 
to the proper maintenance of motor vehicles. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Lubricates trucks in accordance with lubrication charts and 
type of truck. 
(B) Changes crankcase oil and filter cleaners and cleans case in 
conformance with instructions and vehicle mileage. 
(C) Changes tires and makes necessary repairs. 
(D) Washes and steam-cleans trucks. 
(E) Assists automotive mechanics. 
(F) Fuels and oils trucks. 
(G) Cleans garage, garage office, swing room, and washroom, as 
assigned. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman of mechan-
ics or other designated supervisor. 
(10) POSITION.—MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATOR—LEVEL 4. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Operates a mail truck on a regularly scheduled 
route to pick up and transport mail in bulk. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Picks up and delivers bulk quantities of mail at stations, branch 
offices, and terminal points; as required, picks up mail from collection 
boxes and deposits mail in relay boxes. 
(B) Operates truck in conformity w^ith time schedules and rules 
of safety, and in accordance with instructions regarding the route for 
which responsible. 
(C) Ascertains the condition of the truck prior to leaving and upon 
returning to the garage; reports all accidents, mechanical defects 
noted, and mechanical failures while on route. 
(D) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Drives a tractor and semitrailer on occasion, unloading 
bagged mail and packages at post offices and picking up mail for 
delivery to a central point. 
(ii) Prepares daily trip reports showing work performed, 
(iii) Makes minor mechanical repairs to truck in emergencies 
while on route. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a superintendent of 
motor vehicles or other designated supervisor. 
(11) POSITION.—CITY OR SPECIAL CARRIER OR SPECIAL DELIVERY 
MESSENGER—LEVEL 4. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for the prompt and efficient deliv-
ery and collection of mail on foot or by vehicle under varying condi-
tions in a prescribed area M'ithin a city. As a representative of the 
postal service, maintains pleasant and effective public relations with 
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route patrons and others, requiring a general familiarity with postal 
laws, regulations, and procedures commonly used, and with the geog-
raphy of the city. 
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DUTIES AND RESPOXSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Routes or cases all classes of mail in sequence of delivery along 
an established route. 
Rearranges and relabels cases as required by 
route adjustments and changes in deliveries. 
(B) Withdraws mail from the distribution case and prepares it in 
sequence for efficient delivery by himself or a substitute along an 
established route. 
Prepares and separates all classes of mail to be 
carried by truck to relay boxes along route for subsequent delivery. 
(C) Enters change of address orders in change of address book 
and on appropriate form. 
Readdresses mail to be forwarded and 
marks for appropriate handling other mail addressed to route patrons 
who have moved. 
Sorts such mail into throw-back case for convenient 
handling by clerks. 
(D) Delivers mail along a prescribed route, on a regular schedule, 
picking up additional mail from relay boxes. Collects mail from 
street letter boxes and accepts letters for mailing from patrons. 
Such 
service may be rendered on foot or by vehicle and in some instances 
may consist exclusively of parcel post delivery or collection of mail. 
(E) Delivers and collects charges on customs, postage-due, and 
c. o. d. mail matter. 
Delivers and obtains receipts for registered and 
certain insured mail. 
Receipts for such matter, except insured mail, 
at the post office before beginning route and accounts for it upon return 
by payments of the amounts collected and delivery of receipts taken. 
(F) Deposits mail collected in the post office upon return from route; 
faces such mail for stamp cancellation. 
(G) Checks, and corrects if necessary, mailing cards presented by 
advertisers bearing names and addresses of patrons or former patrons 
of the route. 
(H) Furnishes patrons wdth postal information when requested, 
and provides change of address cards and other postal forms as 
requested. 
(I) Reports to supervisor all unusual incidents or conditions relat-
ing to mail delivery, including condition of street letter boxes and 
timecards. 
(J) Regular city carriers assigned to foot delivery routes are 
required to become proficient in the casing of mail on at least one other 
foot delivery route. 
(K) Substitute city carriers may be assigned to perform clerical 
duties and may be required to pass examinations on schemes of city 
primary distribution. 
(L) 
Special-delivery carriers and special-delivery 
messengers 
I'eceive special-delivery mail for delivery and sign c. o. d. and regis-
tered items at post office before beginning route; deliver on foot and 
by vehicle special-delivery mail to patrons; obtain signatures when 
required; collect amounts and fees on c. o. d.'s; in case of absent 
patrons, exercise judgment in determining whether to leave mail or 
leave notice and return mail to post office; return receipts and moneys 
collected to authorized personnel at post office. 
(M) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Checks hotels and other such establishments to insure that 
mail for residents undeliverable as addressed is not improperly 
held. 
(ii) Delivers stamps or other paper supplies to contract or 
classified stations. 
(iii) Serves at carriers'delivery window. 
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(iv) Receives and registers, where practical, all letters and pack-
ages of first-class matter properly offered for registration and 
gives receipt therefor. 
(v) Makes delivery on other routes as assigned. 
ORGANIZATIONAL 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a postmaster or 
assistant postmaster, or other designated supervisor. 
(12) POSITION.—DISTRIBUTION CLERK—LEVEL 4. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Separates mail in a post office, terminal, airmail 
field, or other postal facility in accordance with established schemes, 
including incoming or outgoing mail or both. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Makes primary and one or more secondary distributions of 
incoming mail by delivery point (for example, classified or contract 
station or branch or other delivery unit, general delivery, lockboxes, 
rural or star route, or city carrier route) based on a knowledge of the 
distribution scheme established for that office. 
(B) Makes primary and one or more secondary distributions of 
outgoing mail for dispatch (for example, by city. State, region, train, 
highway or railway post office, or airmail flight) based on a knowledge 
of the distribution scheme prescribed by the Postal Transportation 
Service. 
(C) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Maintains records of mails. 
(ii) Examines balances in advance deposit accounts, 
(iii) Faces and cancels mail. 
(iv) Ties mail and inserts facing slips, 
(v) Opens and dumps pouches and sacks, 
(vi) Operates cancelling machines. 
(vii) Records and bills mail (for example, c. o. d., registered, 
and so forth) requiring special service, 
(viii) Renders service at public windows. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or other 
designated supervisor. 
(13) POSITION.—WINDOW CLERK—LEVEL 4. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Performs a variety of services at a public window 
of a post office or post office branch or station. As a representative 
of the postal service, maintains pleasant and effective public relations 
with patrons and others requiring a general familiarity with postal 
laws, regulations, and procedures commonly used. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Sells postage stamps, stamped paper, cards, internal revenue 
stamps, migratory bird stamps, and postal savings stamps and cer-
tificates. 
( B ) Accepts from and, after proper identification, delivers to 
l)atrons parcel post, insured, c. o. d., and registered mail; makes col-
lection of required postage, issues necessary leceipts, and issues general 
delivery mail to patrons. 
( C ) Verifies second-, third-, and fourth-class mailings, computing 
and maintaining on a current basis mailers' credit balances. 
(D) Assigns special delivery and registered mail for delivery. 
(E) Checks and sets post office stamp-vending machines, postage 
meters, and large mailers" stamp permit meters. 
(F) Receives, follows up, and recommends action on patrons' claims 
and complaints. 
(G) Issues and cashes foreign and domestic money orders and postal 
savings certificates. 
(H) Rents post office boxes, receives rental payments, conducts 
1 eference checks, and completes related forms. 
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(I) Provides information to the public concerning postal regula-
tions, mailing restrictions, rates, and other matters involving postal 
transactions. 
(J) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Makes emergency carrier relays, 
(ii) Assists in alien registration and census matters, 
(iii) Separates and distributes mail. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a postmaster, assistant 
postmaster, or other designated supervisor. 
(14) POSITION.—AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC—LEVEL 5. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Repairs mail trucks, including the removal and 
installation of complete motors, clutches, transmissions, and other 
major component parts. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Diagnoses mechanical and operating difficulties of vehicles, 
repairing defects, replacing worn or broken parts. 
(B) Adjusts and tunes up engines, cleaning fuel pumps, carburetors, 
and radiators; regulates timing, and makes other necessary adjust-
ments to maintain in proper operating condition trucks that are in 
service. 
(C) Repairs or replaces automotive electrical equipment such as 
generators, starters, ignition systems, distributors, and wiring; in-
stalls and sets new spark plugs. 
(D) Conducts road tests of vehicles after repairs, noting perform-
ance of engine, clutch, transmission, brakes, and other parts. 
(E) Operates standard types of modern garage testing equipment. 
(F) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Removes, disassembles, reassembles, and installs entire 
engines. 
(ii) Overhauls transmission, rear end assemblies, and braking 
systems. 
(iii) Straightens frames and axles, welding broken parts where 
required. 
(iv) Makes road calls to make emergency repairs. 
(v) Makes required truck inspections. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman of 
me-
chanics or other designated supervisor. 
(15) POSITION.—TRANSFER CLERK—LEVEL 5. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Arranges for transfer of mail at junction points 
between trains and other mail units and observes the separation, load-
ing and unloading of mail by railroad employees to make certain that 
this is done properly. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Provides for the most expeditious transfer of mail from obser-
vations of the operation of trains, star route, or mail messenger ve-
hicles. Government-owned vehicles and platform vehicles. 
(B) Examines outgoing and incoming cars to determine maximum 
utilization of space and proper adherence to railroad safety require-
ments ; reports findings, Avhen necessary, to the district superintendent. 
(C) Decides whether outbound cars in full authorizations should 
be held beyond the first available dispatches in order to obtain fuller 
loading and maximum utilization of the space paid for, making certain 
that this will not unduly delay the arrival of the mail at destination. 
(D) Studies the routing and loading of mail dispatched from his 
station in storage cars in order to recommend changes which would 
bring about economies in line haul and terminal charges and ert'ect 
earlier arrival, 
(xives similar attention to incoming mail to assure 
that dispatching divisions are using best routing and loading methods; 
reports facts to the district superintendent. 
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(E) Maintains close liaison with foremen of appropriate incoming 
and outgoing trains and vehicles to assure prompt receipt and expedi-
tious dispatch of mail. 
(F) Keeps informed on local holding orders for each outgoing 
dispatch and requests that departure of unit within these limitations 
be withheld when scheduled connections are delayed. 
(G) Prepares list of railroad cars (except railway post office cars) 
in which mail is loaded, and maintains record of mail loaded and 
unloaded in outgoing and incoming trains. Serves notice on railroad 
company to cancel operation and purchases lesser storage unit in its 
place when necessary. 
Prepares official diagram and apjjropriately 
labels outgoing cars to indicate destination or next relay point. 
(H) Inspects the loading and unloading of storage mail to secure 
individual piece count of lesser storage units (thirty feet and less); 
estimates volume when more than thirty feet. 
(I) Observes and reports to designated supervisor any failure of 
the railroad company to afford protection for the mail. 
(J) Qualifies periodically through examination on knowledge of 
distributing schemes, postal regulations, space rules, and train 
connections. 
(K) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Receipts for, transfers, and delivers registered mail between 
trains or between train and ])ost office. 
(ii) Distributes mail prescribed for distribution in transfer 
office. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman or other 
designated supervisor. 
(16) POSITION.—DISTRIBUTION CLERK, R. P. O. OR H. P. O.—LEVEL 5. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Distributes mail in raihvay or highway post 
office prior to departure and while en route. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Determines the fastest or most expeditious dispatch of mail 
from the standpoint of assignment. In emergencies, such as floods, 
storms, wrecks, strikes, and missed connections, redistributes the mail 
so as to reach destination by the most expeditious alternative means, 
for example, by other railway post office or highway post office, airmail 
route, or star route. 
(B) Distributes mail rapidly into letter case or pouches and sacks. 
(C) Hangs pouches and sacks in racks and places labels in holders 
provided; labels letter cases in accordance with official diagram. 
(D) Prepares mail for dispatch, involving labeling and tying of 
letter mail in packages for distribution in pouches, closing and lock-
ing sacks and pouches, and maintenance of proper separations for 
connections en route. 
(E) In addition, may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Receives and dispatches mail en route. 
(ii) Unloads mail and equipment at terminal of run. 
(iii) Examines car to ascertain that no mail is left. 
(iv) Convoys registered mail to post office and connecting 
lines. 
(F) Qualifies through examination periodically on knowledge of 
distributing schemes, postal regulations, space rules, and train sched-
ules. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to a foreman in charge 
of the railway post office car or highway post office. 
(17) POSITION.—CLAIMS CLERK, PAYING OFFICE—LEVEL 5. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Examines claims for loss or damage of insured 
or c. o. d. mail matter and determines and approves for payment the 
amount found to be due Under postal regulations. 
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Receives and reviews prescribed claim papers to ascertain 
whether: 
(i) All necessary items of the appropriate claim form have been 
properly completed. 
(ii) Proof of value has been properly determined. 
(iii) Appropriate check has been made of applicable records. 
(iv) Other necessary information has been supplied. 
(B) Determines whether amount of claim exceeds amount of loss 
and the proper amount payable is within the limits of the indemnity. 
(C) Conducts necessary correspondence in connection with the 
claim. 
(D) Approves amount to be paid, and directs disposition of dam-
aged articles. 
(E) Maintains prescribed record of claims. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Reports to an assistant postmas-
ter or other designated supervisor. 
(18) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, 
SMALL 
THIRD-CLASS 
OFFICE-
LEVEL 5. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a small third-
class post office, including actual performance of mail processing and 
window service, disbursement of funds and preparation of required 
reports. This office has no employees other than the postmaster and 
a replacement to serve during his leave; has annual receipts of approx-
imately $1,700; has no rural delivery service within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Conducts the activities of the office in such manner as to provide 
prompt and efficient postal service to the patrons of the office. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public and gives personal 
attention to complaints. 
(C) Sorts incoming mail for boxholders and general delivery; faces, 
cancels, sorts by destination, ties and sacks outgoing mail. 
(D) At a window delivers general delivery mail, issues and cashes 
money orders, delivers c. o. d. and customs mail, accepts and delivers 
parcel post, registered and insured mail, sells stamps and stamped 
paper, and collects box rents. 
(E) Prepares and submits estimates of operating allowances as 
required. 
(F) Makes deposits of accountable funds; requisitions stamps and 
stamped paper; requisitions supplies; pays authorized bills. 
(G) Maintains required office records; prepares and submits neces-
sary reports in accordance with instructions. 
(H) Maintains files for the office. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(19) POSITION.—CLAIMS CLERK, COMMON AND CONTRACT CAR-
RIERS—LEVEL 6. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Audits carriers' claims for the transportation of 
mail to insure their accuracy and correctness of form prior to certify-
ing them for payment. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
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(A) Checks original or draft of claims submitted by carriers using 
space procurement data, records of air carrier flights and weight allo-
cations, reports of railroad space utilization, emergency space pro-
cured, and other pertinent reports and data submitted by the districts. 
(B) Corrects errors in drafts of claims and returns them to the car-
rier for resubmission in final corrected form. 
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(C) Expedites the processing of claims by continuous coordination 
witli the carriers to minimize the incidence of error on claims 
submitted. 
(D) Rechecks resubmitted claims prior to certifyinj^ them for 
payment. 
(E) Maintains records pertinent to carrier claims such as unsched-
uled air carrier flights, weight allocations for mail on flights of air 
carriers, and air line flight schedules. 
(F) Accumulates data and prepares periodic and special reports 
on subjects related to the purchase and use of railroad space, and air 
carrier weight allocation. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RFXATIONSHIPS.—Reports to the supervisor in 
charge of the fiscal section in a Postal Transportation Service division 
office or other designated supervisor. 
(20) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, THIRD-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 6. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a third-class 
post office, including actual performance of mail processing and win-
dow services, disbursement of funds and pre])aration of required re-
ports. 
This office has one part time clerical employee; has annual 
receipts of approximately $4,700; has no rural delivery service within 
its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Supervises and conducts the activities of the office in order to 
provide prompt and efficient i)ostal service to patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public and gives personal 
attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations. 
(D) Sorts incoming mail for boxholders and general delivery; 
faces, cancels, sorts by destination, ties and sacks outgoing mail. 
(E) At a window delivers general delivery mail, issues and cashes 
money orders, delivers c. o. d. and customs mail, accepts and delivers 
parcel post, registered and insured mail, sells stamps and stamped 
paper, and collects box rents. 
(F) Makes required deposits of accountable funds; requisitions 
stamps and stamped paper; requisitions supplies; pays authorized bills 
and makes salary disbursements. 
(G) Prepares and submits annual estimates of manpower needs and 
operating allowances as required. 
(H) Maintains required office records; prepares and submits neces-
sary reports in accordance with instructions. 
(I) Maintains files for the office. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSJIIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(21) POSITION.—FOREMAN, MAILS—LEVEL 7. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Supervises a group of employees engaged in 
carrying out assigned tasks connected with the processing of incoming 
or outgoing mail. 
DUTTES AND RESPONSIBILIITES.— 
(A) Lays out work for employees; insures attendance to duties and 
proper performance of assignments; shifts employees from one assign-
ment to another to meet fluctuations in workload; answers questions 
respecting work progress. 
(B) Trains new employees and ])rovides continuous on-the-job 
training for all employees under his sui)ervision. 
(C) Reports unusual difficulties to a general foreman and suggests 
solutions. Personally resolves ])roblems of a routine nature. 
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(D) Keeps required records for such matters as time, mail on hand, 
and mail processed. 
(E) Recommends personnel actions respecting subordinates; main-
tains morale among the employees in the group; adjusts complaints; 
supplies leadership necessary to secure maximum interest and effort 
from men and promotes cooperation and liarmony. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATioNsmrs.—Administratively responsible to 
a general foreman or other designated superior. Supervises approxi-
mately twenty or more employees. 
(22) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, THIRD-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 7. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a third-class 
post office, including actual participation in processing of mail and 
window services, disbursement of funds and preparation of required 
reports. This office has two clerical employees and annual receipts 
of approximately $6,000, and rural delivery service Avithin its 
jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Supervises the activities of the office in order to provide expe-
ditious handling of the mails, and efficient and courteous postal service 
to patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public and gives personal 
attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Department and (^ivil Service Regulations; selects 
personnel and trains them in their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of employees; arranges working schedules 
of employees and is responsible for the administration of the Efficiency 
Appraisal System. 
(E) Distributes incoming mail for carrier delivery, boxholders and 
general delivery; faces, cancels, distributes, ties and sacks outgoing 
mail; performs general delivery window services; issues and cashes 
money orders; delivers c. o. d. and customs mail; accepts and delivers 
parcel post, registered and insured mail; sells stamps, stamped paper, 
savings bonds, postal savings stamps and certificates, migratory and 
documentary stamps, and collects box rents. 
(F) Checks financial accountability of employees in accordance with 
existing instructions; makes daily deposits of accountable funds in 
local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; requisitions supplies; 
issues checks for employees' salaries and other official disbursements. 
(G) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for submission as required. 
(H) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various trans-
actions of the office, such as personnel salary summaries, retirement 
and withholding tax data, cost estimates, money order and bond sum-
maries and schedules of disbursement. 
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(I) Maintains all files for the office. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to a 
district manager. 
(23) GENERAL FOREMAN.—R. P. O.—LEVEL 8. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs mail service operations in a railway post 
office train with two or more authorized cars. 
Supervises a crew of 
foremen and clerks whose primary function is the distribution and 
exchange of mails en route. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Provides for the proper distribution, exchange, and dispatch of 
mail regularly assigned for handling in the railway post office cars. 
Makes decisions concerning the most expeditious dispatch, rerouting 
and utilization of alternative connections involving irregularly re-
ceived mail and also in emergency situations. 
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(B) Directs mail service operations in the railway post office train 
including: 
(i) Rapid distribution of all classes of mail in accordance with 
official diagrams and via most advantageous routing. 
(ii) Handling, recording, and protection of registered mails. 
(iii) Makeup and exchange of mail at intermediate and termi-
nal offices. 
(iv) Proper utilization of space in each railway post office car 
with relation to other storage space in train and, except as charged 
to transfer clerks, for proper handling of all storage mail in train. 
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(v) Loading and unloading of railway post office cars to assure 
maximum use of available storage space without additional cost. 
(vi) Proper usage of mail equipment and supplies. 
(vii) Maintenance of distribution schemes and schedules of mail 
routes in corrected condition. 
(C) Supervises the activities of foremen and clerks in the cars and 
reassigns them to various duties as may be required to complete 
maximum distribution. Instructs clerks on proper practices and pro-
cedures and reports failures to meet operating standards to the district 
superintendent. 
(D) Inspects condition of railway post office cars and reports to 
the railroad company unsatisfactory situations. 
(E) Completes trip report form covering service operations, includ-
ing particulars of train operation, roster of clerks on duty, mails 
received, worked, and dispatched, and mails not worked; prepares a 
list of all cars on train in which mail is carried, a record of the mail, 
and a report of any irregularities in service. Observes and reports to 
district superintendent any failure of the railroad company to afford 
protection to the mail, 
(F) May personally distribute letter mail for one or more States, 
and maintain record of pouches received and dispatched. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district superintendent or other designated superior. Directs, 
through one or more subordinate foremen, clerks assigned to the run. 
(24) POSITION.—ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, SMALL FIRST-CLASS POST 
OFFICE—LEVEL 8. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the postmaster, 
providing general direction and supervision over mails, finance, per-
sonnel, and other related activities. 
This office has approximately 
sixteen employees, annual receipts of approximately $6«3,000, and eight 
carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the office 
to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous 
and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the post-
master by subordinates with respect to promotions and disciplining of 
post office personnel; generally oversees the training of all personnel for 
their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the account-
ability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allowances 
for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily manpower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates for 
maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances to oper-
ating units. 
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(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate employees in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and administrative 
programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of the 
post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public 
in the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) May personally handle window transactions and perform work 
elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the post 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
the postmaster. 
(25) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, SECOND-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 8. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a second-class 
post office, including actual participation in processing of mail and 
window services, disbursement of funds and preparation of required 
reports. This office has approximately six employees, annual receipts 
of approximately $16,000, and has rural delivery service within its 
jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Supervises and coordinates the activities of the office in order 
to provide expeditious handling of the mails, and efficient and courte-
ous postal service to patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public on administrative 
matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; selects 
personnel and trains them in their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of employees; arranges working schedules 
of employees; recommends promotions of employees; is responsible 
for the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Distributes incoming mail for carrier delivery, boxholders and 
general delivery; faces, cancels, distributes, ties and sacks outgoing 
mail; performs general delivery window service; issues and cashes 
money orders; delivers c. o. d. and customs mails; accepts and delivers 
parcel post, registered and insured mail, sells stamps, stamped paper, 
savings bonds, postal savings stamps and certificates, migratory and 
documentary stamps, and collects box rents. 
(F) Checks financial accountability of employees in accordance 
with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of accountable funds 
in local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; requisitions sup-
plies ; issues checks for employees" salaries and other official disburse-
ments. 
(G) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for submission as required. 
(H) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various trans-
actions of the office, such as personnel salary summaries, retirement 
and withholding tax data, cost estimates, money order and bond 
summaries and schedules of disbursement. 
(I) Maintains all files for the office. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(26) POSITION.—GENERAL FOREMAN, MAILS—LEVEL 9. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs foremen in the distribution of all or part 
of incoming mails, outgoing mails, or both, at a first-class post office. 
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„ DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Lays out work for foremen at the beginning of a tour and 
issues instructions. 
(B) Oversees work in progress to prevent accumulation of mail. 
(C) Insures that mail is distributed in accordance with established 
orders and instructions. 
(D) Shifts men from one foreman to another to keep mails moving. 
(E) Reports difficulties 
and suggests corrective measures to 
superior. 
(F) Maintains required records. 
(G) Assures that adequate on-the-job training is carried out to 
promote employee proficiency. 
(H) Reviews and forwards recommendations of foremen respecting 
discipline, promotions, or changes in assignments; approves time and 
leave requests; submits manpower estimates. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to a 
superintendent or assistant superintendent or other designated supe-
rior. 
Directs, through approximately four foremen, employees as 
assigned. 
(27) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, 
SMALL 
FIRST-CLASS 
OFFICE-
LEVEL 9. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
personnel, and other related activities. This office has approximately 
sixteen employees, annual receipts of approximately $63,000, and city 
delivery service consisting of eight carrier routes within its jurisdic-
tion. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of mails 
and to provide courteous and efficient service to the patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public on administrative 
matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained for 
their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of employees; arranges working schedules 
of employees; recommends promotions of employees and is responsi-
ble for the proper administration of the Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Checks financial accountability of employees in accordance with 
existing instructions; makes daily deposits of accountable funds in 
local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; requisitions sup-
plies. 
(F) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for submission as required. 
(G) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various trans-
actions of the post office; submits postmaster's accounts with support-
ing vouchers and documents in accordance with existing instructions. 
(H) Advertises for bids for various services, including contract sta-
tions, vehicular service, mail messenger service, and vehicular mainte-
nance service, and submits bids, with recommendations, as required. 
(I) Directs the maintenance of files for the office. 
(J) May personally handle window transactions and perform work 
elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(28) POSITION.—BUILDING SUPERINTENDENT—LEVEL 10. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs the janitorial, maintenance, and operat-
ing services of a large post office building and branches and stations 
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covering an aggregate area of approximately 700,000 square feet, 
including security, heating and ventilating, mechanical and electrical 
equipment, and elevator services. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Plans and prepares work schedules and supervises the custodial 
forces in cleaning, heating, guarding, operating, and repairing the 
post office building and equipment. 
(B) Makes frequent inspections to determine maintenance needs 
of the building and equipment, and to determine the efficiency of the 
janitorial and maintenance force. 
(C) Prepares and answers correspondence relating to custodial 
service. 
(D) Plans and supervises maintenance or alteration work under 
contract. 
(E) Supervises the office force in the preparation of vouchers, requi-
sitions and reports incidental to custodial service, and in the mainte-
nance of required accounts and records. 
(F) Recommends transfers, promotions, and disciplinary measures 
for custodial personnel. 
(G) Inspects mechanical equipment to determine repair needs and 
adherence to standards of preventive maintenance. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
the postmaster or other designated superior. 
Directs, through a gen-
eral foreman of laborers and a chief engineer, approximately 100 
employees, including electricians and other skilled trades. 
(29) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 10. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, per-
sonnel, and other related activities. 
This office has approximately 
twenty-seven employees, annual receipts of $129,000, and eleven city 
delivery and rural carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient service to the patrons. 
(B) Maintains direct contact with the public on administrative 
matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints all personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that all personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained for their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of all employees; supervises arrangement 
of working schedules of employees; recommends promotions of em-
ployees; and is responsible for the proper administration of the 
Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Checks financial accountability of employees in accordance 
with existing instructions; makes daily deposits of accountable funds 
in local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; requisitions 
supplies. 
(F) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for submission as required. 
(G) Prepares reports of a recurring nature, reflecting various trans-
actions of the post office; submits postmaster's accounts with support-
ing vouchers and documents in accordance with existing instructions. 
(H) Advertises for bids for various services, including contract 
stations, vehicular service, mail messenger service, and vehicular main-
tenance service, and submits bids, with recommendations, as required. 
(I) Directs the maintenance of files for the office. 
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(J) May personally handle window transactions and perform work 
elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(30) POSITION.—TOUR SUPERINTENDENT, INCOMING OR OUTGOING 
MAILS—LEVEL 11. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs general foremen in the distribution of 
incoming mails or outgoing mails on a tour at a large first-class post 
office. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Provides for the prompt and complete operation of a tour 
activity, such as incoming mails, outgoing mails, or all first- and third-
class outgoing mails. 
(B) Reassigns employees as necessary to meet peakload demands; 
provides direction to subordinate foremen, coordinating the portions 
of work assigned to them. 
(C) Answers questions of subordinate foremen regarding operat-
ing problems; refers policy questions to liis superior with appropriate 
recommendations. 
(D) Reviews requests for personnel actions by subordinate foremen, 
recommending final action to superior. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower required, consolidating for 
recommendation to superior. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
an assistant superintendent of mails or other designated superior. 
Directs, through general foremen, employees assigned to the tour. 
(31) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 11. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, per-
sonnel, and other related activities. 
This office has approximately 
fifty-three 
employees, annual receipts of $314,000, six Government-
owned vehicle units, no classified stations, and twenty-five city and 
rural delivery routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of mails 
and to provide courteous and efficient service to the patrons. 
( B ) Maintains direct contact with the public on administrative 
matters and gives personal attention to complaints. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained 
for their respective positions. 
(D) Directs the activities of all employees; supervises arrangement 
of working schedules of employees; recommends promotions of 
employees and is responsible for the proper administration of the 
Efficiency Appraisal System. 
(E) Checks financial accountability of employees in accordance with 
existing instructions; makes daily deposits of accountable funds in 
local bank; obtains bids for proposed purchases; requisitions supplies. 
(F) Prepares annual estimates of manpower needs and operating 
allowances for submission as required. 
(G) Prepares numerous reports of a recurring nature, reflecting 
various transactions of the post office; submits postmaster's accounts 
with supporting vouchers and documents in accordance with existing 
instructions. 
(H) Advertises for bids for various services, including contract 
stations, vehicular service, mail messenger service, and vehicular main-
tenance service, and submits bids, with recommendations, as required. 
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(I) Directs the maintenance of files for the office. 
(J) May personally handle window transactions and perform work 
elsewhere in the office as the workload requires. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(32) POSITION.—POSTAL INSPECTOR—LEVEL 12. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible in an assigned territory, usually 
including all classes of post offices, for inspection and investigative 
programs covering all phases of the postal service. In heavily popu-
lated areas may be assigned a majority of the time to selected types 
of work as determined by the inspector-in-charge. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.—ASSIGNED TERKITOKY.— 
(A) Inspects post offices and related postal units to insure compli-
ance with postal laws and regulations, protection and proper expendi-
ture of postal revenues and appropriated funds, and evahiates and 
reports to administrative officials on operational efficiency. 
(B) Maintains close working relationship with regional officials and 
submits to them factual information and recommendations oii condi-
tions and needs of the postal service; acts as counselor to postmasters 
and other postal officials and employees in explaining instructions, 
regulations, applicable laws and decisions. 
(C) Investigates violations of postal laws, including, but not limited 
to, armed robbery, mailing of bombs, burglary, theft of mail, embezzle-
ments, obscene literature and pictures, and mail fraud. 
(D) Determines the validity and seriousness of charges against post-
masters and other officers and employees and makes pertinent 
recommendations. 
(E) Investigates local and area operating problems and recommends 
corrective action, and within his prescribed jurisdiction, initiates 
necessary corrective action, including restoration of service imme-
diately in disaster areas caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and 
other catastrophes. 
(F) Maintains liaison activities (i) with military installations to 
insure adequate postal service for the military forces; (ii) Avith 
Federal and State civil defense authorities at the area level; (iii) 
with branches of Federal and State law enforcement agencies. 
(G) Ascertains postal needs for post offices and stations, rural and 
city delivery, changes in schedules, quarters, equipment, manpower, 
and procedures and reports findings and recommendations to appro-
priate officials. 
SELECTED CASES.— 
(H) Investigates the loss, theft, destruction, and damage to mail 
matter through technical analyses of complaints and other specialized 
procedures. 
(I) Investigates money-order forgeries; investigates complaints of 
use of the mails to defraud and to operate lotteries. 
(J) Investigates personal injuries, motor-vehicle and other acci-
dents; develops evidence for defense of suits under the so-called 
st^. 982*.' ^^^' ^^ Federal Tort Claims Act; recommends out-of-court settlements. 
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(K) 111 any criminal investigation, develops evidence, locates wit-
nesses and suspects; apprehends and effects arrests of postal oiienders, 
presents facts to United States attorney, and collaborates as required 
with Federal and State prosecutors in presentation before I'nited 
States commissioner, grand jury, and trial court. 
(L) Surveys postal service on an area basis to ascertain and recom-
mend ways of improving service and effecting economies. 
(M) Makes investigations of a variety of other matters and performs 
related duties as assigned. 
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ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Responsible to the inspector-in-
charge or the assistant inspector-in-charge of the division. Supervises 
trainees and otlier inspectors as assigned. 
(33) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 12. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, build-
ings, personnel, and related services. 
This office has approximately 
seventy-two employees, annual receipts of $797,000, six Government-
owned vehicle units, no classified stations, and seventeen carrier routes 
within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of the 
mails and to provide efficient and courteous postal service to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; determines 
that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained in their 
respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee rela-
tions Avith representatives of employee organizations and individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and for 
the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted by 
operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply Center 
or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(34) POSITION.—STATION SUPERINTENDENT, LARGE CLASSIFIED 
STATION—LEVEL 13. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs the operations of a large classified station, 
including the distribution, delivery, and dispatch of mail and all re-
quired window services to the public. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Plans and supervises the distribution of incoming and outgoing 
mails, the delivery service, including special delivery, and the dispatch 
of outgoing mail. 
( B ) Supervises services to the public at windows, including sales 
of stamps and stamped paper, money orders, postal savings stamps and 
certificates, migratory and documentary stamps, registry and insurance 
of mail; handling of c. o. d. items; general delivery and box mail. 
(C) Supervises city and rural carriers and determines that delivery 
schedules are maintained; consults in the adjustment and establish-
ment of routes to reflect changes in volume, patronage, or population; 
and recommends establishment or changes in location of collection 
boxes. 
(D) Directs and maintains required records for personnel of sta-
tion; verifies and approves timecards for payroll purposes; makes 
manpower estimates and reports; trains new supervisors and employees 
in various aspects of station operations. 
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(E) Requisitions supplies and equipment, stamps, stamped paper, 
and accountable forms from main post office, reissuing to subordinates 
as required. 
Is responsible for entire fixed credit of station and for 
operation within the allowance granted. 
(F) Maintains effective relations with large mailers and the public; 
simplifies handling of mail, and takes appropriate action to meet 
complaints. 
(Gr) Inaddition,may perform any of the following duties: 
(i) Supervises the cleaning and custodial maintenance of the 
station building. 
(ii) Makes necessary arrangements for special services such as 
alien registrations, special census reports, or handling of special 
purpose mailing. 
ORGANIZATIOXAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a superintendent of mails or other designated superior. Directs, 
through subordinate supervisors, approximately one thousand or more 
employees. 
(35) POSITION.—ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE-
LEVEL 13. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the postmaster, 
particularly on internal operations, and provides general direction 
over the mails, finance, administrative, and service functions of the 
post office. 
The office has approximately four hundred and fifty 
employees, annual receipts of $2,700,000, fifty Govermnent-owned 
vehicle units, one classified station or branch, and one hundred and 
thirty carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the office 
to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous 
and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the post-
master by subordinates with respect to promotions and disciplining 
of post-office personnel; generally oversees the training of all personnel 
for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the account-
ability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily manpower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates for 
maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances to oper-
ating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and administrative 
programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of the 
post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public in 
the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the post 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
the postmaster. 
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(36) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 13. 
BASIC F U N C T I O N . — I s res])onsible for all operations of a 
first-class 
{)Ost office, including the direction and supervision of mails, 
finance, 
)uildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, 
stations, and branches. 
This office has approximately one hundred 
and eighty employees, annual receipts of $1,000,000, twenty-one (xov-
ernment-owned vehicle units, three classified stations, and sixty-five 
carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
D U T I E S AND RKSPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organize the post office to insure expeditious handling of the 
mails and to provide efficient and courteous postal service to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained 
for their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal Sys-
tem and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee relations 
with 
representatives 
of employee 
organizations 
and 
individual 
employees. 
( E ) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance Avith approved estimates. 
( F ) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted 
by operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply 
Center or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a district manager. 
(37) POSITION.—ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE-
LEVEL 14. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the postmaster, 
particularly on internal operations, and provides general direction 
over the mails, finance, administrative, and service functions of the 
post office. 
This office has approximately one thousand and two hun-
dred employees, annual receipts of $8,460,000, one hundred and seven-
teen Government-owned vehicle units, sixteen classified stations and 
branches, and two hundred and ninety carrier routes within its 
jurisdiction. 
D U T I E S AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the office 
to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous 
and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the post-
master by subordinates' with respect to promotions and disciplining 
of post office personnel; generally oversees the training of all personnel 
for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the account-
ability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances for action of the postmaster. 
( E ) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily manpower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates for 
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maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances to operat-
ing units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and administrative 
programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of the 
post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationship with the public in 
the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the post-
master. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the post 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
the postmaster. 
(38) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 14. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, build-
ings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, stations, 
and branches. This office has approximately four hundred and fifty 
employees, annual receipts of $2,700,000, fifty Government-owned 
vehicle units, one classified station or branch, and one hundred and 
thirty carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of the 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships with 
the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained in 
their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal Sys-
tem and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee relations 
with representatives of employee organizations and 
individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted 
by operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply 
Center or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to a 
regional director or other designated superior. 
(39) POSITION.—ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE-
LEVEL 15. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the postmaster, 
particularly on internal operations, and provides general direction 
over the mails, finance, administratiA'e and service functions of the 
post office. This office has approximately three thousand two hundred 
employees, annual receipts of $16,900,000, two hundred Government-
owned vehicle units, thirty-four classified stations and branches, and 
one thousand carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the office 
to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous 
and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the post-
master by subordinates with respect to promotions and disciplining 
of post-office personnel; generally oversees the training of all personnel 
for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the account-
ability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily man])ower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates for 
maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances to oper-
ating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and administra-
tive programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of the 
post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public in 
the area, including rejjresentation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the post-
master. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the ])ost 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively resf>onsible to 
the postmaster. 
(40) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 15. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, build-
ings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, stations 
and branches. This office has approximately seven hundred employees, 
annual receipts of $4,470,000, seventy-seven Government-owned vehicle 
units, eight classified stations and branches, and two hundred carrier 
routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of the 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained 
in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee rela-
tions with representatives of employee organizations and individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
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(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted 
by operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply 
Center or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director or other designated superior. 
(41) POSITION.—GENERAL 
SUPERINTENDENT, 
PTS 
DIVISION-
LEVEL 16. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—^Directs all activities of a division of the Postal 
Transportation Service of average size and complexity in terms of 
numbers of employees and in expenditure of funds, or in terms of the 
importance of the mail gateways in the division, the volume and 
complexity of the mail and mail handling operations, and concentra-
tions which create congestions. Is responsible for the transportation, 
transfer, distribution, and dispatch of mail in transit, and for the 
efficient and economical operation of the division. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES,— 
(A) Directs and coordinates the activities of subordinate district 
superintendents in planning and effectuating the transportation and 
processing of transit mail within, entering, or emanating from the 
division; confers with officials of commercial carriers regarding mail 
handling and transportation, schedules, security of mail in transit, 
and rates. 
(B) Provides, through his assistants, general supervision over the 
activities of the employees of the division. 
Establishes manpower 
controls, effective employee relations, and inspections of personnel 
activities, both informally and as required by regulations. 
(C) Exercises administrative control over the district superintend-
ents and, through them, the constituent field units such as transfer 
offices, airmail fields, terminals, railway post office lines, highway post 
office lines, and contract carriers such as star routes and mail messenger 
routes, and related operating units; maintains financial control of the 
division, reporting on expenditures and requirements as directed. 
(D) Maintains liaison with airlines, railroads, trucklines, and other 
contract carriers; contacts major publishers, mail-order houses, and 
other large volume patrons with respect to mass mailing problems. 
(E) Coordinates division activities with those of contiguous divi-
sions and with other segments of the Post Office Department within 
the area. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director. Directs, through an assistant and district superin-
tendents, up to three thousand three hundred employees. 
(42) POSITION.—ASSISTANT 
POSTMASTER, 
LARGE 
FIRST-CLASS 
OFFICE—LEVEL 16. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the postmaster, 
particularly on internal operations, and provides general direction 
over the mails, finance, administrative and service functions of the 
post office. This office has approximately eight thousand employees, 
annual receipts of $48,000,000, four hundred Government-owned 
vehicle units, fifty classified stations and branches, and one thousand 
four hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the office 
to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous 
and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the post-
master by subordinates with respect to promotions and disciplining of 
post office personnel; generally oversees the training of all personnel 
for their respective positions. 
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(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the accounta-
bility of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allowances 
for action of the postmaster. 
(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily manpower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates for 
maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances to oper-
ating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and administrative 
programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of the 
post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public in 
the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the post-
master. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the post 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
the postmaster. 
(43) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 16. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, build-
ings, personnel, and related services in the main post office, stations, and 
branches. 
This office has approximately one thousand two hundred 
employees, annual receipts of $8,460,000, one hundred and seventeen 
Government-owned vehicle units, sixteen classified stations and 
branches, and two hundred and ninety carrier routes within its 
jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships with 
the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints all personnel to serve in the post office within the 
limits prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; 
determines that all personnel are carefully selected and adequately 
trained in their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal Sys-
tem and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee relations 
with representatives of employee organizations and individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted by 
operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply Center 
or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director or other designated superior. 
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(44) POSITION.—GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, LARGEST PTS DIVI-
SION—LEVEL 17. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs all activities of one of the largest divi-
sions of the Postal Transportation Service in terms of numbers of 
employees and in expenditure of funds, as well as in terms of the im-
portance of the mail g:ateways in the division, the volume and com-
plexity of the mail and mail handling: operations, and concentrations 
which create congestions. 
Is responsible for the transportation, trans-
fer, distribution, and dispatch of mail in transit, and for the efficient 
and economical operation of the division. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Directs and coordinates the activities of subordinate district 
superintendents in planning and effectuating the transportation and 
processing of transit mail within, entering, or emanating from the 
division; confers with officials of commercial carriers regarding mail-
handling and transportation schedules, security of mails in transit, 
and rates. 
(B) Provides, through his assistants, general supervision over the 
activities of the employees of the division. 
Establishes manpower 
controls, effective employee relations, and inspections of personnel 
activities, both informally and as required by regulations. 
(C) Exercises administrative control over the district superintend-
ents and, through them, the constituent field units such as transfer 
offices, air mail fields, terminals, railway post office lines, highway post 
office lines, and contract carriers such as star routes and mail messen-
ger routes, and related operating units; maintains financial control 
of the division, reporting on expenditures and requirements as directed. 
(D) Maintains liaison Avith airlines, railroads, trucklines. and other 
contract carriers; contacts major publishers, mail-order houses, and 
other large volume patrons with respect to mass mailing problems. 
(E) Coordinates division activities with those of contiguous divi-
sions and with other segments of the Post Office Department within 
the area. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director. Directs, through an assistant and district super-
intendents, approximately three thousand three hundred or more 
employees. 
(45) POSITION.—ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, LARGEST FIRST-CLASS 
OFFICE—LEVEL 17. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Serves as the overall assistant to the postmaster, 
particularly on internal operations, and provides general direction 
over the mails, finance, administrative, and service functions of the 
post office. This office has approximately twenty thousand emploj^ees, 
annual receipts of $140,000,000, one thousand one hundred Govern-
ment-owned motor-vehicle units, sixty-six classified stations and 
branches, and three thousand two hundred carrier routes within its 
jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Participates in the organization and management of the office 
to insure expeditious handling of the mails and to provide courteous 
and efficient service to patrons. 
(B) Reviews and evaluates recommendations referred to the post-
master by subordinates with respect to promotions and disciplining 
of post-office personnel; generally oversees the training of all personnel 
for their respective positions. 
(C) Directs a continuous audit program concerning the account-
ability of responsible finance employees of the office. 
(D) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances for action of the postmaster. 
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(E) Analyzes and reports to the postmaster the daily manpower 
expenditures and is responsible through designated subordinates for 
maintaining proper apportionment of authorized allowances to 
operating units. 
(F) Gives assistance and direction to key subordinate officials in 
planning and executing the mail handling, finance, and administrative 
programs of the post office. 
(G) Reviews reports and recommendations of subordinates and 
attends to administrative matters essential to the management of the 
post office. 
(H) Represents the postmaster in relationships with the public in 
the area, including representation with employee organizations. 
(I) Carries out special assignments for and as directed by the 
postmaster. 
(J) Assumes complete responsibility and authority for the post 
office in the postmaster's absence and at other times as required. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
the postmaster. 
(46) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, FIRST-CLASS OFFICE—LEVEL 17. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a first-class 
post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, build-
ings, personnel, and related services in the main post office and stations 
and branches. This office has approximately three thousand two 
hundred employees, annual receipts of $16,900,000, two hundred Gov-
ernment-owned vehicle units, thirty-four classified stations and 
branches, and one thousand carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of the 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships with 
the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained 
for their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal 
System and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee rela-
tions with representatives of employee organizations and individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted by 
operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply 
Center or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director or other designated superior. 
(47) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, 
LARGE 
FIRST-CLASS 
OFFICE-
LEVEL 18. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of a large first-
class post office, including direction and supervision of mails, finance, 
buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post office and 
stations and branches. 
This office has approximately eight thousand 
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employees, annual receipts of $48,000,000, four hundred Government-
owned vehicle units, fifty classified stations and branches, and one 
thousand four hundred carrier routes within its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handling of 
the mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to 
patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships 
with the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
prescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained for 
their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal Sys-
tem and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee rela-
tions with representatives of employee organizations and individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of hianpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures 
authorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the o[)eration and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted 
by operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply 
Center or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director or other designated superior. 
(48) POSITION.—POSTMASTER, 
LARGEST 
FIRST-CLASS 
OFFICE-
LEVEL 19. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Is responsible for all operations of one of the 
largest first-class offices, including direction and supervision of mails, 
finance, buildings, personnel, and related services in the main post 
office, stations and branches. 
This office has approximately twenty 
thousand employees, annual receipts of $140,000,000, one thousand one 
hundred Government-owned vehicle units, sixty-six classified stations 
and branches, and three thousand two hundred carrier routes within 
its jurisdiction. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Organizes the post office to insure expeditious handfing of the 
mails and to provide courteous and efficient postal service to patrons. 
(B) Represents the Post Office Department in its relationships with 
the public in the area. 
(C) Appoints personnel to serve in the post office within the limits 
])rescribed by Departmental and Civil Service Regulations; deter-
mines that personnel are carefully selected and adequately trained in 
their respective positions. 
(D) Supervises the administration of the Efficiency Appraisal Sys-
tem and is responsible for maintaining satisfactory employee rela-
tions with representatives of employee organizations and individual 
employees. 
(E) Reviews estimates of manpower needs and operating allow-
ances, submits requests and recommendations as required, and deter-
mines that operations are efficiently carried out and expenditures au-
thorized in accordance with approved estimates. 
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(F) Provides for the safeguarding of all moneys, the operation and 
maintenance of equipment and other facilities of the post office, and 
for the expenditure of funds in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations. 
(G) Approves requisitions for supplies and equipment submitted 
by operating officials of the post office for submission to the Supply 
Center or the Department. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administratively responsible to 
a regional director. 
(49) POSITION.—REGIONAL DIRECTOR—LEVEL 20. 
BASIC FUNCTION.—Directs the management of all postal activities 
within the jurisdiction of an assigned region in accordance with 
basic departmental policies and Avith functional direction and guidance 
from Assistant Postmasters General. 
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
(A) Develops and formulates policies and practices for the region 
within basic policies and instructions of the Postmaster General, 
(B) Manages post office operations. 
(C) Administers routing, distribution, and transportation of mail 
within and in transit through the region. 
(D) Arranges for the provision of adequate facilities and equipment 
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for all postal functions in the region. 
(E) Administers the personnel program of the region, including 
employment, placement, training, evaluation of positions, employee 
relations, and other personnel functions. 
(F) Authorizes and issues allowances for all expenditures and 
exercises budgetary controls. 
(G) Administers cost reduction programs and provides industrial 
engineering services to operating segments of the region. 
(H) Maintains effective public relations with the general public, 
large mail users, and with Federal, State, and municipal authorities. 
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.—Administrativel}^ responsible to 
the Deputy Postmaster General. 
Directs, through subordinate offi-
cials, approximately thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand employees 
in some three thousand offices within the region. 
DUAL E M P L O Y M E N T AND EXTRA DUTIES 
SEC. 204. (a) An employee may be ai)pointed to more than one posi-
tion and shall be paid compensation at the rate ])rovided by law for 
each position, without regard to the provisions of sections 1763, 1764, 
and 1765 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (5 V. S. C, sees. 58, 69, 
and 70). 
(b) As the needs of the service require, an employee may be as-
signed from time to time to perform, without change in compensation, 
duties, and responsibilities other than tlie duties and responsibilities 
specifically set forth in his position description; liowever, if any em-
ployee is assigned for more than thirty days in any calendar year to 
duties and responsibilities of a salary level which is higher than the 
salary level to which his position is assigned, except to perform service 
in a relief capacity for a supervisor granted compensatory time pur-
suant to section 603, he shall be paid for the period of his assignment 
in excess of thirty days a basic salary computed in accordance with 
the provisions of section 502. 
REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL 
SEC. 205. (a) The Postmaster General shall transmit to the Con-
gress, on or before January 15, 1956, a comprehensive report of opera-
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tions under this title. Sucli report shall include, among other matters, 
the following— 
(1) information, in summary and in detail, with respect to 
actions by the Postmaster General taken under section 201, with 
specific reference to the definitions of positions, the designations 
of the respective salary levels to which sucli positions are assigned, 
and the reasons for such actions; 
(2) a statement showing the number of employees determined 
to be in each key position under section 208, and the occupational 
titles of such employees immediately prior to the conversion of 
such employees under section 304 (b) ; 
(3) a statement with respect to the o])eration of the appeals 
system prescribed by section 202, including the number of such 
appeals by employees, a genei'al discussion of the reasons for such 
appeals, the actions taken thereon and the reasons therefor; and 
(4) such other information and evidence as is necessary to 
enable the Committees on Post Office and Civil Service of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives to carry out the respon-
sibility for supervision and review of the administration of this 
title, in accordance with section 136 of the Legislative Reorgani-
zation Act of 1946 (Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress). 
(b) The report submitted by the Postmaster General under subsec-
tion (a) of this section shall be delivered to the President of the Senate 
and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the same day, 
and shall be referred to the Committees on Post Office and Civil 
Service of both Houses. The report shall be printed as a House 
Document. 
TITLE III—BASIC SALARY SCHEDULES 
P O S T A L P I E L D SERVICE S C H E D U L E 
SEC. 301. (a) There is established a basic salary schedule for posi-
tions in the postal field service which shall be known as the Postal 
Field Service Schedule, and for which the symbol shall be "PES". 
Except as provided in sections 302 and 303 of this Act, basic salary 
shall be paid to all employees in accordance with this schedule. 
P O S T A L F I E L D 
S E R V I C E 
S C H E D U L E 
Level 
1
-
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6
-
7. 
8. 
9. 
10 
1
1 
12 
1
3 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
Per annum rates and steps 
$2,880 
3,090 
3,330 
3,660 
3,880 
4,190 
4,530 
4,890 
5,280 
5,800 
6,380 
7,020 
7,730 
8,500 
9,350 
10,300 
11,400 
12,500 
13,600 
14,800 
$2,980 
3,195 
3,445 
3,785 
4,005 
4,330 
4,685 
5,060 
5,465 
6,000 
6,600 
7,260 
7,990 
8,780 
9,650 
10,600 
11,700 
12,800 
13,900 
$3,080 
3,300 
3,660 
3,910 
4,130 
4,470 
4,840 
5,230 
5,650 
6,200 
6,820 
7,500 
8,250 
9,060 
9,950 
10,900 
12,000 
13,100 
14,200 
$3,180 
3,405 
3,675 
4,035 
4,255 
4,610 
4,995 
6,400 
5,835 
6,400 
7,040 
7,740 
8,510 
9,340 
10,260 
11,200 
12,300 
13,400 
14,500 
$3,280 
3,510 
3,790 
4,160 
4,380 
4,750 
5,150 
5,570 
6,020 
6,600 
7,260 
7,980 
8,770 
9,620 
10,550 
11,500 
12,600 
13,700 
14,800 
$3,380 
3,615 
3,905 
4,285 
4,505 
4,890 
5,305 
5,740 
6,205 
6,800 
7,480 
8,220 
9,030 
9,900 
10,850 
11,800 
12,900 
14,000 
$3,480 
3,720 
4,020 
4,410 
4,630 
5,030 
5,460 
5,910 
6,390 
7,000 
7,700 
8,460 
9,290 
10,180 
11,160 
12,100 
13,200 
14,300 
(b) The basic salary for hourly rate employees shall be computed 
by dividing the per annum rates prescribed in the Postal Field Service 
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Schedule (1) by 2,080 in the case of hourly rate employees other than 
substitutes, and (2) by 2,016 in the case of substitute employees. 
RURAL CARRIER SCHEDULE 
SEC. 302. (a) There is established a basic salary schedule which shall 
be known as the Eural Carrier Schedule, and for which the symbol 
shall be "RCS", for carriers in the rural delivery service, which is based 
in part on fixed compensation per annum and in part on specified 
rates per mile per annum. Basic salary shall be paid to rural carriers 
in accordance with this schedule. 
RURAL CARRIER SCHEDULE 
Carriers in rural delivery serv-
ice: 
Fixed compensation per 
Compensation per mile per 
annum for each mUe up 
to 30 miles of route 
For each mile of route over 
Temporary carriers in rural 
delivery service on routes to 
which no regular carrier is 
assigned: 
Fixed compensation per 
Compensation per mile per 
annum for each mile up 
For each mile of route over 
Temporary carriers in rural 
delivery service on routes 
having regular carriers ab-
sent without pay or on mili-
Substitute carriers in rural de-
livery service on routes hav-
ing carriers absent with pay.. 
Per annum rates and steps 
1 
$1, 566.00 
65.00 
22.00 
1, 566.00 
65.00 
22.00 
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2 
$1,611.00 
67.00 
22.00 
3 
$1,656.00 
69.00 
22.00 
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4 
$1, 701.00 
71.00 
22.00 
(•) 
5 
$1, 746. 00 
73.00 
22.00 
6 
$1, 791.00 
75.00 
22.00 
(•) 
7 
$1,836.00 
77.00 
22.00 
(') 
(') 
1 Basic compensation authorized for the regular carrier. 
(b) A rural carrier serving one triweekly route shall be paid on the 
basis of a route one-half the length of the route served by him. 
A 
rural carrier serving two triweekly routes shall be paid on the basis of 
a route one-half the combined length of the two routes. 
(c) The Postmaster General may pay such additional compensation 
as he may determine to be fair and reasonable in each individual case 
to rural carriers serving heavily patronized routes not exceeding sixty-
one miles in length. 
He may not pay additional compensation to a 
carrier serving such a route in an amount which would exceed $4,700, 
when added to the basic salary for the maximum step in the Rural 
Carrier Schedule for his route. 
In case any such heavily patronized 
route is extended in length, the rural carrier assigned to such route at 
the time of such extension shall not be reduced in pay. 
(d) The Postmaster General may pay additional compensation to 
rural carriers who are required to carry pouch mail to intermediate 
post offices, or for intersecting loop routes, in all cases where it appears 
that the carriage of such pouches increases the expense of the equip-
ment required by the carrier or materially increases the amount of 
labor performed by him. 
Such compensation shall not exceed the sum 
of $12 per annum for each mile such carrier is required to carry such 
pouches. 
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(e) In addition to the otlier compensation, rural carriers shall be 
paid the authorized fee for making special delivery of mail. 
Such fee 
shall not be paid when (1) no special delivery service is rendered, (2) 
delivery is made into a rural mail box, or (3) delivery is made to the 
addressee or his representative on the rural carrier's route. 
FOURTH-CLASS OFFICE SCHEDUJ.E 
SEC. 303. (a) There is established a basic salary schedule which shall 
be known as the Fourth-Class Office Schedule, and for which the 
symbol shall be "FOS", for postmasters in post offices of the fourth 
class which is based on the gross postal receipts as contained in returns 
of the post office for the calendar year immediately preceding. 
Basic 
salary shall be paid to postmasters in post offices of the fourth class in 
accordance with this schedule, and basic salary so paid, together with 
other forms of compensation provided by this Act, shall replace all 
existing forms of compensation for such postmasters. 
F O U R T H - C L A S S O F F I C E 
S C H E D U L E 
Gross receipts 
Per annum rates and steps 
$1,300 to $1,499.99 
$900 to $1,299.99.. 
$600 to $899.99.-.. 
$350 to $599.99.... 
$250 to $349.99-... 
$200 to $249.99-... 
$100 to $199.99..-. 
Under $100 
$2,514 
2,304 
1,886 
1,467 
1,048 
838 
629 
410 
$2,598 
2,381 
1,949 
1,516 
1,083 
866 
650 
433 
$2,682 
2,458 
2,012 
1,565 
1,118 
894 
671 
447 
$2,766 
2,535 
2,075 
1,614 
1,153 
922 
692 
461 
$2,850 
2,612 
2,138 
1,663 
1,188 
950 
713 
475 
$2,934 
2,689 
2,201 
1,712 
1,223 
978 
734 
$3,018 
2,766 
2,264 
1,761 
1,258 
1,006 
755 
503 
(b) The basic salary of postmasters in fourth-class post offices shall 
be readjusted for changes in gross receipts at the start of the first 
pay period after the beginning of each fiscal year. 
In adjusting a 
postmaster's basic salary under this section the basic salary shall be 
fixed at the lowest step which is higher than the basic salary received 
by the postmaster at the end of the preceding fiscal year. 
If there is 
no such step the basic salary shall be fixed at the highest step for 
the adjusted gross receipts of the office. 
Each increase in basic salary 
because of change in gross receipts shall be deemed the equivalent 
of a step-increase under section 401 of this Act and the waiting period, 
for purposes of advancement to the next step, shall begin on the date 
of adjustment. 
(c) The basic salaries of postmasters at newly established offices 
of the fourth class shall be fixed at the low^est salary rate. Whenever 
unusual conditions prevail at any post office of the fourth class the 
Postmaster General may advance such office to the appropriate cate-
gory or class indicated by the receipts of the preceding quarter. 
Any 
fourth-class office advanced to the appropriate category or class pur-
suant to this subsection shall not be reduced in category or class until 
the start of the first pay period after July 1 of the calendar year fol-
lowing the calendar year in which it was so advanced, at which time it 
shall be assigned to the category or class indicated by the receipts for 
the preceding calendar year. 
(d) Persons who perform the duties of postmaster at post offices 
of the fourth class where there is a vacancy or during the absence of 
the postmaster on sick or annual leave, or leave without pay, shall be 
paid the same basic salary to which they would have been entitled if 
regularly appointed as such postmaster. 
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(e) The Postmaster General may allow to postmasters in fourth-
class post offices additional compensation for separating services and 
for unusual conditions during a portion of the year, in lieu of an 
allowance for clerical services for this purpose. 
(f) At seasonal post offices of the fourth class, the Postmaster Gen-
eral may authorize the payment of the basic salary prorated over the 
pay periods such office is open for business during the fiscal year. 
(g) Where the gross postal receipts of a post office of the third 
class for each of two consecutive calendar years are less than $1,500, 
or where in any calendar year the gross postal receipts are less than 
$1,400, such post office shall be relegated to the fourth class and the 
basic salary of the postmaster shall be fixed in the manner provided 
in subsection (b) of this section. 
CONVERSION 
SEC, 304. (a) Each employee whose basic salary is paid under the 
Act of July 6, 1945 (59 Stat. 435), as amended, or under the Classi- ^^S ^*^ "^ *' 
fication Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 954), as amended, and who on or prior 
susc 1071 note, 
to the effective date of this section lias earned but has not been credited 
with a higher automatic salary grade increase under the Act of 
July 6, 1945, or a higher within-grade step-increase under the Classi-
fication Act of 1949 for his position, or Avhose basic salary would have 
been increased on July 1, 1955, by reason of changed postal receipts, 
shall be given credit for such increase before his basic salary is adjusted 
under subsection (b) of this section. 
(b) The basic salary of each employee in effect immediately prior to 
the effective date of the Postal Field Service Schedule, the Rural 
Carrier Schedule, and the Fourth-Class Office Schedule, shall be 
adjusted as of such adjusted date to the basic salary in the schedules 
in the following manner: 
(1) If the basic salary of the employee is equal to any step estab-
lished for his position in the appropriate schedule, such step shall 
be established as the employee's new basic salary. 
(2) If the basic salary of the employee is less than the entrance 
step established for his position in the appropriate schedule, such 
entrance step shall be established as the employee's new basic salary. 
(3) If the basic salary of the employee falls between any two steps 
established for his position in the appropriate schedule, the higher step 
shall be established as the employee's new basic salary. 
(4) If the basic salary of the employee is greater than the highest 
step established for his position in the appropriate schedule, such 
basic salary shall be established as the new basic salary of the employee. 
ADDITION o r LONGEVITY 
STEP-INCREASES 
SEC. 305. (a) IVheti the basic salary of an employee, except an 
employee whose basic salary immediately prior to the effective date of 
the Postal Field Service Schedule was fixed by the Classification Act 
of 1949, is established under section 304 of this Act, each longevity 
step-increase which such employee has earned prior to the effective 
date of his schedule shall become a part of his basic compensation and 
shall constitute a longevity step-increase under section 404 of this Act. 
(b) In the case of an employee whose compensation immediately 
prior to the effective date of the Postal Field Service Schedule was 
fixed by the Classification Act of 1949, all creditable service under 
section 404 shall be counted in order to determine such employee's 
eligibility for longevity step-increases under such section. 
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TITLE IV—STEP-INCREASES 
?: 
AUTOMATIC ADVANCEMENT BY STEP-INCREASES 
SEC. 401. (a) Except as to a substitute employee in the Postal T.rans-
jiortation Service whose position is allocated to salary level PFS-5 as 
a distribution clerk in a railway or highway post office, each employee 
Avhose position is allocated to the Rural Carrier Schedule, the Fourth-
Class Office Schedule, or salary level PFS-9 or a lower salary level 
of the Postal Field Service Schedule, who has not reached the highest 
step for his position, shall be advanced successively to the next higher 
step for his position at the beginning of the first pay period following 
the completion of each fifty-two calendar weeks of satisfactory service, 
if no equivalent increase in basic salary from any cause was received 
during such period of fifty-two calendar weeks. The benefit of suc-
cessive step-increases shall be preserved, under regulations prescribed 
by the Postmaster General, for employees whose continuous service 
is interrupted by service in the Armed Forces. 
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(b) Each employee whose position is allocated to salary level 
PFS-10 or a higher salary level of the Postal Field Service Schedule 
shall be advanced to and including step four of his salary level in the 
manner provided in subsection (a) of this section. 
Advancement of 
such employee to steps higher than step-j four, exclusive of longevity 
step-increases, shall be granted by the Postmaster General on the basis 
of superior performance under regulations issued by him, but no such 
employee is eligible for more than one step-increase within the time 
period specified in subsection (a) of this section. 
(c) Each substitute employee in the Postal Transportation Service, 
whose position is allocated to salary level PFS-5 as a distribution 
clerk in a railway or highway post office, shall be advanced in the 
manner prescribed for other employees under subsection (a) of this 
section, but such substitute shall not be advanced beyond step four of 
salary level PFS-5. 
CREDITABLE SERVICE FOR ADVANCEMENT 
SEC. 402. Each employee in the postal field service is eligible to 
earn step-increases in accordance with this Act. 
Except for tempo-
rary rural carriers serving in the absence of regular rural carriers on 
leave without pay or on military leave, credit shall not be allowed for 
time on the rolls under a temporary appointment for one year or less 
unless such time on the rolls is continuous to the date of appointment 
to a position of unlimited duration. 
ADJUSTMENT OF SERA'ICE CREDIT 
SEC. 403. In order to retain to the maximum possible extent promo-
39 us*c^ 8s*i 
^^^^ credits earned by employees under the Act of July 6, 1945, as 
seq. 
^ 
amended, and in order to prevent the advancement by step-increases 
of junior employees ahead of senior employees, employees whose basic 
salaries are adjusted on the effective date of the schedules in this Act 
shall establish credit toward advancement by step increases under 
section 401 in the following manner: 
(1) Each employee in the automatic grades who had not reached 
the maximum grade for his position under the provisions of the Act 
of July 6, 1945, as amended, shall retain the anniversary date estab-
lished for his next automatic promotion under such Act unless the 
amount of increase in basic salary which he receives upon adjustment 
to the appropriate schedule is equal to or greater than the difference 
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between the salary for his automatic grade and the next higher auto-
matic grade for his position under such Act. 
(2) Employees in the automatic grades who do not retain their 
anniversary dates under paragraph (1), above, employees who had 
reached the maximum grades for their positions, and employees who 
occupied positions for which single rates were established under the 
Act of July 6, 1945, as amended, shall begin the waiting period for 
advancement to the next step for their positions on the date of 
adjustment to the schediiles in this Act. 
LONGEVITY STEP-INCREASES 
SEC. 404. (a) There are established for each employee longevity 
steps A, B, and C. For each promotion to a longevity step— 
(1) each postmaster at a post office of the fourth class shall 
receive an amount equal to 5 per centum of his basic salary, or 
$100 per annum, whichever is the lesser, and 
(2) each employee (other than a postmaster at a post office 
of the fourth class) shall receive $100 per annum. 
In computing the percentage increase under this subsection the amount 
of the increase shall be rounded to the nearest dollar. A half dollar 
or one-half cent shall be rounded to the next highest dollar or cent, 
respectively. 
(b) Each employee shall be assigned to— 
(1) longevity step A at the beginning of the pay period follow-
ing the completion of thirteen years of service; 
(2) longevity step B at the beginning of the pay period follow-
ing the completion of eighteen years of service; and 
(3) longevity step C at the beginning of the pay period fol-
lowing the completion of twenty-five years of service. 
(c) (1) There shall be credited, for the purposes of subsection 
( b ) -
(A) all time on the rolls, except time on the rolls as a substitute 
rural carrier, in the ])ostal field service or in the Post Office 
Department; 
(B) all time on the rolls in the custodial service of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury continuous to the date of the transfer of 
the employee to the custodial service of the Post Office Depart-
ment in accordance Avith Executive Order Numbered 6166, dated 
susc i32note. 
June 10,1933; 
(C) all time on the rolls as a special-delivery messenger at a 
first-class post office; and 
(D) all time on the rolls as a clerk in a third-class post office 
for which payment is made from autliorized allowances. 
(2) In determining longevity credit for the purposes of subsection 
(b) in the case of an employee whose continuous service in the postal 
field service or in the departmental service of the Post Office Depart-
ment shall have been interrupted by service with the Armed Forces 
or to comply with a transfer during war or national emergency as 
defined by the United States Oivil Service Commission, all time en-
gaged in such service with the Armed Forces or on such transfer shall 
be credited pro rata for each week of such service. All service specified 
in this subsection, whether continuous or intermittent, shall be credited 
on the basis of one week for each whole week the employee has been 
on the rolls, except that credit shall not be allowed for time on the rolls 
under a temporary appointment for one year or less unless such time 
on the rolls is continuous to the date of appointment to a position of 
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(d) Employees on the rolls on the effective date of this section who 
are entitled to promotion credit for longevity purposes under section 
2 of the Act approved May 3, 1950 (64 Stat. 102; 39 U. S. C. 889), 
shall retain all rights and benefits established or continued under such 
section to the same extent as though such section had remained in 
effect. 
(e) Increases inider this section shall not be deemed equivalent 
increases within the meaning of section 401. 
TITLE 
Y—GENERAL 
COMPENSATION EULES 
-. .. - . 
_ . . 
APPOINTMENTS 
, : •. / . . , 
SEC. 501. The Postmaster General may appoint any person who has 
been employed in a civilian capacity in any branch of the Government 
to any position in a regional or district office or to any professional or 
scientific position and may place such person in any step in the salary 
level of the Postal Field Service Schedule which is less than one full 
step above the highest basic salary which such person received from 
the United States. 
PROMOTION 
SEC. 502. (a) Any employee who is promoted or transferred to a 
position in a higher salary level of the Postal Field Service Schedule 
shall be paid basic salary at the lowest step of such higher salary level 
which exceeds his existing basic salary by not less than the amount 
of difference between the entrance step of the salary level from which 
promoted and the entrance step of the salary level immediately above 
the salary level from which promoted. If there is no step in the salary 
level to which the employee is promoted which exceeds his existing 
basic salary by at least the amount of such difference, such employee 
shall be paid (1) the maximum step of the salary level to which pro-
moted, or (2) his existing basic salary, whichever is higher. 
(b) Regular clerks and carriers in first- and second-class post offices 
are not eligible for promotion to positions of higher salary levels in 
their respective offices unless they are in the maximum steps of their 
respective salary levels. If for any reason such clerks and carriers 
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in such maximum steps are not available those clerks and carriers in 
the lower steps in such offices shall be eligible for such promotion. 
COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN TEMPORARY 
EMPLOYEES 
SEC. 503. Each temporary employee who is hired for a continuous 
period of one year or less for a position under the Postal Field Service 
Schedule shall be paid a basic salary at the entrance step for the salary 
level of the position to which he is appointed. 
PROHIBITION ON REDtX^TION OF FORMER 
COMPENSATION 
SEC. 504. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to reduce the per 
annum or hourly basic compensation of any employee on the rolls on 
the effective date of the Postal Field Service Schedule, the Rural 
Carrier Schedule, or Fourth-Class Office Schedule, to an amount less 
than his basic compensation immediately prior to adjustment to such 
schedules. 
(b) For the purposes of this section, "basic compensation'' includes 
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TITLE VI—PAY ADMINISTRATION 
PAY PERIODS AND COMPUTATION OF RATES 
SEC. 601. (a) Employees in the postal field service shall be paid 
compensation in twenty-six installments. Each such installment shall 
be the compensation for a pay period of two weeks. 
(b) As basic compensation for a full pay period, an employee, other 
than an hourly rate employee, shall be paid an amount equal to one 
twenty-sixth of his annual basic compensation. As basic compensation-
for a portion of a pay period, such employee shall be paid basic com-
pensation computed in accordance with subsection (d) of this section 
for the number of days and hours of service for Avhich he has credit. 
(c) As basic compensation for the pay period, an hourly rate 
employee shall be paid an amount equal to the product of his hourly 
rate of basic compensation and the number of hours of service for 
which he has credit. 
(d) For purposes of computing rates of compensation other than 
annual rates the following rules shall govern: 
(1) To compute an hourly rate of basic compensation for employees 
other than substitute employees, the annual rate of basic compensation 
shall be divided by 2,080. 
(2) To compute an hourly rate of basic compensation for substitute 
employees, the annual rate of basic compensation shall be divided by 
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2,016. 
(3) To compute the daily rate of compensation for postmasters, 
postal inspectors, and rural carriers, the annual rate of compensation 
shall be divided by 312. 
(4) To compute the daily rate of basic compensation for annual 
rate employees other than postmasters, postal inspectors, and rural 
carriers, the hourly rate of basic compensation shall be multiplied by 
the number of daily hours of service required. 
(e) Except for lump-sum payments for accumulated leave upon 
the termination of employment, an annual rate employee shall not 
be paid more than one twenty-sixth of his basic compensation as basic 
compensation for a pay period. 
(f) All rates shall be computed to the nearest cent, counting one-
half cent and over as a whole cent. 
(g) When a pay period for employees to whom this Act applies 
begins in one fiscal year and ends in another, the gross amount of the 
earnings of such employees for such pay period may be regarded as a 
charge against the appropriation or allotment current at the end of 
such pay period. 
HOURS o r WORK 
SEC. 602. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, employees shall 
not be required to work more than eight hours a day. 
The work sched-
ule of employees shall be regulated so that the eight hours of service 
shall not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours. 
COMPENSATORY TIME, OVERTIME, AND HOLIDAYS 
SEC. 603. In emergencies or if the needs of the service require, the 
Postmaster General may require employees to work more than eight 
hours in one day, or on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays. 
For such 
service he shall grant employees in the "PES" Schedule compensatory 
time or pay such employees overtime compensation under the follow-
ing rules: 
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(1) Each employee in or below salary level PFS-7 shall be paid 
for all work in excess of eight hours in one day at the rate of 150 per 
centum of his hourly basic compensation. 
(2) (A) Each employee in or below salary level PFS-7 who per-
forms work on Saturdays or Sundays shall, under regulations pre-
scribed by the Postmaster General, be granted compensatory time in 
an amount equal to the excess time worked within five working days, 
except that, in lieu of such compensatory time, the Postmaster General 
may, if the exigencies of the service require, authorize such employee 
to oe paid, for work performed on Saturdays and Sundays during 
the month of December, at the rate of 150 per centum of his hourly 
basic compensation. 
(B) If the work performed by such employees on Saturdays and 
Sundays is less than eight hours, such service, in the discretion of the 
Postmaster General may be carried forward and combined with sim-
ilar service performed on other Saturdays and Sundays. 
The em-
ployees may be allowed compensatory time for such combined service 
or any part thereof at any time, except that, whenever at least eight 
hours of such service has been accumulated, the employees shall be 
allowed eight hours compensatory time on one day within five work-
ing days next succeeding the Saturday or Sunday on which the total 
accumulated service was at least eight hours. 
(3) For time worked on a day referred to as a holiday in the Act 
of December 26, 1941 (5 U. S. C, sec. 87b), or on a day designated by 
Executive order as a holiday for Federal employees generally, each 
employee in or below salary level PFS-7, under regulations prescribed 
by the Postmaster General, shall either be granted compensatory time 
in an amount equal to such time worked within thirty working days, 
or be paid premium compensation at a rate equal to his hourly basic 
compensation for the time so worked. For work performed on Christ-
mas Day, premium compensation shall be paid at a rate equal to 150 
per centum of the employee's hourly basic compensation. 
(4) Each employee in or above salary level PFS-8 who performs 
overtime or holiday work as described in this section, under regula-
tions prescribed by the Postmaster General, shall be granted compen-
satory time in an amount equal to such overtime or holiday work. 
N I G H T WOKK 
SEC. 604. Employees who perform work between the hours of 6 
o'clock post meridian and 6 o'clock ante meridian standard or daylight 
saving time, depending upon which time is observed where such work 
is performed, shall be paid extra compensation for each hour of such 
M'ork at the rate of 10 per centum of their hourly basic compensation. 
The differential for night duty shall not be included in computing any 
overtime compensation to which such employees may be entitled. 
EXEMPTION OF Ci:RTAIN EMPLOYEES FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING 
TO PAY ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 605. (a) Sections 602,603, and 604 of this Act do not apply to the 
heads of regional or district offices and such other employees of the 
headquarters staff of regional and district offices as the Postmaster 
General designates, or to postmasters, rural carriers, post office inspec-
tors, traveling mechanicians, and traveling examiners of equipment 
and supplies. 
(b) Sections 602 and 603 of this Act do not apply to substitute 
employees and to employees in the Postal Transportation Service 
assigned to road duty. 
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(c) Section 602 of this Act does not apply to employees in post 
offices of the third class. 
(d) The provisions of section 603 of this Act relating to compensa-
tory time and overtime compensation for work on Saturdays or Smi-
days do not apply to hourly rate regular employees and to employees 
in post offices of the third class. 
SUBSTITUTE EMPLOYMENT 
SEC. 606. (a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the Postmaster 
General shall prescribe the conditions under which substitute positions 
may be established. 
(b) Each substitute, hourly rate, and temporary employee who 
reports for duty in compliance with an official order shall be employed 
for not less than two hours following the hour at which such employee 
is ordered to report. 
(c) In the case of positions which are the same as or equivalent to the 
positions enumerated in the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the 
appointment of substitute postal employees, and for other purposes", 
approved June 4, 1936, as amended (39 U. S. C, sec. 834), the ratio 
of classified substitute employees to regular employees shall not be 
more than one classified substitute to five regular employees or fraction 
thereof with respect to each such position, except that in offices having 
fewer than five regular employees there may be one substitute clerk and 
one substitute carrier, and one substitute in the motor vehicle service. 
EMPLOYEES I N T H E 
POSTAL TRANSPORTATION 
SERVICE 
SEC, 607. (a) The Postmaster General shall organize the work of 
employees in the Postal Transportation Service who are assigned to 
road duty into regularly scheduled tours of duty. 
Such tours of duty 
shall aggregate an average of not more than eight hours a day for two 
hundred and fifty-two days a year, including an allowance of one hour 
and thirty-five minutes for work to be performed on layoff periods. 
He shall not grant allowances of time for work performed on layoff 
periods to employees other than employees engaged in the distribution 
of mail. 
(b) Employees in the Postal Transportation Service assigned to road 
duty, except substitute employees, who are required to perform work 
in excess of the scheduled time of their regular tours of duty as estab-
lished by the Postmaster General shall be paid at the rate of 150 per 
centum of their hourly basic compensation for such overtime work. 
In arriving at the amount of overtime to be paid at any time during the 
calendar year, any deficiencies accrued up to that time during the same 
calendar year shall be offset against any overtime Avork by the 
employee. 
(c) Substitute employees in the Postal Transportation Service 
assigned to road duty shall be paid on an hourly basis for actual 
work performed according to the time value of each trip of such road 
duty, mchiding an allowance of time for all work required on layoff 
periods. 
(d) 111 addition to compensation provided under this Act, the 
Postmaster (lieneral, under regulations prescribed by him, may pay 
not more than $9 per day as travel allowances in lieu of actual 
expenses, at fixed rates per annum or by such other method as he 
deems eciuitable to regular and substitute employees in the Postal 
Trans])ortatioii Service who are assigned to ro.ad duty, after the expi-
ration of ten hours from the time the initial run bearins. 
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(e) Substitute employees in the Postal Transportation Service 
shall be credited with full time while traveling under orders of the 
Post Oflice Department to and from their designated headquarters to 
take up assignments. 
SPECIAL-DELIVERY EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE 
SKC. 608. (a) In addition to the compensation provided under this 
Act regular and substitute special-delivery carriers and special-
delivery messengers at first-class post offices shall be paid an auto-
motive equipment maintenance allowance at the rate of 7 cents per 
mile or major fraction thereof for miles traveled under the direction 
of the Department in making delivery of special-delivery mail or at 
the option of the Postmaster General at the rate of 90 cents per hour 
spent in making delivery of special-delivery mail. 
Payments for 
equipment maintenance shall be made at the same periods and in the 
same manner as payments of regular compensation. 
(b) The Postmaster General may provide or hire vehicles under 
an allowance basis for use in the delivery of special-delivery mail 
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whenever the needs of the postal field service so require. 
E Q U I P M E N T MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE FOR RURAL CARRIERS 
SEC. 609. (a) In addition to the compensation provided in the 
Rural Carrier Schedule, each rural carrier shall be paid for equip-
ment maintenance a sum equal to 9 cents per mile for each mile or 
major fraction of a mile scheduled. 
The Postmaster General may 
pay such additional equipment maintenance allowance as he deter-
mines to be fair and reasonable, not in excess of $3 per day when 
combined with the equipment maintenance allowance provided by 
the preceding sentence, to rural carriers entitled to additional com-
pensation under section 302 (c) of this Act for serving heavily patron-
ized routes. 
Payments for such equipment maintenance shall be 
made at the same periods and in the same manner as payments of 
regular compensation. 
(b) Any employee in the postal field service who is assigned to 
serve any rural route, and who furnishes the vehicle used in the per-
formance of such service, shall be paid the equipment maintenance 
allowance provided for the route so served, in addition to his compen-
sation. 
ALLOWANCES FOR P 0 S T : M A S T E R S I N FOURTH-CLASS POST OFFICES 
SEC. 610. Postmasters of fourth-class post offices shall be paid as 
allowances for rent, fuel, light, and equipment an amount equal to 
15 per centum of the basic compensation earned in each pay period, 
at the same time and in the same manner as their regular compen-
sation. 
TITLE VII—SALARY mCPvEASES 
RETROACTIVE BASIC SALARY INCREASES 
SEC. 701. (a) The basic salary in effect immediately prior to the 
effective date of this section, of each emplovee paid under the Act of 
59 Stat. 435. 
July Q^ 1945^ as amended (39 U. S. C, sees. 858, 859, 861a, 862, 863-866, 
5 use 1071 note, ggg, 869), Or uuder the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, shall be 
increased by 6 per centum effective March 1,1955 (rounded to the near-
est dollar in the case of per annum rates and to the nearest one-half cent 
in the case of hourly rates, a half-dollar or one-quarter of a cent being 
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rounded to the next highest dolhir or one-lialf cent, respectively). 
Such increase shall be applied (1) in the case of each rural carrier to 
his fixed compensation, his compensation per mile, and any additional 
compensation allowed him for serving a heavily patronized route, and 
(2) to the amoimts specified in sections 3 (c), 3 (d), 12 (a), 12 (e), 
15 (f), and 17 (d) of the Act of July 6,1945 (Public Law 134, Seventy- Jl 
^7^ 853.862. 
ninth Congress), as amended. 
(b) Retroactive salary shall be paid under this Act only in the 
case of an individual in the service of the United States (including 
service in the Armed Forces of the Ignited States) or of the municipal 
government of the District of Columbia on the date of enactment of 
this Act, except that such retroactive salary shall be paid a retired 
postmaster, officer, or emplo3'ee for services rendered during the period 
begiiming March 1, 1955, and ending with the date of his retirement, 
or in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 3, idSO, 
64 stat. 395.^ 
for services rendered by a deceased postmaster, officer, or employee 
during the period beginning on March 1, 1955, and ending with the 
date of his death. For the purposes of this subsection, service in the 
Armed Forces of the United States, in the case of an individual re-
lieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the United 
States or discharged from hospitalization following such training 
and service, shall include the period provided by law for the manda-
tory restoration of such individual to a position in or under the Fed-
eral Government or the municipal government of the District of 
Columbia. 
TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
CLASSES OF POST OFFICES 
SEC. 801. At the beginning of each fiscal year, the Postmaster Gen-
eral shall divide post offices into four classes on the basis of gross 
annual postal receipts for the preceding calendar year. He shall place 
in the first class those post offices at which such receipts are $40,000 or 
more. He shall place in the second class those post offices at which 
such receipts are $8,000 or more, but less than $40,000. He shall place 
in the third class those post offices at which such receipts are $1,500 or 
more, but less than $8,000. He shall place in the fourth class those 
offices at which such receipts are less than $1,500, except as provided 
in section 303 (g). 
ASSIGNMENT OF EMPLOYEES 
SEC. 802. With the consent of the employee, the Postmaster General 
is authorized to detail any employee, including any employee of the 
departmental service, between the postal field service and the depart-
mental service to such extent as may be necessary to develop a more 
efficient working force and more effectively to perform the work of 
the Department. Each such detail shall be made for a period of not 
more than one year and may be made without change in compensation 
of the employee so detailed. 
INCREASES I N BASIC COMPENSATION NOT "EQUIVALENT INCREASES" 
SEC. 803. Any increase in rate of basic compensation by reason of 
enactment of this Act shall not be considered as an "equivalent 
increase" in compensation within the meaning of section 701 (a) (A) 
of the Classification Act of 1949, in the case of employees who transfer 
es stat. 6i3. 
or are transferred to a position coming within the purview of the 
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POSTAL EMPLOYEES OF THE CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT 
SEC. 804. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized and 
directed to adopt applicable provisions of this Act for postal em-
ployees of the Canal Zone Government, as of the respective effective 
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dates of such applicable provisions. 
REFERENCES IN OTHER LAWS WITH RESPECT TO PUBLIC LAW 1 3 4 , 
SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS 
SEC. 805. (a) "ViHienever reference is made in any other law to the 
Act of July 6,1945 (59 Stat. 435), as amended, such reference shall be 
held and considered to mean this Act. Whenever reference is made in 
any other law to a "grade" of such Act of July 6,1945, such reference 
shall be held and considered to mean the corresponding basic salary 
step in any schedule contained in this Act. 
(b) The application of this Act to any position or employee shall 
not be affected by reason of the enactment of subsection (a). 
APPLICABILITY OF ACT TO GUAM 
SEC. 806. This Act shall have the same force and effect within Guam 
as within other possessions of the United States. 
REGULATIONS OF POSTMASTER GENERAL 
SEC. 807. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to issue 
such regulations as may be necessary for the administration of this 
Act. 
CIVIL SERVICE ACT AND RULES, VETERANS' PREFERENCE ACT OF 1 9 4 4 
SEC. 808. This Act shall not be construed to modify the application 
of the Civil Service Act and Rules or the Veterans' Preference Act of 
1944 to the postal field service. 
AUTHORIZATION OP APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 809. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
E F F E C T I V E DATES 
SEC. 810. (a) This section shall take effect on the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) This Act, except title VII, section 607 (d) and this section, shall 
take effect on such date as may be specified by the Postmaster General, 
but not later than one hundred and eighty days after the date of its 
enactment. 
(c) Title VII and section 607 (d) shall take effect on the first day 
of the first pay period which begins after the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
(d) For the purpose of determining the amount of insurance for 
which an individual is eligible under the Federal Employees' Group 
5uicf209inote. Life Insurauce Act of 1954, changes in the rates of compensation 
which result from the enactment of title VII shall be deemed to be 
effective as of the first day of the first pay period which begins on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved June 10, 1955. 
58 Stat. 387. 
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