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Mail Clerk

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

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Salary

$43,078 - $56,001

per year

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April 20, 2026More VA jobs →

GS-5 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves handling all incoming and outgoing mail for a Veterans Affairs health facility in Atlanta, including sorting, delivering, and ensuring safe processing of various types of mail like express packages and sensitive materials.

The role requires driving a mail truck to pick up and drop off mail across multiple locations and educating staff on mail security.

It's a good fit for someone detail-oriented with reliable transportation and experience in logistics or customer service who wants a stable government position.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-04 level, or equivalent education/substitution
  • Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade: 52 weeks at GS-04
  • Ability to drive a motorized mail truck and navigate city locations
  • Knowledge of mail sorting, distribution, and processing procedures
  • Skills in assessing and handling urgent, hazardous, or sensitive mail
  • Ability to lift and move mail/packages, with physical demands of the role
  • U.S. citizenship and ability to pass background checks for federal employment

Full Job Description

This position is located within the Supply Chain Management Service Line.

The principal duties and responsibilities of the position has seven (7) main components: Internal/External Distribution; Facility Reproduction; Mail Analysis; Process Outgoing Mail; Controlled Mail; Facility Education: ADP/Mail Security and CMOP/Pharmacy processing To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/20/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

For a GS-05 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-04. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.

If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement.

In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

Duties of the position include, but are not limited to: - Receives all facility mail from external sources, e.g., US Postal Service (USPS), United Parcel Service (UPS), Federal Express (FedEx), etc.

Sorts mail for internal distribution by mail routing symbol and/or mail delivery point (MDP). Pick up and deliver mail to approximately 105 MDPs serviced by this facility.

- Drive a motorized mail truck to delivery/pickup points which are in different buildings within the complex and different locations within the city.

- Assesses urgency and sensitivity of incoming Express Mail, Priority Mail, overnight deliveries, hazardous, and perishable materials for proper handling and delivery.

Assesses all incoming mail for potentially harmful or dangerous situations (e.g., incendiary or explosive materials). - Processes outgoing mail.

Assesses all outgoing mail for proper and complete addressing, proper labeling, and packaging.

Prepares outgoing mail for processing by sorting into accounting groups, sub-grouping by class of service, and further sorting by machine. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30 am-4:00 pm.

Work Schedule subject to change based on agency needs. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Mail Clerk/PD10423A Position Description/PD#: Mail Clerk/PD10423A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/14/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/14/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CBTB-12925504-26-FLB