0161

Description

Postal Clerks perform all duties necessary to the efficient operation of the Department of Defenses (DoD) Military Postal Service for Marine Corps Military Post Office (MPO) operations aboard Marine Corps installations, activities, and to support contingencies. Mail handling duties can include, but are not limited to, accepting, sorting, manifesting, and dispatching all types of personal and official mail domestically and overseas. As an extension of the U.S. postal service (USPS), Postal Clerks perform postal retail services such as the issuing and cashing of USPS money orders, selling USPS stamps, apply postage to letters and parcels, and performing unit mail outs of parcels. They perform all and any other duties in connection with the proper management and operation of a MPO operation to include deployed address coordination, unit mail routing, and mail delivery to individual receptacles and individual units. Postal Clerks handle registered mail, the most secure mail service, that may contain secret, classified, or sensitive items. Postal Clerks participate in MAGTF and expeditionary operations to provide mail services and support to forward deployed forces. Postal Clerks are responsible to the acceptance, process and dispatch of official correspondence and applying appropriate command funds. Only Postal Marines receiving formal training as listed in the prerequisites, and assigned to a military postal facility, may be given this MOS. Postal Clerks will not be assigned to unit mailrooms or unit official mail programs to conduct unit level mail clerk/orderly functions.