Why Letter Carriers Are Not an Endangered Species, Despite What Job Site CareerCast Says

The number of people delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service is actually growing slightly. USPS statistics don’t provide apples-to-apples comparisons of non-career employee counts, but the numbers on hours worked are a good proxy.

So far this year, the straight-time hours worked by all (both career and non-career) “city delivery carriers” are up 5 percent from two years ago, while the hours for all "rural carriers" have increased nearly 3 percent….