U.S. Postal Service Hopes to Hire 125,000 New Employees Due to Packaging Delivery Growth

The U.S. Postal Service hopes to bring on 125,000 new employees this year, continuing a recent hiring binge caused by the agency's blossoming package-delivery business.

The agency hired 117,000 new workers during Fiscal Year 2015, virtually all of them into non-career positions, postal officials said Thursday in a document (Opens as a PDF) presented to the Postal Regulatory Commission.

"The Postal Service still has a continued need to hire 125,000 non-career employees in FY16 to maintain the appropriate levels," the USPS document says. "Continued hiring of non-career employees (including PSEs [Postal Support Employees] and MHAs [Mailhandler Assistants]) is necessitated by conversions to career positions and current attrition rates."