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Prepare with confidence for the USPS Postal Exam using our easy-to-follow study guide and practice tests. This resource is designed to help you master key topics, review sample questions, and learn proven test-taking strategies. Whether you’re taking the Postal Exam 421, 474, or other USPS exams, you’ll find step-by-step preparation tips, practice questions with answers, and expert guidance to boost your score. Our goal is to make exam prep simple, effective, and stress-free—so you can focus on landing your USPS career.

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Postal Exam Practice Test & Study Guide.

1. all carriers back by 1800 (6PM)
2. cancel 80% of collection mail by 2000 (8PM)
1. 24 hr clock (8
3. process outgoing primary-sort mail by 2300 (11PM)
key indicators of
4. process outgoing secondary-sort mail by 2400 (midnight)
clock)
5. clear managed mail program MMP 2400
-have zero MMP on hand by this time
6. assign commercial air/FedEx outgoing mail by 0230
7. process all dps 2nd pass mail by 0700
8. dispatch mail on time from plants to delivery units between 0400 and 0900

PME, PM, standard post, parcel return service, international mail

2. shipping services
(5) FCM, periodicals, standard mail, package services mail (standard post, media mail,
library mail), extra services
3. mailing services
(5) -shipping is where post oflce is competitive w/ other companies
-mailing is where post oflce is market dominant and does not face other competi-
4. shipping vs. mail-
tors
ing services
-partner w/ FedEx to save $1 billion in air transportation costs
-improved PME and PM services
5. post office part-
-since 2002
nership w/ FedEx
and UPS
UPS- partnered w/ to provide airline transport for mostly FCM

-postal polices/procedures designed to improve business
1. manuals 2. handbooks 3. publications
6. directives (what
are they, name 3) domestic mail manual, international mail manual, administrative support manual
, postal operations manual, employee and labor relations manual
7. manuals used
most (5)



, Postal Exam Practice Test & Study Guide.


8. handbooks more detailed info about what in Postal Service manuals






, Postal Exam Practice Test & Study Guide.

9. publications not as extensive as handbooks/manuals but provide supplements that cannot
be fully addressed by handbooks/manuals; task specific documents i.e. Pub 52
Hazardous Mat

10. how do policies production, revenue, legal liability, customer service
procedures im-
pact bottom line
of post service (4
ways)

11. where to find DMM, IMM, Pub 52, Handbook EL-812
HAZMAT regula-
tions

12. types of HAZMAT flammable, corrosive/reactive, biological, toxic, radioactive, other (ORM-D)
(6)


13. ORM-D (what and -other regulated material
examples) -coined by DOT to describe lower level of risk during transportation -- therefore,
can ship surface PROHIBITED int'nl
-i.e. smoke detectors, dry ice, lithium batteriese

14. declared HAZ- declared by mailer, properly packaged, properly marked and accepted by post
MAT (3) oflce

15. undeclared HAZ- -parcel suspected of containing HAZMAT, not properly packaged, labeled, identi-
MAT fied
-identify w/ sounds of broken glass, stains, leakage, odor, preprinted markings on
parcel

16. cigarettes/smoke- 1. Alaska/Hawaii
less tobacco 2. Business/Regulatory Purposes - verified/authorized tobacco industry business
nonmailable (4 OR fed./state agencies for regulatory purposes

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