How Your Postal Exam Score Impacts Your Job Application

The quick answer is that your score literally means everything.

Hiring is based exclusively on exam scores. After all the exam results are collected for a particular job posting, an offer for that job is sent to only one applicant, the one with the highest score. Your goal therefore is to make a score of 100 or as close to that as possible.

If the person with the highest score fails to meet Postal employment qualifications, the applicant with the second highest score will receive a job offer. If the applicant with second highest score is disqualified, they will send an offer to the person with the third highest score. And so on. But it takes 6-8 weeks, even more sometimes, for the Postal Service to go through the qualification process. So, if you have a really good score, even if it's not the highest score, you may eventually receive a job offer. But if so, it may take months.

Unfortunately, unless you get a job offer, you will never know how your score ranks or what your chances are. You will never know if you had the second highest score, if your score was number 10 on the list, or if your score was number 200 on the list. They do not share that information. Your score may rank well if you score close to 100, but you will never know anything for sure.