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* '''City Carrier Assistants'''. (CCAs) With the Das Arbitration award the designation of PTF City Carrier has been abolished. TE City Carriers will have the opportunity to become CCAs. A CCA is a non-career employee who is hired for a 360-day term, similar to what TEs had. CCAs earn annual leave. CCAs, unlike TEs do have a direct path to becoming career employees. When excess City Carrier positions exist the CCA in that work installation with the highest "relative standing" will be promoted to a career employee and be assigned to the vacant position.
* '''Career, Part Time Flexible and Transitional employees''' (Career, PTF & TE) There are a variety of other non-managerial positions in such crafts as accounting, information technology, and the remote encoding center. These are under a different contract than plant workers or letter carriers.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.apwu.org/issues/itasc-os-employees | publisher=APWU | title=IT/ASC & OS Employees | access-date=April 25, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212072133/https://www.apwu.org/issues/itasc-os-employees | archive-date=February 12, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
*'''Contractors''' are not USPS employees, but work for the USPS under a written contract and usually paid per mile. They do not get benefits including health insurance, leave, life insurance, and pension. They must use their own vehicle and pay any cost to maintain, insure, or replace. Contractors generally make less than employees. Just like regular carriers they deliver packages and letters to mailboxes and doors Unlike USPS employees, contractors work under a specific contract, typically paid per mile without benefits like health insurance or pension, and must cover their vehicle's costs, often earning less but performing similar delivery duties.
Though the USPS employs many individuals, as more Americans send information via email, fewer postal workers are needed to work dwindling amounts of mail. Post offices and mail facilities are constantly downsizing, replacing craft positions with new machines and consolidating mail routes through the MIARAP (Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process) agreement. A major round of job cuts, early retirements, and a construction freeze were announced on March 20, 2009.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/20/post.office.cuts/index.html | publisher=[[CNN]]| title=Postal service to slash more than 3,000 jobs, offer early retirements | date=March 20, 2009 | access-date=May 26, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410184821/http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/20/post.office.cuts/index.html | archive-date=April 10, 2010 | url-status=live }}</ref>
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