Age factor working at post office?

I just took the battery exam for the post office and I feel I did pretty well. I know I'm going to have to wait centuries before I hear anything back. My question is does age matter in the hiring process? I tend to see a lot more older mail carriers out there than younger 24-25 year olds. I'm starting to feel a little intimidated because of my age. I'm 24 years old but I hardly see any young mail carriers out there. Is it just me? Also I'm hispanic so would they favor me in the hiring process to avoid any civil rights action? Just curious thanks.

The higher your score the sooner you will be called, and if you listed bigger towns as your offices then that helps too. Remember also that veterans get bonus points. If you fell you didn't get a good enough score try again. I got an 80 and had to wait two years. You see older carriers out there because the USPS has not been hiring as fast in the past 20 years therefore there the workforce is older than some. Civil rights actions? LOL. Tack on, at least, another 4-5 years to your waiting time to get into federal court.

mail carriers are loader because:

1 - they had to wait centuries just like you will before they even started

2 - they never retire or take another job - for the same reason you want the job too.

I would say you can forget the discrimination aspect of it - the postal service is fully egalitarian - you take the test, they rank people, and they go down the list form the top when openings come up.

If you want to get called sooner, get a better score then anyone else.