There are a lot of municipal jobs and industry jobs that only require a HS diploma, Firefighters, Powerline workers, Petro plant and refinery workers, Patrol and Sheriff's patrol officers, building inspectors, detective and criminal investigators, Insurance agents and adjusters, Steel workers, Auto worker (if there are any plants left here!) and I believe that most of these type jobs have good compensation and all the municipal entities have good benefits as well as retirement/pension plans after meeting years of service requirements. I did not know about the 36 yr old requirement at the USPS, not crazy about that... I hear people say that college is overrated, so should people that choose not to attend college, not be able to get a decent paying job? 43% of the employees of the USPS are minorities, 57% white. I don't know about the political leanings of the employees but there are still less minority workers at the USPS even though it may not seem so.