How do they match: Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

  • Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

  • Operations Label Clerk
  • Data Conversion Operator
  • Distribution Handler
  • Equipment Operator
  • File Conversion Operator
  • Flat Sorter Operator
  • LSM Operator
  • Letter Sorting Machine Operator
  • Mail Handler
  • Mail Handler Assistant
  • Mail Handler Equipment Operator
  • Mail Handler Sorter
  • Mail Opener
  • Parcel Post Distribution Machine Operator
  • Presort Letter Operator
  • Sorting Machine Operator
  • ZMT Operator
  • Zip Mail Translator Operator

  • Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution for the United States Postal Service (USPS). Examine, sort, and route mail. Load, operate, and occasionally adjust and repair mail processing, sorting, and canceling machinery. Keep records of shipments, pouches, and sacks, and perform other duties related to mail handling within the postal service. Includes postal service mail sorters and processors employed by USPS contractors.

  • Open and label mail containers.
  • Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.
  • Cancel letter or parcel post stamps by hand.
  • Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.

  • Operate computers or computerized equipment.
  • Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
  • Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.