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
  • Equipment Operator
  • Data Conversion Operator
  • File Conversion Operator
  • Flat Sorter Operator
  • LSM Operator
  • Letter Sorting Machine Operator
  • Mail Opener
  • Mail Handler Equipment Operator
  • 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.
  • Clear jams in sorting equipment.
  • Direct items according to established routing schemes, using computer-controlled keyboards or voice-recognition equipment.
  • Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.
  • Move containers of mail, using equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains".

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