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

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

  • Sorter
  • Sorting Machine Operator
  • Flat Sorter Operator
  • Flat Sorter Processor
  • Flat Sorting Machine Clerk
  • Letter Sorting Machine Operator
  • Mail Sorter
  • Mail Handler Sorter
  • Small Package and Bundle Sorter Clerk
  • Zip Sorter

  • 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.

  • Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.
  • Bundle, label, and route sorted mail to designated areas, depending on destinations and according to established procedures and deadlines.
  • Clear jams in sorting equipment.
  • Dump sacks of mail onto conveyors for culling and sorting.
  • Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.
  • Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.

  • Sort mail.