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
  • Post Office Markup Clerk
  • Postal Service Mail Processor
  • Postal Clerk
  • Postal Transportation Clerk
  • Flat Sorter Operator
  • Flat Sorter Processor
  • Flat Sorting Machine Clerk
  • Letter Sorting Machine Operator
  • Mail Sorter
  • Mail Handler Sorter
  • Parcel Post Distribution Machine Operator
  • 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.
  • Cancel letter or parcel post stamps by hand.
  • Check items to ensure that addresses are legible and correct, that sufficient postage has been paid or the appropriate documentation is attached, and that items are in a suitable condition for processing.
  • 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.
  • Weigh articles to determine required postage.

  • Sort mail.