How do they match: Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service

  • Hand Inserter Operator
  • Mail Handler

  • Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution. Time-stamp, open, read, sort, and route incoming mail; and address, seal, stamp, fold, stuff, and affix postage to outgoing mail or packages. Duties may also include keeping necessary records and completed forms.

  • Adjust guides, rollers, loose card inserters, weighing machines, and tying arms, using rules and hand tools.
  • Affix postage to packages or letters by hand, or stamp materials, using postage meters.
  • Determine manner in which mail is to be sent, and prepare it for delivery to mailing facilities.
  • Seal or open envelopes, by hand or by using machines.
  • Wrap packages or bundles by hand, or by using tying machines.

  • Prepare outgoing mail.