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

  • Distribution Handler
  • Mail Handler
  • Mail Handler Assistant
  • Mail Handler Equipment Operator
  • Mail Handler 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.

  • 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.