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

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

  • Mail Opener
  • Mail Clerk
  • Mail Distribution Clerk
  • Mail Distribution Scheme Examiner
  • Mail Distributor
  • Mail Examiner
  • Mail Forwarding System Markup Clerk
  • Mail Handler
  • Mail Handler Assistant
  • Mail Handler Equipment Operator
  • Mail Handler Sorter
  • Mail Processing Agent
  • Mail Processing Clerk
  • Mail Processor
  • Mail Sorter
  • Mail Weigher
  • Mailing Section Clerk
  • Operations Label Clerk
  • Data Conversion Operator
  • Dead Mail Checker
  • Equipment Operator
  • File Conversion Operator
  • Flat Sorter Operator
  • Flat Sorting Machine Clerk
  • LSM Operator
  • Letter Sorting Machine Operator
  • Parcel Post Distribution Machine Operator
  • Postal Service Mail Processor
  • 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.
  • Accept and check containers of mail from large volume mailers, couriers, and contractors.
  • Bundle, label, and route sorted mail to designated areas, depending on destinations and according to established procedures and deadlines.
  • Distribute incoming mail into the correct boxes or pigeonholes.
  • 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.
  • Move containers of mail, using equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains".
  • Search directories to find correct addresses for redirected mail.
  • Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.

  • Operate computers or computerized equipment.
  • Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
  • Distribute incoming mail.
  • Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.
  • Prepare outgoing mail.
  • Route mail to correct destinations.
  • Sort mail.