Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, & Processing Machine Operators
Also called: Automation Clerk, Distribution Clerk, Mail Handler, Mail Processor
In the military:
see titles from the Air Force, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, or Navy.
What they do:
Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution. 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 other duties related to mail handling within the postal service.
On the job, you would:
- Clear jams in sorting equipment.
- Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.
- Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.
Arts and Humanities
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
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Basic Skills
Problem Solving
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Hand and Finger Use
Verbal
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People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need:
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You might use software like this on the job: Data base user interface and query software
Optical character reader OCR or scanning software
Point of sale POS software
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You might like a career in one of these industries:
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