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

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

  • Operations Label Clerk
  • Data Conversion Operator
  • Equipment Operator
  • File Conversion Operator
  • Flat Sorter Operator
  • LSM Operator
  • Letter Sorting Machine Operator
  • Mail Opener
  • Mail Handler Equipment Operator
  • Parcel Post Distribution Machine Operator
  • Presort Letter Operator
  • Small Package and Bundle Sorter Clerk
  • 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.
  • Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.
  • Train new workers.

  • Operate computers or computerized equipment.
  • Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
  • Attach identification information to products, items or containers.
  • Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.