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

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

  • Equipment Operator
  • Mail Handler Equipment Operator
  • Small Package and Bundle Sorter Clerk

  • 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.

  • Clear jams in sorting equipment.
  • Direct items according to established routing schemes, using computer-controlled keyboards or voice-recognition equipment.
  • 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".
  • Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.

  • Load materials or equipment.
  • Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.
  • Operate computers or computerized equipment.
  • Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
  • Unload materials or equipment.