Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

AI Risk

Low Risk

AI Impact Assessment

This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.

Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators with an AI automation risk score of 16%. Analysis includes 14 core tasks.

Why This Score?

Work environment requires human interaction and presence

Responsibilities and Abilities

Key Responsibilities

Performing General Physical Activities
Handling and Moving Objects
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
Getting Information
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships

Required Abilities

Near Vision
Manual Dexterity
Written Comprehension
Information Ordering
Category Flexibility

Key Tasks

Train new workers.

Risk: 18%

Cancel letter or parcel post stamps by hand.

Risk: 72%

Check items to ensure that addresses are legible and correct, that sufficient postage has been paid or the appropriate documentation is attached, and that items are in a suitable condition for process...

Risk: 83%

Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.

Risk: 66%

Direct items according to established routing schemes, using computer-controlled keyboards or voice-recognition equipment.

Risk: 8%

Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.

Risk: 8%

Clear jams in sorting equipment.

Risk: 8%

Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.

Risk: 0%