Occupation information for Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine... California

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Typical education needed for entry: No formal educational credential

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: No work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: Less than 1 month on-the-job training

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• Direct items according to established routing schemes, using computer-controlled keyboards or voice-recognition equipment.
• 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 processing.
• Clear jams in sorting equipment.
• Bundle, label, and route sorted mail to designated areas, depending on destinations and according to established procedures and deadlines.
• Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.
• Move containers of mail, using equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains".
• Open and label mail containers.
• Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.
• Distribute incoming mail into the correct boxes or pigeonholes.
• Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.

Tools:

• Automatic postal or mailing machine
• Bar code reader equipment
• Belt conveyors
• Carts
• Sorters

Technology:

• Bar coding software
• Cloud-based data access and sharing software
• Data base management system software
• Data base user interface and query software
• Enterprise resource planning ERP software

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