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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Mail Sorters

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators · O*NET 43-5053.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

7 of 17tools on this list have an AI solution available today

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AI you can use for this job

18 matched to the tools postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators use. Showing 18.

The tools this job actually uses

17 documented for this occupation. Showing 17, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft SharePointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • Teradata Databasehot
  • Address Management System AMS
  • Automated Package Processing System APPS
  • Barcode reader software
  • Delivery operations information system DOIS
  • Delivery Routing System DRS
  • Directory software
  • Electronic Time Clock ETC
  • Multi-line optical character reader OCR software
  • NCR Advanced Store
  • Time and Attendance Collection System TACS

What this job involves

14 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 14.

  1. Direct items according to established routing schemes, using computer-controlled keyboards or voice-recognition equipment.
  2. 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.
  3. Clear jams in sorting equipment.
  4. Bundle, label, and route sorted mail to designated areas, depending on destinations and according to established procedures and deadlines.
  5. Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.
  6. Move containers of mail, using equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains".
  7. Open and label mail containers.
  8. Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.
  9. Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.
  10. Distribute incoming mail into the correct boxes or pigeonholes.
  11. Rewrap soiled or broken parcels.
  12. Train new workers.
  13. Search directories to find correct addresses for redirected mail.
  14. Cancel letter or parcel post stamps by hand.
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