Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

Does not pass

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

  physical work, outside the screen · 13.7% of the role's time · $895M

• Clear jams in sorting equipment.

  physical work, outside the screen · 13.4% of the role's time · $874M

• 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.

  physical work, outside the screen · 10.6% of the role's time · $689M

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

  physical work, outside the screen · 10.2% of the role's time · $666M

• Bundle, label, and route sorted mail to designated areas, depending on destinations and according to established procedures and deadlines.

  physical work, outside the screen · 9.9% of the role's time · $645M

• Open and label mail containers.

  physical work, outside the screen · 9.5% of the role's time · $623M

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

  physical work, outside the screen · 7.6% of the role's time · $494M

• Move containers of mail, using equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains".

  physical work, outside the screen · 4.7% of the role's time · $304M

• Distribute incoming mail into the correct boxes or pigeonholes.

  physical work, outside the screen · 4.4% of the role's time · $285M

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

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.8% of the role's time · $248M

• Train new workers.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 3.7% of the role's time · $243M

• Cancel letter or parcel post stamps by hand.

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.1% of the role's time · $204M

• Rewrap soiled or broken parcels.

  physical work, outside the screen · 3.1% of the role's time · $200M

• Search directories to find correct addresses for redirected mail.

  reason given most often: nobody can tell quickly whether it worked, and no existing check settles it · 2.4% of the role's time · $157M · passed by Gemini 3.1 Pro · the models disagreed