How do they match: Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service

  • Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution. Time-stamp, open, read, sort, and route incoming mail; and address, seal, stamp, fold, stuff, and affix postage to outgoing mail or packages. Duties may also include keeping necessary records and completed forms.

  • Clear jams in sortation equipment.
  • Determine manner in which mail is to be sent, and prepare it for delivery to mailing facilities.
  • Lift and unload containers of mail or parcels onto equipment for transportation to sortation stations.
  • Operate computer-controlled keyboards or voice recognition equipment to direct items according to established routing schemes.
  • Use equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains," to move containers of mail.

  • Prepare outgoing mail.
  • Adjust office equipment to ensure proper operation.
  • Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.
  • Monitor equipment operation to ensure proper functioning.
  • Operate computers or computerized equipment.
  • Operate office equipment.
  • Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
  • Unload materials or equipment.