Will AI replace Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service?
Estimated risk score: 27 out of 100
Lower replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (8 to 46).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 29 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 43-9051.00 · Office and Administrative Support
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 7 of its 29 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Stamp dates and times of receipt of incoming mail.
- Answer inquiries regarding shipping or mailing policies.
- Operate computer-controlled keyboards or voice recognition equipment to direct items according to established routing schemes.
- Read production orders to determine types and sizes of items scheduled for printing and mailing.
- Contact delivery or courier services to arrange delivery of letters and parcels.
- Sell mail products, and accept payment for products and mailing charges.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 19 of its 29 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Accept and check containers of mail or parcels from large volume mailers, couriers, and contractors.
- Affix postage to packages or letters by hand, or stamp materials, using postage meters.
- Remove containers of sorted mail or parcels and transfer them to designated areas according to established procedures.
- Seal or open envelopes, by hand or by using machines.
- Sort and route incoming mail, and collect outgoing mail, using carts as necessary.
- Wrap packages or bundles by hand, or by using tying machines.
What the job is
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.
Also called: Mail Machine Operator, PSE, Mailer, Mail Censor, Mail Reader, Mail Associate, Mailing Jogger, Inkjet Operator.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Office and Administrative Support). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate