Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

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.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Lift and unload containers of mail or parcels onto equipment for transportation to sortation stations.
• Verify that items are addressed correctly, marked with the proper postage, and in suitable condition for processing.
• Clear jams in sortation equipment.
• Place incoming or outgoing letters or packages into sacks or bins based on destination or type, and place identifying tags on sacks or bins.
• Release packages or letters to customers upon presentation of written notices or other identification.
• Remove containers of sorted mail or parcels and transfer them to designated areas according to established procedures.
• Determine manner in which mail is to be sent, and prepare it for delivery to mailing facilities.
• Add ink, fill paste reservoirs, and change machine ribbons when necessary.

Technology

• Adobe Acrobat
• Email software
• Financial accounting software
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Word
• Postal Explorer
• Recordkeeping software
• Web browser software

Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in NY
  Median $42,020 · Employment 5,990
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in New York, NY
  Median $44,220 · Employment 5,150
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in CA
  Median $44,410 · Employment 4,710
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in TX
  Median $38,470 · Employment 3,250
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in IL
  Median $38,190 · Employment 3,150
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in PA
  Median $37,980 · Employment 2,810
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in FL
  Median $39,300 · Employment 2,470
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in Chicago, IL
  Median $38,570 · Employment 2,380
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in OH
  Median $38,470 · Employment 2,210
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in NJ
  Median $43,700 · Employment 2,210
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in GA
  Median $36,110 · Employment 1,850
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in Philadelphia, PA
  Median $38,520 · Employment 1,820

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