Postal Service Mail Carriers

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Scan labels on letters or parcels to confirm receipt.81
• Sort mail for delivery, arranging it in delivery sequence.79
• Return to the post office with mail collected from homes, businesses, and public mailboxes.77

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Sign for cash-on-delivery and registered mail before leaving the post office.59
• Answer customers' questions about postal services and regulations.59
• Bundle mail in preparation for delivery or transportation to relay boxes.55

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 65 puts Postal Service Mail Carriers in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 15 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 5 augmentable, and 0 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.

Labor-market context

• $60,550median wage
• 328,820employed
• 20,600annual openings
• -3.5%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Postal Service Clerks 71
• Couriers and Messengers 65
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 68
• Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks 78
• Cargo and Freight Agents 72
• Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators 74

FAQ — Postal Service Mail Carriers

What does a score of 65 mean for a Postal Service Mail Carriers?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 65 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Scan labels on letters or parcels to confirm receipt; Sort mail for delivery, arranging it in delivery sequence; Return to the post office with mail collected from homes, businesses, and public mailboxes. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.