Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators (Except Postal Service)
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Lower estimated automation risk
Why it fits
Builds on package routing, shipping paperwork, carrier coordination, and customer-facing delivery status work.
Why it fits
Applies shipment flow and routing knowledge to logistics analysis with targeted systems and process training.
Why it fits
Experienced mailroom clerks can move into coordinating clerical workflows, staff coverage, and service standards.
Why it fits
Reuses shipment checking, logging, measurement, and accurate recordkeeping for materials or samples.
Why it fits
Mailroom record accuracy and vendor or shipment paperwork transfer to purchase order support.
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What's this?
We rate jobs using four factors. These are:
- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions
These are some key things to think about when job hunting.
Risk & user votes
Calculated automation risk
Imminent Risk (81-100%): This occupation appears highly exposed to end-to-end replacement by AI, software, robotics, or other computer-controlled systems. Roles in this range often involve predictable, repeatable, or rules-based work with limited need for human judgement, trust, creativity, or adaptation to messy real-world conditions. This does not mean every job will disappear immediately, but it is a strong signal to consider safer alternatives or start building more resilient skills.
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Human strengths important in this job
These are human abilities and work contexts that are important in this occupation. They may help explain why parts of the role are harder to replace end-to-end, but they are not the only inputs into the automation score.
What users think
Based on 17 votes
Our visitors have voted that it's very probable this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 84% chance of automation.
What do you think the risk of automation is?
What is the likelihood that Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?
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Pay & outlook
Wages
In 2024, the median annual wage for Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service was $38,150 ($18 per hour).
The median annual wage for Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service was 22.9% lower than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.
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Wages over time
Growth
The number of 'Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service' job openings is expected to decline 6.6% by 2034
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Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due 09-2025.
Volume
As of 2024 there were 62,730 people employed as 'Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service' within the United States.
This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 2 thousand people are employed as 'Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service'.
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Job 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.
O*NET-SOC code: 43-9051.00
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