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Overview
Postal carriers deliver mail and parcel posts, collect recipient signatures and handle related tasks for post offices or similar mail-service organisations.
In job descriptions, look for delivery routes, mail integrity, customer contact, urban driving, daily priorities, privacy, signatures, geographic areas and handling of letters or parcels.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Postmen and postwomen usually work from a postal base into assigned delivery areas. The work combines route preparation, mail and parcel handling, recipient contact and proof of delivery when signatures are required.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes handling mail carefully, protecting privacy, keeping delivery priorities clear, communicating with customers, driving in urban areas and using route or geographic information systems when planning rounds.
Salary context
Salary context depends on route size, parcel weight, driving duties, timetable pressure, customer contact, sorting responsibility, weekend or early shifts and whether the role includes extra mail-service tasks.
Career paths
Paths can move toward senior postal carrier, route coordinator, sorting lead, depot support, customer-service responsibility or local supervision of delivery teams and daily mail rounds.
Good to know
Check whether the advert names walking or driving routes, parcel delivery, signature collection, mail integrity, privacy rules, customer contact, route tools and how daily priorities are set.
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This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Occupation group
Mail carriers and sorting clerks (4412)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7ed2e153-8da8-4c0d-b4c5-3402c623f34b |
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| ESCO code | 4412.2 |
| ISCO group | 4412 |
| Concept type | Occupation |