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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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Search jobsWhat 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.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 2
Couriers and Messengers
43-5021.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETPostal Service Mail Carriers
43-5052.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
53.1Postal activities under universal service obligation
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Mail carriers and sorting clerks (4412)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7ed2e153-8da8-4c0d-b4c5-3402c623f34b |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 4412.2 |
| ISCO group | 4412 |
| Concept type | Occupation |