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Postal Service Mail Carriers

Sort and deliver mail for the United States Postal Service (USPS). Deliver mail on established route by vehicle or on foot. Includes postal service mail carriers employed by USPS contractors.

38 AI exposure
43 Human advantage
59 Market demand
40 AI leverage

Is Postal Service Mail Carriers a safe career from AI?

Postal Service Mail Carriers scores 38 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 43. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 59 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Postal Service Mail Carriers pay

The median wage is $57,490 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,030 and the upper quarter over $75,300. About 336,040 people do this work in the United States.

Where Postal Service Mail Carriers can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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