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Distribute incoming mail

This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.

Part of Distribute materials, supplies, or resources, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring and Controlling Resources. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Perform other clerical duties, such as answering telephone, sorting and distributing mail, running errands or sending faxes.Stays human Word Processors and Typists
• Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.Stays human Brokerage Clerks
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email.Stays human Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
• Open, read, route, and distribute incoming mail or other materials and answer routine letters.Stays human Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.Stays human Couriers and Messengers
• Distribute incoming mail into the correct boxes or pigeonholes.Stays human Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Open, sort, and route incoming mail, answer correspondence, and prepare outgoing mail.Stays human Office Clerks, General
• Collect, sort, distribute, or prepare mail, messages, or courier deliveries.Stays human Receptionists and Information Clerks