Postal Service Mail Carriers
Transportation & Material MovingAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Moderate· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-level value
Scale, basis and source
Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)
831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: 2026-03
0.000
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.41
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value
Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 36% score at or above this value.
What kind of figure this source publishes
The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.
Task-level exposure
Exposed tasks only| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % |
|---|---|
Answer customers' questions about postal services and regulations.43-5052 | 0.0042100.0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 20 task(s) — These tasks have no row in the source for this release. The 0 in the share row is a display-stage composition ratio; absence is what the — in the raw row states. | |
Obtain signed receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail, collect associated charges, and complete any necessary paperwork. | —0 |
Sort mail for delivery, arranging it in delivery sequence. | —0 |
Deliver mail to residences and business establishments along specified routes by walking or driving, using a combination of satchels, carts, cars, and small trucks. | —0 |
Return to the post office with mail collected from homes, businesses, and public mailboxes. | —0 |
Turn in money and receipts collected along mail routes. | —0 |
Sign for cash-on-delivery and registered mail before leaving the post office. | —0 |
Record address changes and redirect mail for those addresses. | —0 |
Hold mail for customers who are away from delivery locations. | —0 |
Bundle mail in preparation for delivery or transportation to relay boxes. | —0 |
Leave notices telling patrons where to collect mail that could not be delivered. | —0 |
Meet schedules for the collection and return of mail. | —0 |
Return incorrectly addressed mail to senders. | —0 |
Maintain accurate records of deliveries. | —0 |
Provide customers with change of address cards and other forms. | —0 |
Report any unusual circumstances concerning mail delivery, including the condition of street letter boxes. | —0 |
Register, certify, and insure parcels and letters. | —0 |
Travel to post offices to pick up the mail for routes or pick up mail from postal relay boxes. | —0 |
Enter change of address orders into computers that process forwarding address stickers. | —0 |
Complete forms that notify publishers of address changes. | —0 |
Sell stamps and money orders. | —0 |
Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Record address changes and redirect mail for those addresses.O*NET Task ID 11347 | 1.0 |
Maintain accurate records of deliveries.O*NET Task ID 11353 | 1.0 |
Answer customers' questions about postal services and regulations.O*NET Task ID 11354 | 1.0 |
Enter change of address orders into computers that process forwarding address stickers.O*NET Task ID 11359 | 1.0 |
Complete forms that notify publishers of address changes.O*NET Task ID 11360 | 1.0 |
Scan labels on letters or parcels to confirm receipt.O*NET Task ID 20906 | 0.5 |
Obtain signed receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail, collect associated charges, and complete any necessary paperwork.O*NET Task ID 11341 | 0.0 |
Sort mail for delivery, arranging it in delivery sequence.O*NET Task ID 11342 | 0.0 |
Deliver mail to residences and business establishments along specified routes by walking or driving, using a combination of satchels, carts, cars, and small trucks.O*NET Task ID 11343 | 0.0 |
Return to the post office with mail collected from homes, businesses, and public mailboxes.O*NET Task ID 11344 | 0.0 |
Turn in money and receipts collected along mail routes.O*NET Task ID 11345 | 0.0 |
Sign for cash-on-delivery and registered mail before leaving the post office.O*NET Task ID 11346 | 0.0 |
Hold mail for customers who are away from delivery locations.O*NET Task ID 11348 | 0.0 |
Bundle mail in preparation for delivery or transportation to relay boxes.O*NET Task ID 11349 | 0.0 |
Leave notices telling patrons where to collect mail that could not be delivered.O*NET Task ID 11350 | 0.0 |
Meet schedules for the collection and return of mail.O*NET Task ID 11351 | 0.0 |
Return incorrectly addressed mail to senders.O*NET Task ID 11352 | 0.0 |
Provide customers with change of address cards and other forms.O*NET Task ID 11355 | 0.0 |
Report any unusual circumstances concerning mail delivery, including the condition of street letter boxes.O*NET Task ID 11356 | 0.0 |
Register, certify, and insure parcels and letters.O*NET Task ID 11357 | 0.0 |
Travel to post offices to pick up the mail for routes or pick up mail from postal relay boxes.O*NET Task ID 11358 | 0.0 |
Sell stamps and money orders.O*NET Task ID 11361 | 0.0 |
β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.
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