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Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
Plan, direct, or coordinate operational, administrative, management, and support services of a U.S. post office; or coordinate activities of workers engaged in postal and related work in assigned post office.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor employees' work schedules and attendance for payroll purposes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Organize and supervise activities, such as the processing of incoming and outgoing mail.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Resolve customer complaints.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Prepare employee work schedules.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Direct and coordinate operational, management, and supportive services of one or a number of postal facilities.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Hire and train employees, and evaluate their performance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Prepare and submit detailed and summary reports of post office activities to designated supervisors.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Negotiate labor disputes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Select and train postmasters and managers of associate postal units.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Inform the public of available services, and of postal laws and regulations.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
52%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 33% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 40% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.