Logistics
Postal service worker
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. In the United States, employment stays almost flat to 2035, while the WEF ranks this job first among declining jobs worldwide: less mail and automated sorting. Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Sorts, routes and processes mail and parcels, or serves the public at the post office counter.
24 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- bicycle messenger
- bike courier
- bike messenger
- courier
- delivery man
- delivery woman
- driver messenger
- in house courier
- in house messenger
- mail carrier
- mail clerk
- mail room clerk
- mail sorter
- mailman
- mailwoman
- motorcycle messenger
- post office mail clerk
- postal carrier
- postal service worker
- postman
- postman/postwoman
- postwoman
- sorting clerk
- urban bike messenger
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
The WEF puts postal service clerks at the top of the jobs in relative decline. In the United States, however, the BLS expects postal service clerks to hold almost steady: 70,900 jobs in 2025, 70,700 in 2035.
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Future of Jobs Report 2025World Economic Forum · January 2025 · large survey
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Postal Service WorkersBureau of Labor Statistics, United States · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.