Group
Occupation
712232 Postal Delivery Officer
Latest release
OSCA - Occupation Standard Classification for Australia
Reference period
2024, Version 1.0
Released
6/12/2024
712232 Postal Delivery Officer
Delivers mail, usually by motorised transport, over allocated delivery rounds.
Registration or licensing may be required.
Alternative title
- Postie
Skill level: 4
Main tasks
- Sorts and organises mail for delivery
- Completes daily vehicle safety checks and loads mail onto a delivery vehicle
- Delivers mail to homes and businesses
- Obtains signatures from recipients for some delivered items
- Returns undelivered mail to a post office
- Maintains records of mail counts, deliveries and equipment
- Assists with checking wrongly addressed, missorted, undelivered and redirected mail, and processing freepost and underpaid mail