Postal Delivery Officer
- Classification
- Occupation
- Skill level
- 5
- Major group
- Clerical and Administrative Workers
Classification
- Major group
- 5Clerical and Administrative Workers
- Sub-major group
- 56Clerical and Office Support Workers
- Minor group
- 561Clerical and Office Support Workers
- Unit group
- 5612Couriers and Postal Deliverers
Description
Delivers mail on foot, by bicycle or by motorised transport over allocated delivery rounds.
Alternative titles
- Postie
Unit group
5612 · Couriers and Postal DeliverersDescription
UNIT GROUP 5612 COURIERS AND POSTAL DELIVERERS COURIERS AND POSTAL DELIVERERS deliver small items such as documents, messages, mail and parcels.
Skill level
Occupation skill level 5
Australia
AQF Certificate I, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5)
New Zealand
NZQF Level 1 qualification, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5) For some occupations a short period of on-the-job training may be required in addition to or instead of the formal qualification. In some instances no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.
Tasks
Tasks include
- sorting and sequencing items for delivery
- delivering mail, parcels, documents and other items to customers' premises and mailboxes
- receiving orders for deliveries from customers
- collecting signatures and charges for cash-on-delivery orders
- issuing and collecting receipts for pick-up and delivery items
- keeping records of items received and delivered
- maintaining walk books, directories, mail counts, equipment maintenance logs and other delivery records
- loading and unloading mail conveyances and internal mail handling equipment
- assisting with receipting inward mail, checking wrongly addressed, missorted, undelivered and redirected mail, and processing freepost and underpaid mail
Occupations in this unit group
Sources
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