Obtain signed receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail, collect associated charges, and complete any necessary paperwork.

“Obtain signed receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail, collect associated charges, and complete any necessary paperwork.” is a core task performed by Postal Service Mail Carriers. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 21st by importance (#2 most important). About 99% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Obtain formal documentation or authorization. in Getting Information
• Collect fares or payments. in Monitoring and Controlling Resources

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Scan labels on letters or parcels to confirm receipt. · importance 4.8
• Return to the post office with mail collected from homes, businesses, and public mailboxes. · importance 4.7
• Sort mail for delivery, arranging it in delivery sequence. · importance 4.6
• Deliver mail to residences and business establishments along specified routes by walking or driving, using a combination of satchels, carts, cars, and small trucks. · importance 4.6
• Meet schedules for the collection and return of mail. · importance 4.6
• Register, certify, and insure parcels and letters. · importance 4.5
• Sign for cash-on-delivery and registered mail before leaving the post office. · importance 4.5
• Hold mail for customers who are away from delivery locations. · importance 4.4
• Turn in money and receipts collected along mail routes. · importance 4.4
• Leave notices telling patrons where to collect mail that could not be delivered. · importance 4.4
• Maintain accurate records of deliveries. · importance 4.3
• Bundle mail in preparation for delivery or transportation to relay boxes. · importance 4.3
• Travel to post offices to pick up the mail for routes or pick up mail from postal relay boxes. · importance 4.1
• Record address changes and redirect mail for those addresses. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Postal Service Mail Carriers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-11341,
  title  = {Obtain signed receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail, collect associated charges, and complete any necessary paperwork.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-11341}
}