Sell stamps and money orders.

“Sell stamps and money orders.” is a supplemental task performed by Postal Service Mail Carriers. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#18 most important). About 50% 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.

• Sell products or services. in Selling or Influencing Others

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: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Scan labels on letters or parcels to confirm receipt. · importance 4.8
• Obtain signed receipts for registered, certified, and insured mail, collect associated charges, and complete any necessary paperwork. · importance 4.7
• 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

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-11361,
  title  = {Sell stamps and money orders.},
  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-11361}
}