Confer with suppliers to obtain bids for proposed purchases and to requisition supplies, disbursing funds according to federal regulations.

“Confer with suppliers to obtain bids for proposed purchases and to requisition supplies, disbursing funds according to federal regulations.” is a supplemental task performed by Postmasters and Mail Superintendents. Among the occupation's 13 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#13 most important). About 41% 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.

• Coordinate activities with clients, agencies, or organizations. in Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

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 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Monitor employees' work schedules and attendance for payroll purposes. · importance 4.7
• Organize and supervise activities, such as the processing of incoming and outgoing mail. · importance 4.7
• Resolve customer complaints. · importance 4.5
• Prepare employee work schedules. · importance 4.5
• Direct and coordinate operational, management, and supportive services of one or a number of postal facilities. · importance 4.5
• Hire and train employees, and evaluate their performance. · importance 4.4
• Prepare and submit detailed and summary reports of post office activities to designated supervisors. · importance 4.3
• Select and train postmasters and managers of associate postal units. · importance 4.1
• Inform the public of available services, and of postal laws and regulations. · importance 4.0
• Negotiate labor disputes. · importance 3.8
• Issue and cash money orders. · importance 3.4
• Collect rents for post office boxes. · importance 3.4

See all tasks on the Postmasters and Mail Superintendents 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-5271,
  title  = {Confer with suppliers to obtain bids for proposed purchases and to requisition supplies, disbursing funds according to federal regulations.},
  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-5271}
}