Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
Plan, direct, or coordinate operational, administrative, management, and support services of a U.S. post office; or coordinate activities of workers engaged in postal and related work in assigned post office.
13,810 people do this job in the US. $96,660 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 23%
- 42%
- 35%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 16%. Today's estimate: 19%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 13 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct and coordinate operational, management, and supportive services of one or a number of postal facilities.Done daily by most who do it. | 32% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Organize and supervise activities, such as the processing of incoming and outgoing mail.Done daily by most who do it. | 26% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Prepare and submit detailed and summary reports of post office activities to designated supervisors.Done daily by most who do it. | 11% | 2.1 h50 min to 4.2 h | 72%Half by now | |
| Negotiate labor disputes.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1.3 work days | Stays with people | |
| Prepare employee work schedules.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | 90%Half by now | |
| Hire and train employees, and evaluate their performance.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 5% | 3.3 h1.3 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Monitor employees' work schedules and attendance for payroll purposes.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Select and train postmasters and managers of associate postal units.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 3.1 work days | Stays with people | |
| Resolve customer complaints.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 2% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Inform the public of available services, and of postal laws and regulations.Done daily by most who do it. | 0.7% | 17 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Confer with suppliers to obtain bids for proposed purchases and to requisition supplies, disbursing funds according to federal regulations.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 0.4% | 1.1 h25 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Collect rents for post office boxes.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 0.2% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Postal Service Clerks29% now, 29% by 2028
- Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers14% now, 67% by 2028
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers47% now, 77% by 2028
- Administrative Services Managers18% now, 63% by 2028
- General and Operations Managers19% now, 43% by 2028
- Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators1% now, 1% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).