712232 Postal Delivery Officer
Delivers mail, usually by motorised transport, over allocated delivery rounds.
- Major group
- 7 Machinery Operators and Drivers
- Unit group
- 7122 Postal and Delivery Workers
- Edition
- OSCA 2024
- Skill level
- Level 4
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Official ANZSCO correspondence
Role overview
Delivers mail, usually by motorised transport, over allocated delivery rounds.
Use this page to confirm the official title, the parent unit group, the task list and the related ANZSIC industry context before using the occupation in classification, reporting or migration-adjacent workflows.
Occupation facts
- Skill level
- 4
- Major group
- 7 Machinery Operators and Drivers
- Sub-major group
- 71 Road and Rail Drivers
- Minor group
- 712 Delivery Drivers
- Unit group
- 7122 Postal and Delivery Workers
Tasks
- Sorts and organises mail for delivery
- Completes daily vehicle safety checks and loads mail onto a delivery vehicle
- Delivers mail to homes and businesses
- Obtains signatures from recipients for some delivered items
- Returns undelivered mail to a post office
- Maintains records of mail counts, deliveries and equipment
- Assists with checking wrongly addressed, missorted, undelivered and redirected mail, and processing freepost and underpaid mail
Skill level guidance
Skill level helps place the occupation inside the ABS hierarchy. Use it as a classification cue, then check the actual task list and occupational context before making a decision for HR, visa or reporting work.
How to use this occupation page
Start with the official OSCA title and task list. Then confirm the parent unit group and compare the related occupations on this page if the job title is broad, overlapping or used differently across employers.
The ANZSIC links are there to help when the same occupation appears across several industries and you need the business-side classification as well.
Related occupations
Industry context
Alternative titles
- Postie
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Compare OSCA 712232 with related occupations
Compare roles in the same OSCA unit group by their official definition, skill level, tasks and recognised alternative titles.
| Comparison point | Current code712232 Postal Delivery Officer | 712231 Delivery Person |
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| Official role definition | Delivers mail, usually by motorised transport, over allocated delivery rounds. | Delivers goods to customers by light vehicle, bicycle or foot. |
| Skill level | Skill Level 4 | Skill Level 4 |
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Comparison uses occupation definitions, skill levels, tasks and title variants from the ABS OSCA data files.
In this section
- 712231Delivery Person
- 712232Postal Delivery Officer
Official source
- Official source
- ABS OSCA 2024 release and correspondence tables
- Last reviewed
- 2026-04-17
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