Becoming a Postal Delivery Officer in Queensland

About this role

Postal Delivery Officers deliver mail on foot, by bicycle or by motorised transport over allocated delivery rounds.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Postal Delivery Officer include:

• sorts and sequences items for delivery
• delivers mail, parcels, documents and other items to customers' premises and mailboxes
• loads and unloads mail conveyances and internal mail handling equipment
• maintains log books, directories, mail counts, equipment maintenance logs and other delivery records
• assists with receipting inward mail, checking wrongly addressed, mis-sorted, undelivered and redirected mail, and processing freepost and underpaid mail and some freight.