74101 Letter carriers

What this occupation covers

Letter carriers sort and deliver mail, record delivery of registered mail and collect money for cash-on-delivery parcels. They are employed by Canada Post Corporation.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 7 main duties for this code.

• Organize mail by address and load into mailbag
• Deliver letters, small parcels and other printed matter along established routes
• Deliver telegrams, special delivery and express mail
• Collect payment for cash-on-delivery service
• Record delivery of registered mail
• Leave notices indicating that items could not be delivered and the location where they can be picked up
• Return undeliverable mail to postal station.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 7 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 74102 Couriers and messengers
• 72025 Supervisors, mail and message distribution occupations
• 74100 Mail and parcel sorters and related occupations
• 64401 Postal services representatives

Excluded from this code

• Couriers and messengers (See 74102 Couriers and messengers)
• Letter carriers supervisor (See 72025 Supervisors, mail and message distribution occupations)
• Mail and parcel sorters and related occupations (See 74100 Mail and parcel sorters and related occupations)
• Postal services representatives (See 64401 Postal services representatives)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

letter carrier · mail carrier · mail collector · mail deliverer · postal carrier · postal service deliverer · postal worker · priority post carrier · rural mail carrier · special delivery mail carrier

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education is required.
• Two weeks to one month of training is provided by Canada Post Corporation.
• Physical fitness is required for some occupations in this unit group.