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Someday email will replace snail mail. No AI or robots needed. Amazon will take over parcel delivery and replace UPS, FedEx and all the other carriers. Amazon is the forthcoming Skynet. Be afraid. Be very afraid. In space, no one can hear you scream!

while other postal jobs are at higher risk of automation, it would be extremely difficult to automate the actual task of delivering on the street. while there are repetitive aspects to the job, there are simply far too many complicated, ever-changing variables for a machine to replicate the work. from working in all weather conditions, to driving in unpredictable traffic and road conditions, to specific customer and delivery needs that require complex thinking. a lot of problem-solving and risk-assessment involved in the job that cannot be easily replicated by automated technology. consider even a variable that is small and simple like a mailbox being moved or replaced in a new spot - an issue that would be easy for a human to problem-solve, but nearly-impossible for any artificial intelligence we could conceive in the foreseeable future.

Will there be less, yes. Will it be replaced by robots in 20 years? NO WAY.

Clerk work might get automated, but delivering mail can not be automated in the next 20 years. They can't even get self driving right, walking up to a house is way beyond what a robot can do let alone sort and place mail. New technology might be invited to aid a carrier in delivering, but will not be replaced.

its a highly repetitive job and easy to replicate although some delivery areas will be automated faster than others

Being a mail carrier is harder than than it might seem. There is more to it than just putting things in boxes. We deliver in severe weather conditions like blizzards where am AI would have shard time seeing the road.

Doubt all jobs would suddenly be cut especially because of unions etc. In my country the roads are really rubbish and weather can be especially nasty, not to mention the import costs would likely be high for such technology. Maybe further in future I could see less and less postmen but I highly doubt this would happen for a long time, in any case if this happens then sign me up for the dole and I will live in my parents basement like an incel while watching the world go to ruin.

Not feasible in rural areas where requirements and routes are variable and non-standard.

I work for USPS as a letter carrier. I can’t imagine management being able to maintain robots when they can hardly update equipment and vehicles as is.

As the development of autonomous drones and self-driving cars continues to improve, the role of the postal man will greatly shrink. I believe that even in the span of a single decade, the job will be considerably automated.

Not sure but it's a lot of hurdles to overcome. Drones flying around with big boxes everywhere. Sounds cool but realistically in our modern society even is it going to be too much liability? If something falls or destroys packages and people's property then people of course will try and steal from them.

Even rural mail carriers?

I doubt postal mail carriers will be replaced by robots because of strong labor unions.

There is already post delivery robots in Brisbane suburbs in Queensland, Australia

Drone based delivery

It's pretty likely that we will find ways to deliver physical mail to people using machines in the next 20 years. :/

Depends on a few things: how much does it takes to develop an autodriven car. how much it costs. how much it takes to develop an auto-driven drone. how to make it to get it directly to your home or mailbox, specially big packages. how to make it less costly than a human delivering the package. we have been waiting to the electric car like.... 40 years. it was said we would have it by the year 2000 and... still to many costs.

Machines already sort most mail, only needs refinement. Selfdriving cars are on the horizon. We only need to combine the two.

This job will be taken over due to the coming of drone delivery.

Small robots would be faster and more efficient