Sacks [2] has asked whether there exists a uniform solution to Post's problem, i.e. an enumeration operation W such that d < W(d) < d′ for every degree d. It is shown here that if such an operation W exists it cannot itself in a particular technical sense be uniform. In fact, the jump operation is characterized amongst such uniform enumeration operations by the condition: d < W(d) for all d. In addition, it is proved that the only other uniform enumeration operations such that d ≤ W(d) for all d are those which equal the identity operation above some fixed degree.