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Job Description

Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 43-5021.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 29,920.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 74,120 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Couriers and Messengers”.

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Tasks for “Bill Hiker”

Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
Receive messages or materials to be delivered, and information on recipients, such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, and delivery instructions, communicated via telephone, two-way radio, or in person.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.

Related Technology & Tools

Personal computers
Stamping equipment
Mail addressing machines
Lockboxes
Hard hats
Hydraulic lift tables
Envelope sealers
Protective safety glasses
Safety belts
Delivery trucks
Passenger vehicles
Wireless barcode scanners
Motorcycles
Warehouse forklifts
Mopeds
Stepladders
Hazardous material packaging
Bicycles
Global positioning system GPS devices
Copy machines
Mobile radios
Laser facsimile machines
Passenger vans
Computer data input scanners
Postage meters
Tablet computers
Document shredders
Handheld radio frequency RF scanners
Pallet jacks
High-reach forklifts
Bank deposit bags

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office
Route mapping software