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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”.
Also Known As…
- Couriers and Messengers
- Vehicle Delivery Worker
- Transporter
- Security Messenger
- Messenger
- Mailroom Courier
- Mail Clerk
- Mail Carrier
- Laboratory Courier
- Driver
- Courier
- Yard Caller
- Tube Operator
- Telephone Messenger
- Telegraph Office Route Aide
- Telegraph Messenger
- Singing Messenger
- Sample Distributor
- Runner
- Route Aide
- Proof Carrier
- Pick Up Worker
- Pick Up Man
- Pager
- Page
- Package Delivery Room Service Runner
- Outside Deliverer
- Office Messenger Helper
- Office Messenger
- Messenger Floorperson
- Message Clerk
- Merchandise Deliverer
- Mail Messenger
- Freight Caller
- Errand Runner
- Driver Messenger
- Diplomatic Courier
- Delivery Person
- Delivery of Shopping News
- Delivery Driver
- Delivery Clerk
- Deliverer
- Crew Caller
- Court Messenger
- Courier Delivery Driver
- Copy Worker
- Copy Messenger
- Copy Chaser
- Circular Distributor
- Caller
- Call Worker Person
- Call Person
- Bill Peddler
- Bill Hiker
- Bill Distributor
- Bicycle Messenger
- Bank Runner
- Bank Messenger
- Bank Courier
Tasks for “Distributor”
- Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
- Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
- Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
- Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
- 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.
- Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
- 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.
- Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
- Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
- Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
- Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
- Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
- Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
- Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Related Technology & Tools
- Bank deposit bags
- Hard hats
- Passenger vehicles
- Document shredders
- Delivery trucks
- Postage meters
- Envelope sealers
- Mobile radios
- Bicycles
- Pallet jacks
- Global positioning system GPS devices
- Passenger vans
- Protective safety glasses
- Personal computers
- Warehouse forklifts
- Safety belts
- Stamping equipment
- Copy machines
- Stepladders
- Mopeds
- Laser facsimile machines
- Tablet computers
- Mail addressing machines
- Wireless barcode scanners
- Hydraulic lift tables
- Computer data input scanners
- Handheld radio frequency RF scanners
- Lockboxes
- High-reach forklifts
- Motorcycles
- Hazardous material packaging
- Microsoft Excel
- Route mapping software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word