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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 “Freight Caller”

Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
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.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office
Route mapping software
Microsoft Excel