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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 “Message Clerk”

Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
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.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
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.
Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
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.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.

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