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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 “Messenger”

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.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
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.
Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
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.
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.
Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.

Related Technology & Tools

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

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Route mapping software
Microsoft Office