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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 “Outside Deliverer”

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.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
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.
Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
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.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Word
Route mapping software
Microsoft Excel