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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…

Tasks for “Pager”

Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
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.
Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
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.
Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
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.
Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Route mapping software
Microsoft Excel