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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 “Singing Messenger”

Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
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.
Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
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.
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.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.

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