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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…
- Couriers and Messengers
- Vehicle Delivery Worker
- Transporter
- Security Messenger
- Messenger
- Mailroom Courier
- Mail Clerk
- Mail Carrier
- Laboratory Courier
- Driver
- Courier
- Yard Caller
- Tube Operator
- Telephone Messenger
- Telegraph Messenger
- Singing Messenger
- Sample Distributor
- Runner
- Route Aide
- Proof Carrier
- Pick Up Worker
- Pick Up Man
- Pager
- Page
- Package Delivery Room Service Runner
- Outside Deliverer
- Office Messenger Helper
- Office Messenger
- Messenger Floorperson
- Message Clerk
- Merchandise Deliverer
- Mail Messenger
- Freight Caller
- Errand Runner
- Driver Messenger
- Distributor
- Diplomatic Courier
- Delivery Person
- Delivery of Shopping News
- Delivery Driver
- Delivery Clerk
- Deliverer
- Crew Caller
- Court Messenger
- Courier Delivery Driver
- Copy Worker
- Copy Messenger
- Copy Chaser
- Circular Distributor
- Caller
- Call Worker Person
- Call Person
- Bill Peddler
- Bill Hiker
- Bill Distributor
- Bicycle Messenger
- Bank Runner
- Bank Messenger
- Bank Courier
Tasks for “Telegraph Office Route Aide”
- Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
- Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
- Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
- Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
- 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.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
- 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 and sort items collected along delivery routes.
- Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
- Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
- Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
- Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
- Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
- Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
- Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
- Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Related Technology & Tools
- Mail addressing machines
- Bank deposit bags
- Personal computers
- Copy machines
- Hazardous material packaging
- Pallet jacks
- Motorcycles
- Document shredders
- Passenger vans
- Delivery trucks
- Passenger vehicles
- Envelope sealers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Protective safety glasses
- Mopeds
- Wireless barcode scanners
- Mobile radios
- Handheld radio frequency RF scanners
- High-reach forklifts
- Tablet computers
- Bicycles
- Stepladders
- Global positioning system GPS devices
- Computer data input scanners
- Postage meters
- Lockboxes
- Hydraulic lift tables
- Safety belts
- Stamping equipment
- Warehouse forklifts
- Hard hats
- Route mapping software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel