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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 “Vehicle Delivery Worker”

Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering 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.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous 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.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
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.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.

Related Technology & Tools

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

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Route mapping software
Microsoft Word