How do they match: Couriers and Messengers

  • Office Messenger
  • Office Messenger Helper
  • Office Runner
  • Pick Up Man
  • Telegraph Office Route Aide

  • 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.

  • Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
  • 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.
  • Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.

  • Analyze shipping information to make routing decisions.
  • Operate office equipment.
  • Record shipping information.
  • Relay information between personnel.