How do they match: Couriers and Messengers

  • Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
  • Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
  • 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.
  • Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.

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