How do they match: Couriers and Messengers

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.

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.
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.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
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.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
Use telephone to deliver verbal messages.
Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.

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Site updated April 30, 2024

13 Alternate Occupation Titles