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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 “Bill Peddler”

Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.
Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
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.
Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
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.
Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.

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

Microsoft Excel
Route mapping software
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word