Will “Couriers and Messengers” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

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

Also Known As…

• Vehicle Delivery Worker
• Transporter
• Security Messenger
• Messenger
• Mailroom Courier
• Mail Clerk
• Mail Carrier
• Laboratory Courier
• Driver
• Courier
• Yard Caller
• Tube Operator
• Telephone Messenger
• Telegraph Office Route Aide
• Telegraph Messenger
• Singing Messenger
• Sample Distributor
• Runner
• Route Aide
• Proof Carrier
• Pick Up Worker
• Pick Up Man
• Pager
• Page
• Package Delivery Room Service Runner
• Outside Deliverer
• Office Messenger Helper
• Office Messenger
• Messenger Floorperson
• Message Clerk
• Merchandise Deliverer
• Mail Messenger
• Freight Caller
• Errand Runner
• Driver Messenger
• Distributor
• Diplomatic Courier
• Delivery Person
• Delivery of Shopping News
• Delivery Driver
• Delivery Clerk
• Deliverer
• Crew Caller
• Court Messenger
• Courier Delivery Driver
• Copy Worker
• Copy Messenger
• Copy Chaser
• Circular Distributor
• Caller
• Call Worker Person
• Call Person
• Bill Peddler
• Bill Hiker
• Bill Distributor
• Bicycle Messenger
• Bank Runner
• Bank Messenger
• Bank Courier

Tasks for “Couriers and Messengers”

• Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments, and to other establishments and private homes.
• Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
• Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.
• Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
• Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
• Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
• Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
• Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
• Perform general office or clerical work such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
• Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
• Collect, seal, and stamp outgoing mail, using postage meters and envelope sealers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Route mapping software