Courier / Messenger
Quick Facts
Median Salary$36,634
Most Common EducationHigh school or GED
Projected 10-Year Growth+13.72%
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What They Do
A Courier or Messenger provides fast delivery of documents and packages to locations within a city, or provides customized long distance or international deliveries. Makes deliveries traveling by bicycle, van, truck, or plane.
Core Tasks:
- Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
- Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
- Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.
- Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous 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.
- 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.
- Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.
- Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
- Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
- Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
- Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
What to expect as a Courier / Messenger
1Earn a High school or GED Diploma
56% of people achieve this level of education.
2Gain skills and experience
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3Land a job
2369 openings for Couriers / Messengers
Career Progression
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