MESSENGER/COURIER BOY
Messenger/Courier boy picks up and delivers, documents, letters, packages, and other items on time between organization facilities. Documents and track the items picked up and delivered. Being a courier/messenger responds to inquiries about pick up and delivery schedules. May require a high school diploma. Additionally, courier/messenger typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The courier/messenger possesses a moderate understanding of general aspects of job. Works under the close direction of senior personnel in the functional area.
MESSENGER/COURIER BOY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Walk, ride bicycle, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances in orders to reach destinations to delivers messages or materials.
- Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are listed correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
- Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
- 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.
- Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.
- Delivers 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 routes.
- Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.
- Record information such as items received and delivered and recipients’ responses to messages.
- Check with home offices after completed deliveries, in order to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instruction for other deliveries.
