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Couriers and Messengers: reported tasks and exploration worksheet

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.

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This source lists 16 tasks, including 10 marked Core and 6 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.

Task source dates: 08/2026.

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Core · Task 20903 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.

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Core · Task 7010 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.

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Core · Task 7011 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.

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Core · Task 7013 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

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.

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Core · Task 7015 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments and to other establishments and private homes.

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Core · Task 7018 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.

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Core · Task 7012 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.

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Core · Task 7016 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.

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Core · Task 7014 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.

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Core · Task 7020 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.

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Supplemental · Task 7017 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Obtain signatures and payments, or arrange for recipients to make payments.

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Supplemental · Task 7025 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Unload goods from large trucks, and load them onto smaller delivery vehicles.

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Supplemental · Task 7022 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.

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Supplemental · Task 7019 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.

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Supplemental · Task 7021 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Use telephone to deliver verbal messages.

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Supplemental · Task 7023 · 08/2026 · Incumbent

Perform general office or clerical work, such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.

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