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Couriers and Postal Deliverers

Overview

Couriers and Postal Deliverers deliver small items such as documents, messages, mail and parcels.

Tasks

This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.

  • sorting and sequencing items for delivery
  • delivering mail, parcels, documents and other items to customers' premises and mailboxes
  • receiving orders for deliveries from customers
  • collecting signatures and charges for cash-on-delivery orders
  • issuing and collecting receipts for pick-up and delivery items
  • keeping records of items received and delivered
  • maintaining walk books, directories, mail counts, equipment maintenance logs and other delivery records
  • loading and unloading mail conveyances and internal mail handling equipment
  • assisting with receipting inward mail, checking wrongly addressed, missorted, undelivered and redirected mail, and processing freepost and underpaid mail

Job Titles

  • Courier 
  • Postal Delivery Officer 

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