Courier and Postal Deliverer

Overview

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

Day-to-day

• 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.

Considerations

• physically demanding
• requires driving
• working outdoors.