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

Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded 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.

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.

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