Couriers and Postal Deliverers

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

What the job involves

• 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