- 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 - Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipient's responses to messages. - Check with home offices after completed deliveries, in order to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries. - Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing