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Couriers and Messengers
Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.Mostly human for now
- 02Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.Mostly human for now
- 03Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.Mostly human for now
- 04Receive 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.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Deliver messages and items, such as newspapers, documents, and packages, between establishment departments and to other establishments and private homes.Mostly human for now
- 06Record information, such as items received and delivered and recipients' responses to messages.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.Mostly human for now
- 08Sort items to be delivered according to the delivery route.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Plan and follow the most efficient routes for delivering goods.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss4%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
31%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 41% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 98% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
- Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.
- Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.