Which jobs involve deliver items?

21 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Baggage Porters and Bellhops, Concierges, Costume Attendants, Couriers and Messengers, Desktop Publishers.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Performing General Physical Activities" (element 4.A.3.a.1).

Deliver items

Little of this can be handed to software today.

This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	21 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Performing General Physical Activities (4.A.3.a.1)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 21 occupations that perform it.

Deliver death certificates to medical facilities or offices to obtain signatures from legally authorized persons.
Deliver artwork on courier trips.
Deliver and retrieve items throughout the library by hand or using pushcart.
Deliver medications or pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations, or surgery.
Deliver equipment to specified hospital locations or to patients' residences.
Plan, prepare, and deliver meals to individuals with special dietary needs.
Deliver tickets, cards, and money to bingo callers.
Return borrowed or rented items when productions are complete and return other items to storage.
Deliver floral arrangements or other items to family members of the deceased.
Deliver messages and room service orders, and run errands for guests.
Receive, store, or deliver luggage or mail.
Sort and distribute mail.
Deliver and retrieve items to and from departments by hand or using push carts.
Deliver and pick up medical records, lab specimens, and medications to and from hospitals and other medical facilities.
Transport mail from one work station to another.
Deliver mail to residences and business establishments along specified routes by walking or driving, using a combination of satchels, carts, cars, and small trucks.
Deliver or route materials to departments using handtruck, conveyor, or sorting bins.
Transport materials, products, or samples to processing, shipping, or storage areas, manually or using conveyors, pumps, or hand trucks.

What we would actually use

Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.

Our pickBuy nothing

Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

How people actually do it

No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.

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Who does this work

21 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Move materials, equipment, or supplies”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Move materials, equipment, or supplies	19
Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas	19
Move construction or extraction materials to locations where they are needed	13
Transport biological or other medical materials	9
Move large objects using heavy equipment	8
Move equipment, supplies or food to required locations	6
Handle luggage or other possessions for patrons	5
Transport animals, crops, or equipment	4

Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.