Specialist for Courier, Express, and Postal Services

Vocation Description

Responsibilities for a specialist in courier, express, and postal services (KEP) falls under the occupational field of economics and administration, within the focus of marketing and customer advisory services.  Specialists for courier, express, and postal services sort mailings, plan the delivery route, and deliver mailings.  These specialists find work in companies, which plan, organize, direct, supervise, and handle the transport of small-scale, urgent, and time-sensitive mailings.  Additionally, they accept and settle payments, document mailings, and perform postprocessing of deliveries.

Personal Requirements

• Detailed oriented, sense of responsibility
• Physically fit
• Sociableness, honesty, patience
• Reliability, sense of order, ability to work in a team
• Enjoy working with individuals whose contact information is often changing
• Good memory for numbers
• Aptitude for organized, systematic work

Continued Training

Training can be part of graduated training. After finishing the first step to be a specialist for courier, express, and postal services (two years), you can acquire the vocational degree for Kauffrau und -mann für Kurier-, Express- und Postdienstleistungen in the second step (one year).

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