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Our Corporate team represents hundreds of years of experience in our industry. Many Fortune 500 companies rely on World Courier Ground to meet their time-critical courier delivery needs. If your situation is anything like “the closing is in an hour” or “the patient is being prepped for surgery”, we’ll make it happen for you.

Courier World Courier Ground provides these delivery services over the largest “local” area you’ll find. Our regular territory for Direct, Rush, and Regular Services stretches over hundreds of metropolitan areas, from San Francisco to Boston, and south to Miami.

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Courier Services Available:
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Our premium courier service, the closest available driver proceeds immediately to pickup and deliver your package nonstop. We give you an estimated pickup time when you place your order A tracking call is made when the driver is approximately halfway to the delivery point And a call on delivery to let you know who signed, where they were located, and the exact delivery time.
90 Minute Service	Learn more
Delivered within 90 minutes of your call for couriers. For delivery distances over 20 miles, add 30 minutes delivery time for each additional 10 miles or fraction thereof.
2.5 Hour Service	Learn more
Delivered within two-and-a-half hours of your call. For delivery distances over 20 miles, add 30 minutes delivery time for each additional 10 miles or fraction thereof.
5 Hour Service	Learn more
Delivered within five hours of your call for messenger orders placed and ready for pickup prior to 12:00 noon Monday-Friday. For courier delivery distances over 20 miles, add 30 minutes delivery time for each additional 10 miles or fraction thereof.
World Courier Ground offers you much more than expedited delivery. Call us for: Delivery and Assembly – Our experienced technicians deliver and assemble your products or merchandise, same day or next day, everything from office furniture to fitness equipment. Route Drivers – Our inside operations team manages your daily scheduled courier deliveries with the same care as your on-demand deliveries. Warehousing – We can readily meet your short-term or long-term storage needs in our safe and secure warehouse. Tech Restock – We can accept your products, consolidate, securely store them, and deliver them to your techs or drop the material at a storage site or a vehicle whenever you wish, 24/7 anywhere in the Chicagoland area.

Courier Details:

Diplomatic Couriers are required to safeguard and escort diplomatic pouches containing classified and sensitive material between U.S. diplomatic missions and the Department of State. Diplomatic Couriers are entrusted with ensuring the inviolability of diplomatic pouches and their safe hand secure delivery throughout the world. They operate under the auspices of international agreements and treaties as governed by the Vienna Convention. They are responsible for Department of State policies, regulations and the strict security procedures that define the control and movement of U.S. diplomatic pouches internationally and within the United States. Diplomatic Couriers spend a substantial portion of their career living and working overseas in a nearly constant travel status.

I. A CAREER IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE

The Department of State is seeking Foreign Service Diplomatic Couriers to serve as international diplomatic couriers. Initially appointed in Washington, DC for training, the Diplomatic Courier career candidate must agree to work at and travel to any of the U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide. Candidates must agree not only to travel to any U.S. diplomatic or consular post abroad, but also to be assigned to any of the nine Regional Diplomatic Courier Offices worldwide, according to the needs of the Foreign Service.
The Foreign Service is more than a job – it's a career. As a member of the Diplomatic Courier team, you will not only help to accomplish the mission of the Department of State, but you will also be a representative of your country to the people of other nations. A career in the Foreign Service involves uncommon commitments and occasional hardships, as well as unique rewards and opportunities. A decision to enter this career involves unusual motivation, a firm dedication to public service, and a clear understanding of the high level of travel required.
Many overseas posts are in small or remote countries where harsh climates, health hazards, and other discomforts exist, and where American-style amenities frequently are unavailable. Travel to and from some locations may involve hardships and oftentimes personal inconvenience. However, careers in the Foreign Service offer special rewards, including the pride and satisfaction of representing the United States and protecting U.S. interests abroad.

II. FOREIGN SERVICE SELECTION PROCESS

The Foreign Service selection process is lengthy, multi-staged, and due to the limited number of appointments available, highly competitive. It commences upon receipt of the candidate's application materials and will continue until the candidate is placed on a list of eligible candidates (a process which can take as long as a year) or is determined to be less competitive than other applicants, in which case the candidacy is terminated. The entire selection process (qualification process and oral examination) is done in the following cities: Washington, DC Metropolitan Area; Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA.; Denver, CO; New York, NY. Travel to one of these locations is at the expense of the applicant.
INITIAL REVIEW
A completed application package contains the materials listed in Section V of this Vacancy Announcement. Materials submitted become the property of the Department of State and will not be returned. An application may be terminated whenever any materials do not meet the basic eligibility requirements for employment as a Diplomatic Courier in the Foreign Service.

III. DIPLOMATIC COURIER CAREER

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Couriers are responsible for the security of the Department of State’s Courier accompanied diplomatic pouch operations worldwide. Diplomatic Courier duties may include the supervision of subordinate staff and the actual performance of some, or all, of the following functions:

• Provide Diplomatic Courier services for the Department of State and other U.S. government agencies that may need to transmit official, government classified or sensitive materials across international boundaries. Identify needed logistical support; provisioning for the storage or staging of the pouch; detect and bring to resolution the cause and impact of delays or other logistical problems; as well as adjust plans and schedules for all related actions to accommodate timely and secure movement of pouches.
• Develop, plan, and implement pouch escort programs and schedules; assess the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and provide practical solutions; ensure the proper allocation and expenditure of appropriated funds; and provide timely and appropriate pouch delivery and dispatch services to posts worldwide. Responsible for maintaining internal management controls in order to prevent waste, fraud and mismanagement.
• Manage, regulate, coordinate, or otherwise exercise control over the pouch material through application of material management functions. This includes initial planning, provisioning and determining handling and accountability, and oversight of physical accountability (maintenance and management of inventory records, conduct of periodic inventories, and releases from accountability).
• Plan, coordinate and implement travel and transportation pouch support needs domestically and at posts serviced worldwide, including motor vehicle operations and needs, issuance of travel orders, and ticketing for commercial and military air and surface transportation. Evaluate, negotiate, and participate in awarding contracts with commercial organizations and other government agencies involved in provision of, or support of, travel and transportation activities.
• Enforce Department of State pouch regulations required to ensure the inviolability of diplomatic pouches from the point of origination to international destinations as governed by the terms and authorities of the Vienna Convention.
• Assess risks to movement of diplomatic pouches and cargo to ensure against any infringement of diplomatic rights and privileges as established by the terms of the Vienna Convention; detect and report attempts to damage or subvert the principal of inviolability of the diplomatic pouches and cargo.
• Conduct, administer and implement diplomatic pouch security training and training assistance programs for U.S. foreign affairs agencies’ personnel, and officials of designated foreign governments.

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