Lamércian Common Messenger

I've never seen a child run so fast and so quick.

— Commoner

The Lamércian Common Messenger is a profession within the Lamércian Royal and Common Messengers, to which they are paid to deliver written or spoken messages anywhere in Olivia. They were intended to replace Military and Royal messengers used by the court of Lamércia as they their lands grew so large as to require a great deal of messages and improved communications. The Elpan Eyries were the first of the solutions to the problem. The Royal and Common Messengers were the next; the intention was rather than to train and organise a group of highly qualified messengers, protect them on their journeys, and keep them in the castles, these messengers would be hired from the commonfolk to do the task anyway they can, and paid to look after themselves.
The decentralisation from the royal court meant that anyone could be a messenger, and many jumped to the chance to be given the funds to travel and potentially meet royals. This changed the communication system in Lamércia massively - suddenly, it was difficult to identify a messenger on the road as it could be anyone. Messengers could be bartered with to prioritise messages. And messages could also be sent from anyone to anyone else as long as a messenger accepted the job.
Many commonfolk became messengers as evening/morning work, alongside their regular occupations, and the Kingdom made a reasonable amount of revenue for providing the service as well. The Lamércian Royal and Common Messengers remains a body imperative in communications around Olivia and even to some parts of Eleanor.
Nowadays, the Common Messenger is a more organised and controlled role compared to their early counterpart, but various aspects remain from their original conception. For example, a message delivered will always have a seal of authenticity, but the messengers themselves have no uniform and are often advise in wearing unassuming clothing as much as possible

Career

Payment & Reimbursement

Initially, payment was whatever the customer paid for a message to be delivered, minus an income tax to the Kingdom of 20%.
AS time went on, standard rates were given and standard pay was assigned to regular messengers, so as to better organise and allow those who couldn't pay for their message to be delivered alone to be delivered with a number of messages that were headed to the same location.

Type

Public Services