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To add more about vocabulary, in Argentina errands aren't mandados but trámites. Mandados is currently used to describe home shopping, like going to the grocer's.
There was a time mandados was used in the context of business, when a 12 or 13 old kid who ended elementary school would be taken to perform the simplest tasks, like moving things and messages between offices, bringing the mail to the mailbox next corner, or going to the grocer's to buy yerba mate and sugar. He would be known as "el pibe de los mandados" or "el che-pibe" (litterally: "hey, kid!"). These phrases remain today in a derogative way meaning the lowest position in ranks: "¿¡Quién te creés que soy yo!?¿!El pibe de los mandados!?". Now, there are not many 16 to 18 y.o. kids working as 14 years of education are mandatory, and young people with high school diplomas doing errands for corporations are known as cadetes.
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