Craziest payload as a messenger?
 

What's the biggest/most cumbersome/annoying thing you've ever had to haul as a messenger?

set of blueprints about 5 feet long and big enough in circumference that it barely squeezed into my bag, according to the scale at mail room where I dropped it was 62lbs including my bag

another time I delivered a fruit basket shaped like an office building, it was in a box and I had to put it on my handlebars and walk it about 4 blocks, not sure if that counts though, I couldnt ride with it

a human hand.
just kidding. i'm not a messenger.

cremated dog in a box with note of condolences attached for the owner.

Slightly off-topic

I never hauled stuff commercially on a bike but I used to haul stuff into the backcountry
of the Sierra Nevada on mules and horses--I'd ride along in front with a string of mules in
behind--

Once delivered: dynamite for a utilities company, 200 lbs of frozen antelope
for a biologist who needed it to bait pressure-triggered cameras to take pics of wolverines
(he didn't get any), a dog who wandered into to back country with us (we drugged him
and chucked him in a pannier with rocks on the other side to balance).

I am not a messenger, but I make huge runs to the post office mutliple time a week and i had a box of bags in my bag that was about 36in x 28in x 10in deep. I couldn't see or hear anything behind me. that was some scary ****

i dunno, i had this little square 5"x5" box that must have contained dark matter or something....it was rediculuously heavy for its size

I giggled at this thought for some reason.

It was a Phil Wood hub.

A 30 pack of beer can be tough, but you got to do what you got to do.

ftw

a couple of display boards--flat, light, but barely contained by my compression straps and too wide to split lanes....one was even too big to ride with at all, as long as i am tall, and about 5 feet wide. 6x5 i guess i could say.

also a giant teddy bear i rode on my bars. several bottles of wine. someone was an alcoholic for sure.

and i really suspect that this one package was a human liver, or drugs, or something. it was sort of sketch and i had to sign this release/waiver thingy just to ride with it. i also took a box of rocks for geological samples once.

a buddy in pdx once spent an hour running 36 file boxes out of a building. he made bank that day.

I had a 5 foot roll of blue prints today. that was akward.

I saw my friend carry just under 100 lbs the other day in the pouring rain. it was amazing. and he is like a really tiny dude.

not as a messenger, but i carried a torso-sized wood carving of a head/mask. it was incredibly heavy and uncomfortable. it dug into my back and left scrapes. i am such a ****ing good friend.

Biggest- Some painting for a courtroom that was in a box that was 72''x50''x10''. It was a real windy day and that package acted like a sail. I was terrified of being thrown into traffic.

Heaviest- I got a page that said one package at one pound. Got there and it was a filing box that weighed 75 pounds (according to a scale at the drop). I carried that box nearly 30 blocks.

not a messenger, but I deliver humans to hospitals.
When I pedicabbed I had to go to a liquor store and pick up 300+ dollars worth of alcohol and bring it up to the top floor, corner room of a Hilton.

Had those. 5 foot roll, about a foot in diameter, had to balance it on my bullhorns... almost got knocked over trying to cut between 2 taxis. Sucked.

A pillowcase of fighting cats

A full desktop PC incl monitor.
Bag of bricks...samples to architect.
Bags of blood to from Quebec Hydro to hospital's infectious disease centre ...back in the 80's (early aids)
A 15million dollar cheque that nobody wanted to sign for because nobody knew who was to be responsible for it.

Court evidence so hot I had the lawyer say 'Your Honour I am receiving new evidence that will....' as they were signing for it.
...and of course the Christmas bottles of wine that the sales staff would load up on you so that if you wrecked (in the snow) you had wine and busted glass all in your bag BUT delivering those got you into some wicked fun office parties. :lol: (whole other thread)

Before riding for work I was a walker for a white print company and would carry those blue print rolls all over the core.

48 beers, but I HAD to get them to the party, not unlike the time I had four cases of 24 on my skateboard.

A bowling ball.

How does someone go about getting a job as a messenger? I don't think I have ever seen them in my city but I'm curious to find out.

Thanks

One of the Chicago vets was talking about a client they used to do some crazy weekly run for that was a big wheelie tub full of stuff, you just threw your bike in it and pushed it, only like 4 or 5 blocks or something but still ridiculous.

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I'm not a messenger, but I carried a 10" table saw to the job site, on my back once. Mainly to prove that I could do it.