What do messengers carry now?
03-17-08 | 12:58 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Senior Member
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 962
Likes: 0
From: Washington DC
What do messengers carry now?
A recent thread about messengers got me thinking: what do bike messengers carry nowadays?
When I was a courier back before the internet, we carried documents that needed signatures, photo samples and negatives, and graphic/print proofs. Now, it seems that ink signatures are no longer needed for a lot of stuff, and photo/graphic design is sent over the internet or ftp sites. And the company I work for uses FedEx to send stuff just across town, because it's so cheap.
So what DO messengers carry now?
When I was a courier back before the internet, we carried documents that needed signatures, photo samples and negatives, and graphic/print proofs. Now, it seems that ink signatures are no longer needed for a lot of stuff, and photo/graphic design is sent over the internet or ftp sites. And the company I work for uses FedEx to send stuff just across town, because it's so cheap.
So what DO messengers carry now?
03-17-08 | 01:48 PM
#10
Tell them I hate them
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 939
Likes: 0
From: Boise, ID
Bikes: Specialized Allez Epic '91, IRO Mark V Pro, Schwinn Traveler
Drugs.
Ask David Leopold
Ask David Leopold
03-17-08 | 05:27 PM
#12
Senior Member
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 539
Likes: 0
From: Monterey, California
Bikes: 1982 Fuji Team, 1979 Raleigh Team Record, 1984 Raleigh Team USA, Japanese Raleigh Super Course, 2000 LeMond Buenos Aires, 90's Schwinn High Plains, 1978? Austro Daimler Inter 10
I use messengers at work to bring plans to clients, or send any documents across town in a day. we just call the service, and either a bike messenger comes, a foot messenger, or a car messenger depending on the distance the package is going. I'm an engineer.
03-17-08 | 07:26 PM
#15
or tarckeemoon, depending
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 7,017
Likes: 2
From: the pesto of cities
Bikes: Davidson Impulse, Merckx Titanium AX, Bruce Gordon Rock & Road, Cross Check custom build, On-One Il Pomino, Shawver Cycles cross, Zion 737, Mercian Vincitore, Brompton S1L, Charge Juicer
Large amounts of credit card debt.
03-17-08 | 09:10 PM
#19
Junior Member
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 6
Likes: 0
blueprints, restaurant change orders/deposits, inter-office mail, all kinds of design proofs, tons and tons of court reporting crap, jewelry, subpoenas, summons, writ of garnishments, city/county filings, presents during the holidays, tax stuff at this time of the year. the list goes on and on. e filing has not killed us all
03-17-08 | 09:21 PM
#22
stay free.
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,557
Likes: 0
From: Ellensburg, WA
Bikes: EAI Bare Knuckle, 1980's Ross Signature 292s 12 speed
03-17-08 | 10:21 PM
#25
Member
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 45
Likes: 0
My GF is a messenger here in Houston...apparently the most lucrative days are "paycheck runs" because you get paid a flat spiff per drop and you can carry lots of them.
Another considerable portion of her workload is very similar...picking up cash deposits at businesses and dropping them at the bank.
When I was a messenger in Houston in 2000 it was that sort of thing, and also a decent amount of medical drops.
rs
Another considerable portion of her workload is very similar...picking up cash deposits at businesses and dropping them at the bank.
When I was a messenger in Houston in 2000 it was that sort of thing, and also a decent amount of medical drops.
rs