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the ones that dispatch self employed people
German carriers don't use self employed people!
Imagine you are working at a petrol station and some smelly guy on a bike gives you a story about wanting you to arrange to get his passport, which is 200km away in another country. And he says he wants you to send it to some hotel 600km away in the opposite direction, in another different country.
Let's say the guy in the petrol station says yes, but he needs €500. Will you pay that? Everything has a probability attached so what is the probability you get your passport at a hotel in Slovenia or wherever? What if its just one day late? Or if it's two days late? Or just doesn't turn up?
The more I think about it the more I think getting someone to hold on to it and going back to fetch it myself would be the best option.
The pain with the TCR is that you're not allowed to get a train or whatever back up the route. in other events you could.
frank9755-
German carriers don't use self employed people!
Jest? Loads do and some still do, as far as I know. Subcontractors with subcontractors and so on.
I meant a courier service. Like Cosmo Kurier in Berlin. Bike Messengers, Car Messengers, men with van. Definitely self employed, and I bet that for the right price someone they have on call would go to London, pick up anything not illegal at your place, and bring it to me in Berlin.I also meant asking the people at the gas station where I left my stuff to bring it to me.
Not someone where I am.
Again, providing they speak the same language and you're lucky/charming/convincing, they might have underemployed friends that would do the 600k+ roundtrip. After all the messenger would have your passport, which is a pretty good insurance that he'll get paid, no?
c.h.e.
Looks like he left the stuff in Germany, and was in Austria when he realised it.
Find a biggish courier firm closest to where you left it (not fedex and stuff, the ones that dispatch self employed people) explain situation, and they will find someone to do it, but it would cost hundreds of €. Or be really nice to the person in the Gas station and offer them/a friend money if they do it?
At least I am pretty sure the ones I use in Berlin would find someone.