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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?
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They don't. I work in that industry. It's to do with the way tax works. They often use subcontractors but the subcontractors employ their drivers. It's very different from eg the UK, Spain or Italy. France is the most similar to Germany, there are some self employed drivers working for la poste, but it's all employed at the others, even Amazon.
I can't see it. Would you drive 600km to find some guy in order to get paid? What if you can't find him, you're way out of pocket in eastern Europe with possibly no money to get home. So what if you've got some guy's passport if you can't find him!
frank9755
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.