Why are couriers miserable bastards?

Jontyponty:

yeah bill for sure, I know this is one of your bugbears. Is it totally rose tinted lies then? so many old dudes claim >to have comfortably made loadsamoney back in the day<

I was there. Sure, some people were doing well alright. But most were scraping. I was an ok messenger, working at the better companies, and I never, never remember having an easy week and making more money than I knew what to do with.

It's a hard job, and not a particularly well-paid one.