Job as a courier / messenger?

are you able to drink a litre of cheap spirits and still ride ?
=> YES goto post 3
=> NO go to TOPMAN and ask for a shop assistant role

get bike. deliver shit. develop superiority complex. done.

if you struggled to find out how to become a courier, i am concerned at your lack of initiative or ability to find the places you are going to

+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

i mean seriously......

http://www.gumtree.com/london/20/56774820.html?WT.mc_id=OP-138-227-london

should take noobs

Buy a map! or even better a SATNAV!

if all fails?

ive been cycling fixed for 4 years

Whew, I would hate to think there's a freewheeling courrier out there.

get bike. deliver shit. develop superiority complex. done.

This

it aint easy, pays crap, you could be killed... by starvation, exhaustion or a cab.
"Good Enough" - is doin it. Day in day out for the days and weeks it takes to not be exhausted all the time or disheartened because you get treated like crap all the time.

(but don't take my word for it)

if all fails?

postal claw

Dibs

second dibs.

I'm starting a delivery business but I've got no idea about rate/size rate distance any advice welcome

have you got any idea about anything? come on, try harder than just posting shouts on here.

sounds like a winner. I'm in.

I will pay you 6.95 pounds to collect *Meal 4 *(apple tango please) from Kennedy Fried Chicken and deliver it to SE1 at 9:45pm when I will get home from work.

This is not a joke. Meal 4 retails for 4.95

I will pay you £100 pounds to cycle from wherever you are to Rock and Road bikes Southampton, pick me up an extremely rare pair of italian sunglasses that look like a cross between Marge Proops glasses and James Bonds ones, then deliver to me in Poole Dorset.

I will pay you £100 pounds to cycle from wherever you are to Rock and Road bikes Southampton, pick me up an extremely rare pair of italian sunglasses that look like a cross between Marge Proops glasses and James Bonds ones, then deliver to me in Poole Dorset.

Marge Proops Replicas were so 2008. The Cipollini look is what I'm predicting for Summer 2010. Get in there early.

there Briko stingers you numpty, had a pair 8 years ago,.....

Don't tell me you chucked 'em?

dead, scratched, wobbly arms, and thats just me, think briko are rare as hens teeth in the U.K now, wierd they were the bomb.

well, I had the same idea - tried quite a few major companies, most of them asked me to fill in the knowledge test form. I'm not very good with names, my visual memory is far better, so I failed. Then I thought fuck it.

Locking my bike up before Christmas I swapped lamposts with a courier round the back of John Lewis in Oxford Street... we got chatting... he claimed to have been a courier for almost 20 years.... and he looked 107. He'd lost count of the number of bones he'd had broken, the fines for going through red lights, and the bits of his bike he'd had knicked. The only thing that made him laugh any more was.... those people who wanted to become cycle couriers.... and this... I believed.

p.s. second dibs on that keyboard!

^i think you mean 3rd dibs

This is london my friend.

Harsh but fair... I will put my elbows away and return to the back of the Q... what *would *my Mother say? Pushing in like that!