Why are couriers miserable bastards?

chris crash all i want is a hug from RPM

there's a long list..

He just said hug, no mention of bumming.

yeah I know, there's an even longer list for the bumming

how long is the fisting list?

as long as my arm!

which one?

i'n general couriers hate all this fixed gear coolness coz it means their bikes are now more likely to get stolen. i was sat with my mate by lse last year some guy came past on his bike waving saying "fixies rule" my mate replied with a curt fuck off twat.
also there aint no work around so why be happy.

billa are u 12 milla?

i hate all this fixed gear coolness too

I want a hug from MrSmith too.

I think MrSmith hates all collness.

Fixed gears are cool? AAaahahahahahahahahahahaaaa...

yeah work is shit at the mo. but it always is innit. whoever heard of the goodtimes gotta be 30 by now. we all need next incomes, like me, but i aint telling any of u what it is cause its too good for words. mental and physical workouts combined.

Its so long since I was a courier I can't remember
but I do have a lovely 'is that all you got' smile
as I over take slow folk

are u one of the 500-a-week peeps then buddha, back when such amounts could buy a small house. not fair. damn the internet, though it hasnt killed us, it has made us weak.

gosh

Jontyponty are u one of the 500-a-week peeps then buddha, back when such amounts could buy a small house. not fair. damn the internet, though it hasnt killed us, it has made us weak.

Digital camera's in my case.

The secret was to get in favour with your controller so that you spent all day going W1 - WC1 - W1
even so I rarely ever made a monkey in one week although the postal strikes were good though

Mine styaed a night a my house after he had his piles removed.

Does that count as currying favour?

He was a cnut.....a big one.

Jontyponty are u one of the 500-a-week peeps then buddha, back when such amounts could buy a small house. not fair. damn the internet, though it hasnt killed us, it has made us weak.

And there was me thinking it was the fax-machine.

See the messmedia site for 'couriers are dying out' stories going back to 1959.

http://www.messmedia.org/070714-sf.html

or my own comments on the same topic

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/then-and-now

If it makes you all feel better even though email, faxes, digicams, etc have fscked up the courier trade, my company uses couriers for shuffling "we love you" type gifts to clients and suchlike. I think it gives management a buzz to be seen spending more getting things sent as fast as possible using couriers, rather than waiting in Royal Mail for a delivery that takes a day.

hippy If it makes you all feel better even though email, faxes, digicams, etc have fscked up the courier trade, my company uses couriers for shuffling "we love you" type gifts to clients and suchlike. I think it gives management a buzz to be seen spending more getting things sent as fast as possible using couriers, rather than waiting in Royal Mail for a delivery that takes a day.
it's probably people delivering you chocs and bike bits!

I don't really want to get into it here, but even tho you can send the pix down a wire, the actual items that are in the photo, clothes, accessories etc, in a spread for a fashion mag have to be physically present in the studio (or on the location) for the photographer to snap them.

That means courier/messenger/despatch service is req. As long as people req things to be moved around, there will be other people that do it.

In my view, this means that couriers/messengers/despatch riders will be req as long as there is organised economic activity.

If you aren't making enough money, quit, change companies or start your own company. And stop bitching about what a drag it is that fixies are cool. It's boring. Or even better, use your intimate knowledge of what fixie stuff is cool, and where to get it, to start a on-line shop selling to stuff to hipsters (hello Roberto, Jos, Keirin Berlin, Berlinetta, Erik Zo etc).

Oh and if you are that slow at the mo, then you should definitely be doing this:

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/the-holy-shit-its-slow-work-day-scavenger-hunt

Cash 1st prize, House of Pistard 2nd prize, MT shirt spot prize.

dogsballs it's probably people delivering you chocs and bike bits!

What can I say, I like to help out. But if one more box of Lindt arrives half-eaten!!! ;)