It's been talked about adnauseum but I'm afraid I'm bring up this topic
again...
I would like to travel by courier flight, but no one seems to do
London-Taipei/return. I would seriously consider becoming a freelance
courier, but there are lots of complications to say the least. However
if any businesses are interested feel free to contact me--I've no fixed
schedule at all. To reply by email, change domain from .com to .fr

Seb

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:08:34 +0100, Seb <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >It's been talked about adnauseum but I'm afraid I'm bring up this topic
    >again...
    >I would like to travel by courier flight, but no one seems to do
    >London-Taipei/return. I would seriously consider becoming a freelance
    >courier, but there are lots of complications to say the least. However
    >if any businesses are interested feel free to contact me--I've no fixed
    >schedule at all. To reply by email, change domain from .com to .fr

I've always suspected that these so-called courier sites are using the
courier aspect to hawk their bucket-shop tickets. I don't know why any
business would prefer a human courier to DHL.
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Barbara Vaughan
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B Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:
    > I've always suspected that these so-called courier sites are using the
    > courier aspect to hawk their bucket-shop tickets. I don't know why any
    > business would prefer a human courier to DHL.

In olden times customs clearance could take a couple days, whereas with a
human courier it just took a few minutes to walk through the queue at the
airport.

But these days computerized cusoms clearance is much faster so there's less
need.

Occasionally, though, it can still be faster (or cheaper, if you send an
intern!) to use human couriers.

miguel
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