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steppen22
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PostPosted: 12:55 - 18 Apr 2009    Post subject: weekend courier work? Reply with quote

I'm thinking of supplmenting my main income with some courier work. Anyone know of any companies in the Norfolk region worth contacting?

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PostPosted: 14:31 - 18 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didn't realise you were local Cool

I don't think many courier companies use bikes around Norfolk anymore, I did a few months riding for Go-fer's Whiffler Rd,Norwich, but this was in the summer of 1997 (makes me feel old Laughing )
I think like most companies they just use vans now.

Would probably find plenty of fast food delivery jobs, if your just looking for a way of making extra money, thats what I did to save up before I went backpacking.
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PostPosted: 15:30 - 18 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could for sure get some pizza job part time, but as for part-time courier's, most controllers dont have time for people who are not putting in a full weeks work, so even if you could swindle a job somewhere you wont be getting the best pickups and will probably ave alot of dead milage...

Oh and thats in london, no idea about outside, maybe PM sickpup.
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PostPosted: 17:16 - 18 Apr 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeps thats basically what was happening to me, most of my day was spent sitting around unpaid waiting for them to give me some work, most of the time I'd end up getting the odd single drop run going miles out of the way. Some days I'd only just cover the cost of my petrol and insurance.
The only time I was really busy was between 12-2pm covering while other riders were on lunch.
Still I think the guys that had been doing it long term made a fairly good living out of it.

Motorbike couriers don't really work in Norwich nowadays, its too small, you can cycle across the city centre in 5-10mins and it has no Neighboring cities to deliver to and the rest of Norfolk is mainly just farms and fields.
They seem to still operate pretty well in London and other bigger cities.
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