The courier company we currently use sucks and worst of all they are always guys on motobikes or even with cars turning up. So time to change.
Whats the best, nicest, most reliable BIKE courier company? Need to get this organized today.

creative!

Creative, they are good to their riders, only hire people who know what they are doing, and send bikes.

depending on how much stuff you got I like using Seb, he's very good and super professional.


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Maybe Buffalo Bill might have the best answer? But I'm only replying, as a bicyle messenger just delivered to us, and we had a chat about the state of play in the "pushie" industry. Its not good.

He told me that the flat rate now in London at his company, is £2.25 per job. Whereas, a decade and a half ago, it was £2.75 from one postcode to the next, and extra beyond. Now he's being paid the same for a SW1->W1 job, as a W6-Canary Wharf.

Thats taking the piss. How are pushies expected to make a living?

I hope you find a much better company than the one you're in now, and miles better than the one I've just described.

think he's looking for a company to use, not one to work for......guess where Bingolo works?!

My company uses Creative, I know a couple of the couriers there and they've never let us down.

thanks guys, I thought Creative would come up high.
This is their website, right? http://www.creativecouriers.com/main.html

PM sent.

yup

creative have the best clobber, and the word looks like "creatine" AND just to cap it all off, Biggalooo Bob works there

That's why we use City Sprint.

Seb sounds good as well. Many thanks Jacqui

Thanks for the correction. I'm clearly not with it today. :)

Yeah Buffalo Bill's a really nice fella.Until he gets on the box!
Then it's "Unleash Hell!"

If you want a bike when you request a bike rather than a motorbike or van, go with City Sprint. They have over 50 riders so there will always be one close by.. and more importantly going in the direction you'll want it to go.

Reliable and cheap.

and soulless

I disagree with them being soul-less. But anyway, he was after a reliable company, I very much doubt you'll beat City Sprint for that.

it's a courier company, not a blues band!

I'm sure he's more concerned about his packages being in the right place on time, rather than whether the courier he uses has "got rhythm".

Having said that, I hear Bouncealong Bart does a pretty mean moonwalk...

yes, what a silly thing to say

' i want you to take this package to soho - with feeling'

"You gots to put it on the line to that W2 job, woman"

"Hey courier take it to the bridge eeeowww!!!"

I take all of our stuff myself. Brownie points and you get to check out receptionists. Ouch.

Thanks Hops. I don't mind a bit of soul but its not really relevant. But I definitely want BIKES, not cars or Motorbikes that make my life difficult when I am on the road myself. (Unless its big and heavy stuff obviously). I am looking into it.
Thanks for all your advice.

Are there really only two that are rated? I thought there were quite a few companies out there.

Whereabouts are you based?

i was saying that sprints lack of soul means all the best riders still are (and always will be) at creative, that is all, you can untwist your knickers now.

there is one best company, that is creative, there are other good companies, like City Sprint, and Cyclone.

Define ''best".

Jankey James

also Little Jhon, Gertie, Nhat, Twitch (though he is also at Metro).

Riccardo of City Sprint is leading the alleycat series at the moment and is also their highest earner.He's one of the best on the road and a cool guy too!

All of which is just messenger stuff.

Decision makers at your clients who decide which company they want to use, care about:
* Secure Delivery, on time
* Availability
* Billing, accuracy, understanding, timing
* Relationship with the pick-up desk, account manager, etc
* Professionalism collecting and delivering

And then some, like the OP care about:
* Choice of mode of transport
* Conditions for the staff

At the companies I worked for, when involved in the decisions (which I was several times) I can tell you that no-one paused to ask who rides fastest. And if we had, we'd probably have gone cool on that company as whilst speed is important we wouldn't have felt it was more important than the package arriving in one piece with the contents intact (because a £150k recording on an original master tape isn't a cheap thing to replace, especially when a deadline is missed).

Again, define "best".

I'll happily accept that Creative are best, but you could at least provide evidence of the claim that is attractive to clients, rather than an inter-messenger back-slapping without arguing why the client should care.

To hijack this thread, I was wondering what sort of stuff - in this day and age - couriers mostly transport, seeing that email is ubiquitous? Has it hurt their business?

More importantly,who's the fastest?

Precisely ;)