Deciding to go it alone – start your own courier company

In the old days, and I mean before-fax-machines-came-along sort of old days, you could set up a courier company with just a pen, a reporter’s notebook, an ashtray and a kettle for the couriers, an old van to do some of the deliveries in, and a typewriter for the invoicing. A few cards around local offices, and you’d soon be delivering urgent letters for local businesses. How times have changed. Since then, the same day courier industry has had to adapt to survive many changes. Email has replaced the courier for pretty much any correspondence that the fax machine hadn’t already accounted for, and...
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