subject: London Couriers Work Hard To Keep Businesses Moving [print this page] Who would be a courier in London? In recent years, businesses have relied increasingly on the use of various forms of courier service to get their important papers and items transported across the city. This has resulted in motorcycle and cycle couriers becoming a ubiquitous sight around the city. And while the amount of work such companies undertake has continued to climb steadily, the reports of serious sometimes even fatal injuries to them while doing battle with the traffic continue.
Indeed, many motorists, who probably consider themselves hard done by because of the ever-increasing cost of driving in the English capital, will vent their frustration at the courier riders who seemingly dart in and out of lines of traffic with impunity. Notwithstanding this simmering hostility, the demand for express delivery services across London continues to spiral, and is only partly mitigated by the huge growth in online and mobile communication channels.
While it might be a jungle out there for the men and women who ride or drive through the capital day in, day out for a living, there is of course much potential for businesses which can take care of a vital delivery which has to make its way from one part of London to another. And as more people relocate to the suburbs, and take up options such as teleworking, the mass of London express delivery operators find that their areas of operation stretch ever further in response to the shift.
Businesses might still be concentrated in a handful of fashionable parts of London, and see a prestigious London address as a sign that they are on the map in their chosen field, but they need to consider the potential cost to their own customers of getting vital deliveries to them. With the Olympics set to see London basking in its brightest spotlight for nearly half a century, there will no doubt be and certainly Mayor Boris Johnson expects there to be a substantial flow of new businesses brought to the capital as a result.
Delivery and courier companies will be hoping so. But they will also be keeping their fingers crossed that the influx of visitors for the Games does not bring their operations to a standstill. Because if they can continue to offer a reliable and efficient service with the eyes of the world upon them, the potential benefits for the whole of London are massive.
