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> And what exactly does a bike courier spend all this time carting from Alpha to Beta?. Undramatically, it is mostly just legal documents and cheques. I fear th
by lkbm 3y ago
> And what exactly does a bike courier spend all this time carting from Alpha to Beta?. Undramatically, it is mostly just legal documents and cheques. I fear that once average people get more comfortable with internet encryption, courier companies will go out of business.
Any data on how this has panned out? I'd imagine that it has declined a lot, but sometimes you still do just need to deliver a physical document.
One thing that occasionally stands out to me in Agatha Christie novels is that London had twice-daily mail delivery in the early-to-mid 1900s. You'd post a letter in the morning and it would arrive in the evening. It wouldn't replace the "we need this across town in an hour", but it's always been interesting to me that delivery service downsized when telephones became commonplace. It would make sense for courier services to do the same with email, the web, and SSL.
- ido 3y agoWhile you'd expect the documents to be digital these, there's a lot more delivery of food and consumer products bought online than there was in 2005.
- NikkiA 3y agoWhen I lived in Hatfield briefly in the 1980s, we had thrice-daily post delivery, 9am, noon and 9pm. I imagine it was an artifact of de Havilland's influence.
- colanderman 3y agoWhen I was growing up in Rhode Island in the 90s we had twice-daily newspaper delivery.
- cafard 3y agoThe same newspaper? Big cities used to have morning and evening newspapers, and the evening papers seem to have largely died off.
- colanderman 3y agoYes, IIRC, the evening edition had essentially "updates" to the morning edition. I was very young though, I don't recall getting both editions past the mid-90s.