When Uber launched its courier service, UberRUSH, two years ago, the company aggressively courted New York City’s bike messengers with the high hourly rate of $30 plus bonuses. “When UberRUSH first ...

Even in the heyday of the bike messenger business in the late 1980s — when an estimated 1,500 couriers zoomed around the streets of the Loop — there were fears the fax machine could end the need for ...

Overall North American champion Christina Peck worked as a messenger in Chicago from 2008 to 2012. Credit: Caroline Pauleau In two-way radio speak, “10/9” means “please repeat.” That’s exactly what ...

While DC’s once-ubiquitous couriers have been pushed to the brink of extinction, their culture and camaraderie endure—as does their impact on the city’s streets. Sitting in the Wawa at 19th and L, his ...

But the long and storied career of Bill Goodman—a.k.a. "Mr. Courier"—has been more varied than most. Goodman, 78, will have many a tale to tell when he is inducted into the Messenger Courier ...

Taking a break from her courier duties for First Legal, 24-year-old bike messenger Miriam Hinds sits in Yerba Buena Gardens eating a prepackaged sandwich and discussing the state of bike messenger ...

Technology was supposed to be the end of bike messengers - until some couriers managed to make it their means. The number of messengers in San Francisco has plummeted in the last two decades, but the ...