Anyone ever been a international courier?

bigred · 31 Jul 2006 at 20:46

Take a read of this, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A43444-2001Dec14

There are apparently companies out there who will either pay for you to fly somewhere or offer you a huge discount on flights, perhaps New York or Hong Hong, in exchange for delivering a package which you take with you as hand luggage. This isn't anything dodgy, you work as a proper courier.

I found the original idea from here, and theres even an official association, www.courier.org

Has anyone ever done this before?

Alex

penski · 31 Jul 2006 at 21:15

bigred said:
Has anyone ever done this before?

Yes. If nobody had done it before, you wouldn't have read about it...

And I'm sure Bart does it in an episode of The Simpsons (The one where him, Millhouse, Martin and Nelson get stuck after going to the World's Fair...)

*n

Justintime · 31 Jul 2006 at 21:26

ooops wrong type of international courier

bigred · 31 Jul 2006 at 21:29

penski said:
Yes. If nobody had done it before, you wouldn't have read about it...

Let me rephrase, has anyone on OcUK ever done this before?

Chasser · 31 Jul 2006 at 22:18

A friend of my brother is a Queen's Messenger. He is an ex Para and never seems to be here, always jetting off places. I think it's a sort of diplomatic courier, he won't talk about it though.

<edit> Oops not quite right. He's a courier for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office but wants to be a Queens Messenger, but apparently there are only a handful of them. </edit>