I've never actually met the guy personally. You probably have seen him too, carrying huge cardboard boxes in a black Courier Systems ‘paper boy’ bag, usually in Southbank area. His name was Phil and as far as I know he took his own life few days ago.
RIP

yeah, that's him.

Its is sad.i never got a chance to meet him ,he was always on the go.But for what is worth , he seemed like an honest hard-working man.God knows what drove him to do what he did.

Oh! So sorry to hear this. :(

City sprint got the Xerox contract about 3 months ago, Phil got transfered into the Hub where I worked with him for 3 days before he got sacked. Didnt see him again after that. Poor bloke... RIP

he was a really good guy, and a hardcore messenger RIP

ps...fuck you basie...still dont know who you are so wouldn't miss you.

That is a sad thing to ear. I have a pic of him on my phone token on the April-2008, with one of those big boxes on his back, I always thought that he was quite amazing guy carring all those huge things, and actually going at a good pace.
He is a good example to all those people that sometimes refuse a job or ask the controller to send a van because it to big to carry on their back.
RIP

Sad news indeed.RIP.

"I can't remember ever speaking to him, as I tend not to associate with Courier Systems people"

Since when it matters who do fellow couriers work for? C.Basie-I kinda doubt you were trying to come across as an arrogant dickhead but I' afraid that is what you comment makes you sound as.

kucharz666 is so right:
"the nod you get from someone on a job on the opposite side of the road, or that 3 minute chat you get before you go about your business can make all the difference sometimes."

R.I.P. Phil.

count if you topped yourself i wouldnt say nice things about you, cos you sound like a prick....

courier system do have the xerox account

rip phil

God, you lot are so easy to wind up!!!

C.Basie-do you have a family living in Berlin? A bloke called Jorg?

Was the title of this thread '1000 people died today of starvation'?

It so happends I knew 2 guys who topped themselves on purpose, and 1 who ODed by accident. If you want the blow by blow on how Marcus' death made me feel, you can read that here: http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/messenger-heroes-no-4-markus-fur-cook.

Charlie's death was probably one of the saddest and most upsetting things in my life (in personal terms, it probably didn't have as much impact as my father's death but I was so young when he died that it took literally decades to make sense of that whole story and I am not sure that I have even now). Donkey's death didn't have quite the same impact, because I didn't know him as well Charlie, but after Charlie, any suicide takes me back to how I felt then. Angry, helpless, as if I had failed him, personally responsible/ Which is why I felt that I ought to post something.

So, I apologise that I didn't go into the whole thing, but I felt that I wanted to say something. I thought about posting this link http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/ just in case it might help anyone who was contemplating taking their life, but I didn't, because I had just posted 5 things to main part of the blog about dead people, and I was honestly getting a little tired of posting morbid links.

As far as wind-up merchants go, you're not bad, but not in my top 20 biggest wind-ups of all time.

James was one of the brightest and smartest people i have ever encounter.Always genuine and full of energy -unlike me-I met him for the last time if i remember well quite some time before i hear of the news and sad as it may sound he was involved with some minor or major drug dealing as he personally admitted to me (boasting about how much money he was making out of it ).Am sure he wasn't the same James i knew by that time, so i didn't register his behavior as genuine, i knew him better.I don't know if drugs had anything to do with his case, or if he was out of it by that time but certainly didn't help much either.I know he had some personal issues with his past, i guess being too bright and sensitive some times can be a curse as well.

Let's not give this thread away to an idiot like Basie.I wasn't going to mention this but it seems like the right place to offer my sympathies to the family of Andy Roberts who took his own life last christmas.
Andy was a Metro courier who I had the pleasure of working with for a couple of years at Metro's old Chelsea branch.
An excellent guitarist who played in a number of bands, he had a dark northern sense of humour and like a lot of couriers enjoyed a good moan.He moved back to the north after a terrible cycling accident in which he chipped a couple of bones in his spine.Apparently he never fully recovered and this was one of the reasons why he fell into a deep depression.Not many would've known Andy on here that's why I was hesitant in posting this but I think he should be remembered at least by me and the ex-Metro riders that knew him.
Ride safe.

your both muppets at best, scum at worst.

Start your own thread to talk semantics, leave this one to people who are mourning.

This reminds me of Blowieben's insensitive comments on lfgss in reply to someone in Brum who asked if people wanted to go down to London to join the memorial ride.

Why do these people seem to think their opinion is so important and valuable that they have to post it on a thread like this?

Utter pricks.