was not overly impressed at 4 oclock when the job came through, was even less impressed when it started raining, then snowing, then sleeting, when I Got to Peckham, I thought someone was taking the piss, I even phoned my Controller to make sure i was picking up an empty box that used to contain a bottle of gin, he told me that was right.
I cant believe someone paid money for me to go and get an empty box
Thats nuts, just fuckin waste of time over a stupid empty box!! Christmas madness.
Georgous George (currently off the road doing uni) told me a story of how in the summer 2010 he picked up a bog brush worth just over £200 from somewhere down New Bond once, who has that sort of money to spend on that sort of thing????
A good wedding present for Kate and Willy?I once was asked to do some shopping in Harrods food hall they wouldnt let me in i was wearing tartan lycra.In hind sight what was i thinking tartan lycra!!
I was once sent to the chambers of a judge on the court of appeals with a box of Cheezits. In case they haven't hit the U.K. yet, those are tasty cheese flavored snack crackers. The judge in questions favorite, they wrapped it in foil as a birthday gift.
Certain branches of the police force would say it does, Pornomike. I remember once working for a firm run by a member of a very well known criminal family. A motorbike was given a cash job, picking up a package from a black BMW in the car park at Stanstead Airport. Raised a few eyebrows on circuit. There were regular messages about deliveries of personal items back in the day at Cyclone - as Will will doubtless confirm - but perhaps riders really were in need of a pair of socks from a colleague. Who can say?
Cunt basic misses the point again. As most people understand I wasn't suggesting anything illegal. My point was, empty box or £1.000.000 cheque, you got paid. Job done.
@Count Basie(really hope you are able to put Sir in front of your name come the new year honours list for your services to the despatch industry) Was the said company in SE1 wore a red bib only employed Motor bikes and back in the day the motoer bike riders there were like premiership footballers in the wages they earned
Mildura isn't getting Premier mixed up with Express. Premier were run by Kevin "Charlie Boy" Jenkins, who is quite middle class but who likes to pretend to be a bit of a gangster and surrounds himself with cartoon caricatures... and has occasionally got into schtuck as a result.
Express were the Real McCoy. (Not sure who runs them these days.) Quite a well run operation - and didn't nick money off drivers or riders without good reason (they were generally above that type of petty theft) - but genuinely run by people not to be fucked with. As a firm on the Old Kent Road (and the insurance company with which they had fire insurance) could confirm! I remember a former West One controller of my acquaintance working for a firm in Clerkenwell. They were about to nick a decent passenger car account from Express and the client was trying the Clerkenwell firm out for a few weeks. Let's just say phonecalls were made and Express retained the client's custom. Good firm, though, in their day. I know drivers from north of the river who made more money there than at Addison Lee. I worked at Express and Addy Lee on mortorbikes in the 1980s and did better at Express. They raised their bike rates to £3 minimum and 60p per mile in January '88 - that's 23 fucking years ago! - and you got a 20% bonus for five days. That's £3.60 minimum and 72p per mile. Most motorbike circuits don't pay any more than that now and some pay less.
In point of fact, Mildura, the firm involved in the "collect a package from a black BMW in the car park at Stansted" incident, was neither Premier nor Express. They were based in E14 and run by a gentleman from Bethnal Green, some of whose relatives worked closely with well-known twins from that manor in the 60s. He came on the box to give the Stansted job out himself! He still lives near Stansted as far as I know. Good firm, as it happens, and a decent enough bloke.
Maurycy, you're right about the spelling. Some of us ignera.... er ignoray.... er.... idiots left skool at 25 with no qualifications and, as a result, can't spell.
Paddies get everywhere! I'm sitting here in an Internet joint in Bayswater. Full of Arabs. Arab bloke sitting opposite me has just made a phone call and has an accent from somewhere in east Cork!
I take it you did not get the call from Buck Palace to get your knighthood Mr Basie for services to the industry of depsatch alas a little like myself waiting for the call for mt services to the use of grammer and correct spelling And to all you others out there i hope you all have a wonderful start to the new year and what ever circuit you are on or who ever you work for they keep you buzy with lots of Dockets