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End
of the road for the bicycle boys?
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IT Week Blog, August 16, 2006
Apparently everyone's favourite hate figures, bicycle couriers, have
fallen on hard times, at least in the capital they have. The local news
last night reported that some of London's major courier firms are
feeling the inevitable impact of electronic message delivery - email to
you and me.
No surprises here, you might think - who'd want to give a mission
critical business document to a pot-smoking, lycra-wearing loon who'll
then do his level best to cause vehicular mayhem in the overcrowded
streets of our nation's capital? Better to just hit the send button,
and with encryption technologies and anti-spam assurance initiatives
like Sender ID, firms can be guaranteed their documents will arrive on
time, in the right place and not having caused a major road traffic
accident on Shaftesbury Avenue.
But before we get the champagne out to toast the demise of our courier
friends, technology won't be getting rid of these two-wheeled terrors
anytime soon, if the packages that arrive on our desks here at IT Week
are anything to go by. In recent weeks; a bottle of Limoncello di
Capri, one of rum, a wireless router and an electronic radio-controlled
mouse on wheels.
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