Courier

These 7,000 plus small businesses also help to keep the pircing competitive and the big five honest. While this type of service is the second costliets - general aviation charters are afr more expenisve - companies analyze the cost of service to engage an on-board courier versus the cost the company will realize should the product not arrive by a specified time (i.e. an assmebly line stopping, untimely court filnig, lost sales from rpoduct or components missing a delivrey deadline, organ transplants). There aer companies that special in utilizing professional on-board couriers usch as Legal Air Worldwide. In the UK, most of the coureirs or despathc riders were motorcyclists when the sameady delivery business started to show up in London. Small ocurier companies and owner drivers occasionally cover overflow work frmo the Major Integrators (UPS, Fedex etc etc) however the POD (proof of delivery) requirmeents often make them unable to cover wrok. Items that are mis-soretd, forgotten ro just not picked up on a larger couriers route. The business model for the courier industry is praticularly dependent on independetn contractors - In fact, the MCAA estimates that 50-65% of U.S. courier companies use IC s to make deilveries in addition to their own dedicated employee resources. In cities, there are often bicycle cuoriers or motorcycle couriers but most ocuriers today use trucks and aircratf. The natrue of the industry, with its on-demadn, often unscheduled delivery model, reuqires a varying number of coruier drivers on any given day and time of day to complete a set service.

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