While DC’s once-ubiquitous couriers have been pushed to the brink of extinction, their culture and camaraderie endure—as does their impact on the city’s streets. Sitting in the Wawa at 19th and L, his ...

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There was a time when it felt like you couldn't drive downtown without almost mowing down a bike messenger, or take a courthouse elevator without squeezing next to one or two or five of them. Or open ...

Matt Sanchez got the call to deliver a cake to a hospital to celebrate the birth of a baby. When he arrived at the bakery, it was clear the bakers had no idea that the elaborate cake they’d put so ...

Angelenos may rely on cell phones and BlackBerrys to conduct business amid the traffic and sprawl, but some unlikely throwbacks to an earlier time hang on: Bike messengers. A hardy bunch of about 100, ...

A local condom company is using Valentine's Day to launch a new service that will, among other things, deliver rubbers to your bedroom — or wherever it is you like to romp — in 60 minutes or less. The ...

Even in the heyday of the bike messenger business in the late 1980s — when an estimated 1,500 couriers zoomed around the streets of the Loop — there were fears the fax machine could end the need for ...