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Nelson Vails, silver medalist on the velodrome in the 1984 Olympics, worked as a bicycle messenger in New York City in the early 1980s. Ivonne Kraft , who competed in the 2004 Olympic cross country mountain bike race , is a multiple former Cycle Messenger World Champion, and worked as a bicycle messenger in Germany for a number of years.
Messenger 841. Occupation. Author. Years active. 1990-present. Website. KurtBooneBooks.com. Kurt Boone (born September 24, 1959) is a New York City -based author known for his work documenting street culture, which includes graffiti, urban cycling, street photography, skateboarding, busking, and spoken word. [1] [2]
United Parcel Service. United Parcel Service, Inc. ( UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [ 1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [ 6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.
Kozmo.com was a venture-capital -funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, DVDs, music, mags, books, food, basics & more" [1] and Starbucks coffee in several major cities in the United States. It was founded in March 1998 by young investment bankers Joseph Park and Yong Kang in New York City, and was out of ...
Wickr Inc. Wickr is an American software company based in New York City, [ 1] known for its instant messenger application with the same name. The Wickr instant messaging apps allow users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, and are designed for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. [ 3] The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, [ 4] with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts.
Premium Rush. Premium Rush is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by David Koepp and written by Koepp and John Kamps. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, and Jamie Chung. It follows a bicycle messenger chased around New York City by a corrupt police officer who wants an envelope the messenger has.
In 1999, the company partnered with Barnes & Noble to provide same-day shipping services in New York City. [2] In March 2014, LaserShip added four states to its service area: New Hampshire, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Delaware. This expanded the LaserShip footprint by 44 percent, reaching an additional 8.5 million consumers. [2]