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Article: PEDALING PACKAGES BIKE MESSENGER SERVICE DELIVERS GOODS QUICKLY.(Business)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Need to get a package across town quickly?
Call the local bike messenger.
Long a staple of the business world in bigger cities, Madison now has its own bike courier company.
For $6.50 and up, Scram! Couriers will zip your important package in a waterproof container across the isthmus -- or farther. A team of 13 riders equipped with two-way radios waits for the call during regular business hours, 12 months a year.
Scram! Couriers is the brainchild of Jillian Corbett, who learned the bike messenger business while working several years ago in San Francisco.
``This is hardly groundbreaking stuff,'' said Corbett, 31, pointing out ...