When you're doing business in a busy city like San Francisco, the logistics of moving packages throughout the city is something that always poses a bit of business challenge. Cost and time are both factors, and the attempt to reduce both at every turn can often lead a company to looking to the option of hiring a San Francisco bike messenger instead of a traditional car courier service. First of all, a bike messenger is almost always going to be cheaper, because there is no fuel costs involved in the cost of your shipment, and the insurance costs are going to be much lower, translating into big savings for you. What most people don't realize though is that a bike messenger can almost be faster sometimes, especially during heavy traffic hours, because when a car might be stuck in gridlock a bike messenger will often find a way to get a package through in a hurry.
The only real limitation of bike messengers is that they are obviously restricted in the amount of area that they can cover, and in the size of packages that they can carry. Bike couriers carry a lot of documents, and some small packages. You can reasonably expect a bike messenger to carry any package of a regular size and weight up to five kilograms, but anything over sized may be difficult to maneuver on a bike, and anything heavier than that they are generally not supposed to carry, and you will have to turn to a small car to courier your shipment.
Sometimes people only concentrate on the weight, but you have to realize that anything, even something quite light, that is too large is going to be difficult and even unsafe for someone on a bicycle to try and carry with them through crowded and busy streets.
Common sense should govern you when you're shipping with a bike messenger. Anything that you can easily hold in one hand and that doesn't get in your way when you're walking should be fine, such as small envelopes, document packages, and parcels. However, gigantic stacks of documents that require whole boxes to carry, or over sized items like large drafting plans, might be better left to a courier that has a vehicle to place them in. By restricting the size of packages that a bike messenger can carry, the courier companies are helping to protect your shipments from damage and also keeping their drivers safe.
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