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Messenger Service
Vital Information Start-up Investment -
Low - A home based operation using personal automobile. Less than $200.
High - Hire several drivers, buy or lease vehicles, set-up office. $50,000 and up.
Break - even time - 30 to 60 days
Estimate of Annual Revenue and Profit
Revenue $20,000 - $700,000
Profit (Pre-tax $18,000 - $200,000 This Market is Immense One thing is for sure the more technology we develop and the faster it works, the less time we have. We recently saw this ad in the Yellow Pages under Messenger Services: "Panic Deliveries" One of the Fastest Surest Delivery Services in the Area. This really describes the market well. Everybody is in a panic to get all types of things from point A to point B. And both companies and individuals are willing to pay a price. One of the factors that will continue to drive this business is the lack of dependability of the U.S. Postal Service. A few years ago you you could be 95% sure that anything mailed First Class would get to its destination the next day if it was in a radius of about 150 miles. And it still works, or shall we say at least 30 - 50% of the time.. But who can live with those odds. And the beauty is that the Post Office can almost guaranty you that their service is getting less and less reliable. While the Fax machine has taken much of the market from the U.S. mail, it really only works for letters and other written material, that are from one to two pages. Legal and other documents, payrolls, deposits, proposals and a host of other written and other matter are best entrusted to a local delivery service that can get to its destination in a few hours. Even UPS and Federal Express do not provide this service. In our market survey we determined some of the following needs ( and a great many more which cannot be listed here) for fast local delivery services: Attorneys who absolutely had to get the documents to their clients (or from client to attorney); Doctors offices to labs; all types of businesses sending proposals to another business; (sometimes items had to be taken to the airport to be put on a plane only to be met in another city by yet another delivery service), businesses now are also using delivery services on a regular basis to get payrolls, accounting documents, etc. to other in-town and even deposits to the bank. Delivery services will operate in a specific geographic area which may encompass a large metropolitan area or a rural area stretching 60 - 100 miles. Delivery time is generally within a few hours. Fees will depend on many factors and ranges from a minimum of about
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