On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:44:20 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, James Farrar wrote:

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:21:58 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

What's the typical deliver size? Or rather, what weight would you say 80%
of deliveries are smaller than or equal to? Would it be small enough to do
by bike (using a freight bike of some sort, rather than a courier's
panniers)?

Most jobs go in (as a minimum) an A4 box (i.e. a box that would contain
five reams of A4 80gsm.

That kind of thing would easily be doable by freight bike - may i ask how
you deliver it at the moment? Presumably you don't have a van trip for
each delivery; pile multiple deliveries into one van and go on a tour
round all the customers?

Depends on distance and deadline. Sometimes, yes.

Also, bear in mind that the OP was only proposing closing one route to
cars; all you'd really have to do was pile everything into a hand-cart and
wheel it a few hundred metres to the nearest motor-accessible road!

Parking the vans is bad enough as it is!