Let's congratulate all bike couriers on the benefits they bring to our cities:

• a solution to the problems of pollution, congestion and gridlock faced by large urban centres
• reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the downtown core
• take up less space on the road and do less damage to the roads than cars resulting in better conditions and streets for all road users
• increase the safety of pedestrians compared to cars. (studies show that pedestrians are "250 times as likely to be injured by a car, bus or taxi" than a bike.)
• aid charities, (such as St. Stephen's House through the annual "Courier Classic", BAAR, toys for kids and Prisoners' Literacy Project)
• draw tourists and international attention to cities through events and races
• provide a value added service that continuously improving firms seek out as a means to reduce costs and improve efficiency (crucial to the movement of important information)
• are ambassadors of goodwill for the city (hold doors, give directions, catch thieves, report accidents, retrieve stolen property and hunt down owners of lost items.)
• provide a link between many of urban homeless people and the rest of the downtown core
• year round cyclists who promote the bicycle as a viable form of transportation and economic development

The United Nations proclaimed October 9 - "World Post Day"