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Kōrero: Mail and couriers

Cycle couriers

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Keeping an eye on overtaking vehicles, Wellington cycle courier Tom Finlay heads back to base after a delivery in 1990. Cycle couriers are often the fastest means of mail and document delivery in inner-city areas. Their daring and even dangerous riding style has given them the nickname ‘suicide jockeys’.

Listen to Alistair McAlpine talking in 1995 to one of Wellington’s 'suicide jockeys'.

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Reference: 16792

Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685), EP/1990/1778A/32, by Ross Giblin

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Tim Shoebridge, Mail and couriers – Couriers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/speech/23077/cycle-couriers (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Tim Shoebridge, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.