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I hope everyone is doing well and staying out of the cold as much as possible. I certainly am – every hour not spent at the Cafe has been spent by the heater, or under a duvet in the company of a good book!

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As always, I hope everyone is staying safe – especially those of you going out there in all types of weather to do your courier work! After all, January in Britain is no laughing matter at the best of times...

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Well – isn't this turning out to be quite the cheerful month! After spending the first two weeks sharing tips and tricks on how to cope with the pressure a courier driver goes through during this time of year, this week I have what could well turn out to be a bit of good news for all of you!

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As the countdown to Christmas continues (both here at Gertie's Cafe and elsewhere around the world), I hope you're ready to get in a bit of a festive mood yourselves – because today, we have that perennial chestnut, a readers' answers post to a topic I've started the week before!

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Well, chestnuts are roasting on an open fire, and so forth, and suddenly I am reminded of that quote from that show, 'Game of Thrones'...how does it go? (Goes to check.) Oh yes – 'Brace yourselves, winter is coming!' Of course, they're referring to something within the universe of the show, but the actual phrase is not too far off something a courier driver might say around this time of year!

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Well, it must be the final week of the month, because here's another answers post!

Now, if you were here for the post I made last week, you know this one particular answers post is a little different than all the others. That's because, rather than ask you some serious question and then gather your answers, I asked you all to provide advice and insight on a specific topic. I requested that you send in your best advice, tips, tricks and suggestions to help those just dipping their feet into the wonderful world of self-employed courier jobs. And the least I can say is that, true to form, you delivered. I had so many good answers sent in that I may actually save some of them up to either make a second instalment or in the event that I actually meet a rookie courier driver at some point in the future! In the meantime, here are my picks for the week:

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Well, I promised you last week that there would be a fresh new blog post waiting for you when you logged on this week, so never let it be said that I don't keep my promises!
(Of course, there tends to be a new post every week, regardless, but that's beside the point!)

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Well – I really shouldn't need to go into any great detail about what the content of this post is. Surely you know how the scheme of reader interaction posts on this blog of ours works by now? Unless you have only just arrived here, in which case you may be momentarily confused – but you'll work it out. If you're a regular, you'll know exactly what this post is, based on the previous entry I posted.

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Well – it's officially time. The countdown to Christmas is on, and I'm sure many among my courier driver readership are about to enter their busiest – but also most profitable – time of the year. I hope everyone is bundling up nice and warm and preparing for two months of delivering all sorts of Amazon and eBay parcels to people around the United Kingdom!

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Well, here we are - the end of another month. And, as ever, you lot proved to be the best readership an old girl could ask for!

If you haven't been paying attention (which I hope you have), we have been dedicating this month's posts to amusing or interesting stories about courier work, delivery, and corporate or self-employed courier jobs. In previous posts, we've learned about a couple getting together as a result of parcel delivery and a young man being found by a talent agent on the course of a courier job.