Breakaway News Volume No. 13 Issue No. 1 January 2008

Happy New Year!

To all of our customers, a heartfelt and sincere Happy New Year! Our new New Year’s mantra is, “When I breathe in, I breathe in peace. When I breathe out, I breathe out love.” Like it or we’ll smack you one.

Sit! Fetch! Deliver!

One of our customers was determined to do something for our messengers this Christmas, but sending cookies and chocolates for more than 200 messengers can put a severe strain on anyone’s budget. With a burst of Christmas ingenuity, they decided to sponsor a dog in need of a home, in our name. The dog, a very adorable spaniel mix, is now named Breakaway! That’s a present that’ll make our hearts glow all year.

Caloric Christmas

While the dog takes top prize as Most Ingenious Gift Ever, many of our other customers sent wonderfully traditional edible gifts to us, ruining our svelte figures. The tally so far: 1 large bag of pistachios, 5 boxes of cookies, 7 items of chocolate, both white and dark types, and 1 box of chocolate salt water taffy. Burp!

Welcome Aboard

It’s heartening to watch everyone turning green these days. Not with envy, but with environmental consciousness. For the record, we at Breakaway have been green for twenty years, since eighty percent of all our deliveries are made by bicycle. We also just deposited a down payment on our first big cargo bike.

Elevator Talk

“Spoofed? No, I wasn’t spoofed. Why, did someone spoof me?”

 Just one of the many conversations overheard by our messengers every day.

Bragging Rights

This Christmas season our messengers rose to the occasion, as did our dispatchers, answering the wild call of each and everyone of our procrastinating customers (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).

Smarty-Wheels

Daimler will soon be selling its Smart car in NYC. Popular in Europe, these two-seaters get 40/mpg and can park anywhere an SUV can’t, i.e.; everywhere. For Manhattan, that’s pretty smart.

Stump the Band

Last month, we asked what Manhattan street is laid out in geographic east-west orientation. This one turned out to be not so challenging as we got a lot of correct answers, which was Stuyvesant Street, on the Lower East Side.

Trivia Question

Nikola Tesla was years ahead of his time. What idea of his is only now starting to become reality? The first person to call Bob Modica with the correct answer will win a coveted Breakaway t-shirt, or coffee mug. Your choice.