DC’s Last Bike Messengers

Sitting in the Wawa at 19th and L, his bike locked to a rack out front, Chip Landis waits, and hopes, for some jobs to light up his smartphone. With a seating area, outlets, and public restrooms, it’s a convenient place to chill at 8:30 am after riding in from his Glover Park apartment. Two hours later, the 58-year-old bicycle messenger has three deliveries under his belt-shuttling Justice Department documents to the State Department, a law firm’s mail to the post office, and legal binders from the DOJ law library on Pennsylvania Avenue to its offices at 13th and New York.

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