Using a Birmingham same day courier to save you money

External transport can be the biggest cost in many small business budgets and with trading times quite tough, these three tips will help you save money with your deliveries.
Timing is crucial when booking your courier service. The delivery window has a biggest impact on the cost of your courier. If you use a same day [...]

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Delivering automotive parts

Are you a breakers’ yard or an automotive breaking company looking to get your parts delivered around the country? Manufacturer of new car parts? The automotive delivery solution needn’t break the bank!
With some creative thinking your automotive deliveries can take place quickly and easily.
First thing to establish is size and weight. If it’s a small [...]

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Couriers and twitter – why bother?

Twitter was originally devised for couriers said Jack Dorsey one of the founders in a newspaper report a few weeks ago. So why is the uptake of couriers to twitter been so slow?
Could it be they don’t understand what twitter is for?
Twitter for many is targeted marketing. For me it’s conversation marketing and relationship building [...]

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Same day couriers what do they do?

There are some same day courier companies that can help you organise the most challenging and logistically awkward deliveries you can imagine! Their knowledge comes through experience and is invaluable when moving sensitive or awkward goods.
If you buy or sell high value items or have a difficult timing schedule a same day courier can add [...]

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Delivering white goods that you have bought in an online auction

One of the problems same day couriers face every day is how to load their vans. They quickly become experts in ‘what to put where’. For those that sell white goods such as fridges, freezers, washings machines etc this is a life-saver! It means their deliveries get wrapped, packed and dispatched in the fastest possible [...]

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#FollowFriday by @freight_rescue

With inspiration from @nikkipilkington, we tried this a few weeks ago and guess what we are doing it again this week.
So our #FollowFriday recommendations are:-

Keeping it local to the UK these are great tweeps. Following local people gives you a good indication of whats going on in the local area and makes it more [...]

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Putting a package on the moon!

Delivery is just gone off planet, and it’s not Fedex or DHL or UPS who are laying claim to it.
Yep, for out of this world parcel and courier deliveries, the race is over – Odyssey Moon has won and it looks like they will have the monopoly
… Last week Odyssey Moon, who was the [...]

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Delivering Fitness, via courier

With summer almost upon us, people turn to getting fit. With gym equipment bargains to be had on Ebay, BT Tradespace and other online stores, the next consideration is the courier for delivery
What can be moved by same day or overnight courier?

Exercise bikes
Rowing machine
Bench Press
Elliptical trainers
Treadmills
Weight machine
Star climbers

Ideally items would be dismantled and in their [...]

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Importing goods – need to use a local courier?

Have you ordered goods / cargo from abroad, had it arrive in the UK and then found your import house or freight forwarder is reluctant to schedule your courier delivery to you, for another 2 weeks? Their lorries are always too busy or you live too remote to be part of the regular delivery [...]

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Establishing a relationship with your courier

I started this blog with the intention of giving advice so our potential customers could establish what they needed with a same day courier and how to get the correct service for their freight or cargo delivery.
I have found since starting it many customers have appreciated the advice we have offered and the signposting we [...]

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