Parcel Delivery Courier Service Blog

Packaging Your item(s)

Guidelines in making your parcel safe from damage on transit.

Below, we will guide you through the safety procedures you will need to take to pack your parcel as safe as possible in order to avoid damage on transit.
Follow these simple guidelines to help:

• Protect your parcel(s) against damage on transit.
• Protect other customers’ parcel(s). There may be liability for damage if your inadequate packed parcel causes damages to other parcels on transit.
• Protect employees such delivery drivers,  courier depot staff and equipment against fatal long or short term injury or damage.

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There are many parcel delivery courier services to choose from. Knowing the parcel delivery services that courier companies provide can help you, not only saving your money but, giving you the best suited parcel delivery service for your parcel(s).

Below, we will outline the services known in the industry.

• Same Day delivery – Parcel delivery on the same day withing the same country or specific areas.
• Next Day guaranteed delivery – A guaranteed parcel delivery service. Will delivery next day for sure.
• Next Day 24hr – Not a guaranteed service but most couriers have a 98% success rate for delivering next day.
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It looks like RoyalMail will strike again and again. The time line below shows the the industrial action RoyalMail took.

1971:  Postal services in Great Britain were suspended for two months between January and March as the result of a national postal strike over a pay claim.

1988: Postal workers hold their first national strike for 17 years after walking out over bonuses being paid to recruit new workers in London and the South East.

2007: Official Industrial Action takes place over pay, conditions and pensions.

2009: (September) CWU opens national ballot for industrial action

From looking at the last last few years, it look … Continue Reading