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Where’s the marketing in your delivery?
When you have a product delivered to your customers, it can be the first physical impression they have of your company. Often if selling goods that need delivering, the customer may not meet the business, it’s owner or a salesperson until a s...
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Time critical deliveries from couriers and saving you money
Courier delivery services can save time for either individuals or businesses. There are times throughout the year that we need either a local or long-distance deliveries for gifts or other time sensitive packages. These types of delivery services can...
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Firing a customer
There may be a recession on and there may be people looking for work, but today we are in the process of firing a new customer. The customer in question has told us, the delivery company all kinds of lies about their products in order to get them del...
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The three major signs you need to change your same day courier services
Sometimes there are things that happen with your deliveries that leave your customers less than happy. In this blog I write about three of the warning indicators that you need a new same day courier service to deliver your freight or cargo. You fre...
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Same Day Couriers and Parcel Carriers
There are a few types of couriers / courier services and they are easily confused when you don’t use them often. First we have the most common type which are the parcel couriers or carriers. They take parcels and packages up to 25kgs in weight ...
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Importing goods? Still waiting for the ‘forward’ part of ‘freight forwarding’?
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 ...
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What size van do i need?
Quite often we get calls from customers asking us “can we have a transit to deliver some boxes?” my immediated question back to them is “what size van do you need?” Frequently customers will ask for a van that is not suited to...
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Couriers that deliver on Saturday
As a same day courier service, we are happy to deliver to customers on a weekend. The advantages of this for the customer are :- No need to take a days leave to wait in for your delivery Quicker - less traffic or the driver to sit in! No congestion ...
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Delivering to deadlines - what is an urgent delivery?
When something is urgent and has to get there to a deadline, the best option is to use a same day courier service but what exactly does that entail? A same day courier uses a dedicated vehicle to collect your goods and then goes straight to the deliv...
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The mysteries of a same day courier quote explained.
Ever rang for a quote from a courier and thought “how much!” and then spent the next hour ringing round trying to get it cheaper? Did you find it? Did you find the right service before you asked for a quote? Image by Getty Images vi...
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Using a courier that thinks….
Of course everyone thinks, including most same day courier and home delivery drivers. Just as well, because for everyone that uses there brain there must be ten that don’t! Image by Getty Images via Daylife I read and hear stories all t...
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How can you be sure of Delivery?
Thousands of undelivered items of mail have been found stored in an Essex garage, police said. Essex police made the discovery at a property in the village of Vange, near Basildon, earlier in the week. Source :BBC Same day courier services rarely m...
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Our courier video update!
We are filming our courier services video Friday! We have approved the scripts, and spoke at length with the production team On the to do list for the courier video are - contacting the company who filmed us collecting our environmental business aw...
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Essex Couriers featured in Courier Direct Magazine!
This month Arrow Light Haulage, the Essex courier company has been featured in another trade press magazine, this time Courier Direct. We’re thrilled to have recognition from our peers. But it wasn’t as easy as we thought…. Writing ...
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Courier 2.0 part deux, The Final Delivery….
Yesterday I blogged about our introduction as a courier company into the world of web 2.0 you can read that here - Courier 2.0 After BT Tradespace, I found the nice people at the Sales and Marketing Forum and I chatted to other people about their web...
