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April 27, 2009 By

Would you like to green up your supply chain? Get to know who in Essex is greener, who is sustainable and who you would like to do business with at this great event.

  • Would you like to meet environmental service companies that operate in the Basildon District?
  • Would you like to shop around for recycling or waste carrier companies?
  • Need help with green transport or reducing your energy costs?
  • Need help with promoting your green credentials?
  • Like to do business with other environmentally aware companies?

You can do all of the above by attending the Environmental Service
Providers Market Place event on July 13 at 1400h at the Basildon Holiday
Inn hotel, SS14 3DG.

It is free to attend. The event will start at 1400h with a short presentation from the Environment Agency about their support for businesses followed by a talk from Envirowise about the importance of green procurement.

Attendees will then be able to visit the stands of the 30 exhibiting green companies.

Refreshments will be provided.

This event is organised by the Basildon Green Business Forum in
conjunction with the Federation of Small Businesses, the Environment
Agency and Envirowise.

To register to attend please go to website
http://www.fsb.org.uk/default.aspx?id=180&loc=101 and fill in your details
or contact Keith Brown at keith.brown@fsb.org.uk

All enquiries regarding exhibiting to Keith Smith or Colin Stroud at
green.business@basildon.gov.uk Tel: 01268 294294.

Here is a list of the 30 exhibiting companies as of April 22, 2009:-
Abby Couriers (use of electric vehicles)
Ahern waste management
Arrow Light Haulage (yes, thats us :) )
Asbestos Central
Basildon Green Business Forum
Basildon ITEC
BioTekNiks 100% IT recycling services
E&B Waste
Eastex, waste exchange
Enigin, energy saving solutions
EnviroComms, marketing communication agency working exclusively in the
environmental sector
Environment Agency
Envirowise
Essex & East London Van Services Ltd
Events Matter
FAT Management Ltd, waste solutions
Federation of Small Businesses
Hailstone Travel
LowC Energy Services Ltd
Morgan Cass
Organisation for Responsible Businesses
RAMAR
RDC, IT Equipment Disposal, Remarketing and Redeployment
Rentokil/Initial
Scott Wilson
Severnside Recycling (Basildon)
Simons Bus
TBU Solutions, Commercial Utility Advisors
The Eco Patch
Viridor (Thames Waste)

Contact Colin Stroud and Keith Smith from the Basildon Green Business Forum 01268 294294 / 07703 582368

The Basildon Green Business Forum can help you with any environmental
issues. Help is entirely free. Please contact  Colin or Keith for more
information.

Sarah

Greener transport and deliveries in Essex

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How can you be sure of Delivery?

February 18, 2009 By

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 miss a delivery (well ours don’t, 100% success rate so far) so if its really important or really valuable you should send it with a same day courier. It is an entirely different service to the mail service provided by Royal Mail, and you are charge according to distance rather than a flat rate fee.

  • The item stays with the driver
  • It’s locked securely in the vehicle
  • It’s delivered in the vehicle and with the driver that collected it
  • It’s not transhipped (moved to a variety of vehicles)

So, if it has to get there, use your local courier company.

Sarah

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Parcel Delivery: Flat Rate Courier

December 3, 2008 By

When you book a parcel courier do you read the small print?

Last week we took on a new customer who had read the ‘small print’ and found it not to his liking until he came to us. When doing his research he found that he would often be charged a ‘surcharge’ for delivering to a private address rather than a business address – between £3-£5 extra. He would also be charged a 5% fuel surcharge, and if he went over weight by even just a kilo, he would be charged an extra £3.00 as well.

He started to add it all up and realised the £8.95+VAT he was being charged for delivery wasn’t that cheap once the ‘surcharges’ had been added, if fact it could double the initial price for a parcel!

At Arrow Light Haulage we believe in a transparent pricing system – that the cost is determined by the items weight, and thats it. The only extras we charge for are items such as packing and wrapping materials, again this is optional.

So, if you have a parcel to collect in Basildon, Chelmsford or West Thurrock & Dartford just click on the banners below – we are a flat rate courier, no surcharges unless of course you want us to charge for them ;-)

Regards

Kevin

Parcel deliveries in Essex, Kant and everywhere in between

Great for smaller parcels and smaller volume, say 5 -10 a day.

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Help with mail order deliveries and couriers

September 18, 2008 By

Another little gem on the internet, this time from a website that deals with consumer issues. It’s a very good read, the link is at the end of the quote. The article goes on to make some suggestions on what a same day courier can do to make things easier for the consumer when expecting delivery..

* Companies that offer “delivery within 2-3 days” – Well, which is it? And does that include the weekend?

* Companies that say “your order has been dispatched”, but not how it’s being delivered (Royal Mail, Courier, 24 hours?)

* Companies that let you order when there’s no stock, but don’t tell you that it’s back in stock and they shipped it – the first you know is when you get the “we tried to deliver but…” card

* Failed deliveries where the little boxes aren’t ticked so there’s no clues – so you drive to the sorting office to get a bit of junk mail that the kind postie didn’t want to fold or leave outside, when you were expecting to be picking up your hi-fi.

* Couriers that aren’t flexible. “We can’t deliver to your work address. We don’t deliver on Saturdays. You can’t collect from our depot”

* Couriers websites that let you view online tracking… that’s a day out of date

We all have to work, and it’s not always possible to take a day off work waiting for the knock on the door. I’ve lost count of the number of days I’ve either:

* Waited in for a courier that didn’t show

* Faffed about with parcel-tracking websites and “we called but…” cards

* Spoken to a courier’s head office to arrange redelivery – and got very frustrated

* Tried to get a number for the courier’s depot (not the call centre)

* Driven to a depot on a Saturday to collect something a courier wouldn’t send out at a weekend

Help with mail order deliveries and couriers.

As a courier company, we are happy to delivery out of hours and on a Saturday, or even a Sunday. Parcel deliveries we do Monday to Friday, and any delivery estimates do not include Saturday or Sunday when it comes to the parcels.

Parcels we will try and deliver three times, and always leave a card with contact details on.

Same day or Express Courier deliveries, we can tell you within 15 minutes what time your items will arrive, and we call our customers an hour prior to delivery, so if they have to nip up the shops for a pint of milk, they can do so without worry.

When looking for a courier service that understands what customer service means, look for someone local. Bigger is not always better when it comes to delivering your goods.

Sarah
Parcel delivery Essex
Basildon, Chelmsford & West Thurrock Same Day and Parcel courier

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