Many will ask about courier services in forums and Sarah is a lover of forums. Lately she has taken to griping about them, she says they have all gone down hill and the advice is rubbish. I think she needs to take a little break from them for a while and write a few blogs

One thread she showed me was very interesting. The original poster asked about a central London delivery service for a fresh fruit based product that was extremely fragile. Lots of advice was given on what parcel courier to use. If the commenters read the original post, they would have seen that there were mentions of ‘fragile’ and’ fresh fruit’  (which needed to be kept as fresh as possible), so it required same day delivery, possibly in a refrigerated vehicle.

There were plenty of suggestions that certain parcel companies should be used as they were ‘cheap’ but if the commenters understood parcels and courier work or  had bothered to read the parcel carriers small print, they would have seen that parcel companies are not allowed to transport food or liquids…

I don’t know if the person resolved the issue, I do know we left some excellent advice as always but it was buried amongst ‘cheap parcel’ offers, which is disapointing for the person needing advice, and for the parcel couriers who would have to turn them away.

So where can you get good advice of how to deliver/courier certain items?

You can search this blog, over the last 18 months we have added heaps of posts about how to move certain items.

Our  same day courier Facebook fan page – here we welcome questions and offer tips for packing and parcel courier discounts. I also post up transport news and links to greener delivery, and topical issues with a transport slant.

On twitter – Sarah happily answers questions – she is @essex_courier I am @freight_rescue but I am not on twitter as often as Sarah is, so she should be your first tweet.

You can pick up the phone and talk to me 0800 9177084 and I’ll help you, and if we can’t, then we always know someone who can.

And you can continue to ask in forums, but remember, they may not read your original post correctly, so try to be as clear as possible.

Regards

Kevin