Thursday, 24 December 2009

Expensive couriers | cheap couriers

There are many reasons why I would suggest for people to use more expensive couriers rather than cheap couriers. The Cheap couriers I have used have been good and bad, to be honest you never know what you’re getting with them. What I consider the difference between an expensive courier and a cheaper courier is that that the latter would be a company that you hadn’t heard of. For example companies like ULG and Conier are companies that I wouldn’t suggest using. I have bad experience and good experiences with these companies, when you get a courier you should only have good experience with them. You are paying for a service so there should be no problems whatsoever. If there are problems, the courier should personally offer you a full refund. This is only the case should your parcel not get delivered on time.

On the other hand companies such as FedEx and UHL are companies that are respected through the industry and they do many deals that can seen, if you look about. These companies often offer a very prompt and professional service. They have been used by my company many times, in fact we struck a deal to exclusively use FedEx and they accepted us by giving us 20% of all our future spending with them, we have been using this courier service every day ever since.

Thankfully this service has given us a courier to brag about, someone who we can truly recommend to other people searching for cheap courier services. Although I do class FedEx as an expensive company, I do also class them as a cheap courier company because there prices are pretty low, like many other courier companies. Expensive Courier companies are especially expensive in cities worldwide, for example a courier company, such as UPS, based in a smaller town or even a village would not be as expensive as the same company in a place like London or New York. The prices are slightly higher in these big cities. I would recommend having a good luck around for your couriers, there are many different resources and places that you can see and find good couriers for reasonably cheap prices. Just try to go for company that is established or that you have heard the name of, these couriers usually provide a better service. If you are unsure about which courier service to choose then most definitely ask a local company about who they would recommend as a good cheap courier.