Christmas is the most important season for many businesses, with some retailers taking up to 80% of annual revenues in those last few weeks before Christmas. How can switching to ParcelsPlease help me?
During the busiest times you need your Christmas deliveries to run smooth as clockwork. You need to know that when you despatch parcels that your customers are going to receive them promptly. You need to be assured that they're going to be delivered to the right address, not to wheelie bins, or left in sorting offices and "we tried to deliver..." cards dropped through letter boxes.
At times like this you need a Parcel Company that you can depend on. And that's what you get with Parcels Please. As well as some outstanding rates, Parcels Please also has the benefit of being part of the CCL Logistics group, meaning that there is a full account handling support team, that you can reach by phone, who are there to make sure that your deliveries go smoothly.
At Christmas, customers demand more, they demand that their orders are delivered, quickly, smoothly, and on time. They demand full visibility of the delivery, and they demand that you make sure that it all happens.
And don't simply assume that if your business is sending out a lot of small light parcels that the Post Office is the cheapest. You need to compare like with like, and the standard mail services (first and second class, and Royal Mail Parcels, and Signed for, or recorded delivery) are NOT guaranteed mail delivery services. The cheapest guaranteed mail service with the Royal Mail is Special Delivery, and prices for this start at just under £5. This is the service that is comparable to a parcel delivery networks service, where it's tracked, insured, and guaranteed delivery. And ParcelsPlease can offer regular shippers rates that start around £4.50.
You also need to think about all the other business expenses associated with Post Office deliveries, the time staff spend at Post Offices (always so much longer in the pre-Christmas weeks), the cost of dealing with unhappy customers whose items have been lost or delayed, and the cost of loosing customers unhappy that the delivery has taken several days longer than expected, and that they have no idea of when the parcel is due - no-one wants to miss the delivery their Christmas presents, particularly when order values can run into the hundreds of pounds.
So, How do I switch?
Well, it's easy. You can simply talk to us at ParcelsPlease and we'll get an account manager to contact you, to discuss your service needs, and the best parcel solutions for your business. We'll listen to you to find out what is important for your business, and we'll put together a package of carriers and tariffs that will best suit your businesses needs, and ensure that your Christmas deliveries run like clockwork.
Even if you're just a small company sending out small volumes of parcels you can use our website at www.parcelsplease.co.uk/ where you can book parcel for substantially less than post office costs. You don't need to be a huge concern, sending hundreds of parcels a week. Even the smallest companies can benefit from switching their parcel deliveries over to ParcelsPlease.