Monday, November 29, 2010

All you need to know in couriers

Couriers, no brief introduction needed, it is a type of delivery service provided by delivery companies. This service is offered by an organization that affords some special deliveries such as documents, information, money and packages. It is a fastest type of service than other documentation delivery services, and the modern world relies on them. This courier service is in existence from ancient times, but the only difference is the technology. When you see those days, the kings and the rulers send their message to other people or kings through some piece of old paper and attach it with the legs of the birds. Birds usually fly faster and they train the birds for such deliveries.

Next, how they started to send, they send through their soldiers or through some other people who were assigned for that purpose. Those people use different modes of transportation such as horse, and boats to deliver it. From this, one can infer that these types of delivery service are in existence from ancient times. Day by day, people came to know about this service and its importance so the courier companies were started, and in the UK many large delivery companies are providing these types of delivery services. During the year 1970s, many courier delivery companies were started in the UK, and for transportation of special items, some specialist couriers were used.

These companies to delivery the items have courier, and they are the person who used to transport and deliver the items. Most of the people say that couriers are usually costly than other services, but it is only partially true because cheap courier services are also available and the rate depends upon the type of material you send and also, it depends upon the distance. These companies have two types of clients and one is who sends the courier and the other is who receives the courier. And the delivery companies have to satisfy these both clients in an equal way, and any mistake in their service will let to develop a bad name. You can send the materials and items within a short span of time and that is the major advantage of this service.

When you consider the postal service, they are not as efficient as the courier service companies because in postal service they won’t follow the procedure of maintaining the record of the deliveries, but the courier companies usually maintain a record of all deliveries so that if you have any queries on the delivery, you can contact them. Some of the companies also check whether the recipient has received the delivery and intimate it to the sender. It doesn’t end up with here, they also attract you in technological aspects such as confirm your delivery through SMS.

Reliability, accuracy, efficiency, time management, planning, controlling and organizing are the ingredients of their service. We can even compare their role to management in business because they manage it in such a way like management.


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