Will any London Sameday Couriers look like this?

Tron fans may remember this bike but will we ever see any of the London Sameday Couriers riding one of these

This fantastic bike is all electric and can do 100mph and has a range of 100 miles.

It really is space age but one things for sure, no car driver can claim he never saw you.

Royal Mail apologise for late deliveries

Royal Mail has had to apologise after a problem with it’s new system meant that letters were being delivered as late as 6.30 in the evening.

Their system had problems due to a change over in how letters were delivered. Many walk and bike rounds had been replaced by vans as there were now more parcels and less letters.
This is due mainly to the increase in online shopping.

Royal Mail bosses admitted that due to the changes brought in last month, there were delays in the post reaching some households in Peterborough.
Royal Mail apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused.

A spokewoman said “These are only bedding in problems and we hope delivery times will get back to normal as soon as possible”

Usually where Royal Mail have problems, there is an increase in same day courier business due to companies wanting to know that urgent documents and parcels are going to arrive on time.

Getting your parking ticket overturned

It is one of those facts of life, especially if you drive and park in London. Sooner or later the likelyhood is you will end up getting a parking ticket.

Parking tickets are one of the things that send your blood pressure rocketing. It’s bad enough receiving one when you know you’ve broken the law, parking illegally. But there are times when your certain that you have parked within the rules.
Most people fume at this but then up paying it as they just can’t be bothered to contest it. Same Day couriers in London are only too aware that it’s worth contesting. This also goes for Same Day couriers in Manchester and Leeds

If you’ve got a good case, maybe the signs were not clear or even incorrect or maybe the yellow lines were faded.
Whatever you do, make sure you contest it.
If you’ve got a good reason to contest it, put in writing your reasons (and photo evidence) and the chances are you will have the ticket (PCN) cancelled.

If the ticket is not cancelled, all is not lost. You can still take it to the Traffic Penalty Tribunal, the independent body which covers 250 local councils in England and Wales. It is based in Manchester but arranges personal hearings around the country.

If you have a good case there is every chance it will be cancelled, because if the tribunual agree with your appeal, they have the power to force the council to quash it. What’s more you may even get your expenses paid if you have to attend.

Read the BBC report: How are parking tickets overturned?

Sending your love by courier

The Post Office have shown that a card is the way to the nation’s hearts this Valentine’s day.

With 64% sending a card or letter and over 12 million being sent thats a lot of love to go round.

The true way to show a woman you love her has always been the good old boquet of flowers, and what better way than to personally select them and then have them delivered by courier.

Other forms of showing ones love are
Phone call – 8%
Electronic card – 7%
Text Message – 6%
Message on social network site – 5%
Email – 5%

Well whichever method you use, it will pay dividends in the long run.

Electric Vehicle Charging A Big Problem

After reading many articles on the advancement of electric vehicles in the UK the same problem keeps coming up.
Although you can in theory drive from London to Birmingham in an electric car, there just aren’t enough places to recharge your vehicle away from home.
We would love to see the day when all vehicles, including electric courier vehicles, are the biggest percentage of transport on the roads of London and the rest of the UK.

Unfortunately there are two problems.
One is the lack of charging points. The second is the time it takes to recharge your vehicle.

At the moment recharging an electric car is measured in hours but manufacturers are trying to come up with ways to get your vehicle fully charged in just minutes.

If both these problems are addressed sooner rather than later, then this in turn would bring more buyers, which in turn will bring the price of such vehicles down rapidly.

Then the electric vehicle market would really explode, and this can only be a good thing for the planet.

Couriers in demand in rural areas ?

With the abundance of sameday couriers in London there should never be a problem getting the service you require.

Not so in some rural areas of the country, but it could improve if demand rises.

With Royal Mail making plans to sell off most of its business to a foreign rival, it could mean the end of daily deliveries in rural areas, Welsh MPs warned last night.

Could this mean more work for couriers. Maybe, but would customers in these areas be willing to pay a lot more to get their items delivered.
Time will tell but if a private company can offer a similar service to Royal Mail then it may not be such bad news for those people out in the sticks after all.

Whats definite is that the public will not be happy with of their regular daily deliveries being eroded because of a cost cutting exercise.

Couriers of the future

Could this be an insight into the couriers of the future.

You order your car or small van to turn up. You load the parcels etc on board. You then instruct it on where to go. All without a driver.

We all know that the most important component when ordering a courier vehicle is the courier driver.
Without him or her the vehicle is going nowhere.

Well take a look what Google have been up to. They have been trialling a car that drives itself.
What we can’t work out is how they managed to get permission to try it out on the public roads.
In the UK the law states the driver must have both hands on the stearing wheel at all times.

Well we think this is very interesting research that could have very serious implications in the not too distant future.

Google Computer-Driven Prius

PS: This could also be the end of drink driving, that is if you were still sober enough to remember where you parked your car in the first place.

How good is that courier?

How good is the new courier you are about to book?

We all know that at some point we will need to get something somewhere very fast. The trouble is you can’t always deliver it yourself.
This is when you turn to a courier company.

How do you know how good the courier you are appointing to deliver you urgent consignment is.
Well unless you use them on a regular basis, you don’t.
You could always ask a friend or work colleague for a recommendation but this is not always possible.

This may be when you turn to a search engine like Google.

In this situation the best thing you can do when you have selected a courier company is ask some important questions.

Asking for a quote is the usual question but other important things may be overlooked.

Will it be delivered in time? Get an Estimated Time of Arrival for both pick up and delivery.

Is it going directly there? Some couriers will charge you for direct delivery, then group it with something else.

Are the goods insured? You would be surprised just how many ‘couriers’ do not have the neccessary Goods In Transit insurance.

There are many other questions but basically it is just common sense to ask questions before using someone for the first time.

Plugless Power Station To Wireless Charge Vehicles

As wireless charging is slowly making its way to mobile phones, how long will it be before electric vehicles can be charged wirelessly.

Evatran’s Plugless Power Station is making the news having come up with a system to wireless charge vehicles. Having your vehicle fitted with an adapter about the size of a shoebox you will be able to charge it but at the moment you need to be be within two inches read more

Empowering Couriers with a Single Blackberry Device

MD Anderson, a top cancer care hospital in the U.S. has a courier service that handles between 7,500 and 8,000 deliveries a month.

They have enpowered 11 drivers with the Blackberry Curve 8350i device and EnterMoCase barcode scanning and signature capture cases

Charles E. Baker III, the hospital’s supervisor of logistics services, oversees MD Anderson’s courier service says
“We needed to be able to communicate with our drivers, and I didn’t want them to have to carry two or three different devices to do their job,”

They were looking for was one device that could capture all the data that needed to be captured, and be able to communicate with the drivers and at roughly $750 a unit for 11 units , the upfront costs was minimal.

Also, Actsoft’s Comet Tracker was used to view each driver’s location. This allows them the ability to track their drivers via GPS and then send them jobs as and when needed.

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