Using Multiple Couriers For Mult-stop Shipments

When you absolutely have to get a shipment somewhere far away

, and you don't want to spend a mint doing it, one solution is to use multiple couriers for multiple stops. Your local delivery services will be more than happy to plan out a route for your merchandise, based on the fastest and most economic methods of transportation they can devise.

For example, say you have a shipment of one hundred different widgets (you're the CEO of Widget Universal) and they need to go to your businesses both locally and in Detroit, St. Louis, New York, London, Paris and Calcutta (oh, those lucky, far traveling widgets!). You obviously can't send them all in one truck for overseas shipping, and you want them all to arrive at just about the same time. Multiple couriers are the answer for your dilemma.

Your shipments are processed at your courier service, and they make your local deliveries right on the button, as swiftly and efficiently as you're used to. But at the same time, a second truck of theirs is taking your products out to the airport, where your courier will connect with both national and international shipping firms, to get your packages to their destinations in the States, Europe and the Far East.

It's all done in one transportation masterstroke, and the bottom line for such a multiple courier service (where one truck from one company meets another to send your products on their way) is far less money than you might think. In fact, you're usually saving a bundle, because with separated shipping costs, you control exactly the amount of insurance the packages will need, their declared value and their shipping time (all of which can be money-savers for you).

Another plus to shipments with multiple stops is that you control their departure, and your messenger and courier services are so confident of their own abilities to deliver on time (and no less confident in the brother companies they trust to complete the delivery) that they can tell you within hours when the delivery will happen.

That means that when your local store is opening up your widget shipment for a grand weekend sale, your store is Calcutta is opening the same shipment and having the same sale. International sales timed to the day tend to make a lot of money for the business owner like you.

That makes you smile, and you'll trust your local delivery services to keep it all running smooth. And that makes them smile, too.

by: Chris Ellis

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