subject: What Packaging Supplies Are Provided By Courier Companies? [print this page] The amount of packaging supplies that are provided by a courier company depends entirely on what kind of a courier that you are doing business with. It is safe to say that the majority of courier companies that are out there actually provide nothing in the way of packing supplies. There are exceptions to this rule, such as a medical courier that might use standardized insulated containers to transport medical supplies in, but in most cases you will find that couriers are not going to have supplies that they make available to you on a regular basis.
There are many reasons that it is not practical at all for courier companies to offer to provide packing supplies to their customers. Courier companies make their business profitable by finding ways to get their courier vehicles as full as possible while they are in transit. If a courier was to pack their vehicle full of packing supplies that they were going to provide to their customers, they would literally be throwing money away on every vehicle that was going out on a shipment.
There is also the problem of available time which greatly limits a courier's ability to provide any kind of packing supplies. The wisdom of experience tells those that work in the courier industry that given any opportunity to delay preparing their shipments, clients will take that opportunity to delay. If a courier was to offer delivery of packing supplies, it goes without saying that the customers of that company would absolutely begin to be unprepared for package pickup, as they would require the supplies that were being dropped off to prepare their shipments. This would greatly delay the entire process of the delivery route of the shipping company.
Courier companies are only successful when they can make every element of their business run as smoothly as possible. Whenever anything causes them a delay, it doesn't just mean that one delivery is going to be late. Instead, that one delay is going to affect many customers on that day, and can set back the entire day's schedule in some cases. This leads to massive amounts of customers' dissatisfaction, and is something that the courier company is going to want to avoid. The closest that you are likely to get is that you may be able to find a courier company that is willing to sell you certain packing supplies, as long as you still always have your shipments ready for pickup.
