subject: Get Ahead Of The Game For New Year Parcel Delivery [print this page] With many parts of the United Kingdom having experienced an early start to winter, it could pay many businesses to consider bringing forward their plans for receiving and sending out parcels in the New Year. Certainly for ordering items which have a long lead-in time, or which have to travel long distances from their suppliers, there is much to be gained by a business ensuring that it has all the arrangements in place to ensure that products will be where they need to be well ahead of time.
With the busiest time of their year approaching, it stands to reason that courier companies will appreciate being given at least as much time as usual, and if possible, a little extra, to carry out a delivery. There is no reason to believe that parcels will take any longer than usual, especially as many delivery companies will have called in extra staff in anticipation of the peak in demand, but a safety margin built into delivery schedules can make some allowance for unforeseen circumstances, such as the weather taking a serious turn for the worse.
Many of these courier companies have their own targets for the percentage of deliveries which they carry out within a specific timeframe. That will remain constant throughout the year, but, with greater numbers of parcels being carried in the lead-up to Christmas, it could mean that the actual number of parcels which dont reach their destination within this time rises. While this does not mean that the company is performing any worse than throughout the rest of the year, it still means that a higher number of customers than is acceptable could find their deliveries taking longer than expected.
Of course, an important factor in many of those delays is the weather. Here in the UK, it is very rarely completely predictable, but at this time of year its extremes can more severely affect the ability of courier companies to do their job than at any other time. The various modes of transport used by international parcel delivery companies can all, of course, be affected by the weather. But whatever happens, they will keep working to do what can be done to get deliveries safely to their destinations. A little forethought by senders, though, in taking some account of this in their schedules, can work wonders.
