subject: When Should I Use Emergency Courier Services? [print this page] Many courier companies offer a different type of service which goes well beyond what they offer with their regular delivery options. If your Chicago Courier service also says that they offer emergency service, it means that they have a special delivery option which you can use in emergency situations. There are two main types of emergency courier service, and it can be very useful to know that you have access to an emergency courier at all times.
An emergency courier service is one that will make a delivery as quick as humanly possible, in the shortest possible amount of response time. When you need a courier on an emergency basis, the first thing that you have to do is put in your call to your courier company. Once you do that, they will have someone on their way to your destination by the time you hang up the phone. Emergency deliveries are given the highest possible priority, and couriers use every tool at their disposal to reduce the amount of time it takes to deliver something shipped on this service.
There are a number of ways that couriers reduce the time it takes to make an emergency delivery. First, they don't allow an emergency courier to do anything but make the single delivery which they are dispatched too. There is no picking up other packages along the way like they would with other deliveries. They also respond immediately. Emergency couriers have people ready to go at all times, and they won't be tied up with other duties or responsibilities when emergency orders come in, so that they can hit the ground running.
Emergency courier companies also don't let a delivery ever sit. Even when being made over a long distance they will ensure that your package is always in motion unless waiting for a flight so that it can be completed as quickly as possible.
The two types of emergency couriers are business couriers and medical couriers. There are many times when a business delivery is an emergency priority, such as when the delivery consists of parts to help get a facility up and running again which has suffered a breakdown. Medical deliveries are very commonly emergency deliveries, as they consist of things like tissue samples being sent out for testing. Because treatment is dependent on those test results in many cases, there is simply no time to waste. Helicopters are sometimes used to make the emergency delivery times even shorter.
