subject: If I Want Next Day Service, How Late In The Day Can I Schedule It? [print this page] It can be difficult to plan for next day service if you're trying to do business with a courier company that you're unfamiliar with. This is because every courier service Illinois based company is going to have their own rules about when they need orders to come in by in order to provide next day service. There are a couple of models which are more common, but it's up to you to research the company that you plan on using to find out how they run next day services. The thing that you'll be looking for is something called the cut off time. This is time that an order must be placed by in order to receive a certain kind of service.
Cut off times vary depending on the type of service that you're trying to order with a courier company. For example, if a company wants to place an order for same day delivery, they will find that the cut off time is very early in the morning, often before 10:00 AM. This is often the case because in order to complete a delivery by the end of that same day, the courier company needs to get moving on the delivery by that time.
Cut off times for next day pickups are usually before the end of the business day that you are placing the order on. You can expect the cut off time to be several hours before the end of that day. This gives the company time to arrange for the dispatch and to schedule in the order with their existing deliveries.
If you're looking to get next day service where the package delivery is completed by the following day, rather than just getting the pickup completed, then you can expect to be faced with earlier pickup times. When you're ordering next day courier service the cut off times are usually going to be more in line with the times that are required for ordering same day service, although they might be as late as noon as opposed to earlier in the morning.
You should always check with your courier company to verify the cut off times for the type of service that you want to order with them. Most courier companies are not very flexible when it comes to cut off times, because to bend on them would affect too many of the other deliveries planned for that day.
