subject: Emergency Couriers: Who Are They? [print this page] Emergency courier service is a separate type of courier service that is only going to be utilized by certain types of clients in specific types of situations. The thing that you need to realize is that if your Chicago courier service offers emergency courier service there is only one time that you are going to want to utilize it. This is when nothing else matters except getting your delivery into the hands of your client as fast as all available delivery methods make it possible to do so.
Emergency couriers are typically going to use ground based transport to complete your deliveries. At the very least, they will be used for the pickup phase of the delivery. When you place a request for emergency courier service, the first thing that will happen is that the courier will immediately dispatch a vehicle to your location to pick up your package. The type of vehicle that they send will depend largely on the size of the cargo that they need to pick up. Emergency couriers will keep all types of vehicles back from their regular delivery fleet so that they are ready to move on an emergency pickup at all times.
Not all requests for emergency courier service are those which can be completed through a simple on the ground delivery. As such, these courier companies often have structures in place which allow them to ensure that wherever your delivery needs to go, that it can get there as fast as possible. They will do this using services like NFO shipping and even helicopter courier service.
NFO shipping stands for next flight out. This is the service that is going to be utilized if you place an emergency order for something which has to go across the country, or to another continent. In this case, the emergency vehicle will still be dispatched to make the pickup as fast as possible. Then, instead of making a delivery by ground, the package will be taken to the airport and put on the very first plane leaving towards the intended destination. This is the absolute fastest way to ship something all the way across the world. Helicopters are also often used, especially in medical deliveries. Their flexibility in the space they require for takeoff and landing, as well as not having to rely on established flight schedules, makes them good emergency responders, which is why they are used so often in medically emergent deliveries.
