subject: Short Term Storage From My Courier Company [print this page] There are many services that customers of couriers like to see offered in addition to traditional delivery options from their courier companies. One of the most commonly requested services from PA courier services is that of short term storage. Many companies see the advantage to be had by storing goods with a courier company so that they can then be directly dispatched from the courier's facility, eliminating the need for a time consuming pickup.
Most courier companies have in term heard the demand that is out there for short term storage. Although it is never safe to say that every company is going to offer a service, you will now find that many courier companies do offer their clients some kind of a short term storage option. Some will even have longer term storage or complete warehousing solutions available to their clients.
Some companies have much larger shipping needs than the majority of small businesses. These companies often cannot viably afford to maintain all the storage space that they need at their own facility, and so go looking for it elsewhere. However, not only is it usually easier and involves less administration to store goods with the same company that you will have deliver them, it can also save you money in many cases.
If you're not sure which courier companies are going to offer storage, you can often judge it by the size of the company. Really small companies, even if they do have some storage available, are likely to have less available to provide to their customers, simply due to the size of their own organization. Larger companies on the other hand have less space and financial restraints, allowing them to provide more storage options to their customers.
If you still aren't sure though, the internet is by far the best way to find out what services are going to be offered by your courier company. Courier companies now usually use their websites as their primary means of communicating with customers, and their most important marketing tool. That means that they are going to take care to use that site to list all of the various services that they offer.
Finally, if you can't tell from a company's website, or don't have internet access, just give your courier a call. You might even find an answer about their short term storage capabilities in their yellow pages ad when you look up their phone number to call them directly.
