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Your Guide to Choosing the Right Courier Service in Liverpool for Urgent Deliveries

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Once a thriving port on the west coast of England, Liverpool went through a period of economic hardship, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century. Today the city is a thriving commercial hub, the population having grown from over a million people in 1952 to 6.8 million today. One of the biggest periods of transformation was after Liverpool was designated the European City of Culture in 2008. As a long-established company providing courier services in Liverpool, Distribusha has had its finger firmly on the pulse and the increase in demand for our courier services, especially same day courier services in Liverpool, is testament to the fact that Liverpool is thriving as a city. 

When it comes to choosing the right courier service in Liverpool, our existing clients have already made a good decision, so in order to ‘independently’ find out what would help you choose, we thought we would ask them why they chose to use Distribusha. The responses we got were very encouraging in terms of the quality of service we offer and help to reassure us we are providing courier services that businesses want. 

Word of mouth recommendation for a Liverpool courier 

The success of so many businesses these days depends on personal recommendation, especially in the early days when trying to establish a foothold in a competitive marketplace. This was a common subject for several of our Liverpool clients. Of course, personal recommendation may carry a lot of weight, but when a company’s reputation may depend on the quality of its delivery service, ability to respond to urgent requests and last-minute changes, while not forgetting competitive costs, doing further research before choosing a courier in Liverpool makes perfect sense. So, what other deciding factors were taken into consideration? 

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A courier service in Liverpool with experienced staff 

There is an expression, if more commonly used in sport, that says there is no substitute for experience. However, it is equally applicable in the world of courier services. Because Distribusha concentrates on the delivery of non-standard products, we need to have experienced staff who can handle and adapt to the delivery of large, heavy, valuable and/or technical products that may very well require installation upon delivery. For us, having the right vehicles, many with tail lifts, and the staff with the knowledge and experience to handle a wide variety of demands is imperative. Because we don’t just deliver parcels and packages, many of our initial enquiries begin with, for example: “You have been recommended to us by a company you deliver hospital beds for. Our needs are slightly different, and we wanted to know if…” As you may realise, it would be virtually impossible for us to list all the products we are capable of delivering, and in reality it would perhaps be a shorter list if we were to include those things we don’t deliver! Of course, there is only one way to find out, and that is to simply ask! 

Urgent deliveries require the services of a same day courier in Liverpool 

Have you noticed how business has changed so dramatically and where once “I’ll get it to you by the end of the week” was greeted with a “That’s great. Thank you.” Today such a response will usually be met with “Oh, in that case I’ll find somebody else,” because same-day delivery for local and regional deliveries is now the accepted norm, even if not all courier companies are able to provide that service. Here at Distribisha, while many of our contracts mean we can schedule deliveries days and weeks ahead, our clients love the fact we can do a same day delivery if an emergency arises. You’d be surprised just how many businesses we support who have been able to secure contracts for themselves on the back of the fact they can offer their clients same day delivery on their products, even though it is Distribusha who is responsible for those deliveries. 

Medical courier services in Liverpool – when same day couriers in Liverpool earn their money 

Aside from legal documents, usually contracts, medical supplies are often required urgently and as a courier company in Liverpool, that is when we love to get a call – we love to help out when there is a critical need. Whether it is the collection and delivery of pharmaceuticals for a chemist or hospital, the collection and delivery of a hospital bed or a wheelchair to a home-based patient or medical equipment required by a consultant, providing the distance doesn’t make same day delivery impossible, we will deliver. It should be noted that we take ‘same day’ literally, and if it means some of our couriers have to work late into the evening in order to complete the task at hand, that won’t be a problem. 

Same day technical courier services in Liverpool 

One of the problems with machinery is that it has a habit of breaking down, usually at the wors possible time. So, not only do you have to try and get delivery of a replacement part or new machine, but you have to get someone to do the repair or installation. So, it may already be a challenge to get same day delivery for the part or machine, but to get a technician to drop everything and make themselves available when delivery takes place will be next to impossible. Here at Distribusha we decided to provide the solution to this common problem, and we now offer a same day technical courier delivery service in Liverpool. How do we do this? By ensuring that we have a team of couriers who are fully trained and highly experienced when it comes to working with machinery, and especially medical equipment. 

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