Parcelforce delivers even more convenience for customers

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Parcelforce Worldwide today announced the launch of two new delivery services, improving choice and convenience for businesses and their customers.

Parcelforce PM is a new, cost-effective next day afternoon delivery service which complements existing services that guarantee delivery by 9am, 10am and 12 noon next day. Choosing morning or afternoon delivery helps customers manage their time more effectively because they don’t have to wait in all day for a parcel with no specific delivery time.

Enabling companies, including catalogue and online retailers, to provide improved choice to their customers, increasing delivery convenience and satisfaction, the service provides full tracking of an item’s progress from collection to delivery.

And Parcelforce 48 Large has been launched in response to customer demand for a service to deliver larger items. Ideal for home shopping and business-to-business deliveries, the service delivers items up to 5 metres maximum length and girth combined within two days.

Nick Landon, Parcelforce Worldwide’s Head of Marketing, said: "Convenience and added value are top of the agenda at Parcelforce Worldwide and the introduction of these new services gives us the strongest range of service choice in the delivery market.

"Parcelforce PM and Parcelforce 48 Large will help sectors of great value to the UK, most notably e-retail, retail, wholesale, agriculture and construction, which together account for approximately 17% of the UK economy."

He added: "Offering greater delivery choice gives businesses an edge over their competitors and allows their customers to choose the services that best suit their specific needs."
IKEA has already signed up to the Parcelforce 48 Large service and Lucy Batchelor, Operational Planning and Flow Manager, said: "As one of the first companies to use this service, we’ve found it invaluable in giving the flexibility to deliver large items to our customers throughout the UK in two days."


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Notes to editors:

Parcelforce Worldwide is a leading provider of guaranteed express deliveries covering all 27 million addresses in the UK and 99.6% of the world population.

For over 14 years, Parcelforce Worldwide has provided a vital link for UK businesses needing to send express shipments internationally and in the UK and prides itself on the dedication of their people to deliver high quality services for over 30,000 customers across the country.

[trythat]

Lets hope they do what they say, and not leave us (Letters) to do the difficult ones, or the ones they can't find.

[Big Daz]

Why? We are all Royal Mail Group! As long as the internal finances are distributed accordingly I see no problem.

Parcleforce used to be fully intergrated and was forced apart from letters by the Conservatives.

[trythat]

Why? We are all Royal Mail Group! As long as the internal finances are distributed accordingly I see no problem.

Parcleforce used to be fully intergrated and was forced apart from letters by the Conservatives.

Because generally, they leave the ones up the long steep paths, or ones which I think are to big for us in small vans, we don't have sack trucks to deliver these big things, which Parcelforce do. I don't believe we get paid to deliver PF stuff, their profits are recored differently to ours.