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Waitrose To Take On Almost 1,850 Pickers And Drivers For Christmas
Waitrose, the well-known supermarket chain here in the UK, has recently announced that it intends to take on almost 1,850 more pickers and delivery drivers for its online shopping facility Waitrose.com for Christmas 2020. This is welcome news particularly in … Continue reading
Is Now A Good Time To Set Up A Courier Service?
Apparently, there is a shortage of courier drivers here in the UK. So now may be a good time to consider setting up in business offering a courier service. One reason is that it is only just over two months … Continue reading
DHL Uses Riverboat To Help Deliver Parcels In London
Those of you running a courier service business will be interested to read that DHL Express has started to deliver parcels into London by using a riverboat. It is believed to be the first courier business to offer such an … Continue reading
Courier Driver Opportunities
There are an awful lot of people here in the UK who have been made redundant due to COVID-19 and are struggling to find work. Yet, if you were to type something like “courier drivers” into your browser’s search bar … Continue reading
How You May Lower Your Courier Insurance Premiums
The cost of your courier cover is likely to increase every year. So, how may you be able to reduce the cost of such insurance or at least contain the cost? Well, if your existing cover is shortly due for … Continue reading
Hermes To Take On Around 9,000 Self-Employed Couriers
Readers will no doubt be aware that there have been thousands of job cuts here in the UK and it is being forecast that there will be many more in the coming weeks and months. Therefore, you may be interested … Continue reading
Will You Be Charged Less For Your Cover?
If you are the owner of a courier service business then you will no doubt be insuring one or more vehicles that you use to deliver parcels to both personal and business customers. The cost of insuring such a vehicle … Continue reading
Online Sales Forecast To Increase
Courier drivers will be interested to read that, according to Mintel a market intelligence agency, it is being forecast that there will be a big rise in the monetary value of online sales in 2020. This will no doubt please … Continue reading
Using Your Car For A Courier Service Business
If you are considering setting up a business as a courier driver then you will obviously need transport to deliver parcels. Ideally, it would be preferable if you used a van but if this is not something that you can … Continue reading
53% Of People Ordered Non-Essential Items Online During COVID-19
If you are a courier driver, you may be interested to hear about some of the results of part of a YouGov survey that was carried out between the 5th to 6th May 2020 with 1,667 adults here in Great … Continue reading
