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The name Leeds comes from the word “Loidis” which is the name of a forest in the area that existed in the 5^th century into the 7^th century. We like to give you little snippets of information that you might not have known before! But you didn’t visit this site to learn about the history of Leeds did you? No, you are in need of sameday couriers in Leeds and that’s why you are here.

As well as teaching you a little bit about the place, here at Clickaparcel.com we can handle your same day, next day and 48 hour parcel delivery requirements into, and out of, Leeds. If it is an urgent delivery you require, then our same day service in Leeds can help. We can have a vehicle with you in minutes to collect your package from you.

If the delivery is not so urgent and you are looking for a parcel courier you can rely on, then we can help there too. We can collect from all over the UK and deliver to any corner of the globe. We are an international parcel delivery company as well as a UK one. It is also very easy to use us to manage your courier requirements for you. We have an instant quote and book system on our main website. This just asks you for information on where your parcel is being collected from and delivered to, followed by the weight and dimensions of your package. From there you are presented with your options with the various different courier companies we use such as DHL, Parcel Force and TNT. This means you don’t have to go and do a courier comparison as we have already done it for you.

You don’t even need an account with us, you can use the service on an ad hoc basis and pay as you go.

This page was written to let you know we can manage your parcel delivery for you to and from Leeds, but we also wanted to give you some more information on the city itself, so please feel free to visit any of the sites below.

University of Leeds
Leeds City Council
Leeds United Football Club
Information for visiting Leeds

Did you know that Manchester got its name from a roman fort that was built in the area in the year 79 called Mamucium? Well, if you didn’t know before, you do now! Of course, there were no vehicles back in those days and there would certainly not have been a requirement for sameday couriers in Manchester.

The need for such a delivery service is very common these days though. All sorts of people, both business and consumers are using the services of same day couriers in Manchester every day of the week. It’s amazing how we can come to the rescue of people who desperately need a parcel collecting from Manchester and delivering somewhere else in the UK that very same day.

If you are in a situation where you need to get a parcel from A to B in a very short timescale, we can help you out. We don’t just collect from Manchester though, we can collect a parcel from anywhere in the UK mainland for you and have it delivered the same day, or the next day if it isn’t so urgent. We can even arrange a parcel courier for you to have a package delivered anywhere in the world in just a couple of days. In fact, whatever you parcel courier requirements are, we can probably help, no matter who you are, or where you are in the UK. So, why not head over to our main site and get an instant quote, or give us a call on 0800 622 6555 to see how we can help.

Back on the subject of Manchester, we can tell you that the population of the city of Manchester was estimated in 2008 to be around 464 thousand people, so it’s a busy place! Of course, it is also very well known for its ability to produce not one, but two premier league football teams which are Manchester City and Manchester United. For more information on this exciting UK city, please click on the links below.

Visit Manchester
Manchester University
All About Manchester
MUFC
MCFC

Looking for a sameday couriers in Oxford? Whether you want your parcel collected from, or delivered to Oxford, we can help. If your parcel delivery is urgent and needs to get there the same day, that’s no problem, we can have a driver with you very quickly to collect your package and get it on its way. For our same day delivery service, we can send a bike, a small van, or a large van depending on your needs.

Once the driver has collected your parcel, if you want to know exactly where on route it is and how long it will be before it gets delivered, just give us a call and we can tell you as all vehicles have live tracking on them.

Don’t worry if your parcel is not so urgent, we can collect from anywhere in the UK, not just Oxford and deliver anywhere in the world for you. In the UK we can offer overnight parcel delivery and 48 hour delivery services in addition to our sameday service. For international parcel delivery, we can offer a road service into Europe which takes two to five working days to arrive, or a by air service which gets there in one to two working days. Outside of Europe, we offer the by air service which arrives in most cases between two and four working days.

So we can help you with pretty much all of your courier requirements, all you need to do is visit our main site and book!

While you are here, lets tell you a couple of facts about the city of Oxford. Firstly, the population of this city is just under 165,000 people. We all cal it Oxford, but a poet by the name of Matthew Arnold named it the “city of dreaming spires”. This was based on his observation of the architecture of Oxford’s University which happens to be the oldest University in the English speaking world! For even more information about the city, please follow any of the links below.

University of Oxford
Welcome to Oxford City
Visit Oxford
Oxford City Council

People who are looking for a sameday couriers in Birmingham often turn to us for help. We have the ability to get a driver to you in Birmingham within minutes to collect your urgent packages for onward delivery to anywhere in the UK on the same day. And if it isn’t a parcel that needs delivering the same day, then let us collect it on one of our other services for you and have it delivered the next day or even on our cheaper 48 hour parcel delivery service.

If your parcel needs sending outside of the UK, we can do that for you as well, We can send a parcel to anywhere in the world for you using our international courier partners, and you don’t have to worry if your goods are of some value as we can add extra insurance for you to cover against damage or loss.

At Clickaparcel we offer nationwide same day courier services and can collect and deliver a parcel anywhere in the UK for you on the same day. This page has been written to give you some more information on the city of Birmingham which is just one of the places we can collect and deliver to or from.

Birmingham has a population of over 1 million people and can be found in the heart of the West Midlands. The only city in the UK with a higher population is London. It is a great place for shopping, entertainment and night life. You can find out more information about the city of Birmingham by following any of the links below.

Birmingham City Council
Birmingham Airport
The Offical Website for Birmingham
BBC Birmingham
Bullring Shopping Centre

Lots of parcel courier companies can offer you cheap parcel delivery services, that’s not a problem. But before you go ahead and use them, you might want to check out a few things. Firstly, are they a real company that you can get hold of if anything should go wrong? Are they a limited company? Are they VAT registered? Do they have a telephone number you can call them on? If they are a reputable company, then all this information should be easy to find on their website. If they have a telephone number, why not call them before you book their services so you can be sure that they actually answer the phone!

Here at Clickaparcel.com we pride ourselves in our ability to offer you a first class cheap parcel delivery service with all the support you would expect if you were paying top price. We have our offices manned from Monday to Thursday from 9am to 4pm, and on a Friday from 9am to 1pm. We have a freephone telephone number for you to call us on and we aim to answer within seconds during office hours. Out of hours, you can leave a message for us and we will get back to you the next time the office opens.

If you have any issues at all, we are here to help. You can call us just to get a quote, or maybe some advice on what items you can and can’t send, or maybe how best to package certain items.

If something goes wrong and you need to make a claim on the insurance policy, then let us know and we will do all the hard work for you. We want to look after you and provide the best parcel courier service possible so that you come back to us time and time again and you tell everyone you know about us. So if we can help in any way at all, please give us a call on 0800 622 6555

If you book a same day courier service with Clickaparcel.com we don’t actually have vans of our own travelling around the country. We use City Sprint to handle our same day parcel delivery jobs for us.

Now, before you disappear thinking that means we will be more expensive than going directly to City Sprint that is not the case. Because we use them for all of our same day deliveries, we get fantastically low rates with them. This means that even after we have put some profit on those rates, we are still cheaper than you going direct unless you are likely to use them every day.

We hold an account with City Sprint, but you don’t have to have an account with us to use their services. You can pay for your collection and delivery at the same time as booking with us. We accept PayPal or Credit/Debit card for those who book directly online, or we can take Credit/Debit card payments over the phone if you prefer to talk to someone. If you are booking online, you can do so 24 hours a day 7 days a week as we have a very clever instant quote system that will give you a price for your parcel collection and delivery there and then. If you are happy with the quote you are given, you can carry on with the booking process by telling us a bit more about the parcel, where to collect it from, where to deliver it to, and we will do the rest for you.

Want to know where your parcel is once it has been collected? City Sprint use live GPS tracking on their vehicles that we have access to so all you need to do is give us a quick call with your order number and we can tell you just how far along its journey your parcel is.

So there you have it, cost effective and convenient courier booking for you here at Clickaparcel.com

You won’t always be looking for a same day couriers to handle your parcel delivery for you. For those packages that are less urgent, but just as important, you may need a next day courier service instead. On these services, a driver collects your parcel and pops it into the back of their van along with many other parcels they will collect that day. Then, once they have finished their rounds, they go back to the local depot where all the parcels are sent to a distribution centre for sorting.

Whilst we are all enjoying our evenings and getting some well earned sleep, the distribution centres are busy sorting all the parcels they have received and ensuring they go on the right truck to be delivered to the local depot to the delivery address on the parcel. This isn’t all done by hand of course, the parcels will travel along conveyor belts and very high tech equipment is used to do the sorting. We have posted a video below that shows you how UPS sort their small packages which should give you an idea of how it works.

So, once the parcels have been sorted and loaded onto the correct truck, they are driven through the night and in the very early hours of the morning, the depots open up to receive the packages from the truck driver. They then sort them on a local basis to put the packages on the smaller vans we see driving around all day. Each van will have its own route so the parcels do need to be sorted to ensure they go on the right van which is travelling the right route. This then takes care of your parcel delivery for you; it’s as simple as that!

And if you book your parcel collection and delivery through us, then you can enter your order number into the track and trace facility on our website and we will present you with all the tracking information we have since the parcel was collected, right up to and including when it is delivered.

So, in summary, whether you need a sameday courier, or a next day courier, we can help.

There are times when you have documents that are very important and you urgently need to have them collected from you and delivered the same day. What you need is a reliable document courier.

Document courier services are offered by same day couriers and in most cases the courier companies will use a motorbike courier driver to deliver your documents for you. This way, the bike is very likely to get to the destination in a shorter space of time than if they used a van or a car.

These services do not always have to be expensive either. Some companies will charge you a minimum charge of £50 before the driver has even left the depot, but that’s not how we work here at Clickaparcel.com. We only have a minimum charge of £10 and then work out the rest based on the number of miles the documents have to go to be delivered. This makes the option of using a sameday courier company more realistic and convenient, much better than having to drive to deliver them yourself which doesn’t only cost you in fuel, but also in time.

We offer many different services here at Clickaparcel and the document courier service is just one of them. We can collect a parcel from anywhere in the UK for you and have it delivered either on the same day, the next day, or within 48 hours depending on how important the delivery is and what you want to pay for the service. At the time of writing this article, we can deliver a parcel of up to 30kg for you anywhere in the UK Mainland for just £8.06 plus VAT. That is an awful lot cheaper than using the post office, or even going directly to DHL which are the carrier we use for this service.

Visit our main site next time you need to send a parcel and get an instant quote so you can see just how much you can save by using Clickaparcel.com for your parcel delivery requirements.

Depending on the size and weight of your parcel, you may not need a car or van to deliver your same day courier service for you, but you may well find that a motorcycle courier would do. The benefit of using a bike courier is that your parcel delivery is likely to happen a bit faster as the motorbike is easier to manage through bad traffic than a car or van! You see, a motorcycle can be driven through bad traffic by weaving in and out of the stationary vehicles, meaning it doesn’t get held up and can deliver your package for you quicker.

Motorcycle couriers are used a lot when people need an urgent document delivery, or perhaps some medical supplies that need to get to their destination fast. There are endless numbers of scenarios where this type of same day courier service would be required, and the good news is that Clickaparcel.com can help if this is what you are looking for.

We can have a bike to you within an hour of you asking for it and have your urgent package on its way for you. What’s more, we can take your booking over the phone, or directly online, it’s up to you how you do it. Our website is open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for your convenience. You don’t even need to have an account with us to use our parcel courier services. You can pay each time you need us which is simple and convenient. This also means we can take orders from businesses and from domestic customers who might need to use our services.

During office hours, if you want to know how the driver is getting on with delivering your parcel, just give us a call and we will track him or her down for you and tell you exactly where they are, and in most cases, can give you an estimated time of delivery.

So, if your parcel is less than 12kg in weight and smaller than 30cm x 30cm x 30cm, then consider using our motorcycle courier service for the fastest delivery time.

Courier Delivery companies are not at all difficult to find. There are the very well known worldwide courier companies like DHL, TNT, Parcel Force and Fedex just to name a few. Then there are country specific companies that are not so well known, and you will also find local courier companies who will cater for your area, carrying out parcel delivery in the UK. So how do you know which one to use?

Well, you will find that many of them will require you to open an account before you can use their services, and then you have to send a certain amount of packages through them each month to keep the account open. You will also find these people expensive unless you are sending in excess of 50 parcels a week. What you really need to find is a company who holds accounts with the bigger couriers, who will place the order on your behalf. These people are called resellers. They have an account with many of the different companies available and because they collate orders from many people and put them all through the one account, this means they benefit from discounts that people who send smaller numbers of parcels just couldn’t get access to.

So where do you find such a reseller? Well funnily enough, we know of a company called  Clickaparcel who are a courier reseller and as well as being able to offer you same day courier services, we can also offer overnight and 48 hour services. We can also send a parcel Internationally for you. If you would like an instant quote on a delivery other than a same day delivery, just click here.

Be sure to read all the information we have for you on packaging, and check out our terms and conditions as well. We want you to be fully informed before you use our services for sending parcels.

We thought it would be nice to give you an idea of some of the things we deal with here at Clickaparcel.com and so have decided to write up the occasional story to give you examples of some of the urgent parcel delivery jobs we get asked to do.

Yesterday we had a situation where a lady had problems with her boiler to the point where it actually broke down and she lost all of her heating and hot water! So, she called out an engineer and he managed to determine the part that was faulty. He called back to the office and told them the part he needed as he didn’t have it on the van. Unfortunately, the office didn’t have the part in stock as it was quite a rare part. The lady was desperate to have her heating and water working so the engineer had to pull out all the stops to make things happen.

The office managed to track down the part required for the engineer to carry out his repair, but it was just over 120 miles away! The only way to get the part to the ladies house so the engineer could do his job was to employ the services of a same day courier company. So, they gave Clickaparcel.com a call and we came to the rescue. We had a man on a motorbike collect the spare part within minutes of accepting the job and he went straight to the delivery point getting there in around two and a half hours.

The engineer then continued his work and repaired the ladies boiler leaving her with running hot water and a nice warm and cosy house!

So you see, all sorts of people from all sorts of industry employ the use of a same day couriers company each day for many different reasons, and the story above is just one of them.

We will be adding more urgent parcel delivery stories to the site over time, but in the mean time, if you need a same day delivery to be carried out yourself, please give us a call or visit our website for an instant quote.

This page has been written to give you an idea of exactly how our same day delivery service works.

It all starts of course, with you, our customer, who has a parcel delivery that is urgent. You visit our site at Clickaparcel.com and enter your collection and delivery post codes into our instant quote system. This is a quoting system that is open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for you to get a price for your same day delivery and you can book and pay for it there and then if you wish. You are normally able to book a same day couriers service for up to a week in advance.

The way we work out a price for you is pretty simple. Our clever software is able to work out exactly how many miles it is between the two post codes you have entered. Then, based on the rates we have managed to negotiate with the UK’s best same day courier companies, the system simply multiplies the number of miles by the best per mile rate that we have and hey presto, you have your quote!

Once you have booked and paid, the order is then in our admin area waiting for us to book directly with the courier for you. We do this as soon as we get into the office in the morning with any orders that have come through while the office was closed, and also throughout the day as and when the bookings are made. The beauty of doing things this way, is that you don’t have to worry about opening an account with a same day parcel courier company, you can just pay as and when you need to use the service. We hold the accounts needed, and because we do so much business with the courier companies, we are also able to negotiate fantastic discounts off their normal prices so actually, it works out cheaper for you to use us, than it is for you to go direct.

From the point that we have booked the collection for you, we are then able to tell you when to expect a driver, and once your parcel has been collected, we can tell you exactly where it is as all of our same day couriers partners use tracking systems on their vehicles. Any time you want to know anything, or if you just want to talk to us about our services, you can call us on 0800 622 6555 and we will be happy to help.

And remember, we don’t just offer a same day courier service at Clickaparcel, we also do next day and 48 hour deliveries around the UK, and we can deliver anywhere in the world with our international courier services. These services can be tracked online by you 24 hours a day on our website so once again, you will know where your parcel is any time you wish to have a look.

So, why not have a go with our quote and book system for any of our services so you can see just how competitive we are. And if you find someone who can offer you a same day parcel delivery cheaper than we can, please let us know as we can probably beat them!

If you have an urgent parcel delivery to book, then our same day couriers service are there to help you. But what if it isn’t so urgent? Well, we also offer a next day delivery service which is much less expensive. If you book this service before 12 noon, we can normally have the parcel collection arranged for the same day and then delivered to the recipient’s door the very next day. This is a weekday service and doesn’t include Saturday’s and Sunday’s. We do offer a Saturday delivery service, but more about that in a later article.

So, how does our service work? Well, just like the same day courier service we have, our next day parcel delivery is just as simple. You visit our site and click on the quote and book button, then enter the weight and dimensions of your parcel into our quote page. Next, you will be presented with your options for sending your parcel and one of them will be the next day option. You can then continue through the process telling us where to collect from, where to deliver to, what’s inside the parcel and how much is it worth. As long as the item isn’t on our prohibited items list, then feel free to add extra insurance to your more valuable parcels for delivery. Once all the information you have entered has been reviewed and you are happy it is correct, you can pay for your order by PayPal or by Credit / Debit card. You will then be given your order number and we will send you an email to confirm your order.

It is worth us pointing out at this stage, that this service only covers the UK Mainland. Some parts of Scotland and the South West, as well as Northern Ireland are excluded from this service and will suffer an extra 24 hour delay.

Please make sure your items are well packaged. These parcels will be put through a national distribution network and sometimes the parcels will drop from one conveyor belt to another as they are sorted. Ample packaging is important to protect your items. The most common reason for people having damage insurance claims rejected is because the packaging of the item was not sufficient in the first place. If you need to buy some packaging, then we can recommend The Packaging Store. You can access their site and order your supplies here.

If you have any questions before using our service, please visit our FAQ page, or call us on 0800 622 6555

To us, the term International Courier is simply a parcel delivery company that will collect a parcel from you here in the UK and deliver anywhere in the world for you, whether it be France, Spain, USA, India, China or anywhere else. Clickaparcel.com is effectively an international courier as we hold accounts with people like DHL, Parcel Force and TNT who all deliver parcels all over the world. That said we only use DHL at the moment to deliver international parcels for us as we have integrated our systems with theirs to make it easy for you to book your parcel delivery via us. Our system will automatically generate any paperwork you need to accompany your parcel, and we send you an email straight away with links in it to the documents, and also instructions on what to do with them.

For parcel deliveries outside of the EU, we provide you with commercial documents that are needed for customs purposes in case you haven’t got your own. We also produce an address label with a bar code on it which you need to print off and attach to the parcel. It’s all very easy to do and as long as you follow the instructions we give to you in your confirmation email, then you should find your parcel arrives within a few days at its destination.

So as you can see, we are not just a same day courier company, but we can also take care of any international courier requirements you may have, and of course, these services all come at very competitive prices with great customer service as well. If you would like a quote to deliver a parcel anywhere in the world, just visit Clickaparcel.com and enter the details of your package into our quote calculator where you will then be given a price instantly.

To be sure you can rest at ease that if your parcel delivery was to go wrong and your item was to get damaged or lost, Insurance is a great idea to add to your booking. This way you can claim for it and recover your money for a replacement item. You can insure each parcel up to a value of £1,000

Before you add the insurance to your booking though, be sure that the item is actually covered on the service you are using, and also that the packaging meets the requirements that are set by the courier.

We will insure anything that we carry on our same day couriers service, but we have a prohibited items list that you need to check before sending using our other courier delivery services. For example, items containing glass will not be covered, items made of china, ceramics or pottery will not be covered. You must not send antiques using our normal delivery service, you will need a specialised courier service for those, or take the chance that our services which are cheaper will be ok. You can take the risk if you wish sending any of these items, but don’t add insurance at the point of ordering, and be extra careful with your packaging.

We can offer you guidelines on packaging if you click here. You will also find links on this page to our packaging partner where you can purchase the right kind of supplies to suit your items. It is worth investing a little money in the right boxes to use, to save the hassle of having to claim on an insurance policy because your item gets to its destination in a bit of a sorry state.

So, as we mention above, be sure your item is covered, and be sure that you have packaged it correctly before paying extra money for insurance and adding it to your order.