Blue Peter ‘Smile’ Appeal.

PRESS RELEASE

Skipton, UK, 22 October 2009

 Local courier Euro-Tran Despatch is helping the BBC TV children’s show Blue Peter’s Send a Smile Appeal in aid of Operation Smile, which helps to transform the lives of children with facial deformities.

 

Euro-Tran Despatch is offering a free nationwide drop off and next day delivery service for the campaign’s Send a Smile Appeal that raises money to provide reconstructive surgery to repair cleft lips and cleft palates.

This year, Blue Peter has set a challenge to children throughout the UK to turn unwanted T-shirts into colourful hospital gowns for Operation Smile patients. The goal is to make 20,000 gowns – each worth approx £3 – saving £60,000 which will pay for over 300 operations. The finished gowns will be dropped off at convenient collection points – including local APC Overnight depots, Currys, Currys Digital, PC World and Access Storage – for next day delivery to Operation Smile in London.

Thousands of children are born each year with a cleft lip or cleft palate, preventing them from eating, speaking or even smiling. In many parts of the world these children are hidden away, prevented from attending school and face an uncertain future. Operation Smile sends teams of volunteer medical professionals to provide free reconstructive surgery.

Since 1982, Operation Smile has provided free facial reconstructive surgery to more than 135,000 children. The operation can take just a 45 minute operation, costing as little as £150 to give a child a new start at life.

Quentin Abel, Chairman, APC Overnight said: “Everyone within the APC Overnight network is pleased to be involved in the Blue Peter Send a Smile Appeal. The free facial operations make a big difference to children, enabling them to partake in activities the rest of us take for granted. The Appeal requires partners who have a nationwide presence to act as collection points, and so we are delighted that our network of depots will provide the ideal solution.”

For more information see: http://www.operationsmile.org.uk/bluepeterappeal

DROP OFF ADDRESS:
Euro-Tran Despatch
Enterprise Way
Airedale Business Park
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD232TZ

CONTACTS:
For more information, call David Howson on 07966 060781.

If local Schools want to Participate, Please call us at Euro-Tran and we will collect your ‘T’ shirts from the school and see they reach the SMILE centre in London.
Good Luck.

APC Overnight
APC Overnight is the UK’s largest next day delivery network with more than 125 local depots covering all areas of the country. The network specialises in timed deliveries, offering a choice of convenient morning or afternoon options as well as a Saturday service. APC Overnight collects, routes and delivers more than 1 million parcels each month with an impressive better-than-99.8% on-time delivery record.

The network is unique – not a franchise or faceless corporate, APC Overnight is owned and managed by independent local delivery specialists connected into a strong managed system. Originally created by a consortium of 47 UK same-day delivery companies in the early ’90s, APC Overnight’s has tripled the size of the network, while keeping the founding principles unchanged.

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We are currently looking into introducing a local service aimed at providing a cost
effective, overnight service throughout the West/North Yorkshire areas. Perhaps
even including South Yorkshire. Would such a service benefit you ?

We would have a target of £3 up to 20 kilos, and look to provide the service over
the BD,LS,HX,HD,WF,HG,and possibly the YO/S postal codes. Such a service would
be more cost effective than using your own delivery vehicle. The service would of
course work within the current online booking procedures, and be trackable, POD’s
online, etc.

If you have any views on such a service, or can provide any feedback on other
services you feel we should offer, please let us know.

Dave Howson
Euro-Tran Despatch
dave@euro-tran.co.uk

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Our Acer Notebook Competition has now been drawn. There were as expected few entries with the correct answers. Almost without exception entrants believed TNT and DHL were British. There are in fact only a few British owned carriers left.

APC Overnight are of course British. UK mail (Formerly Business Post Group), Nightfreight, Tuffnells, The Royal Mail/Parcelforce, XDP, and to a lesser degree the Home Delivery Co, and Hermes, who are really developments of the Catalogue delivery people.

We had four entrants who got it right, The winning entrant was drawn out by Colette in our depot .

Andrew Barnes who is employed by the Teacherboards company on Skiptons Airedale Business Park, Was the lucky winner and Andrew will hopefully receive his notebook before the christmas break.

A new competition will be launched in the new year.

Meantime thank you for entering, May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and
a Prosperous new Year.

David Howson and all at the Euro-Tran Team in Skipton.

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Good Credit Control is at the heart of every succesful business. Many business’s fail, not due to the product, not through lack of flair, the ingenuity or the efforts of their Directors – THEY SIMPLY RUN OUT OF MONEY.

With this in mind, and fully aware of the average debtor day experience of the transport industry , Euro-Tran have taken the Onstop Procedure on board. “Having an excellent relationship with almost all of our customers is fine” explains Helen Thornborrow, Accounts manager at the company, “Its still a bit of a cat and mouse game though when it comes to collecting the money in, and in the present economic environment things look set to get worse” She say’s.

Onstop has been developed to handle data sharing in a very sensitive manner, Creating responsible online credit communities. “We value our relationship with the customers, The two partners of Euro-Tran have built the business up over twenty years on a very personal basis, and are always available to clients”Helen tells us,”With this approach we retain business far better than the larger Parcel Carriers, I have been here for eleven years, Many customers dealt with Euro-Tran even before I arrived, but the business still relies on cash, Without it I am out of a job” Helen says. “Onstop is a simple web based procedure that suits some scenarios, Its cost effective and takes a good deal of pressure off my position” she concludes.

Glen Bullivant FICM.(Pictured above) A Vice President of the Institute of Credit Management and the author of some excellent publications on the management of credit describes the onstop procedure as ‘part of todays credit control arsenal’

For more information -
The Onstop Procedure

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**** The Current Fuel Charges In Place are ****

Uk freight (Euro-Tran/APC) 4.5%
International (Standard UPS) 3.50% (Dec 7th to Jan 6th)
(Express UPS) 13.50% (Dec 7th to Jan 6th)

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Its that time of year again, We have already had a number of enquiries as to our Christmas Operations
Its now December so the schedule is listed below.

Wednesday 23/12/2009 Normal Operations – Night Trunk Operational.
Thursday 24/12/2009 Depot open until 2pm – ( We will only guarantee to attempt AM manifested consignments today, Many destinations will be unattended after lunchtime.)
Friday 25/12 Through to Monday 28/12 Depot Closed.
Tuesday 29/12/2009 Normal Service resumes at 8.00 am
Wednesday 30/12/2009 Normal Service
Thursday 31/12/2009 Depot open until 2pm. ( We will only guarantee to attempt AM manifested consignments today )
Friday 1/1 – Saturday 2/1 – Sunday 3/1 – Depot Closed.
Monday 04/01/2010 – Normal Service is Resumed at 7am.

Latest collection times will be as follows.
Bradford 16:00 hrs – Shipley 16:15 hrs – Keighley 16:30 hrs – Skipton 17:00hrs – Drop into Depot 17:00hrs

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Our New International schedule kicks off on Monday the 16th of November. The new schedule operated in conjunction with UPS, will be available in a downloadable format from the website soon. Anyone needing a hard copy, Please let us know, Or should you need to discuss your International requirements contact our Ron Roberts.

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Its looking like the streets of Craven will be a much safer place to be shortly – Kazz leaves us today to take up a career in the Police force. Their gain is our loss and we will all be sorry to lose her. We wish her all the best for her new career ( and just hope she doesn’t get posted to traffic)

She has today been trying out her new outfit in the office, and will tonight will be subjected to a final overdose of alcohol on the streets of Skipton before taking up her new role… All the best Kazz.
We will all miss you…

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The Euro-Tran Drivers did an excellent job in raising funds for the Breast Cancer ‘wearitpink’- Campaign. We don’t as yet know the final amount but we managed to raise in excess of a thousand pounds. We will post shortly the actual amount raised. Many thanks to the drivers, and to all those who contributed.

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On the run in to Christmas Euro-Tran Despatch intends to support in some way, a local charity. We intend to try and raise a little funding for the Air Ambulance which does a terrific job in the Yorkshire Dales, but we also would like to do something for an extremely local charity. A charity nominated by our customers and other locals. Please feel free to suggest one on this blog page. Tell us a little about it, and provide your name , The charity with the most proposals we intend to try and do something for on the run in to Christmas. The only criteria are it must be LOCAL (Dales/AireValley)and benefit more than one person. Let us know some worthy causes.

Nominations close December 1st.

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