APC Overnight is expanding with significant increases in warehousing and operational facilities focused on the Midlands and Southern Counties of England. The UK’s largest next day parcel network reports that several members have strengthened their operations and services because of increasing business.

APC EDS Couriers in Cannock is now occupying a new site five times the size of its previous depot and warehouse. Andy Evans, EDS Courier MD expects this upward trend to continue and says: “As we come out of recession, more businesses are sending more parcels at the same time as holding less stock themselves – and of course they still require reliable delivery to their customers the next day.”

APC Acclaim Parcel Express is servicing Portsmouth from a new local depot, adding to its existing businesses in Southampton and the Isle of Wight. The expansion was partly prompted by rising demand for stock control and distribution services, in which the company has significant expertise – especially with imports from the Far East.

APC Streetwise moved its Warwick operation to a new 10,000 sq ft site with a half acre loading bay, to accommodate expanding demand including daily fresh food deliveries to household name restaurateurs such as Heston Blumenthal and Raymond Blanc. The company also has facilities in Croydon, Leatherhead and New Malden, and Martin Russell, MD, says: “Overnight delivery is definitely where the growth is.”

APC Scarlet Couriers has added a new 20,000 sq ft depot to its chain of facilities serving the Thames Valley and Chilterns. The Wycombe depot allows it to consolidate warehousing and distribution under one roof, and connects with existing locations as Martin Cavendish, Operations Director, explains: “Our Wycombe depot joins up our existing customer zones to provide APC services all the way from west of Reading via Slough and Uxbridge through to London’s Shepherds Bush.”

Other depots that have moved to new bigger sites include APC Roadlink, Bournemouth, APC TWC Parcel Collection Services in Shrewsbury and APC Eezehaul in Crawley.

Maintaining Industry leading service levels clearly brings its rewards, Whatever the economic Climate.

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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.

Onstop's Jeremy Unwin with Glen Bullivant and Euro-Tran's David Howson

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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Christmas is upon us.

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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Breast Cancer Campaign

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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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.

The photograph shows 10-year old Kirandip Kaur (daughter of Surjit Ram, APC Transport Manager) and 4 year old Joshua Hadley (son of Emma Hadley, APC Customer Service Supervisor).

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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Euro-Tran continues throughout the year to support the Cancer Research Campaign.

However on Friday the 30th of October we will endeavour to support the ‘Wear it Pink’ day on behalf of the Breast Cancer Campaign.

Our drivers will be endeavouring to raise some funding on the day at customers and delivery locations. Our staff will be wearing very fetching ‘EURO-TRAN WEAR IT PINK’ baseball caps for the day – Tracy, Chris and Kazz are seen here modelling the office issue – and no, the guys won’t be wearing pink nail varnish to match (They much prefer RED !!!…) If you can help every penny will be gratefully accepted. The customer service team clearly look better in the caps than the Guys…But its all in a good cause .

Your Happy Smiling Customer Services Team

If you can make a donation drop a cheque made out to the ‘BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN’ to us here in Skipton,or
send it direct to:

BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN
CLIFTON cENTRE
110 CLIFTON STREET
LONDON
EC2A4HT

REG CHARITY NO 299758

OR JUST STOP ONE OF OUR DRIVERS AND GIVE THE CHEQUE TO HIM!

 If you yourself want to do something on behalf of the campaign visit – wearitpink.co.uk

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For the latest on the strike click here.

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The Royal Mails Ongoing Dispute

Nobody as yet knows the extent of the threat to our postal services.

The first scheduled strikes begin next week.

As a carrier we want to see the dispute settled then we can all move on. We don’t want to see the Royal Mail Damaged further. We will certainly see an increase in small mailpacks and parcels but the extra revenue is no comfort to us. The Royal Mail is set up to deliver this type of freight, Its not as cost effective for us to do it.

All APC Depots are prepared for the strike and will endeavour to maintain service to the usual high standards but undoubtably there will be instances where we simply are overwhelmed with the freight. Please bear with us. It is extremely difficult to deal with short term spikes in business. I am sure overall service will be Good.

This country needs a strong Royal Mail too many sectors are now being bought by continental outfits. Our industry is being bought up the the French and German post offices – lets hope the Royal Mail does not go the same way – Come on Guys – sort it and get back to work.�
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We have arranged for a discount to be made available to our existing clients for mailpacks – Just call the Depot to have this discount implimented. Our depot is open for 12 hours a day should you have a need to drop in urgent document despatches. Lets hope the dispute is resolved quickly and to everyones satisfaction

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