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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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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Win it now!
Heres your chance to win an Acer notebook.
Enter for free on the website, simply follow the link in the homepage.
Use your knowledge of the Parcels Industry and enter the question.
All correct answers will go in the draw – It could be yours for Christmas….
Working within a courier company operations office for 20 years I have heard most complaints that customers tend to throw at their courier when a parcel arrives while they are out.
Most times the courier has called when they were at work – which begs the question why deliver to the home -when you are at work all day. Normal practice when you are not at home is for the courier to put a ‘We called while you were out’ card through the letter box.
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