Express Couriers for Beginners

If you want a delivery service that’s many times faster than the usual way of transporting your parcels or documents, express couriers should be the right ones to choose.  Basically defined as an organization or a business that offers swift deliveries of documents, money, parcel, or information, express couriers are being sought by many businesses.  Services, merchants, and producers rely so much on their services as a vital part of their operations.

Express couriers have been around since time immemorial.  The kings dispatch edicts, e.g., tax collection notices, territorial claims, announcement of special events,  new laws, declaration of war, etc.  In the “New World” messages, goods, cash, and products, etc., were delivered by the pony express or by stagecoach.

In today’s economy, express couriers remain a vital cog in the vast economic machine despite the prevalence of electronic means of sending data (e-mail, fax, etc.).  There are still documents that need to be physically signed, parcels and packages that needs to be delivered (we don’t have teleportation technologies yet!).

Every country has its own postal service as part of each government’s public service.  Goods, mails, documents, etc., are delivered at a much affordable price.  However, due to the magnitude of its scope of operation, the postal service could be slow (like a giant whose movement is limited by its weight and size).  This is where privately-owned express couriers come in.

The United Parcel Service or UPS is the largest courier service in the world with more than 12 million packages shipped around the world every single day.  Founded by the then 19-year old James E. Casey in Seattle, it started off as the American Messenger Company.  Having weathered the depression and World Wars, United Parcel Service grew to be a giant among express couriers around the world.  It further spurred its expansion by acquiring smaller express couriers that were operating in countries it serves.

Two more express couriers that were established in the 70’s also turned out to be leaders in the industry: DHL and FedEx.  Like UPS, DHL and FedEx have expanded and maintained good business in different countries around the world.

While these three giant express couriers have successfully established their speed and reliability in doing their jobs, some clients believe that smaller courier services are a better choice for their particular needs.  First reason, is the size of the operation which could deny the clients of a more personalized service that smaller express couriers are very well capable of doing due to the smaller scope of their operation.

These smaller express courier find their niche in smaller packages and documents that bicycle messengers can swiftly transport from one part of the city to another.  These bicycle messengers whizzing past traffic-stalled vehicles have also become an icon in the busy streets of New York and other cities.