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Courier rapid parcels service in full swing
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• The final link-up of 24 major cities to provide a guaranteed next-day parcels delivery service throughout the country was reached on Monday with the opening of the Security Express Courier Operations Centre in Manchester. This new service, which was announced last month, now becomes fully operational, and the Courier vans will collect and deliver parcels anywhere in the country: if the consignment arrives at one of the trunkline depots by 7 p.m. it will be delivered during the next day.
The maximum weight of any one parcel at 56Ib covers a very wide variety of customers' requirements and this, compared with the GPO's top weight of 221b, together with the guarantee of next-day delivery makes it an attractive business proposition. Among items carried by Courier Express during the last month was a load of cookery demonstration equipment to the Midlands, and cartons of a manufacturer's free samples to selected households—both being examples of last-minute urgent transport requirements which the division was set up to serve.
The Courier service centres are at Birmingham, Bristol, Billingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds. Leicester, Liverpool. London, Luton, Maidstone. Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Reading, Sheffield. Southampton, Swansea.