subject: Is My Courier Going To Help Package My Shipment? [print this page] When you start using a courier company you can be easily overwhelmed by all the service options that they might throw at you. They'll ask if you need refrigerated storage, if you need rush delivery service, if you want access to special online software options, and so many more questions that it can make your head spin. However, it's just as important to realize what services a courier company does not offer as well as the ones that they do. Many times customers are interested in getting a courier to help them package their shipments for them, but in most cases this is not a service that a Milwaukee delivery company is going to offer to their customers.
Courier companies will usually have a page for the terms and conditions of using their service posted on their website, or will have a similar document that they will provide to you when you open an account with them. Typically, one of the terms of these contracts is going to be that the packaging of the shipments is not only the sole responsibility of the client, but that if the packing guidelines which are established by the company are not followed to the letter, the driver will have the right to refuse to take possession of any package which is not properly packed. This is an important part of the courier company avoiding liability, because damaged and lost packages are most commonly caused by improper packing or labeling by the people shipping those items.
One of the primary reasons that couriers don't allow themselves to offer this service to their clients is it would greatly slow down the delivery pipeline on the majority of their deliveries. This is an industry where customers are constantly clamoring for more speed from their drivers, and yet, if the packaging option were available, it is safe to say that drivers would have to stop at a vast majority of pickup points to assist in packing, something that would in turn make all of the customers deliveries later to arrive at their destinations.
To stay out of trouble, just be sure to follow all the packing guidelines that your shipping company gives you. Usually, this means things like making sure that all the dead air around breakables is filled with packing material of some kind, and that packages are labeled clearly with no old addresses visible anywhere on the package.
by: Paul McDuffy
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