What people are saying about APC Cheltenham

  • Julian – JC Wine Events Ltd

    “A pleasure to work with you all. The telephone is answered with a smile, there is a can-do attitude throughout from drivers to despatch, and I trust that my wines will be there on time. Thank you.“

  • Jordan - Fire and Security Store

    “APC have been a core part of our business over the last year. For a start up e-commerce store, delivery is so important. APC have helped us provide a reliable service that our customers need. The Cheltenham team are so friendly, helpful and supportive. We have nothing but good things to say about them!”

  • Pete – The Grass Seed Store

    “Just a quick thank you! We dispatched a replacement consignment (mis-delivered by another company) via your Saturday service. Not only did your driver manage to find the difficult address but they left them as instructed and rang our customer to confirm its location. Outstanding Service! Happy customer, happy us.”

  • Kathy - A E Smith Engineering

    “APC - a local, friendly service. Always helpful and accommodating, just what we need in this busy, ever demanding environment.”

  • Dan - Happy Pair Wines

    “Thanks a lot for your help this year. You literally saved our business from having to close when we got stuck with our previous courier and everything has been super smooth and simple with you since.”

  • Carla - Hetas

    “We’ve been with APC for a few years now, after trying various other providers, and we wouldn’t go anywhere else now! The team at APC Cheltenham are a delight to work with, always happy to answer any queries myself or my colleagues have and always quick to action requests to other depots. They keep us fully updated along the way! The drivers are smiley, friendly and always ask how we are when they come to collect our parcels, which is excellent customer service! Would 100% recommend!”

  • Darren – Leary’s Organic Seeds

    “I wanted to say thanks very much for all the support and encouragement given to my self-employed business and the community I serve. Thanks for the initial meeting, the label printer, and going though every detail of setting up our account. To the team at the office, thanks for the hard work and being there to deal with any changes. And to the driver, thanks for being patient while we had the last 10 or so orders to process and for loading up the van while we did. I feel supported by the team, all very much appreciated.”

Why Choose a Courier?

So you’ve had a fantastic idea for a product, you’ve taken an incredible amount of time developing it, nurturing it and most likely had sleepless nights over it! Well done, as Earl Nightengale famously said "Everything Begins With An Idea." You get your product made, agonising over every minute detail that most other people wouldn’t even notice and likely a few more sleepless nights. Your final product has been settled on, all decisions have been made and its all been signed off. Phew!

Now onto marketing your fantastic new product, how to get it out there and most importantly, how to get people to buy it! Much more of your precious time is spent getting it out there. How best to word and phrase your fantastic product to entice people to invest in the product, and ultimately, you. Things start happening, your once brilliant idea is now a reality, and people like it! And more excitingly, people buy it!

What happens now…? Your product/baby is ready to make its way out into the big wide world, and then there is the realisation that from that moment on, you aren’t in control of it. You have to trust that your wonderful product makes it to its new owner, in one piece?! That is where the next important decision you have to make comes in. How do I ship this product? You can take it into the Post Office, join the agonising queue, pass over your baby and watch it get dropped into bag behind the desk? OR you could take on the colourful world of the Courier… Daunting…? Not as much as you think. There are many parcel companies around, offering similar services and competitive prices, deciding which one is right for you is the biggest challenge.

There are fantastic benefits of using a Courier Company to handle your freight.

Professionalism. You have spent this agonising amount of time on your product. You need your customer to know you are a polished, professional company that take pride in how your product is dispatched, as much as it is developed. As APC Overnight is a network of Independent depots, continuing your excellent customer service is our main focus.

Reliability. This product needs to meet the customers hands, and most importantly, in the same condition as it left your hands. APC Overnight caters for the weird and wonderful world of freight. Live fish, flowers, pet ashes…the list goes on! And luckily, for all of those Entrepreneurs out there, there is a specialist service to handle it properly. With APC Pinpoint, it is also reassuring for your customers to track their parcel and know exactly when they will receive their parcels.

Pricing. As all freight handled is priced by size and weight, you can be assured that you are paying for the parcel itself, not just the service.

It is a competitive market, however choosing the right courier can be a a wonderful match if chosen right. You have to weigh up what is important to you and how you can meet the needs of your customer with as little hassle as possible! Here at APC Cheltenham we are on hand, every step of the way. Our ethos is ‘Helping you look after your customer’. We achieve this every day by providing the best freight services, tailor made to your needs.

- Jodie Zakotti, Sales Manager