Hi Everyone,

Hope you all had a great Bank Holiday weekend and enjoyed all the Diamond Jubilee festivities! It’s always nice to have an extra day off so myself and the ipostparcels.com team decided to pay our Royals a visit and truly get into the Jubilee spirit!

Take a look at who I met whilst on my visit to London; simply visit our Facebook page for pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/ipostparcels

Now that the Jubilee celebrations are over we just wanted to let all our customers know that we’re back to normal now collecting and delivering your parcels.

With the Jubilee bank holiday weekend upon us we wanted to update you about our collection & delivery schedule, so please make note accordingly. Ensure you get your parcel collections and deliveries booked in time to avoid any delays. Remember our next day delivery starts from just £3.74 so get a quick parcel delivery quote and book online today.

See the schedule by opening the attached file below:

Queens Jubilee Bank Holiday Schedule IPP - 2012.pdf (99.42 kb)

Hi all, its Parcel Pete here, hope you’ve all been enjoying this lovely weather we’ve been experiencing, I know I certainly have!

Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been busy collecting your parcels and making sure they get delivered the next day. As well as the usual delivery rounds some of you may have seen me at the ExCel Centre in London on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th May 2012. I, along with the ipostparcels.com team and UK Mail and imail team set up stand at the Business Start-up show and boy did we have fun!

We met some great people and some bright entrepreneurs to look out for in the future.  Take a look at some of the pictures on our Facebook page:

http://on.fb.me/LKFgSh

It is fair to say that times are still pretty tough at the moment. And with the Government being advised to make even more cuts in public spending, the average British citizen will seemingly just have to get used to having less money in their wallets for a little while to come.

Of course, we British know how to deal with a crisis like this – we moan. And then after that we’ll have a cup of tea. However, after a bit more moaning, we will eventually come to the conclusion that we can all do something to make things a little bit easier for ourselves.

Here at ipostparcels, we know how hard it is for everyone to keep their heads above the water these days and that is why we want to do our bit to help make things a little easier. To this end, we have decided to lower the price of our signature option from £0.89 to £0.69 as well as our extended cover for parcel values of up to £100 from £0.95 to £0.49.

All-in-all this means we are able to offer the most affordable next day parcel delivery service in the UK. Indeed, our range of cheap parcel delivery methods start from as little as £3.74 +vat so our customers can source the finest next day parcel collection and delivery services and save themselves some money in the process. Furthermore, customers can also save a bit more money by opting to drop-off or pick-up their parcels directly at one of our 50 nationwide depots.

So, next time you want to save a quid or two, make sure you come to us here at ipostparcels for your parcel delivery needs.

If you are looking for a cheap courier service that does exactly what it says in the tin, then the best choice is most definitely www.ipostparcels.com - the next day parcel delivery service that always delivers. We know that modern businesses move rapidly and cannot afford to wait for snail mail to deliver their important contracts, messages and correspondences, and that’s why our fantastic delivery service guarantees the arrival of your item the very next day.

We also offer to come right to your home or business premises to pick up your parcel or alternatively, you can drop it off at one of our 50 UK depots. So if you are sending a parcel across town, to another city in your region or an item to a location at the other end of the nation, we will guarantee that it arrives in prime condition the very next day. Furthermore, our rates are excellent and compare favourably with the very best in the business.

If you have been searching for courier services UK for some time and have been dissatisfied with services rendered by other firms in the past, please trust the professionals at www.ipostparcels.com. Our excellent pedigree and dedication to our customers sets us head and shoulders above the competition.  For more information, please check out our parcel delivery website today.

It’s been a very busy few days over here at ipostparcels.com, I’ve been out on the road collecting and delivering all your parcels. But it’s not just the collecting and delivering that’s part of the service, the sorting of where your parcel goes is crucial to ensure it arrives at the right address.  I decided to pay our Crawley depot a visit recently to give them a hand sorting out some of your parcels.

Whilst on my depot visit I got myself stuck in with the rest of team, unloading parcels, driving the forklift to pick up pallets, answering phone calls and I even managed to get a cup of tea!  To see more pictures of my Crawley depot visit go onto our Facebook page for the full album of what I got up to: http://www.facebook.com/#!/ipostparcels

Don’t forget, you can drop your parcels off to your local depot and save that bit extra.

Most of us know May Day as a bank holiday, a day off work, an excuse to go out on Sunday night and rest it off the next day without having to worry about work. However, there is more to it than just a public day off, May Day traditions date back over 2000 years ago and has various meanings behind it.

May Day is Beltane, which means 'day of fire'. It is an ancient Pagan festival. Bel was the Celtic God of the sun. Many types of May Day celebrations date back to fertility rituals performed in pagan times. This is particularly true of events to celebrate Flora, a Roman goddess of flowers this included making floral garlands, decorating houses with flowers and leaves and crowning a May queen as a living image of the Roman goddess Flora. In some areas, girls go out very early to wash their faces in the morning dew. This is supposed to make them very beautiful in the coming year.

In some parts of the UK traditional English May Day celebrations are still carried out in communities which include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and dancing around a Maypole, children, particularly girls, dance around a tall pole, from which ribbons are suspended.

May Day is also known as International Workers Day, a day for large marches, particularly London, to celebrate and demand rights for workers.

The May Day bank holiday was created in 1978, the first Monday of the month of May is a day off for most to mark the traditional May Day celebrations.  So whether you’re taking part in a bit of Morris dancing or having a few in your local, make sure you enjoy yourself as we all know Parcel Pete will be.

Don’t forget, there won’t be any collections or deliveries taking place on May Day 2012 (7th May) due to all the festivities. Normal service will resume as of Tuesday 8th May 2012, Parcel Pete will be back on the road collecting and delivering your parcels.

With the weather the way it is and forecasts predicting even more downpour in the days to come we’re all looking for alternative things to do to keep us busy and out of the blistering winds and torrential rain.

Traditionally spring cleaning is carried out on the first few days of Spring when the warm rays of sunshine break through the winter gloom that our minds turn to the cleaning up of the effects of the winter storms and the short dull days. Or is it? As soon as we get a bit of sun we can’t think of anything better to do than getting out the house and enjoying the Spring warmth.

Here at ipostparcels.com we think now is an ideal opportunity to tackle those lofts and garages piling up with ‘junk’ as well as getting the curtains down for a good wash and a bit of polish on that silverware. What better way to pass those dull boring showers that are set for the coming weekend!

So get your rubber gloves and bin liners at the ready to dust and de-clutter your homes. And you never know, whilst you’re de-cluttering you may come across some things that could be worth selling on eBay, you know what they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.  Some items may not be worth selling so why not donate to your local charity shop.  Not only will ipostparcels.com be able to take this unwanted clutter from you, we’ll also save you a few penny’s by giving you an extra 10% off just use the voucher code SPRING04.

Don’t forget if you do decide to sell or donate some of your findings from your spring clean, you don’t even need to step out the house to send, we’ll get Parcel Pete to come out straight to you to collect your parcel and deliver it the next day. Bonus, with weather like this!

Online shopping has taken the UK by storm! Online retail sales increased by 14% last year to more than £50bn, with predictions that the growth will continue to hit high streets, according to a new report.

It's natural to see consumer appetite for online shopping growing year on year. This is not because people are spending more money but because they are shopping in the most convenient and affordable way for their individual needs. British online retailers will enjoy an average rise in online sales of 14% this year according to reports.

However, are our online shopping days set to increase in price? A recent article in The Sun newspaper highlighted how YODEL, which holds contracts with ASDA, Amazon, Littlewoods and Tesco are planning to increase their prices to the retailers in order to cope with the boom in online shopping. The increase in fees would be so YODEL can improve their infrastructure to improve service. Any ultimate price rise of online goods in the future will depend on whether retailers absorb the higher delivery rate.

As an ipostparcels.com customer you needn’t worry we’ve actually lowered our prices starting from just £3.75! And Parcel Pete doesn’t use any middle men to collect and deliver your parcels; we personally deliver all items through our parent company network, UK Mail. So for all you online retailers whether you’re using eBay or your own platform, ipostparcels.com is the most affordable courier in the UK for next day parcel collection and delivery.

When you need to buy, sell, or send something in a hurry, the internet is absolutely indispensable. Easy home access to a global market means that everyone can buy and sell from their living room, meaning price is more representative than ever and competition for even the most unusual and unlikely goods can be rife. That's a bonus for eBay sellers, who often get more for their goods on an online auction than they ever would selling them in a shop where they'd have to rely on foot traffic to get interest as well tackling the associated costs of having a physical shop.

If you sell something unusual, eBay really is a blessing, not least because it is so effective at appearing in search engine searches. It can be the best place to get a good price for that bit of cult memorabilia or your hand-sewn doilies... however, amateur eBayers beware, because a single bit of bad feedback can wreak havoc with your ratings! However, help is at hand to make sure that you remain an exemplary eBayer and can offer potential customers the holy internet grail which is express parcel delivery!

Here at ipostparcels.com we've quite literally made it our business to get goods from one place to another. We can offer guaranteed next day parcel delivery from and to anywhere in the UK from only £3.74. That also includes a free collection, £50 free cover, delivery notifications and full online tracking. These are the aspects that will enable you to offer a professional service whether you ship few or many items through eBay each week.

Furthermore, we’ve made things even easier for you – you can even link your eBay account with ipostparcels.com to enable you to pull through delivery details for your sold items. So what are you waiting for? Why keep your buyers waiting? Try our next day parcel collection and delivery today.