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Courier Service between Poland & UK


tomcatgemini 5 | 15  
7 Oct 2009 /  #1
Just a thought, will it be a good business idea to start a courier service between certain cities in Poland & UK? To start with few cities in both countries, collecting from UK then deliver to destinations in Poland & vice versa.
wildrover 98 | 4,441  
7 Oct 2009 /  #2
will it be a good business idea

Noooo it will be a terrible idea.....unless i do it first.....
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163  
7 Oct 2009 /  #3
Just a thought, will it be a good business idea to start a courier service between certain cities in Poland & UK? To start with few cities in both countries, collecting from UK then deliver to destinations in Poland & vice versa.

Can you compete with the established cargo carriers in terms of speed? Probably not.

Can you compete in terms of price? Probably not.

Now, a Russia-UK service on a regular timetable might just be worthwhile. If you could offer something like -

6am Wednesday - London
10am Wednesday- Dover (110km-ish from London, 4 hours to keep to schedule)
8am Thursday- Berlin (1000km-ish from Dover, 22 hours max)
4pm Thursday- Warsaw (600km-ish from Berlin, 8 hours max)
2pm Friday - Minsk (600km-ish from Warsaw, 22 hours max)
9am Saturday - Moscow (700km-ish from Moscow, 19 hours max)
8pm Saturday- Minsk (11 hours)
6am Monday- Warsaw (46 hours)
4pm Monday - Berlin (8 hours)
6am Wednesday- London (38 hours)

This could work, particularly as Russian and Belarussian delivery services aren't particularly reliable. If you teamed up with couriers in each city, you might find that people are quite willing to pay up for a door-to-door service that runs to a schedule as opposed to the whims of couriers.

It would be hard work, but it could be very successful. It won't work just going UK-Poland, the market is saturated and people are willing to work for less than you.
Infotimes - | 19  
7 Oct 2009 /  #4
A lot of competition, for example:

pegasus
eagletrans
kurierexpress
tdx
paczki
and many more,

and lot of people who don't have registered companies and offer their services
inkrakow  
7 Oct 2009 /  #5
Infotimes

If you offered a temperature controlled groupage service I'd be a client!
Infotimes - | 19  
7 Oct 2009 /  #6
inkrakow

good idea, I'm not in transportation, but such specialization looks promising in a long term.
memkaz  
19 Nov 2009 /  #7
hi, I run a eshop website selling wholesale ladies clothing. We are starting to get a lot of customers from eastern Europe specially Poland. I was wondering if there is any competitive courier companies out there. My website is one2wear.co.uk

please see our website for our email contact.

thank you in advance

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