City cycle courier News
January 2010.
Happy new year to all our customers, we had a bit of a slow start to the New Year due to some very unexpected bad weather down here in the South West.
I spent 2 days walking with my post in order to not let our customers down. I did not realise how much my legs could hurt, Oh and dont forget the blisters, I take my hat off to the Royal Mail Posties that do this every day. Although they do not have to cover 3 post codes on their own, I must have walked over 40 miles in the 2 days.
Royal Mail have been in the news again, they are looking at increasing their postal prices from April, this will mean that First Class post will now cost 41p per small standard letter. we will also be putting a slight increase on our post but will offering any new customer between now and April a fixed price that is guaranteed to save you money for the long term, If interested give us a call.
News Archive
Oct 09
What an amazing few weeks we have had at City cycle couriers. First of all I would like to thank all those people from across the country and around the world who have emailed me to wish us luck with our business. The latest round of Royal Mail Postal Strikes has had an amazing impact on raising our profile both locally and as far a field as America.
Last week started with the BBC comming to visit us to spend the morning to see us at work, unfortunately it was so wet we did not get chance to put the reporter William Swail on a bike, the end product was a great piece on the BBC News web page titled Royal Mails one-man competitor and TV coverage one Local and National BBC News
following I spent most of Thursday smiling for camera's from various news agencies and carrying out interviews to reporters. the outcome of this was a full page in the Daily Mail and the Times Newspaper and web site we were also in the London and Bristol Metro Newspapers. Friday morning I did a live interview for BBC Essex and this was followed by going onto national radio BBC4, with live interviews on BBC5 Live and Radio 1 on Saturday.
8/09/09
Due to staffing difficulties we have had to put our expansion to the PL2 and PL5 area on hold for the short term, Please refer back to our site for further updates.
We have just taken on a new member of staff to assist with our mail collection in the evenings, Tom is a student in his third year at Plymouth University, Please see our Meet the Team page in the comming days for more information on Tom
We have had a good few weeks and have managed to get a few new customers, can I please offer my thanks to the following companies and we look forward to working with you for many years to come:
Goldberg Solicitors
Hardy Bookkeeping services
Beresford and Ward Estate Agents
Falcon Properties
Fuel Communications
14/08/09
From the 1st September we are expanding our postal service to the areas of PL2 and PL5, this means that we are now able to offer our postal customers a next day postal service to PL1,2,3,4 and 5. To meet the needs of this expanded service we have brought in a new member of staff in the form of a contractor. We are also hoping that from early september we can employ a new member of staff on a part time basis to assist with the collection of mail each evening.
I would like to thank all those people who have taken the time to get in touch recently relating to any job vacancies. I am keeping all you details and will be in touch one job vacancies become available.
We are still looking for more postal customers in the Mutley Plain and City Centre area, I you know of any potential customers then could you please give them our details or contact us to we can make contact.
27/06/09
Its been a few weeks since I have had the opportunity to update you all on our progress this is basically due to the amount of work I currently have (Very Busy).
I have been exploring my options in relation to expanding our postal service areas, my current options include taking on a partner and employing a member of staff this will allow us to expand our distribution areas to include PL2, PL5, PL6, and Salt Ash PL12. So watch this space in the comming months. If you feel you have what its takes to became a cycle courier in Plymouth please visit our Job Vacancies Page
6/05/09
We have had a good month in April and our postal service has definitely started to fill our day, so many thanks to all our new customers, please feel free to give us feedback on our service.
April's Issue of the Chamberlink Magazine ran a article on the Day in the life of us, and we have had many people respond to the article some with work and others just taking an interest in our service. At the end of May we start our contract with the Plymouth Chambers, distributing the Chamberlink Magazine, so it will be all hands to the pumps whilst we get used to the increased workload.
I am in the process of putting a new page on our web site titled Meet the Team, this will give you some information on our backgrounds, I feel it is important that our customers know a little about us.
7/04/09
Over the past few weeks we have had a good response to our local postal service and we are now working with the following companies/organisations
Foot Anstey, Solicitors
Francis Clark, Chartered Accountants
Cattedown Business Centre (various companies)
Stoke Business Centre (various companies)
Devon Chambers, Legal barester support
Lang and Co, Estate Agents
Sound Financial Services
Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
11/2/09
Postal License is granted.
20/2/09
We have had a busy few weeks since our last news, I have been speaking to businesses across the city to explain to them our proposed postal service. If all goes well our POSTCOMM postal licence should be issued early March.
The local press have been in touch so hopefully an article in the Plymouth Herold should be just around the corner, to cover this story. We will be the only Cycle courier service in the country to have this licence but I am sure we wont be the last once others see its an area of work that could work for them.
I would like to thank Foot Anstey, Orgill and Thompsons Solicitors who have been keeping me busy the last few weeks, may it continue
10/2/09
As our POSTCOMM postal licence is out to Public consultation we are very keen to talk to any new/potential customers who may be looking at using us from the beginning of March of local postal delivery.
Last week I visited the Plymouth University to give a presentation to the 1st year business students about the start up and development of City cycle couriers. I think we all had a good time and I would like to thank all the students for all the good ideas that they had about how I can continue to grow my business.
29/1/09
Our POSTCOMM, Postal Licence is now out for public consultation , We have received out draft copy and are extremely excited about the prospect of becoming a officially licence postal operator. The Public Consultation process takes 30 days to complete, so should be completed by the end of February. If you require more information on this process then visit the POSTCOMM web site at www.psc.gov.uk
12/1/09
Happy New Year to everybody, we have been busy over the last few weeks, and we certainly made the most of things on the run up to Christmas where we were used for the first time to do a Bank run for a local company. we had a few new customers for December and they included: Fresh air studios and Citybus Plymouth.
Leaflet Distribution: This appears to be a good time of year for such jobs already this month we have leaflet distribution jobs being done and waiting to be done from: Citybus Plymouth, Tony Perry Windows, Chips Away, and Swimcats, by the time these have been done we would have distributed 6000 leaflets to both businesses and domestices premises
In addition we have just applied to Postcom for a postal licence and we are keeping our fingers crossed that we meet the criteria required to hold such a licence. Having this will mean that we are licensed by the Postal Services Regulator who are are independent regulator for postal services. This means that we will have to adhere to the Mail Integrity code and the Common Operational Procedures Code, although we are already doing this in our own way, one of the main differences to our service will mean that we have a supported complaints procedure through POSTRS, we will be registered to the Data Protection Act and we will also have to label up all standard post that we deliver with our unique Identification number, this means that all mis-directed mail will be returned to us for redelivery or return to our customers. meaning we can offer a much better service. (please watch this space for further details on our progress)
18/12/08
Things are going from strength to strength over the last 3 weeks finishing last week with our best week ever, this was due to a rise in both courier and postal work. We would like to thank all our customers to date, and wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and we look forward to continuing to work with you all in 2009
I would also like to thanks all those people who have been in touch about any possible job vacancies. we hope that in the comming months we may be in a position to take on another rider, if only on a part-time basis, so please watch this space.
27/11/08
This week has seen both the Devon Chambers and City Business Park, Stoke, adopting our city cycle couriers postal service. This is great news as word about us is starting to spread and businesses are starting to see that by using us for their daily postal runs will save them money. We are almost at the end of another month and yet again our customer base and the amount of work we are getting is growing by the week. I truly cant express enough thanks to all those businesses who are now and continually using our services.
New Customers this month November 2008:
Foot Anstey, Devon Chambers, City Business Park, Stoke, Europartnership Agency, Oracle Publications, Print and Promotion, NU Signs.
21/11/08
City cycle couriers is very happy to celebrate that we are now members of the Down 2 Business networking group and the Plymouth Chambers. Its been a few weeks since I have added any news items, because we have been very busy getting our new city cycle courier postals service established. since starting this service 2 weeks ago we have distributed over 350 letters across the city centre for Foot Anstey, City Business Centre, Swimcats and BartonWykes. In addition we have also had a big increase in our courier dispatch jobs this is mainly, thanks to Atlas Graphics and the Kings Bench Chambers, who have become regular customers along with Real Traveller. Thanks to all the companies who have helped make the last 2 weeks the best to date.
6/11/08
Foot Anstey is the latest company to use our daily postal service and join Swim cats and Barton Wykes who have already made big savings against their Royal Mail postage costs. We still have plenty of scope to offer this service to other businesses in Plymouth so give us a call to arrange a chat and you too could be saving money.
City cycle couriers this week also became members of the Plymouth Chamber of commerce and industry and later this month look forward to completing the membership process with the Down 2 Business networking group.
31/10/08
City Cycle Couriers has now completed its first full calender month of trading and business is getting better week by week, We would like to say a very big thank you to all our customers and thank you to this weeks new customers who are: Swim cats, Barton Wykes, Purple Telecommunications, and The Kings Bench Chambers, in addition to our direct customers we would like to thank all the members of the Down 2 Business networking group who through word and mouth have supported City Cycle Couriers.
24/10/08
City Cycle Couriers gets another mention in the Plymouth Herold from DX customer Francis Clark
21/10/08 Week 6
This week we have moved onto our city centre office space situated at the Business Centre, Cattedown, PL4 0EG. If you wish to come along and say hello you will find us on the third floor, its worth the trip just for the view.
New customers this week:
This week we have 2 new customers, a big thanks to PR Dogs and Orgill
13/1008: Weeks 4 and 5
The last 2 weeks have been our best yet, but we still need more customers, Can I please express my thanks to our regular customers.
We have this week been looking at renting an office space in the city centre this will be good as it will give us a place centrally to run the business from. If we get the premises we have been looking at then we will move in on the 1st November 2008. please check back for further details over the next week or two.
29/9/08: Week 3
City Cycle Couriers makes it into the local paper.
Business is beginning to pick up now. This week week brings the beginning of October, and we are starting the new week and month with our first daily pick up and collection DX run thanks to Francis Clark Accounts. In order to expand our service further we are seeking other businesses in Plymouth who are looking for somebody to do their mail runs. Our prices start from just £30 per week.
Can we please offer our very special thanks to our other regular customers:
Real Traveller
Plymouth City Council
Thompson Solicitors
Atlas Graphics
MP Jones
Total Employment
17/9/08: Week 2
The sun has finally come out
The Kit has arrived and it looks great, Many thanks to Roger Morgan at designmyjersey and to impsport for getting my order to me on time.
10/9/08: First Week of Trading
Its finally stopped raining
After a very busy week last week promoting this new and exciting service work is starting to come in, we already have a number of customers who have used our service and have pledged to use us on a regular basis in the future.
Our new corporate and racing clothing is due to be delivered later in the week so watch this space for pictures.
Thanks so much for all ours customers, please get in touch if you have any feedback that will help us improve our service
4/8/08: New Road Racing Team for 2009
If you fancy trying your hand at road racing or you already race but fancy joining a new club for 2009, why not give me a call?
For further details click on Road Racing Team Page
