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While there are trucks and ships hauling large containers every day and night from port to port, the movement of smaller packages, letters and parcels is also an eternal flux from destination to destination. There is the common impression of the uniform clad postal worker doing his or her route with a bag of letters in hand. Yet nowadays there are so many different ways to do the so-called 'small business' of delivering parcels, whether they are pizza or other packages. On foot Every day, in rain, hail, sleet or snow, there are people walking on roads and trails and streets and tracks working to make sure parcels are delivered. These types of courier jobs are often represented by public postal services going from door to door, and more often than not people think the parcels delivered are personal goods for private use. But since this form of delivery, though not the speediest, allows delivery people to enter right up to the doorway and meet the person who requested the delivery, it guarantees that the delivery is personal, checked and certified. Often, this type of delivery is tagged on to the end of other forms. Car and Motorbike If transport companies relied solely on deliveries by foot, they would lose much of business due to the sheer inefficiency of time over distance. Hence there are courier jobs which require the speed yet flexibility of cars and motorcycles. Ideal for intercity deliveries, these types of employment mean the deliverers can cross larger distances and often carry out multiple deliveries. Since they are not hauling immensely large cargo, drivers are ideally suited to taking parcels or packages at maximum speed and efficiency. Truck While courier jobs tend not to generally include large hauls, there is nevertheless the need to increase efficiency in the transportation business that leads to groupage and combined deliveries. This means that many companies are combining a large number of parcels, packages or letters into one shipment to save costs on fuel and international transportation fees. Hence trucks come into play. While cars and motorcycles are more fuel efficient, when a long journey is necessary it is hard to better your value for money than using a truck and combining multiple orders for multiple clients. Often these are then delivered to a hub from which orders are divided and delivered on foot, by car or by motorcycle. Plane Considering the expense of air travel, in the past many courier jobs that took an aerial route involved deliverers getting a cheaper air ticket in exchange for accompanying a parcel or package on a flight so as to ensure the integrity of its arrival in the hands of the waiting recipient. But now more companies are using planes for freight purposes, and it has become cheaper to quickly send packages in bulk, or even individually, with the cargo of commercial or specialist planes. Author Plate Norman Dulwich is a correspondent for Courier Exchange, the world's largest neutral trading hub for same day courier jobs in the express freight exchange industry. Over 2,500 transport exchange businesses are networked through their website, trading jobs and capacity in a safe 'wholesale' environment.
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