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Shipments
Shipments delivered via Rapid Standard will not necessarily be delivered to the addressee personally. The Carrier may deliver a package to the addressee shown on the barcode label or to any other person appearing to have authority to accept delivery of the package on the addressee's behalf (such as persons at the same premises as the addressee or neighbours of the addressee). When shipping to residential address, if the drop off location is in a safe area, then the courier driver will leave the parcel at your doorstep.
Documents Needed?
After you have paid for a delivery service within UK, you will be redirected to a page where you can download and print out the relevant shipping labels, i.e
AWB (Courier Waybill - barcode label) - Address label.
The above documents must be attached to the parcel. Otherwise your package will be rejected by the driver.
Restricted Goods
Goods travelling by 'Cargo' are subject to different restrictions to those travelling as carry-on luggage.
A shipment within UK is deemed unacceptable if: it is classified as hazardous material, dangerous goods, prohibited or restricted articles by IATA (International Air Transport Association), ADR (Euro-pean Road Transport Regulation on dangerous goods) or other relevant organisation. Many items which appear harmless in everyday use can pose danger on air transport and are consequently forbidden for transport.
The following page displays a sampling of common prohibited and restricted goods.
http://www.rapidparcel.com/help/prohibited-items.php
Packing Advice
Your parcel must be boxed and well packaged. This will reduce the risk of damage to any item during
transit or any associated automated distribution process.
Please be aware the item is not taken by hand from collection to destination and will visit many sorted
facilities on its journey. For that reason, you need to protect the items to ensure they make it from A
to B safely.
The following packaging guidelines are recommendations to assist you in packaging your shipment:
http://www.rapidparcel.com/help/packing-advice.php
Shipment Protection
When you book a shipping service to United Kingdom, you will be able to choose an
appropriate level of cover for your shipment. We offer enhanced parcel protection for up to £2000
for a small additional fee.
If you do not purchase enhanced Shipment Protection, your shipment will be only covered to a maximum
value of £50 as per the limited liability set out in our
Terms & Conditions and subject to your
parcel passing minimum packaging requirements.
Please note that the declared value for customs purposes is not related to the declared value selected
for Shipment Protection. We encourage all customers to purchase shipment protection cover for loss or
damage.
National Holidays
- 01/01/2024 - New year's day
- 02/01/2024 - Bank holiday
- 27/01/2024 - Wwii genocide memorial day
- 14/02/2024 - St. valentine`s day
- 01/03/2024 - St. david's day
- 17/03/2024 - St. patrick's day
- 25/03/2024 - Lady day
- 29/03/2024 - Good friday
- 31/03/2024 - Easter sunday
- 01/04/2024 - Easter monday
- 21/04/2024 - Queen's birthday (actual date)
- 23/04/2024 - St. george's day
- 08/05/2024 - V-e day
- 12/07/2024 - Battle of boyne/orangemen`s day
- 14/07/2024 - Emmeline pankhurst day
- 15/07/2024 - St. swithin's day
- 01/01/1970 - Owain glyndwr day (wales)
- 19/09/2024 - Talk like a pirate day
- 29/09/2024 - Michaelmas
- 31/10/2024 - Hallowe'en
- 05/11/2024 - Bonfire night (guy fawkes day)
- 11/11/2024 - Remembrance day
- 30/11/2024 - St. andrew's day
- 25/12/2024 - Christmas day
- 26/12/2024 - Boxing day
- 31/12/2024 - New year's eve
FAQs
We have a detailed and comprehensive Help Section here. If you cannot find
the answer or advice you are looking for there, please use our enquiry form
The best deal for your parcel delivery to Cambridge
If your company needs to arrange shipping to Cambridge on a regular basis, then RapidParcel.com can offer you the very best value for money alongside a service you can trust to deliver, in every sense of the word, each and every time.
Located only 50 miles from London, the city of Cambridge is historically famous as the home of one of the world’s best known universities, the origins of which date back as far as 1209. Although primarily a leading seat of learning, the university also helps to drive the city’s economy. Its thousands of students need somewhere to live and spend their money, and the university leases science parks and buildings in and around the city to hi-tech businesses, including the UK offices of Microsoft Research, leading the area to be dubbed ‘Silicon Fen’. Good transport connections with London and the rest of the country ensure shipping to Cambridge can be conducted quickly and simply when you use our courier comparison and booking service.
RapidParcel.com offer the very best deals to individuals sending one-off packages and businesses who wish to make large or multiple deliveries. So, if your package delivery to Cambridge is one of many your company needs to make, you can take advantage of the special business rates offered to all our corporate clients. Put simply, the more shipping you do to Cambridge, the more money you save. We can make this promise because our size enables us to negotiate the keenest prices from the best carriers around.
Pallet deliveries throughout the UK
If you have large or multi-package deliveries to make on a one-off or regular basis you may be interested in our pallet delivery service. Palletways, Europe’s leading providers of pallet delivery services, is our courier partner for this and as long as what you are sending will fit on the pallet and into one of their vehicles, it can be booked through RapidParcel.com
We’ve worked alongside all of our carriers for many years now and in that time we’ve developed strong working relationships, which mean they’re willing to offer us prices they won’t be offering anywhere else. Initially, our selection of courier partners had little to do with price as we only wanted to feature couriers who were household names and had a reputation for reliable service, However, today we offer one of the most cost-effective services on the Net. Each of our courier partners has been in business for a very long time and has a reputation for quality and dedication to customer service. We want to be sure that every parcel delivery to Cambridge is handled with the utmost care, offers excellent value for money and is delivered as quickly as you need it to be. You can arrange your shipping to Cambridge safe in the knowledge that it’s being handled by experts in the field.
Alongside our exceptional business tariffs, our other corporate facilities include a personal support agent, an address ‘auto-fill’ feature, a sophisticated multiple-parcel tracking system and bulk uploading. What it all boils down to is that when you want to combine value for money and excellence, whether it’s for a parcel delivery to Cambridge, an Oxford package delivery or even a parcel delivery to Liverpool, RapidParcel.com is the very best place to come.
