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A time, not a window
You get a collection time and a delivery time. If we're going to miss one, you hear it from us before your customer does.
The bit couriers get wrong
Four things we do differently from the depot lot.
Most failed deliveries in North Wales aren't failures of driving. They're failures of a sorting hub three hours away that has never seen your customer's front door.
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The same van, the whole way
Nothing gets tipped out at a hub and sorted overnight by someone who has never been to Bangor. What we load is what comes off the tail-lift.
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Proof on every drop
Timestamped photo, the door it went to, the name of whoever took it. Sent to you, not buried behind a tracking login.
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Priced before we move
A written quote, fuel included. No surcharge invented after the run, no waiting time you never agreed to.
Why this business exists
We started because the hub model kept failing people we knew.
Herb drove for a national network for eleven years. Decent money, decent routes, and two final years spent standing on doorsteps apologising for decisions made two hundred miles away.
The turning point was a Tuesday in February. A pallet of stock for a shop on Bangor high street sat in a hub near Warrington for nine days while the tracking page cheerfully said “in transit”. The shop lost a fortnight of trade. Nobody rang them once, and the compensation form ran to four pages.
So we bought a van and started doing it the boring way instead. Collect it, keep it in the van, deliver it, and ring the customer the moment anything changes. That is the whole business model. It isn't clever, it's just what the big networks stopped being able to afford.
Today the work is mostly local: shops and trade counters between Caernarfon and Colwyn Bay, solicitors' offices that need a bundle in Chester by four, and businesses on Anglesey that have given up on next-day promises from anyone else.
What we won't take on
No house removals, no single item that needs two people to lift, and no booking we don't believe we can hit. There are other couriers in Bangor and we will happily tell you which one to ring, because a late delivery with our name on it costs us more than the job was worth.
Two driversOne transit, one Luton with a tail-lift
Six daysMonday to Saturday, out-of-hours by arrangement
LL57Based in Bangor, working the A55 in both directions
What it costs
Rates, in writing, before anything moves.
Tap the jobs you're interested in and they'll be ticked on the enquiry form below. Nothing here is a headline price with the real one hiding underneath.
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Prices are a guide and include fuel. Mileage beyond 15 miles is charged at £1.30 a mile and appears on the quote, not on the invoice as a surprise. Every job is quoted in writing before we collect, and that quote holds for 30 days.
Booking one in
Four steps, no account required.
Ring or send the form
Tell us what it is, where it's going and when it has to be there. If it's urgent, ring — the phone is answered in the cab.
Quote in writing
You get a price by email or text, usually within the hour on a working day. Accept it and the slot is yours.
We collect
Same driver, same van, from your door. Anything fragile gets strapped and blanketed before we pull away.
Proof lands with you
Photo, time and the name of whoever signed, sent straight to you. Invoice follows on the last working day of the month.
Where we actually go
Same-day is North Wales. Next-day is everywhere else.
Same-day work runs from the towns below and out along the A55 in both directions. Next-day parcels and pallets go anywhere on the UK mainland, including the Highlands with an extra day.
Opening hours
| Monday – Friday | 07:00 – 19:00 |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 08:00 – 14:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Out of hours | By arrangement |
Registered office: 16 Hen Barc, Bangor, LL57 3RS. Collections are arranged by phone or through the form, not at the office door.
Open in Maps ↗Same-day towns
- Bangor
- Menai Bridge
- Caernarfon
- Llanfairpwll
- Benllech
- Holyhead
- Conwy
- Llandudno
- Colwyn Bay
- Betws-y-Coed
- Porthmadog
- Llanberis
- Chester & Deeside
- Wrexham
- Liverpool
- Manchester
Dashed towns are day-rate or dedicated runs rather than short-notice same-day. Anywhere further, ask — if we can't do it well we'll say so on the phone rather than take the booking.
Got something that has to be there
Tell us the deadline. We'll tell you straight if we can hit it.
Most quotes go out within the hour between seven and seven. If it's leaving today, the phone is quicker than the form.
Get a price
Book a collection or ask what it would cost.
Nothing here is a hard sell. Send the details and you'll get a number back, even if the answer is that another firm is better placed for it.
Got it.
Thanks — we'll come back with a price within one working day, and a lot sooner if you sent it during van hours. If it's leaving today, ring 07853 151 457 and it gets sorted on the phone.