The Southampton branch of PACK & SEND recently opened on Queensway, Southampton and one of their first requests was to help the family of a former RAF Flight Lieutenant to fulfil his final dream following his death last year.
Southampton, England, September 08, 2010 — The Southampton branch of PACK & SEND recently opened on Queensway, Southampton and one of their first requests was to help the family of a former RAF Flight Lieutenant to fulfil his final dream following his death last year. The new store is one of the largest in the world for the packing and shipping franchise company that originated in Australia and local business owner, Nick Jennings, was proud to undertake such a rewarding task in their first days of trading.
James, a retired RAF Flight Lieutenant, spent most of his life working on, or with, aircraft but he had never had the opportunity to fly in a Lancaster bomber during his lifetime. Following his death last October, his family felt that it would be a fitting farewell to help him to fulfil his life-long wish to travel in one of these famous aircraft and last month, with the help of Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Jim took his final flight. With the Lancaster being based at RAF Coningsby, the Smeeton Family looked to PACK & SEND – the specialist packing and shipping company that recently opened at 77 Queensway, Southampton – to ensure Jim’s ashes travelled safely to meet the plane.
Flight Lieutenant Smeeton was no stranger to aircraft of all sizes. As an engineer in the RAF, a technical translator for the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and latterly a conference translator with the Ministry of Defence, he had travelled widely for work as well as for pleasure. He had lived in Canada for many years as well and would doubtless have been very pleased to know that his final flying dream had been completed.
PACK & SEND make a simple promise – ‘We send anything, anywhere!’ – and whilst they specialise in ensuring the safe delivery of valuable or fragile items few deliveries have been more important than getting Jim to his last flight.
PACK & SEND’s largest UK store yet opened in central Southampton last month and local demand for the breadth of secure packing and shipping options from both business and consumer customers is already proving strong. With a growing population in the City itself and the towns of Eastleigh, Romsey, Lymington, New Milton and Lyndhurst in the surrounding areas, PACK & SEND in Southampton is ideally placed to provide high quality packing, shipping and freight solutions to one of the UK’s largest ports.
All their stores provide a unique combination of highly secure packing and shipping solutions with overnight UK deliveries and next day to most European and US destinations. Every store has the option of over 30 freight shipping options via air, road and sea including door-to-door delivery across the globe.
Customers looking for excess baggage shipping, specialist packing and transportation and courier services in Southampton and the Solent Coast can now use PACK & SEND’s unique services for all their packing and shipping requirements from Southampton to the UK and over 220 countries worldwide as well.
Business and personal customers will find the helpful and professional service that PACK & SEND provide a breath of fresh air in a traditionally complicated market. They can handle virtually anything, but are specialists in shipping large, fragile, awkward or valuable items where high quality packing is essential.
PACK & SEND Southampton is owned and operated by Mr Nick Jennings under the PACK & SEND franchise programme. Nick, already a successful local business owner looked at several sites in the City before opting for the high visibility and accessibility of Queensway. For customers wanting to call in, the store carries the distinctive PACK & SEND signage and is in a central location near to car parking.
Of course, as with all PACK & SEND stores in the UK and across the world, there is no need to come to the shop at all! PACK & SEND can collect your goods and parcels from any location and secure packing can be undertaken either on-site or at the local store. The Southampton store has already worked on shipments from Art and Antiques Dealers and Medical Specialists as well as many small businesses throughout the Hampshire sending to destinations throughout the world. They are able to collect from locations across the county when required, so just call or e.mail your details and Nick and the team will be delighted to help.
The contact details for PACK & SEND Southampton are:
77 Queensway
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 3HJ
Telephone:02380 713 444
e.mail:[email protected]
PACK & SEND are planning up to 240 stores across the UK; many of which will be operated through a franchise license. Individuals interested in owning a PACK & SEND store can find more information at www.packsend.co.uk/southampton.php and anyone needing to ship items in the UK or to anywhere else in the world can request a quote online or call 02380 713 444.
For further information, please contact: Graeme Rhodes – PACK & SEND UK: [email protected], Website: www.packsend.co.uk
Note to Editors
Pack & Send is a packing and shipping company that offers a complete range of postal, freight, courier, packing and removal services operating through a national retail network. We were founded in Australia in 1993 and started trading in the UK in January, 2009.
We manage packaging, freight and message sending services for businesses of all sizes, as well as for householders and tourists. We pride ourselves in providing a one-stop solution for our customers and are easy to do business with. We are the industry leader with respect to handling goods that are fragile, large, awkward, and valuable.
We offer over 30 different freight services, enabling us to deliver to any destination on the planet. Message sending services include not only courier and mailing of hard documents but the electronic transmission of messages. We sell packaging supplies and can custom pack items of any size or weight.
Every moment, of every day there is something that was packed and sent by a Pack & Send store being moved somewhere on the planet.
In 2007 Pack & Send:
served over 120,000 customers and delivered approximately 500,000 items.
packed and sent thousands of computer monitors, servers, and laptops and counts Fuji Xerox and Cisco Systems as valuable clients.
had professionally packed and delivered artwork and antiques valued at over $20 million worldwide. Pack & Send count Sotheby’s as one of their customers.
packed, sent, and returned to travellers over 2,000 mobile phones, laptop computers, and documents that had been left on aircraft and counts Qantas as one of their customers.
Every day Pack & Send is asked to deliver the ‘weird and wonderful’, some of which have included:
A 4 metre circumference ferris wheel model made from Meccano
Enormous Olympic Games Sets, Costumes and Props – some at over 8 meters high.
60 Mars Ice Cream bars half way around the world.
A Jet Boat engine from Dorset to Sydney.
The largest consignment that Pack & Send has managed so far was eight 40 foot sea-containers of computer equipment that had to be professionally packed and sent to the USA.
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Contact :
Graeme Rhodes
PACK & SEND
Southampton, Hampshire
02380 713 444
[email protected]
