PACK & SEND; the packing and shipping company launched in the UK at the start of 2009, have opened their latest store in central Leeds
Leeds, England, January 08, 2010 — PACK & SEND; the packing and shipping company launched in the UK at the start of 2009, have opened their latest store in central Leeds. The new store is their largest yet and offers both personal and business customers a wide range of packing and shipping options to worldwide destinations.
Customers looking for excess baggage shipping, specialist packing and transportation and courier services in Leeds and West Yorkshire can now use PACK & SEND’s unique services for all their packing and shipping requirements from Leeds to the UK and over 220 countries worldwide as well.
PACK & SEND’s largest store yet is in central Leeds and local demand for the breadth of secure packing and shipping options from both business and consumer customers is already proving strong. With a population of over 750,000 within the City itself and the towns of Wakefield, Dewsbury, Pontefract and Castleford to the south and Ilkley, Horsforth, Harrogate & Knaresborough to the north, the first PACK & SEND store in Leeds is ideally placed to provide high quality packing, shipping and freight solutions to one of the UK’s main conurbations.
PACK & SEND make a simple promise – ‘We send anything, anywhere!’ – and 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.
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. Typical shipments managed by the UK business in the last 12 months have been:
£1 million specialist lab equipment moved to Sweden and Holland
1.5m model trolley bus sent to Spain
Specialist server and switch units to data centres in the UK and elsewhere
Around £1/2 million of original artwork to various locations
Motocross bike and engines to Australia
12th Century Iranian ceramics to the USA
Large plasma panel screen TV to Isle of Man
Sports car hardtops to the USA
Excess baggage for tourists and travellers to countries across the globe
PACK & SEND Leeds North is owned and operated by Mr Simon Smith under the PACK & SEND franchise programme. Simon looked at several sites in the City before opting for the high visibility and accessibility of Kirkstall Road – one of the busiest routes into the City Centre. For customers wanting to call in, not only does the store carry the distinctive PACK & SEND signage, but it is easily identified by the bright blue frontage and has plenty of easy parking for delivery and collection of packages.
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 Leeds store has already worked on shipments from York, Selby and Ripon and is able to collect from locations across the county when required so just call or e.mail your details and Simon and the team will be delighted to help.
The contact details for PACK & SEND Leeds North are:
11 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS3 1LH
Telephone: 0113 243 6393
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/leedsnorth and anyone needing to ship items (however unusual) in the UK or to anywhere else in the world can request a quote online or call 0113 243 6393.
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For further information, please contact:
Graeme Rhodes – PACK & SEND UK: [email protected]
Website: www.packsend.co.uk
Note to Editors
Pack & Send is a company that offers a complete range of postal, freight, courier, packing and removal services operating through a national retail network. We were founded in 1993, establishing the first Pack & Send Store in Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
Pack & Send has expanded over 15 years from the one store and is rapidly becoming a global brand. We are continuing to grow our retail network through franchising.
Open 5 days a week, we manage packaging, freight and message sending services for businesses of all sizes, as well as for householders and tourists. Our freight solutions range from sending a 20gm letter to a 1 tonne consignment. 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.
Through our retail network, we differentiate ourselves from the traditional methods of servicing customer needs in the freight market by offering powerful freight solutions through a combination of experience, first class operating systems, strategic partners and the entrepreneurial spirit of our franchisees.
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.
Famous stars of stage and screen have used Pack & Send to pack and send items home, from Bruce Willis to Rolf Harris.
Every day Pack & Send is asked to deliver the ‘weird and wonderful’, some of which have included:
A Salt encrusted rams head, delivered to a salt industry conference.
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.
A Pack & Send store owner once drove a customer’s motorbike over 2,600 kilometres to get it to where it had to be on time and in one piece.
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Contact :
Graeme Rhodes
PACK & SEND
Leeds, England
0113 243 6393
[email protected]
