Urgent vs Direct Deliveries: What’s the difference and how to book them

There’ll often come a time when you need to move things from A to B as a matter of urgency, but you might not know which delivery service to pick.  We’re going to run through 2 of the fastest same…

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Last mile delivery: Explained

While every link in the supply chain plays a vital role in getting parcels to where they need to be, last mile delivery is the make-or-break moment for retailers and their customers.  Handle it…

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Ship from Store: What is it, benefits, and how to get set up

It’s no wonder ship from store has taken off in the last few years. It speeds up inventory management (allowing retailers to hop on trends), offers customers speedy delivery and has its…

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How peaky businesses are getting ready for peak deliveries, 2023-style

The Xmas / Black Friday peak period is important for just about every business - holiday sales typically make up about 20% of annual retail purchases. And we're heading into a holiday season where…

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How Motion Picture Solutions meet urgent same day delivery deadlines nationwide with Gophr’s direct, sustainable fleet

Motion Picture Solutions (MPS) masters and delivers world-class content for major studios and independent distributors. Challenge is: there’s lots of high-value moving parts, lots of bookers and ever…

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How Leyland SDM rolled out a turnkey same day solution to all 33 stores with Gophr’s versatile fleet

Recognising the busy schedules of London’s tradespeople, Leyland SDM understood the importance of time, as it often equates to money lost when tradespeople have to leave job sites to collect tools or…

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How Gophr supported Asda to deliver their award-winning Express service; the full online product range delivered to your door same-day

After establishing themselves in the rapid grocery space, Asda wanted a different kind of offer that delivered what their customers really wanted; a full range of groceries, delivered in as little as…

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How Screwfix Sprint, the first of its kind on-demand delivery service, went from pilot to 300 stores nationwide

Screwfix understands how busy the nation’s tradespeople are, and for many, time is money when they have to leave the site to collect the required tools or materials to complete a job. As part of…

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A courier’s guide to sustainable packaging

As demands for quick and convenient shipping stay strong, it’s easy to overlook one critical element: the packaging.    Climate change and consumer demand is pushing sustainable packaging high…

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Christmas 2022 last posting dates

Just a quick heads up that Gophr is ‘open’ and delivering EVERY DAY over the Xmas period - even on Christmas Day* should you need us. With industrial action causing all sorts of postage backlogs,…

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Green Logistics: How localising delivery can reduce your footprint

Ship-from-store and micro-fulfilment centres (MFCs) are at the core of new sustainable logistics models as they are placed closer to consumers, reducing delivery times and offering more efficient…

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Green logistics: A courier’s guide to reducing failed deliveries

There’s much more to sustainable deliveries than just electric vehicles.  Failed deliveries (late, missed, lost or wrong) are one of the key contributors to delivery emissions.  On average in the UK,…

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How leading electrical wholesaler, Rexel, launched their ship-from-store same day delivery service, Rexel Rapid, to help keep tradespeople on the tools

Rexel is combining the power of Gophr’s nationwide couriers and their local  branches to provide tradespeople with the supplies they urgently need with a 90 minute delivery service, Rexel Rapid. The…

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Food Deliveries: The World Cup vs Christmas

Christmas is always a time of great indulgence, with festive treats piling high on dining tables throughout the holiday season. But this year, the run-up to Christmas will be a little different, as…

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Logistipedia: The ultimate guide to logistics lingo

We’re delivery people not jargon people. So we’ve rustled up a list of logistics jargon that we’ve attempted to un-pretzel into regular lingo. Hopefully it’ll help demystify those key logistic terms…

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How Gophr is helping to transform the on-demand courier landscape with a rewarding benefits programme

This blog post was originally written by Onsi and uploaded to their blog on 17/07/2022. ‍Gophr is a same-day delivery platform with a difference. Actually, quite a few differences – one of the most…

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Upgraded courier protection and benefit packages with Onsi

Every self-employed worker should get easy access to benefits and protection, to support their everyday life and help them to feel secure and valued in their place of work.  Which is why we were the…

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Most Popular Delivery Drivers on TikTok

How better to boost brand awareness than with your very own TikTok star?  TikTok has been the leading force in some of the craziest trends over the last few years including Zoom meeting mishaps,…

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How Qured built one of the UKs biggest at-home medical testing networks (and won a major airline contract) powered by on-demand same-day delivery

Qured has always focussed on at-home services, but over the course of the pandemic, it pivoted from a GP visiting service to become one of the UK's leading rapid testing providers. A pivot made…

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March News Roundup: Comebacks

Our monthly roundup of industry news is published in our newsletter: Gophr Delivered. If you'd like to get these delivery-shaped nuggets in your inbox, you can subscribe here.   It’s been 2…

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Gophr x Parcelly: increasing urban logistics efficiency with our hub-to-home collaboration

We've teamed up with Parcelly to help tackle the urban logistics challenge by combining their hyper-local warehousing with our last-mile delivery. Parcelly has over 2,500 hyper-local warehousing…

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Working with couriers to deliver office culture to remote workers

This article appeared originally on Hofy's website on 15/03/2022 This month marks two years of a world gone remote, catalysed by the COVID-19 crisis. And yet, even two years in, many remote and…

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How to make the most of your Shopify store with the Gophr x Zapiet integration

Gophr has now integrated with Zapiet's app, Zapiet - Pickup + Delivery, which means customers can generate quotes at checkout, create delivery jobs, receive status updates and cancel jobs, all from…

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Floral delivery issues: What do consumers complain most about on Twitter?

The first floral delivery service was founded by 15 American florists in 1910. Nowadays you can send flowers for pretty much anything from showing appreciation, sending congratulations, mourning a…

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How iSmash launched a nationwide same-day service to take ultimate convenience to their customers

In Spring 2020, when lockdown required everyone to stay behind closed doors, iSmash turned to Gophr to help adapt their existing repair service. With everyone clearing through the dreaded junk drawer…

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4 questions about how to build a dedicated in-house delivery fleet – and the answers you need

Businesses of every size are benefiting from the boom in online shopping.  Online shopping is one of the most popular activities worldwide, with e-retail revenues projected to surpass $8.1 trillion…

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4 Ways to Get Better at Delivery as a Florist 

As spring quickly approaches, florists need to get ready for their busiest time of year. Union Fleurs, the International Flower Trade Association, reports that the peak seasons for flowers are…

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A Courier’s Guide to Remote Work Delivery

Hybrid working looks set to continue for many businesses across the UK even after all the Coronavirus restrictions are lifted. Which means there’s added complexity for PAs, EAs and TAs who now have…

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5 Ways Same Day Delivery Can Help Printers

On-demand printing remains a large industry, one that is still viable and competitive, even in the digital age.  According to Print Business, for instance, the numbers for 2018 showed that printing,…

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How ethical grocer, Farmdrop, met festive surge demand through a flexible same day fleet

When a business relies on last-mile logistics to deliver perishable goods, demand fluctuations are a common issue. Investing in a small in-house fleet avoids wasted capacity, but what happens when…

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Gophr’s SMB Guide: How to launch same day delivery

In the fast-paced world that we live in, where hyper-fast grocery startups are getting goods to customers in 10 minutes, it’s no surprise that people expect everything possible to be delivered…

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How is Peak uncertainty affecting your carrier plans?

Peak stress? Here’s what you can do... Trying to predict exactly what will be thrown at retailers this peak season is a little like trying to nail jelly to the wall. The pandemic, global supply chain…

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How leading digital agency, Brainlabs, took their company culture remote thanks to same-day delivery

When the world went into lockdown, businesses quickly realised that the office culture they’d spent years building was quite a challenge to share with remote workers.  Our same-day courier service…

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How many people still miss deliveries despite working from home?

We have seen a major shift in remote working over the last two years with many professionals working remotely. At the end of the Coronavirus job retention scheme in September 2021, 16% of businesses…

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How Phlo, the UK’s first same-day, online pharmacy is using quick and secure delivery to drive national expansion and disrupt an industry

Some things are straightforward to deliver, but when it comes to medication, it’s a different ballgame. This is something digital pharmacy, Phlo, knows all too well; consider a long list of security…

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How retail tech platform, Dropit, delivered ‘hands-free’ shopping during the pandemic

Despite shops reopening last June, footfall for Central London retailers was down 72%. Tourists and locals alike were wary of visiting stores like they used to. Our couriers helped Dropit to give…

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How Co-op rolled out their same-day delivery service from local pilot to 200 stores nationwide in 6 months

Co-op, the nation’s convenience store, wanted to expand rapidly and reliably. After establishing a convenience store in every corner of the land, they faced the challenge of finding a delivery…

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Stronger, faster, better: How electric bikes have helped us triple the size of our London bike zone

First up, what is the bike zone? It’s the designated area in London where your Gophr deliveries are eligible to be booked on push bikes or cargo bikes.   And triple the size. Really? Yep 3x. Made…

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Gophr x IMRG: New Normal Delivery Expectations Unpacked

Having just experienced the strongest period of eCommerce growth in over a decade, the need for fast, flexible and reliable delivery has never been so important. So, how have people's delivery…

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Gophr x Hofy: Helping remote workers feel right at home

WFH went from being a hard-won perk to being standard practice overnight. But if people can't come to the office, you need to take the office to them.  That's a lot of bulk to deliver, and that's…

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Same Day Delivery comes in many different ‘flavours’

Same day delivery was once associated with bouquets of flowers, legal documents and forgotten keys. Fast forward a lockdown or three, with people demanding greater convenience, same day is fast…

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How to run a same day delivery pilot

Same-day delivery is a simple concept that’s difficult to get right in practice. Getting it right requires a well-planned pilot programme; with a clearly defined objective, and all the important…

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Hub to Home: Bundled or unbundled?

There’s a maxim in delivery that the ‘last mile’ is the most difficult and expensive of all the miles. Estimates put it at 40 - 50% of the total fulfilment cost, and that’s before you factor in the…

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TSC Terms and conditions

GOPHR LTDTHE SUPPER CLUBDEAL TERMS & CONDITIONSAPRIL 2021     These Terms & Conditions are in addition to Gophr’s standard Terms & Conditions. Members of The Supper Club are…

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Supporting our people and the planet

We think of sustainability as being two-fold; people and planet. We’ve always worked very hard at making sure we go further than others in our sector on the people side, making sure we do better by…

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Some big news… Series A funding is done

Reaching Series A funding has been a long time coming for us and we've spent the last 5-6 years really trying to understand every inch of the industry, and getting ourselves in position to be really…

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Nothing says ‘I love you’ like last minute deliveries

GET IN TOUCH   In the olden normal times, up to 1/3 of us left Valentine’s Day to the last minute, because nothing says ‘I love you’ more than a panic buy, right? Old habits die hard and we’re…

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Same day delivery extends reach of click and collect

This article was featured in the Scottish Grocer as an advertorial. Click + Collect has become a leading omnichannel solution for many retailers thanks to its low cost and convenience (particularly…

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Ordering and delivery habits in 2020

This year has been one of monumental change, and that’s of course largely down to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. With more people than ever before working from home, and social…

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What are multi-drop deliveries and who are they for?

If you send multiple same-day parcels a day you could benefit from our multi-drop delivery option. To book using our multi-drop sheet (linked below) you must have at least 20 drops or pick-ups on the…

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