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10 years of Gophr: 10 things i’ve learned about running a courier business
It’s hard to believe, but Gophr celebrated its 10th anniversary last month. As I reflect on this milestone, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who’s been part of this journey. The customers,…
Gophr In-app Courier Training: How we improve delivery standards
Gophr's In-App Courier Training: How it improves delivery standards If a decade in same day deliveries has taught us anything it's that courier quality matters. Particularly for our clients.…
AI in Logistics: Transforming the Logistics Industry
AI in Logistics: Transforming the Logistics Industry Efficiency has always been a foundational value of the logistics industry. However, as global supply chains become more complex and customer…
Best Ways to Optimise Last Mile Logistics
Best Ways to Optimise Last Mile Logistics Being the last leg in the supply chain, last mile deliveries are notorious for being the costliest and most time-consuming. And it’s about to get worse - at…
Green Logistics: How to Make Your Operations Greener
The logistics industry accounts for 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and with the growing awareness around global warming and climate change, companies need to act. And while we know there’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The retailer’s shipping guide to a successful peak holiday season
"There is concern toy retailers won't be able to meet the massive increase in online orders because of courier constraints" - Gary Grant, boss of the Entertainer. In what is already an insanely busy…
21st century milkmen: providing delivery services for your local community
The situation So you may have heard by now that the entire country is on lockdown. You’ve also probably read all the articles about how couriers and those working for a local delivery service are now…
A how-to guide for bricks-and-mortar businesses pivoting to dark store delivery models
Even before the recent Government lockdown was announced we were getting a lot of enquiries around providing delivery from businesses looking to adapt to a delivery-only model, so we’ve put together…
What it’s really like to work as a self employed courier
Updated: 21/04/21 What is a self employed courier? A self-employed courier is a person responsible for delivering parcels on behalf of customers. But there’s far more to the job than initially meets…
How we gather valuable user insights to drive product innovation
Updated: 21/12/19 Gophr is a marketplace made up of two sides: couriers and customers: supply and demand. Startups working in the on-demand delivery sector tend to be well funded enough that they…
Gift ideas for a security-conscious cyclist
Updated: 18/12/19 The cycling revolution is happening. Probably at a slower pace than we’d like, but it’s happening. We all want to be part of it, but there is some malfeasance out there that want to…
Slack? Completed it. How Slack is central to how we work
Updated: 12/12/19 Slack has become central to our company culture here at Gophr. As it’s integral to our day-to-day communication, we thought we’d share some insight into how we use it. We’ll talk…
Cycle couriers tackling the sorry state of the London air crisis
Updated: 3/12/19 We’re very proud to be working with two highly-innovative British Tech companies: CleanSpace and Inmarsat. Together, we're undertaking the largest air pollution research project in…
The future of couriering
Updated: 21/04/20 What does couriering mean today? Couriers have been relied upon to move parcels and letters from A to B for hundreds of years, and they’re still in as high demand today as they were…
Interviews from the void: Saving South Bank Undercroft with Jasper Bainbridge
Updated: 25/11/19 September 2015; 12 months on from the success of the Long Live South Bank Campaign. Now that the Totally Thames festival is underway, we decided it was a good time to look into one…
Interviews from the void: The Good Brownie Co.
Updated: 22/11/19 Everyone can appreciate the feeling when you get to eat something that’s really good. David, the co-founder of the Good Brownie company, has a distinct vision for how his brownies…
ALLEZ! Time well spent at the ECMC Milan
Updated: 16/11/19 The European Cycle Messenger Championships (ECMC) is an annual competition for European bicycle messengers. This year, our Co-Founder, Seb Robert, immersed himself in the largest…
Bike manufacturing start ups that you need to know about
Updated: 13/11/19 We thought we’d share a bit about our favourite bike manufacturing startups so you know where to head when you’re looking for your next set of wheels. If you’re not thinking of…
What I learned from going to the 23rd Cycle Messenger World Championships in Melbourne, Australia
Updated: 10/11/19 Our Founder, Seb Robert, visited the other side of the world for the love of bikes. See what he got up to at the 23rd Cycle Messenger World Championships. Five days. Five days in…
