Why Having a Local Courier is a Must for Your Business

March 9, 2024

A Priceless Investment

loading a pallet of boxes into a NJ courier van

If you’re involved in running a business, you’ll likely fall into one of these two groups.  For some businesses, using a courier service is an occasional event born out of convenience or a necessary bailout of a tricky situation. For others, it’s a weekly or even daily necessity integral to their operations or business processes.


Whether your project is overdue, you have promo items to rush to an event, or a critical part that needs to get 200 miles away today to keep your facility operating, having a trusted courier to call on is a priceless investment. In this situation, you’re trading money for time and convenience, and a local courier who knows how to service customers will make the convenience factor very apparent.  Let’s say for example this was an item that you could feasibly drive to deliver yourself.  By the time you factored in all the time and gas money, the numerous expletives you’d rack up from the hours of traffic, not to mention an entire work day or more of lost productivity, it wouldn’t at all be worth it.


Couriers Are Good Business Sense

A courier hands a same day rush delivered package to a customer

This is precisely where a good business relationship with a local and trusted courier will pay dividends. Clients will be impressed or at the very least happily retained, when they see that you’re doing whatever it takes to successfully deliver that project. Think of it as business insurance. Plus, it makes for a great and memorable story.  And we all know, great stories are retold and bold moves are rewarded.  “Dave, we just finished the prototypes this morning and we’re exclusively flying them to you so you’ll have them in hand this afternoon so you can show your partner in San Diego tomorrow.” Who do you think is more likely to win that account- the company who has the confidence to do whatever it takes to get things there immediately, or the one who snail mails it a week later?


Couriers serve a different role in businesses that have weekly or daily delivery needs. These often include time sensitive, unconventionally shaped, exposed or heavy items that would take too long to deliver via major carrier. And in many cases, those typical carriers wouldn’t even be able to transport these items to begin with. And especially in the critical world of construction materials, we get those supplies to you same day, which is something the supplier's slow delivery just can't handle.

Couriers Saving the Day

Our aircraft flying above the clouds to deliver your critical items long distance same day

Many companies we work with have regular or periodic samples, or critical parts that need to return to service right away.  If you’re involved in industrial applications, you know that downtime is your worst nightmare.  Depending on your size, it can cost anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands or more per hour! So now it should be painfully obvious how the quickest transportation of your critical parts can save you at the minimum, many thousands of dollars. Take the case of overnighting an item vs flying or ground transporting it same day- it will be a difference of 10-12 hours, saving you at least $20,000 based on a $2000/hr worth of units produced

Keeping it Simple

a new jersey courier delivering boxes marked

Often, the ease of working with a local courier is an eye opening experience. Take, for example, the situation of in-office contractors. Imagine if you had to fill out a lengthy and detailed form and possibly even pay with a credit card every time you had a project or task for them.  You would quickly begin to dread the process.  That’s why we make it simple. Instead, when you work with a local courier like Tailwind, ordering a pickup is as easy as shooting off an email, text, or call.  Not to mention, you’ll get payment terms by setting up an account up front, and you’ll have time to batch pay consolidated invoices at your leisure instead of rushing to prepay each and every time.


If you’re in business you can’t afford to not have a quick, reliable and trusty courier service on hand. Whether you have a weekly need or simply have to get that item delivered to meet a deadline once in a while, you’ll be glad you have a company you can rely on, right there by your side today and well into the future.


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