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Christmas Package Delivery
Package delivery is a must for Christmas gifts that can’t be delivered personally. Whether it’s for family or friends that live far away or business associates you won’t be seeing over the holidays, gifts can be sent to their recipients in a number of ways besides Santa’s sleigh. Next day and same day delivery options…
Read MoreNext Day LTL Trucking
Eveready Express is proud to offer next day LTL trucking service for companies. LTL means Less Than Truckload. If a shipment is LTL, it is relatively small, and can be broken down into units that are less than 150 pounds. LTL shipments can be transmitted at a lower cost than a full truckload. Eveready Express…
Read MoreThe Future of Messenger Services
At Eveready Express, we promise to provide fast and reliable messenger, courier, and expedited local trucking service for Tri-State Area Firms. This has served our customers well since we started our business in 1984. Of course, as businesses have evolved, we’ve had to slightly modify our business model to match the times. That’s why we’re…
Read MoreExplaining Package Delivery: The Etymology of Mail
A package delivery is often referred to as mail, a word that, in its current form, dates back to the 17th century, with the word first appearing in 1654 to mean a bag full of letters. Over time, as language evolved, mail began to refer to the letters or the package itself, and a new…
Read MoreBlind Shipments Available from Eveready Express
Sometimes a business needs to keep its supplier confidential from the customer. When people need to ship directly from the supplier to the customer but need to protect the product source, they use what we in the package delivery industry call “blind shipping.” When you ship goods but list another company’s name instead of your…
Read MoreStrange Subscription Services
Delivery services have been around for quite a while–so, naturally, people have gotten pretty comfortable with the idea of having items sent directly to their doorsteps. Some popular new trends in package delivery are monthly subscription services. These are typically normal items, like wines, oils, or cheeses, but, recently, many of these subscription services have taken…
Read MoreThe Most Expensive Stamps in the World
Package delivery and, more generally, messenger services have always been closely related to the idea of some sort of postage tax. Of course, with the onset of more popular private delivery companies, other means of payments have been developed. Nonetheless, postage stamps have been the go-to currency for sending goods for quite a long time.…
Read MoreThe Pony Express: A Surprisingly Short History
The Pony Express has become synonymous with some of the earliest messenger services and package delivery in the United States. Often seen as a major part of US history, the Pony Express was actually a sparsely used and very expensive service, namely targeting super rich business owners of the time. Considered a “fast mail service,”…
Read MoreThe United States’ First Packages
Many things have changed since the Postal Service began its package delivery services—namely, the proliferation of private companies and technological leaps in overall logistics services. However, it is entertaining to take a look at what people were sending around the country 100 years ago. Think about it. It was a novel service, and people were…
Read MoreThe Pinnacle of Delivery Technology
Technology and traditional package delivery service isn’t a relationship that jumps directly to mind—people generally think the pinnacle of message delivery is within the Internet. However, when you have a physical package or messenger service needs that must be implemented the old-fashioned way, you’ll find that technology can still be on your side, if you…
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