{"id":5179,"date":"2020-12-20T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:26:07","slug":"guaranteed-christmas-delivery-can-online-stores-keep-that-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/guaranteed-christmas-delivery-can-online-stores-keep-that-promise","title":{"rendered":"Guaranteed Christmas delivery – Can online stores keep that promise?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been and gone,\nthe hard work starts in earnest for delivery companies across the country. Of\ncourse, 2020 has seen more emphasis placed on online ordering than in previous\nyears due to the Covid pandemic, but with Christmas fast approaching and\nshoppers taking advantage of online deals, that is when things ramp up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK, online shoppers spent around \u00a32.5 billion on\nCyber Monday, which has now become the busiest day in the year for online\nshopping. With Cyber Monday usually falling just before December starts, many\nonline merchants will try to put shoppers\u2019 minds at ease that everything will\nbe with them in time for the festive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when the online store is making these promises, they are often relying on a good courier service<\/a> to seal the deal for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Cyber Monday is far enough away from Christmas Day\nto be able to guarantee delivery, especially when there isn\u2019t a huge\ngeographical difference between buyer and seller, the deeper it gets into\nDecember, the more perilous the promise becomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last orders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many delivery companies operating in the UK will be\ntransparent about when the latest possible dates are to guarantee Christmas\ndelivery. Couriers know better than most how realistic or not guarantees of\nChristmas delivery can be and this will be reflected in the dates they publish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online merchants will take their lead from delivery\ncompanies and should advise customers accordingly whether something they buy\ncan be delivered in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With tracking technology becoming ever more\nsophisticated, customers can track their parcels from when they leave the\nonline store. It is important, therefore, for couriers to be able to provide up\nto date tracking information about deliveries that are in their care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if an online store has guaranteed a customer\nChristmas delivery, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that a courier will be able\nto make the same guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 has seen an unprecedented number of couriers and\ndelivery drivers on the road, handling an ever-increasing number of parcels.\nAll will of course be trying their best to make sure all deliveries are made on\ntime, but it can be a particularly stressful experience for couriers if anxious\ncustomers are waiting for their orders in the days leading up to Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While tracking can help keep them in the loop, it can\nsometimes make customers more stressed out, especially as Christmas Day\napproaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buying local<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A big emphasis in 2020 has been on buying local as small\nbusinesses have struggled with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Of\ncourse, buying local doesn\u2019t just mean popping along to the independent shops\nin your town. Many small businesses have set up online and rely on couriers to\nmake their deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are also more likely to be able to guarantee Christmas delivery<\/a> as the majority of their customers will be located close to their business. An increase in online small business trade is also good news for couriers as it provides more work and often doesn\u2019t involve travelling too far to make deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been and gone, the hard work starts in earnest for delivery companies across the country. Of course, 2020 has seen more emphasis placed on online ordering than in previous years due to the Covid pandemic, but with Christmas fast approaching and shoppers taking advantage of online deals, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,41,65,114,35,1],"tags":[1197895,55,197,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6134,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}