The features of the parcel delivery services depend on the service provider. Some of the service providers offer excellent parcel delivery services which have the following features.

The service providers analyze your traffic profile. The invoices or consignment manifests are used to analyze the traffic profile.

Some of the companies offering parcel delivery service provide software and label printers. This help in tracking the parcel. The sender knows for sure whether his parcel has reached the destination or not. The tracking of the parcel is very important especially when it is being sent to a different country.

The service provider usually arranges for the pickup of the parcel from the office of the sender and takes the responsibility of reaching it to the destination. Some service providers offer express delivery of the parcel at a slightly higher price.

The service provider usually takes the following responsibility from the point of pickup to the point of destination:

1Delivery within the committed time duration,

2Safety of the parcel

3Assurance of the delivery of the parcel to the receiver, by taking the signature of the receiver on delivery of the packet or parcel

4Careful handling of the parcel so that least damage is done to the content within

5Arrangement of proper packing and shock absorbing material in case of delicate parcel articles

6Arrangement of insurance and paying the premium for it

7Arrangement of meeting the legal formalities for import and export when the parcel is meant for overseas destination.

Sometimes the service providers work out how the can be made as cheap as possible. Some of the service providers come out with constructive solution to costing. When multiple packets are meant for a single overseas country they are clubbed into a bulk parcel and crossed over to the country of destination from where the packets are segregated and send to different places. The cost of individual parcel delivery is usually far more than bulk parcel delivery. This makes the distribution easy. This facilitates not only the sender but also the parcel delivery service providing company. Moreover the concept of bulk parcel delivery reduces the probability of the packets getting lost. The probability of a packet getting lost when sent single is far more than expected.

Usually the parcel delivery service providers try to shorten the route from the point of dispatch to the point of destination. When doing so they not only decrease the transit duration but also quote lesser price forth the client to survive the cut throat competition.