A few key facts about the major international parcel delivery services

| Thursday, May 10, 2012
By Anthony K. Gill


Many different options are available for individuals and businesses wanting to send parcels. You will have your pick of different parcel delivery services and companies, but if you want to send parcels internationally, there are really only four companies to consider.

Four major international parcel delivery firms are currently leading the market, and you may know some of them. These are DHL, TNT Express, UPS and FedEx, and you may want to know a bit of basic information on each of these countries before you choose one to send your package or parcel with.

TNT Express is the first parcel delivery service we will look at. The firm was set up in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands, and it still has its headquarters there to this day. Delivering documents, parcels, packages and freight to over 200 countries throughout the world, TNT Express has operations running in more than 65 countries and has one of the largest express networks in the whole of Europe.

United Parcel Service (UPS), one of TNT Express' major competitors, is a parcel delivery service based out of Sandy Springs in Georgia, USA. You will know UPS from its recognisable brown delivery vans, but what you may not know is that the firm delivers over 15 million packages and parcels to customers in over 220 countries every single day.

Another of the four major parcel delivery companies is FedEx, formerly known as Federal Express. The company is best known for its air freight service, as it operates one of the largest civil aircraft fleets on the globe.

The last of the four major parcel delivery services is DHL Express. This was formerly an American firm named after the initials of its founders - Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn - but which is now based in the German city of Bonn after it was bought by Deutsche Post back in 2001. DHL is known as being a world market leader in providing air and sea document, freight and parcel delivery services.




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