Currently, express delivery services are very popular, it is convenient and fast.
With the development of information technology, service delivery has become particularly comfortable. And this applies not only to documents and letters.
This also applies to large freight, goods produced by metal stamping, or foodstuffs, or clothes or spare parts.
Nowadays many people use the services of couriers and the term “express delivery” firmly entered everyday life.
And yet, this service was provided for the first time by American company UPS in 1907.
The company carries out the delivery of flowers, packages and small consignments of goods.
In that time courier delivery was carried out at short distances.
But the fact remains, express delivery, as a service, began its existence.
The successful experience of the courier company UPS was inherited by Australians 36 years later.
“Pioneer” in this field was Ken Thomas, who became the founder of the company-carrier TNT in 1946.
He made the emphasis on the implementation of regular traffic between the cities.
But adopting the principles of fast delivery of goods, Australian introduced his own innovations, one of which was the opportunity to confirm the successful delivery.
In the company TNT, a special certificate with a signature from the recipient was given to all customers who wanted to make sure of a successful delivery.
Ken Thomas, basing on the experience of colleagues in this area, and bringing his new ideas, was able to make the company become the first among the many competitors in this business. That was a powerful impuls to further development of TNT.
Real revolution in the provision of courier services, occurred in 1969.
When three Californian businessman: Adrian Delsy, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn, translated into reality the idea of using aircraft for transportation.
They founded the company DHL.
Before 1996, the monopoly of Russian Post for the provision of shipment and delivery of parcels, freight and mail, operated on the territory of Russian Federation.
After the law abolishing the monopoly, the companies providing public courier services to deliver items, began to appear one by one.