Free iParcel app for the iPhone and iPad is here!

Nov. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- Keeping track of every penny, and every parcel.

We all know the sinking feeling when the cost for delivering a parcel is more than the parcel's value. Whether it's a spare part being sent to Sunderland or a birthday present for your nephew in New Zealand, checking costs across the alternatives has always been tedious and time-consuming with the result that businesses and individuals tend to grin and bear the cost, and get into the habit of using the same delivery service time and time again.

Well, now the alternatives can be compared within a few seconds. UK firm, Fast Lane International, is the first in the world to recognise the potential for an app to instantaneously provide cost and service comparisons from leading couriers plus the facility to place the booking within the same process, and the result is their successfully launched iParcel.

Each year billions upon billions of miles are travelled by hundreds of millions of parcels to countless thousands of destinations, by road, sea and air. And the number of parcels sent is on the increase, fuelled significantly by the huge rate of growth of on-line shopping.

Within this sector, the couriers generally do an excellent job, but some will be more suited to certain deliveries than others, and finding your way through this complex picture of collection addresses, delivery addresses, package sizes and weights and numerous service levels is close to impossible.

This new app has been developed in-house by Fast Lane at their head office in Maidenhead and looks set to provide immediate cost-savings to businesses and households throughout the UK. All you do is enter the parcel's collection address, delivery address, dimensions and weight and the iParcel app provides an immediate display of costs for the major courier companies, each cost tailored to that specific parcel. All users need to do is select the courier they want to use and Fast Lane takes care of the rest.

"We all have our individual strengths", says Dale Hart, Chief Executive of Fast Lane, "and couriers are no exception. Some couriers are more cost-effective for UK deliveries, some for European next-day services and so forth. The iParcel App for the first time enables users to instantaneously assess which courier is best suited to each individual parcel. Businesses and individuals dispatching parcels within the UK and globally can download iParcel completely free to access comparative costs and service levels which would otherwise take lots of separate time-consuming enquiries - you can even track the parcel from collection from your door through its delivery in the same App - it does it all."

So forget that sinking feeling - gone could be the days when the delivery costs more than the contents of the parcel. The iParcel app is available for immediate download, free from the App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iparcel/id381705150?mt=8

For more information please visit Fast Lane International at:
http://www.wedelivertheworld.co.uk

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