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INSTANT ALERTS TO CARRIERS WHO MATCH YOUR ITEMS DESTINATION.

Friday, March 13th, 2009

HOW? It’s called FIND CARRIERS and its simple:

  1. SENDERS - for FREE,  find carriers in exactly the area you need, and alert / contact them directly.
  2. CARRIERS - you get immediately alerted, automatically, to new stuff in your area and get weekly / daily emails about new stuff.

SENDERS – ITS FREE. Just upload your item, click “find carriers” and get a list of carriers who cover the area you need. Message or contact them. 

CARRIERS - upgrade / join as Carrier EXTRA.

  1. See what you get:  (http://www.stuff2send.com/users/register)
  2. See what it looks like: (http://www.stuff2send.com/users/carrierdirectory )

CARRIERS, How does it work?

  1. You get alerts direct from senders, with a link to their item. Just click the link to see the details. Or, the sender may choose to call or email you directly (so it’s important to build a good rating so they feel more inclined to contact you directly).
  2. Senders  find carriers by links in My Account & Detail View (per item).
  3. Anyone can see the list of carriers. But only senders with a live item can A. find carriers matching their item B. message carriers C. see carrier profile.

CARRIERS, What do I do Now?

  1. Log-in (http://www.stuff2send.com/users/login)
  2. Click upgrade, choose Carrier EXTRA and follow instructions. 
  3. When confirmed as Carrier EXTRA, go to my account / towns covered and tick the areas / towns you cover. Submit.

That’s it. You’ll be a Carrier EXTRA, and senders can alert you to new stuff that matches where you drive. Just wait to be alerted.

But Remember: It’s still wise to check the site, using the search filters, just in case a sender chooses not to use find carriers.

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Carriers – important. Please read.

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

We have improved the site so registered businesses can now include their GIT & Public Liabilty insurance details. These will be visible in your profile to help senders.

Please log-in to My Account /My details and update your insurance details. 

Also, we are mulling a new feature on the site that would allow a sender, once they’ve uploaded an item, to search for carriers by towns. A sort of directory of carriers but by towns you cover. 

How it might work – a sender with an item to go from Bristol to Birmingham would input both placenames in a search box, and see a list of carrriers covering these towns. They could then either message you or contact you directly (your contact details would be visible to them). If you wanted to make an offer (or agreed an offer on the phone directly with the sender) you would make an offer online, and they would accept it. This would ensure you are both rated – very important for future business!

It’s an idea at the moment, any comments or feedback most welcome: directory@stuff2send.com.

(If there are any couriers in the Berkshire / Newbury area, then we’d be delighted to meet you and get your input into the detail of it all. Lunch on us!)

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Thanks for your feedback……new improvements.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Thanks to Jonathan, Ian, Andy and all of you for your kind feedback on the site.

….which is keeping our excellent technical team busy  - making the site easier to navigate, find stuff and make offers:

  • Businessess – we are introducing mandatory fields for insurance cover –  GIT (goods in transit) and public liability insurance. These will be visible to senders in your carrier profile. We will be emailing all businesses once this is live to update their profiles, to help senders and you. 
  • New “upload” section – we’re going to improve this so it’s easier to navigate and gives you clearer “options” at the end eg “businessess only” / “telephone offers”.
  • New “search” filters – including search by placenames, by items ending in 24 hours.
  • List View – so you can see the items on a map and also in a list, so you have the choice.
  • Remember my page, so when you log-in it takes you to the page you were trying to see.

That’s the current crop of “new stuff” on the way. Plenty more in the pipeline, including alerts and branching out to the Republic of Ireland……more news of these in time.

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…making it better for you

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

We are currently working on some new features for the site, including

  • alerts of items along a journey (between 2 postcodes)
  • List view of items to complement the map view.
  • Message alert when items are in their lst 24 hours before offers close
  • ..and more.

If you are a user of the site – sender or carrier, individual or business, we would welcome your comments and input as we develop the site. If you are willling to talk with us, and have some valid thoughts, please contact us and let us know….we welcome your input.

Stuff2send team

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