We now deliver on Saturdays and Bank Holidays! That’s right. As of today, we will now deliver on Saturdays and Bank Holidays to help people get their orders even sooner! Our first Saturday deliveries will be this Saturday (30th April) and our first Bank Holiday deliveries will be this coming Early May Bank Holiday Monday (... Tristan Thomas Apr 27
Dispatched: Collection improvements for merchants When you’ve got a Packfleet driver coming to collect from you, you can now see a live map of exactly where they are and a up-to-date ETA for when they’ll get to you. Perfect for working out whether you’ve got time to package that last parcel up quickly before we arrive! Tristan Thomas Mar 31
Dispatched: More settings and preferences Weʼve got lots of exciting changes lined up for the Packfleet app our customers use. First among them is: expanded settings and preferences! For our new tracking pages as part of giving recipients more control, we assigned each of our merchants an emoji to represent the produc... Robin Bilgil Mar 21
Building a courier from scratch, Part II: The vehicle routing problem How we built Pathfinder: the tooling we use to operate our own deliveries Robin Bilgil Mar 8
Dispatched: Putting recipients back in control 💪 We’ve always wanted to put recipients back in control of their deliveries and today we’re announcing a selection of new features that do this, some of which aren’t possible to do with any other courier. And the best bit is that all of these options are available at any point i... Tristan Thomas Mar 7
Building a courier from scratch: How we left no-code behind Last summer, we set out to replace the first iteration of our web app, built on a no-code platform. This is the first of a series of posts on how we transitioned our product and operations to our own tech. The early days of Packfleet Packfleet started as a tiny courier with a ... Robin Bilgil Feb 8
Dispatched: Filter Shopify orders by tags ✨ One of the things our customers love about using Packfleet is our easy integration with Shopify, that makes importing orders just a couple of clicks. We want to keep making this integration better and better, so have just released the ability to filter Shopify orders based on ... Robin Bilgil Feb 7
Dispatched: All new notifications, improved tracking pages, improved ETAs and more! Over the last couple of months, we’ve been hard at work building our own routing engine. This is what powers almost everything logistically behind the scenes — it means our drivers know where to go and when, our merchants know when we’re coming to collect and our recipients kn... Tristan Thomas Jan 18
Same-day collections now live for everyone! Happy Monday morning! We’re excited to say that, as of last week, all of our customers can now book same-day collections with us. We’ve been trialling it with a few merchants over the last couple of months and are now rolling this out to everyone. Booking a same-day collection... Tristan Thomas Jan 17
Refer a business to Packfleet and get 25% off your bill! Most of our customers joined Packfleet because they were recommended by another customer, whether a friend, business acquaintance or neighbour! We love it when this happens, because it mean we’re creating something that really provides value for our merchants and that they wan... Tristan Thomas Jan 13
Dispatched: Packfleet’s Weekly Update — 17th December 2021 Our latest weekly update on your doorstep! Insert "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." joke here 👀 Keen readers might have noticed there’s been a few weekly updates missing. We’ve been super busy scaling the operational side of things th... Josh Garnham Dec 17, 2021
Dispatched: Packfleet’s Weekly Update — 26th November 2021 Our busiest week of parcels yet so a lot of focus on the operational side of things this week! Also we had our first van wrapped with our branding and design which looks amazing — more on that soon 👀 Improvements 🙈 Booked collections will now close for further shipments once ... Josh Garnham Nov 29, 2021