Phantom Courier And Recession

Mark: Hi, it's Mark from Top Local. We're here with Mark Huggan of Phantom Couriers in Vancouver, Vancouver's favourite couriers and one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in British Columbia. How you doing today, Mark? 

Mark:We're doing fantastic. How are you? 

Mark: Good. So things have taken a bit of a downturn and according to the stock market the wave is coming. So how can a courier help companies during a recession? 

Mark: Well, you have to be more efficient, more efficient than ever, right? Everything's important. I learned from the last time that what is valuable is important. So if somebody is going to spend money on a courier, you better perform. And so we'd like to do that. And then also we learned a lot of things last time. We learned that a lot of people cut their mail room staff. When offices have huge mail rooms that do a lot of courier, they can outsource that to us. We can take care of everything from just a regular Canada post mailings and weighing all those packages to picking up the mail at Canada post and bringing it to them because when things go slow, what makes business goes cashflow. So you need your cheques. If you're expecting cheques, EFTs and stuff like that, the mail cheques are just as important. We will pick them up at Canada post and have them to you first thing in the morning instead of 11 o'clock in the morning. So that if you're multitasking staff, you can stagger your staff duties throughout the day so that the regular accounts payable receivable person, it doesn't wait till 11 for the cheques. They're there at like 10. So you've saved yourself an hour and then that person gets that job done. Move on to other tasks such as getting new business or advertising your business and making your business move forward. So we're there for those efficiency models.

A lot of people will start to look for contractors. So a lot of working remotely, and I think we've touched on that before, but right now we are just moving out, like right now, I think there's like 30 workstations going out to remote workers already. People are preparing. So tech companies are like, “Hey, you know what we're going to do? We're going to sublease this section and we're going to move you guys home, and this can be a new efficiency thing”. So that efficiency model's already in play. Because people already are ready, they're ready, they know what to do. 

Mark: You can help companies actually prepare to do that by taking their workstations to their employees as well as delivering stuff to keep the employees efficient while they're working from home.

Mark: Oh, 100% yeah, because they don't, they're not, they're decentralized now. And using a courier could help centralize all the work efforts. So it's an easy thing to do and you're just piecing it out. It's not like, you know, you have, an hour long courier wage. You've just got a 15 minute wage. It's like, so you can do four things to one hour instead of four hours and four things. It's super cost effective and it's super efficient. 

Smaller businesses all over places, tons of small businesses in Vancouver that have larger delivery fleets that are going to be kind of in crisis. So like bakeries and caterers, they may have had, I knew a caterer, they had eight cancellations recently because of the Covid-19 and now all the food has to be separately packaged, all this crazy stuff up. So there's a total shift happening there. And they're regular catering vans that we're going to take out, like the coffee and muffin orders in the morning with a gigantic catering order is now this big giant truck taken out an urn of coffee and muffins for meetings in like whatever lunch and learns, or architectural firms. That should totally be sent up by courier, not wasting a big catering truck that's super expensive. Piece that kind of stuff out. Be more efficient, save your money. In the long run, it'll work out for you, and then who knows? Maybe you can just focus on the bigger orders later and leave that small stuff to the more efficient, smaller courier cars. That's great. There's three good things right there. 

Mark: Beauty. So there you go. If you're looking for some efficiency in case this recession continues for a while, hopefully short and sharp, the guys to call are Phantom Couriers.

You can reach them in Vancouver, 604-899-5447 to book your appointment and they will deliver for you on time. And any package anywhere..

Mark: Phantom Couriers, gets it there with a smile. 

Mark: Thanks Mark. 

Mark: You betcha. See you soon.