As environmental concerns take centre stage, people are increasingly seeking eco-friendly alternatives for their daily needs, including parcel deliveries. At Priority Express, we recognise the importance of sustainable packaging choices and are committed to reducing plastic waste. Here’s how opting for better packaging can help make greener deliveries:

Understanding Packaging Options

Packaging plays a crucial role in protecting goods during transit, but it’s essential to choose materials that minimise environmental impact. Traditional plastic packaging, while effective, often ends up in landfills where it can take hundreds of years to decompose. To address this, businesses are turning to sustainable alternatives.

Sustainable Alternatives

1. Recycled Materials: Packaging made from recycled paper or cardboard reduces the need for virgin materials and can often be recycled again. This not only conserves resources but also helps to lower carbon emissions.
2. Biodegradable Options: Materials like cornstarch-based packing peanuts or mushroom-based packaging decompose naturally and do not contribute to long-term waste.
3. Reusable Packaging: Encouraging the use of packaging that customers can return or reuse helps to cut down on single-use plastics. Companies can offer incentives for customers who return packaging, promoting a circular economy.

Priority Express’s Commitment

At Priority Express, we are actively working to integrate these sustainable practices into our operations. By choosing our services, you support a company that prioritises eco-friendly packaging and delivery methods. From same-day to international deliveries, we are dedicated to reducing our carbon footprint and helping our clients make greener choices.

As we move towards a more sustainable future, every small change in packaging can make a significant difference. Let’s work together to ensure Bristol, Bath, and Cardiff continue to lead the way in environmental responsibility. For more information on our green initiatives, contact us today.

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At Priority Express, we’re passionate about connecting our communities with the freshest local produce, all while prioritising sustainability. As a leading delivery service in Bristol, Bath, and Cardiff, we’re proud to support local farmers and businesses by offering a range of eco-friendly delivery options that ensure your farm-fresh goods arrive promptly and responsibly.

Spring is upon us, and with it comes an abundance of fresh, seasonal produce from our region’s dedicated farmers. From crisp apples and tender greens to artisanal cheeses and homemade jams, these products are a testament to the rich agricultural heritage of our area. But getting these goods from farm shop to your doorstep requires a delivery service that’s as committed to quality as the producers themselves.

That’s where we come in. Our same-day, overnight, and international delivery services are tailored to meet the unique needs of perishable goods, ensuring that every item reaches you in perfect condition. We understand that freshness is key, which is why our fleet is equipped with temperature-controlled vehicles to keep your produce at its best.

We also recognise the importance of minimising our environmental impact. Our eco-friendly delivery options include electric vehicles and sustainable packaging solutions, reducing our carbon footprint while supporting local businesses. By choosing Priority Express, you’re not just receiving top-quality produce—you’re also contributing to a greener, more sustainable future.

So, the next time you enjoy a delicious, locally-sourced meal, remember that we’re here to make sure it’s delivered with care and consideration for both quality and the planet. Celebrate local produce with us, and let’s make a difference together.

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As we step into 2024, Priority Express is more committed than ever to driving sustainability in our delivery services.  Our dedication to reducing our carbon footprint has always been at the core of our operations, and this year, we're excited to continue our initiatives that enhance our green credentials.

This year, we are expanding our fleet of carbon-neutral cargo cycles, which will significantly increase our capacity for eco-friendly same-day deliveries. Our cycle couriers will see an increase in the number of routes they cover, helping to cut down on city congestion and emissions.

We are also enhancing our overnight delivery service with a new, energy-efficient vehicle fleet. By integrating the latest low-emission technologies, we aim to reduce our overnight delivery carbon footprint, ensuring that your parcels reach their destinations swiftly and sustainably.

For our international deliveries, we're partnering with global carriers who share our commitment to sustainability. This collaboration will optimise transit routes and improve efficiency, further reducing our environmental impact while maintaining our world-class service.

Our special deliveries will also embrace greener practices. We're exploring innovative packaging solutions and logistics strategies to minimise waste and enhance the efficiency of large-scale orders.

As always, our commitment to excellent customer service remains unwavering. You can expect real-time tracking and a responsive support team, all while knowing that your delivery is contributing to a more sustainable future. Together, let's make 2024 a year of progress and positive impact.

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As autumn leaves fall and the chill sets in, it’s the perfect time to rethink our shopping habits and make more eco-friendly choices. As a proud local delivery service operating in Bristol, Bath, and Cardiff, we’re committed to supporting sustainable practices while keeping your shopping experience seamless and efficient. Here are three tips on how you can shop more sustainability this autumn:

Opt for Local Businesses: One of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint is to support local businesses. By choosing to shop from Bristol-based retailers, you’re not only bolstering the local economy but also reducing the distance your goods need to travel. Our same-day delivery service ensures that these local purchases reach you promptly, cutting down on the emissions typically associated with longer delivery routes.

Sustainable Packaging: As you make your purchases, look for retailers who use eco-friendly packaging. At Priority Express, we’re proud to handle deliveries with care, ensuring minimal environmental impact. Our commitment extends to using sustainable materials for packaging and reducing waste whenever possible.

Efficient Delivery Options: Opt for consolidated deliveries to minimise trips and emissions. Our overnight and special delivery services are designed to be both efficient and environmentally conscious, allowing you to plan your shopping in a way that aligns with eco-friendly principles.

This autumn, let’s make a collective effort to shop sustainably. At Priority Express, we’re here to support your eco-friendly choices, ensuring that your shopping not only benefits you but also contributes positively to our beautiful Bristol community and beyond.

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At Priority Express, we're thrilled to highlight our ongoing commitment to sustainability this summer. Since 2010, with our Priority Zero initiative, we've been dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through innovative solutions like eSprinter vans, ecargo trikes, and Bullitt cargo bikes.

This summer, our focus on greener deliveries is exemplified by our ecargo trikes, crafted by the local experts at Iceni Cycles in Warminster. Operating within Bristol’s clean air zone, our eSprinters reduce pollution and provide cost savings to our customers, making our courier service both environmentally friendly and budget-conscious.

We’re enhancing the efficiency of our fleet by improving the accessibility of charging points for our drivers, including options for home charging. With a 90-mile range, our eSprinters are well-suited for local deliveries across Bristol, Bath, and Cardiff. Our new tracking system helps us optimise vehicle use, ensuring we deploy the right vehicle for each job, whether it’s an etrike, eSprinter, or a diesel vehicle.

This summer, customers can choose to ship their parcels sustainably by selecting an eSprinter during booking, often at a lower cost than diesel alternatives. Our ecargo bike riders enjoy the dual benefits of physical activity and contributing to a greener planet, thanks to rigorous training and safety measures.

Looking forward, we aim to expand our electric van fleet and support self-employed drivers in transitioning to electric vehicles. By choosing Priority Express, you’re not only enhancing your business’s green credentials but also making a positive impact on the environment. Contact us today to learn more about our sustainable delivery options.

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Spring is the perfect time for a fresh start, and for many, that means a good old-fashioned declutter. If you're selling unwanted furniture or household items on platforms like eBay or Facebook Marketplace, why not choose an eco-conscious delivery method? At Priority Express, we can help you clear space in your home sustainably, ensuring your items are delivered responsibly.

Our same-day delivery service is an excellent option for local sales. With a growing fleet of vans, motorcycles, and carbon-neutral cargo cycles, we offer fast, reliable deliveries that are gentle on the environment. Our professional cycle couriers complete over 150 carbon-neutral same-day deliveries every day, reducing CO2 emissions and easing congestion.

For larger items or longer distances, our overnight delivery service offers next-day delivery across the UK, ensuring your buyers receive their purchases quickly and efficiently. We use a multi-carrier approach to ensure the smooth delivery of your items, so you can focus on enjoying your clutter-free home.

And if you’re selling to buyers abroad, our international delivery service provides a stress-free solution. With competitive transit times and an extensive global network, we can ensure your items reach buyers anywhere in the world.

Whether you're clearing out for spring or making some extra cash from second-hand sales, make a sustainable choice with Priority Express. Contact us today to discuss the best eco-friendly delivery options for your spring clear-out!

At Priority Express, we believe that businesses have a responsibility to protect the environment while delivering exceptional service. As an independent delivery company, we’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint in 2023 and beyond. Whether it’s same day, overnight, international, or special deliveries, we’re always looking for innovative ways to make our operations more eco-friendly.

Our same day delivery service is at the heart of our environmental strategy. Every day, our professional cycle couriers complete over 150 carbon-neutral deliveries, helping to reduce congestion and pollution in our cities. By expanding our fleet of carbon-neutral cargo cycles, we’re proud to offer sustainable delivery options that don’t compromise on speed or reliability.

In addition to our same day services, our overnight deliveries use a multi-carrier approach to minimise emissions, while ensuring parcels arrive promptly. Internationally, we’ve partnered with the most efficient global carriers to provide trackable, door-to-door shipping with competitive transit times. Our dedicated teams in Bristol, Bath and Cardiff manage all deliveries, ensuring both local and global shipping is handled with the utmost care.

As we enter 2023, we’re not only expanding our eco-friendly fleet, but we’re also committed to further reducing CO2 emissions across all our delivery services. By embracing greener delivery methods, we’re aiming to make a positive difference to the environment, while continuing to deliver the outstanding service you can rely on.

We’ve been on our carbon neutral journey since 2010 with Priority Zero, improving and developing our fleet of eSprinter vans, ecargo trikes and Bullitt cargo bikes to reduce our carbon emissions.

With our ecargo trikes built by local company Iceni Cycles, in Warminster, we’re moving towards a more sustainable Priority Express.

Working within Bristol’s clean air zone, our eSprinters will allow us to pass on savings onto our customers and reduce pollution in the key areas of the city. Providing a more budget friendly courier service.

Improving eSprinter Efficiency

We’re keeping our vehicles charged and ready to go, by improving accessibility of charging points for our drivers. Including taking steps towards providing our drivers with charging points at home, therefore they won’t need their own transport to get to work.

Our eSprinters have a range of 90 miles, which is far enough for our local deliveries across Bristol, Bath, and Cardiff. The eSprinters create happy drivers and help the planet, as a result we’re excited to bring more zero emission delivery vehicles into our fleet.

With a brand-new tracking system in place, monitoring vehicle usage and journeys to help us decide which vehicles are most suitable for the job, whether its etrike, eSprinter or a diesel vehicle. This system will allow us to increase the efficiency of how we use the Priority Zero fleet.

Priority Express customers can choose if they’d like to ship their parcels more sustainably with the option to select an eSprinter in the booking process. Sometimes this option is more affordable than its diesel counterpart. If you’d like to book parcel delivery with one of our eSprinters, get in touch.

Priority Express Ecargo Trikes

Priority express ecargo riders are enthusiastic about cycling and tend to prefer a workout, often reducing their usage of electrical assistance. Our team are truly dedicated towards a sustainable future and enjoy the health benefits of being a Priority Express rider.

Ecargo bike are large vehicles compared to your standard bicycle. We ensure our ecargo bikes are being operated safely by providing a training programme of our riders. Providing the skills required to keep our staff and the public safe, meanwhile getting your deliveries to their intended locations swiftly.

For the future

Our team are looking to expand our fleet of electric vans, in 5 years we’d like a third of our deliveries being fulfilled by zero emission vehicles.

Going entirely carbon neutral is quite a challenge for us as our self-employed drivers often supply their own vehicles. However, we’ll support and provide options for our self-employed drivers to help them make the switch to electric. We’re currently researching the options of flexible rental van suppliers that offer electric vans. This will make the vans more accessible to those drivers in comparison to the current four-year lease agreements in place.

Why go zero emission?

If you have an SME, having zero emission delivery provides a USP and gives you an edge over your competitors. You can even pair it with our sustainable packaging options to really deliver the full package. Our special packaging from Cullen, dedicated for shipping liquids such as wine, cider, beer and much more, is manufactured using 100% recycled paper. This strong and sustainable packaging for the food & drink industry is recyclable, compostable, and biodegradable. For all our sustainable packaging options contact us today.

Another reason to go zero emission is that we’re all in this planet together. If we all take part in reducing our carbon emissions, it will have an incredible impact on the environment. At Priority Express, we make an impact one delivery at a time.

By choosing Priority Zero, we will all be moving towards a sustainable future. If you’re interested in our services, please get in touch for more information.

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As many of you are probably already aware, the pandemic has had a profound effect on travel around towns and city centres. From road closures to more pedestrian areas, travelling around a city centre certainly isn’t the same as it used to be. Not to mention the increased levels of online shopping, which has in turn resulted in more demand for deliveries.  

Of course, the pandemic isn’t the only reason why our cities are changing – climate change and air pollution is another major issue that needs to be tackled. The Bristol Clean Air Zone is an example of this, which is being introduced in 2022 to help improve air quality by reducing harmful levels of air pollution caused by traffic in Bristol. A daily charge will apply to older and more polluting vehicles driving in the zone to encourage cleaner vehicles, greener public transport, and walking or cycling.

As a result of this, many logistics companies will have to adapt their mode of transport – which is exactly what we have done here at Priority Express. As a professional courier company, we recognise the importance of reducing our carbon footprint to improve everyday urban life for local communities in the Southwest.

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Priority Zero

Since 2010, having quick and environmentally friendly delivery available has been important to us. We have been offering zero emission delivery options to our customers through our cycling couriers and low emission delivery vehicles.

We are excited to announce that we are now expanding this service even further with Priority Zero; a fleet of eCargo Trikes and 100% Electric eSprinter vans. Our new fleet will cover city centre areas and will be charged during off peak hours so that they are available for delivery every day. We are also in the process of planning new low carbon delivery HUBS across Bristol, Bath, and Cardiff.

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ECargo Bikes

When it comes to reducing your carbon footprint as a business or an individual, we have taken the lead with our cycle courier & cargo bike service. A great alternative to petrol or diesel vehicles, our eCargo bikes offer a faster and more cost-effective delivery option to get your parcel from A to B safely.  

Not only are eCargo bikes excellent for the environment, but they also take up less road space and can easily filter through traffic. They don’t require parking fees and are exempt from Clean Air Zones where applicable, which means that our cycle couriers can be even more time efficient. If you’re interested in our eCargo bikes, then get in touch with a member of our team to find out more.  

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ECargo Trikes

Designed for larger deliveries, our new heavy-duty eCargo Trikes can carry up to 200kgs of parcels and an impressive load of up to 25 A4 boxes. They feature a strong, modular cargo box that’s lightweight and extra strong for carrying your parcels safely and efficiently around the city centre.  

Above you can see our new eCargo Trikes being built by a local company, Iceni Cycles, that are based in Warminster. If you’re interested in our eCargo Trikes, then get in touch with a member of our team to find out more.

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ESprinter 100% Electric Van

Electric vehicles are the way forward, which is why we are introducing our eSprinter 100% Electric Vans to our customers for long-haul deliveries.

Our eSprinter vans offer zero emissions. Not only that, but they can also carry up to 700kgs and can hold a load of up to 150 A4 boxes. If you’re interested in our eSprinter Vans, then get in touch with a member of our team to find out more.

Why Priority Zero?

If we haven’t convinced you enough that Priority Zero is the way forward, then maybe these quick facts will:

·    Air pollution from road traffic contributes to 300 fatalities per year in Bristol alone.

·    Traffic is now at pre-pandemic levels, so now is the time to make a change for the better and use zero emission delivery services.

·    If you’re a business, then not only will taking responsibility for your carbon footprint make an impact on the environment, but it will also be a major USP for customers.

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What does zero emissions mean?

Zero emissions are when an engine, motor or any other energy process releases zero waste products that can pollute or disrupt the environment. We are proud to offer zero emission delivery options from our urban delivery hubs with our Cargo Bikes, eCargo Trikes, and eSprinter Electric Vans.

Interested in Priority Zero? Get in Touch today.

Are you looking to reduce your carbon footprint? By choosing Priority Zero, we will all be moving towards a sustainable future. If you’re interested in our services, please get in touch for more information.

Making your business greener couldn’t be more of a hot topic. MP’s have recently listened and backed protesters by declaring a climate emergency and now more than ever, businesses need to start reassessing how they can contribute to a greener and cleaner environment.

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When it comes to reducing congestion and reducing CO2 emissions, we have taken the lead with our cycle courier & cargo bike service. Our team of dedicated, professional riders are equipped with two-way communication and class-leading, waterproof Messenger Pro bags to ensure your consignments arrive in first-class condition whatever the weather. Our Bullitt cargo bikes can carry up to 80 Kgs utilising pedal power alone!

These cycle-courier services are offered in Bristol and Cardiff and can be a faster, more cost-effective way to get your consignments from A to B - all while doing your bit to reduce environmental impact.

We want to demonstrate how you can continue to see success with your business while at the same time, support the on-going goals for environmental improvement and sustainable development. Our range of innovative solutions, such as cycle couriers and cargo bikes for local, urban deliveries, can help reduce your carbon footprint. For long-haul deliveries, our fleet of vans includes lower emission Euro 6 compliant vehicles, meaning reduced levels of harmful exhaust and CO2 emissions.

What else can businesses be doing to reduce their impact on the environment? First-time delivery success is key. Have you ever wondered about the knock-on effect of a missed delivery? Missed deliveries involve extra journeys by the customer to collect packages from depots or couriers making multiple journeys in order to deliver successfully. Technology such as our state-of-the-art booking & tracking system lets you track exactly where your consignment is at all times, reducing the risk of missed deliveries.

To find out more, please contact our friendly booking team on customercare@priorityexpress.co.uk.