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Paul East
Feb 2, 20242 min read
Don’t you just hate cars!!!
You can guarantee whenever you don’t need a hefty expense 9 times out of 10 it comes along in the form of a bill from the garage. It’s...
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Paul East
Jan 31, 20242 min read
What have we learnt from January.
As someone who has always been employed by someone, I have never had to worry about getting back on track after Christmas. As a business...
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Paul East
Jan 30, 20243 min read
Website updated
It’s never a straight forward task and I have spent hours today making new pages to replace some old pages. I have tried to separate our...
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Paul East
Jan 27, 20243 min read
Good to be back on the bike 🚴
Normal bicycle service resumed this week after what felt like weeks of snow, ice and dangerous winds. Everything feels more authentic on...
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Paul East
Jan 25, 20243 min read
Busiest ever day for new leads, thanks Royal Mail 🤙
It’s finally happened, a day I had predicted well before my journey had started. Royal Mail hoping to go to a 3 day delivery week. I...
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Paul East
Jan 24, 20242 min read
Been a bit slack on the blog in recent weeks
This is mainly due to the traitors, that’ll be the TV programme, but I will forgive you if you thought I was having a poke at some...
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Paul East
Jan 22, 20242 min read
From the snow ❄️ and ice to the wind 💨 and the rain 🌧
Looks like the bike round is off tomorrow, fortunately we are well ahead of our schedules for the week. Even with our newest recruits...
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Paul East
Jan 18, 20242 min read
The poor bike has been sidelined this week
Due to the snow, ice and frost I haven’t been able to get out on the bike this week. As much as I prefer to do all the post on bike, it’s...
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Paul East
Jan 16, 20242 min read
It wouldn’t be winter without some good old winter weather.
Apart from slowing everything down a bit, the dusting of snow had little impact on our operations. Obviously the bike wasn’t deployed...
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Paul East
Jan 16, 20243 min read
New year, new clients.
It’s always amazing welcoming new clients to Local Postal Solutions and especially when it’s a local family run business which has been...
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Paul East
Jan 8, 20242 min read
Normal service resumes.
After an amazing but very busy Christmas, followed by an post Christmas lull. We are effectively back to normal service again. Everyone...
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Paul East
Jan 6, 20241 min read
Leaflets - Boost your business for less.
I am going to be totally transparent, delivering leaflets was never in my thought process when starting LPS. In recent months it has...
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Paul East
Jan 3, 20242 min read
Parcels - The benefits of using LPS
There are so many benefits of using LPS to deliver your local parcels. 1. Same day delivery - We don’t need to track our parcels as they...
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Paul East
Jan 1, 20243 min read
Welcome 2024, a huge year for Local Postal Solutions.
After an exciting and meteoric business start up last year, we have put ourselves well ahead of schedule for this year already. What we...
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Paul East
Dec 27, 20232 min read
Nice easy day after the Christmas festivities.
It was a welcome easy re-introduction to life in Local Postal Solutions today, the last month and lead up to Christmas had been truly...
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Paul East
Dec 24, 20231 min read
Christmas delivered
The parcel shelves are bare, the mail has gone, the Christmas cards have all found a home. Our aim was always to deliver Christmas as...
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Paul East
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Badly addressed items
What an inconvenience, as well as the horrible feeling someone isn’t going to be happy. As of today I have 5 Christmas cards out of the...
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Paul East
Dec 22, 20232 min read
A thing of rarity, a morning post.
My blogs are usually written of a night before bed, but due to lack of time and tiredness this week I haven’t managed to blog much. We...
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Paul East
Dec 18, 20232 min read
Christmas Post Box has closed
Finally the collecting of Christmas post has finished. It has been an amazing response and we have collected over 1300 Christmas cards,...
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Paul East
Dec 17, 20234 min read
The busiest week in our history
With the Christmas post box exceeding all expectations, the surge in parcels for Christmas week, this week is going to be mega busy. We...
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