People who are using a Chicago courier service, even those who may have been using them for some time, can occasionally come across issues or questions that they had not thought to address previously that they may not know that answer to. One of these that come up from time to time is if it is possible to bill a shipment to a third party. The answer is not a simple one because, in essence, this would solely be up to the discretion of the courier themselves.
This obviously is not the most common of practices. However, it is safe to say that such a request would usually be denied for a number of reasons. There are legal, financial and ethical concerns with such a practice that would lead many and most couriers to simply say no out of hand to any request of this nature. However, there are cases where this practice is allowed, and it would certainly not be taking a full examination of the question to simply dismiss it as something that never happens. It does happen; just not very frequently. And, in most cases, this is allowed only under specifically predetermined circumstances.
Again, the most important thing to note in this situation is that it will be up to the Chicago courier service to decide if they feel that third party billing would be appropriate or allowed. There are some circumstances or policies they may have in place to allow it. One such situation is if the client shipping and receiving are both long term clients and account holders with the courier company. In such an event and if this is a practice that has been requested before on behalf of one or both parties, the companies may have let the courier know of this mutual billing agreement between them and, in such a case, these practices may be allowed.
The other situation where third party billing might be allowed by a Chicago courier service is in a COD situation where the recipient of the delivery or shipment is charged. However, most will only provide this service for high credit account holders with the courier company so that they still have a guaranteed payment in the event that the COD payment does not appear on delivery. Normally, the only way companies will allow this sort of thing is if they see no possibility of financial or legal liability on their part for doing so.
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