When a company has an account with a courier service of almost any description, they will quite often have a scheduled pickup time with that company. This might be once a month, once a week, or every day depending on the nature of the business the client is in and what their delivery needs are.
So, typically, a New York delivery service will look at all of their different scheduled pickups for a day and then plan a route around the most convenient and time effective way to make those pickups between their different vehicles in the field. However, sometimes those plans can get disrupted, and this usually happens when a client has to cancel a pickup. Cancellations can be caused by a variety of factors, including the holiday season, a seasonal business during their slow time, or just a poor month of sales on behalf of the courier's client. Whenever a company does have to cancel a scheduled pickup though, their first concern is typically what kinds of costs they are going to be looking at as a result of that cancellation.
Every courier company out there is going to have its own structure for assessing canceled pickup fees. Some general guidelines do apply though. First of all, if you have been a long time account holder and never had a cancellation, you might even be let off the hook for a fee as long as it only happens one time. The most important general guideline though is that the more notice you give your courier, the lower the fee you will be assessed. A cancellation an hour before your pickup time is going to be charged a high surcharge, but giving 72 hours notice will likely only cost you a nominal fee for the cancellation. Always try to warn them early, and it will save you money in the long run.
If you remember that one major tip you should be able to keep any cancellation fess low. The most important thing is to give at least 24 hours warning before your scheduled pickup time. Any orders which are canceled on the day that they were to originally occur are surely going to be assessed a much higher surcharge rate than those that are called in on the days prior to the pickup. This isn't always possible, but trying to do so as often as possible will save you money.
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