The Last Mile

Whether you have experience in delivery or logistics, you might be familiar with the term "the last mile." This is the most challenging and costly segment of delivering any item. For national couriers, the last mile concludes a journey that can reach up to 874 miles in the UK. If you're using Royal Mail on the Wirral and sending an item to a Wirral address, even if it's to your next-door neighbour, the minimum journey of that letter will be approximately 50 miles, and often much farther. Why? Every item must go to Chester or Warrington to be scanned or manually sorted.

At Local Postal Solutions, we collect mail and parcels daily where the destination is less than 400 meters from the sender. With Royal Mail, such an item would travel at least 50 miles before reaching a location just 400 meters away. Most of the time, with LPS, the item travels only 400 meters to its destination because we use our brains instead of relying on technology to sort items. By doing so, we eliminate approximately 50 miles of unnecessary travel for each item we deliver. Additionally, nearly 100% of our deliveries are made using either electric vehicles or bicycles.

We have significantly reduced the distance your items need to travel, which in turn requires less labor for transportation. This process is also much more efficient, as we deliver over 60% of your priority items on the same day they are collected, with the rest delivered within 30 hours of collection. Your GDPR is safeguarded because we do not use technology to scan mail or gather information, eliminating the risk of a data breach since there is no data to breach. Sustainability has always been a core aspect of our operations, and we are just weeks or months away from achieving complete "net zero" status.

Here's the astonishing part: compared to large corporations, we are just a small drop in the ocean. However, we operate more efficiently, maintain greater sustainability, and offer prices that are 25%-50% lower for every item we deliver for you. People choose Local Postal Solutions to save money and because they know their items will arrive faster. My motivation for wanting people to use Local Postal Solutions is our commitment to sustainability. We do this for the Wirral, for the children of the Wirral and for their children in the next generation. And if we are successful, by this point I will be “pushing up daisies” which sounds quite morbid. The alternative is “pushing up a toxic barren wasteland”.

If your a business on the Wirral who sends mail or parcels to the Wirral and want to use our services. When you call Local Postal Solutions before March 12th 2026 and say “we choose you for your sustainability”. We will give you 25% off your total bill till the end of March 2026.

Not just a postman

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