Late on the evening of Thursday 18th May, a fire started in the Access Self Storage facility on Oyster Lane, Byfleet, which quickly took hold and spread to adjacent businesses. Surrey Fire & Rescue closed Oyster Lane, the main road access to the Chertsey Road business park where our depot is located. Thankfully, there seem …
What does ‘pending delays’ mean when I send a consignment? What does it mean when a courier provider says; 2-3 days transit ‘pending delays’? ‘Pending delays’ is the general term used to explain a host of things outside of the carrier’s control that can cause delay to the predicted transit time of a consignment. Below …
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International Sanctions and Sending Goods Overseas Can I send a parcel to Belarus? Wey Group International prides itself on flexibility and being able to overcome logistical barriers that some of the larger courier providers are unable to do. Due to WGI’s customer focus business model, extensive knowledge, and contacts in the international courier community, they …
Wey Couriers [as it was known then] started in 1982 with just a single motorbike and its current director, Chris Jacobs. The business was formed initially for photographers and their assistants to get film from studios in Surrey to London quickly. The small courier business was a fast-growing success and soon there were 12 Motorcyclists …
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Insight into the effect of covid restrictions on courier services As you may well be aware, the WGI Head Office in Byfleet has been under tier 4 restrictions for a couple of weeks now and, as of boxing day, most of our staff’s home postcodes moved to the same restrictions. We have therefore made the …
Just in case you had forgotten about the B word (that’s Brexit), by ignoring it and hoping, I’m afraid it didn’t go away, it’s here and about to conclude with all the changes that will bring, particularly if you are a business and you ship goods abroad. There are bound to be modifications along the …
To enable you to plan with your deliveries and collections, please see our Christmas & New Year 2020/2021 Availability Schedule. You will note the U.K. / Domestic availability is complete, but International Services dates are to be announced. We are currently awaiting data from those airlines which will be operating over this period, and hope …
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Head Office is now back to work! We are pleased to announce that since the 8th June, our Customer Care team has settled into a controlled return to Head Office and this has been carefully managed so that the CC Team, can avoid the Office & Warehouse areas when they are at their busiest, generally …
The idea of working from home is of course not new. Over the last decade there has been a rise of interest in adopting a telecommuting work-style, unfortunately for us this was a rather abrupt change and a necessity rather than an option. Obviously, with any drastic and (arguably) sudden adjustment there will be more …
With the upcoming bank holiday being this Friday, 8th May, many people will be looking forward to a well-deserved long weekend break, although that may not be hugely different for many! With this in mind, for those still working and sending International & Overnight consignments, we would like to remind you of our operating hours …