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Next-day courier services in the City of London
A booked morning slot lands inside the City's loading windows rather than after them, and the £18 charge is in the quote before the van moves.
Next-day courier service in City of London
Tasito runs next-day courier work into the City of London, taking in the smaller offices off Chancery Lane and Cheapside as well as the towers at Fenchurch Street and Bishopsgate. Paperwork accounts for most of it: legal bundles, financial documents and small urgent parcels, carried up to a named floor and signed for by the person they are addressed to rather than left with a reception desk.
This is the one London address where the Congestion Charge is always in play, which changes the arithmetic from everywhere else we deliver, and it is also where the hour counts for most. Loading windows on many of the narrower streets shut partway through the morning. An order placed by 4pm today puts the van inside those windows tomorrow, with the charging settled as the job is placed rather than added later.
The loading window, and why a morning slot fits it
Parking is scarce and there is next to nothing to load into. Loading bays are absent at most City addresses, timed restrictions and red routes govern the arterial roads, and the narrower streets permit loading for part of the morning only.
Which is the argument for planning rather than reacting. A slot fixed the evening before can be placed inside the window a street really does permit, so the driver turns up while stopping is legal instead of looking for somewhere to stand.
Larger buildings take booked goods-in through basement service bays with height limits, and those keep hours of their own. Where the building issues the window we take theirs and work the collection back from it. Where somebody has to come down and meet the driver, say so as you place the order so the timing allows for it rather than it being discovered on the pavement.
A postcode will not do here. The order wants a company, a floor, a contact and a mobile.
The charge, stated at booking
A day in the central zone costs £18 as of 2 January 2026, up from £15, and the City sits inside that zone. Electric vans take half off. ULEZ covers every London borough on top, at £12.50 a day where a van is not compliant; compliant vans go into London as standard, and you hear about the £12.50 in the rare case where the right vehicle for a job is not one.
That is the floor under a City job before anything else, and it goes in the quote as the order is placed. What you will not get is a clean price and a charge arriving behind it.
Where one booking covers several City addresses the charge is daily and attaches to the vehicle, so one van making three drops meets it once. That is the principal reason a sequenced run beats three separate jobs into the same zone.
The signature, and who takes it
This matters more here than anywhere else we go. A consignment addressed to a named recipient and signed for by a reception desk is not proof of delivery in any sense you could use.
Where it has to reach a particular person, say so with the order and the driver waits for them rather than leaving it at a desk. On a planned job that person can be told what time to expect it, which is usually the difference between a signature and a second visit.
What the vehicle is matched to
Normally the smallest class we run: 450kg of payload across 2.1m of load space in a short wheelbase. It costs less and it has some chance of stopping somewhere legal.
Palletised work going into a larger building is where a Luton is frequently the wrong choice in spite of its capacity, because the basement bay will not accept it. Three standard pallets in a 3.3m long wheelbase, run twice, often works where one Luton cannot get past the entrance. An extra-long at 4.2m takes four standard or five Euro where the bay allows. On a next-day booking that gets worked out the evening before instead of at the barrier.
Each class appears with its load dimensions on the fleet page, and UK pallet sizes explained covers Euro against standard. FORS accreditation runs across the fleet, renewed for 2026, which is what admits a van at a City fit-out or construction gate.
Where City of London work goes
Greenwich, Canary Wharf and the City fall on one planned run where there is more than one drop, and since the charging position differs at each it is worth knowing which before all three go on the same booking. The road back out to Essex is the A13.
A morning slot helps on each of those legs, because the van is in and across before the day thickens. With the route planned, drops are sequenced by their goods-in windows instead of by the map.
Other services we run in City of London
Same-day courier where a contract has to be executed today, or a bundle has to be with counsel ahead of a hearing. Two-man delivery for office moves and equipment where the last twenty metres is the whole job. Multi-drop across several City addresses, which spreads the £18 over the run instead of meeting it job by job. Planning, routing and sorting at a fixed rate where the same movement repeats.
Booking and slots are covered on the main next-day courier service page, and if you are weighing a courier against a parcel carrier, what a courier is and how it differs from a parcel carrier is the page for that.
City of London questions
4pm, Monday to Friday. Earlier is the useful answer where the building runs its own goods-in window, because the vehicle is held that evening and we would rather fix the collection against a window already confirmed.
It is £18 for the day, it always applies here, and it is in the conversation as you order. Electric vans take half off. You get the number up front rather than a clean quote followed by a dirtier invoice.
Because many narrower streets permit loading for part of the morning only, and the larger buildings keep service bay hours. A slot fixed the evening before sits inside those windows instead of arriving once they have closed.
Yes, and here that is usually the point of the job. Send a company, a floor, a contact name and a mobile. The driver waits for the right person rather than leaving the consignment at a desk.
Most have none. We hold the smallest van the consignment will fit so it can stop legally, and somebody has to be able to come down and meet the driver. Say so with the order and the timing is built around it.
Sometimes, and a Luton is frequently wrong despite holding six, because basement service bays carry height limits. Two runs with a long wheelbase at three standard pallets each often works where a single Luton cannot get in. The building gets checked the evening before.
No. It is a daily charge attaching to the vehicle, so one van making three drops meets it once. That is why a sequenced run costs less than three separate jobs into the zone.
Yes, it is the greater part of what we do here. Bundles, contracts and documents with a date on them, in a small van, signed by the named recipient.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.