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Same-day courier services in the City of London
Same-day document and parcel work across the City. The £18 Congestion Charge always applies here and we quote it before we set off.
Same-day courier service in City of London
Tasito provides dedicated same-day courier services across the City of London, from the towers around Bishopsgate and Fenchurch Street to the smaller offices off Cheapside and Chancery Lane. Most of what we carry here is documents, legal bundles, financial paperwork and small urgent parcels, delivered to a named person on a named floor and signed for by them rather than left at a reception desk. Bookings are taken until 4pm, Monday to Friday, and we quote the charging before we set off.
The City is the one London address where the Congestion Charge always applies, so the arithmetic is different here from everywhere else we deliver. It is £18 a day, it is on every job inside the zone, and it goes in the quote rather than on the invoice afterwards.
The charge, plainly
The Congestion Charge is £18 a day as of 2 January 2026, up from £15, and the City sits inside the central zone. Electric vans get a 50 per cent discount. Every London borough is inside the Ultra Low Emission Zone too, at £12.50 a day for a non-compliant van. We send ULEZ-compliant vans into London, and if the right van for a job ever is not, we tell you about the £12.50 before we set off.
That is the floor on a City job before a wheel turns, and we quote it at booking. What we will not do is give you a clean price and add it afterwards.
When a van is the wrong answer
Worth saying, because plenty of couriers will not.
If you are sending a single envelope two streets across the City at eleven in the morning, a van from Essex is a poor way to do it. A pushbike beats us on time and on cost and we would rather tell you that than take the booking.
Where we earn the job is when the consignment is coming from Essex or further out anyway, when it is too large or too valuable for a bike, when it has to stay in one pair of hands from collection to signature, or when there is a deadline with a consequence attached. A contract that has to be executed today. A bundle that has to reach counsel before a hearing. Equipment that has to be in a server room before close of business.
Getting in, and the signature
There is almost nowhere to park and very little to load into.
Most City addresses have no loading bay. The larger buildings run booked goods-in through basement service bays with height limits. Red routes and timed restrictions cover the arterial roads, and many of the smaller streets have loading windows that close before the morning is out.
The practical effect is that a postcode is not enough. We need the company, the floor, the contact and a mobile, and if somebody has to come down to meet the driver we need to know at booking so the timing works.
On the signature, this matters more here than anywhere. A reception desk signing for something intended for a named recipient is not proof of delivery in any useful sense. If the consignment has to reach a particular person, say so and we will wait for them rather than leaving it at a desk.
What we send
Usually the smallest van we run: a short wheelbase at 450kg with a 2.1m load space. It costs less and it stands a chance of stopping somewhere legal.
For anything palletised going into a larger building, the Luton is often the wrong vehicle despite the capacity, because the basement bay will not take it. A long wheelbase at 3.3m taking three standard pallets, run twice, frequently beats one Luton that cannot get in. We work that out before setting off rather than at the barrier.
Our fleet is FORS accredited and renewed for 2026. The fleet page has the full range.
Where City work goes
The City, Canary Wharf and Greenwich sit on one run if you have more than one drop, and the charging position differs at each, which is worth knowing before booking all three. Back out to Essex is the A13.
Other services we run into the City
Next-day courier, which avoids the timing problem and still gets a morning slot. Two-man delivery for equipment and office moves where the last twenty metres is the job. Multi-drop if you are sending to several City addresses, which spreads the £18 across the run rather than paying it per job.
Our same-day courier service has the detail, and what a courier is and how it differs from a parcel carrier is worth a read if you are choosing between the two.
City of London questions
It is £18 a day and it always applies here, so it is in the conversation at booking. Electric vans get 50 per cent off. We give you the number up front rather than quoting clean and invoicing dirty.
Across the City at a quiet hour, yes, and we will say so. We are the right call when the consignment is coming from Essex anyway, when it is too large or too valuable for a bike, or when it has to stay in one pair of hands from collection to signature.
Yes, and here that is usually the point. Give us the company, the floor, the contact name and a mobile. A reception desk signing for something intended for a named recipient is not proof of delivery in any useful sense, so we will wait for the right person.
Most do not. We send the smallest van that fits the consignment so it stands a chance of stopping legally, and we need somebody able to come down and meet the driver. Tell us that at booking so the timing is built in rather than improvised.
Sometimes, and the Luton is often the wrong vehicle even though it holds six pallets, because basement service bays have height limits. Two runs with a long wheelbase carrying three standard pallets each frequently works where one Luton cannot get through the entrance. We check the building first.
No. The Congestion Charge is a daily charge on the vehicle, so one van doing three drops pays it once. That is the main reason multi-drop is cheaper than three same-day jobs into the same zone.
4pm is the booking cut-off, Monday to Friday, but the useful answer is earlier. A 4pm collection puts the van on the Limehouse Link approach in the evening peak and arrives at a goods-in desk that has gone home.
Yes, it is most of what we do here. Documents, bundles and contracts with a deadline, in a small van, signed for by the named person.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.