

solutionĬollaborating with Royal Mail’s safety, security and logistics experts, every interaction that a specimen could have with people and resources was mapped and analysed for risks and opportunities to simplify. To deliver, Lucid’s team needed to develop a practical product and service proposition that it could sell to Royal Mail’s unions and management board. challengeĪ pack compact enough to fit in a post-box, rugged enough to comply with regulation that could exploit the advantage of Royal Mail’s universal service obligation, offering a significant cost advantage over competitors as well as simplicity and convenience to users. With collections from remote locations and thousands of deliveries arriving daily at laboratories, carbon footprint in transit and disposal was considerable. Maintaining sample integrity in transit is critical in diagnosis, clinical and criminal trials, influencing life-changing decisions.Ĭomplying with stringent insurance requirements for potentially toxic specimens, specialist carriers had developed a lucrative niche providing, collecting and delivering in bulky single-use foamed polystyrene packs.

Our research revealed that millions of human and veterinary diagnostic specimens are sent to laboratories annually. Lucid was part of a team tasked with discovering where the perceived problems of the universal service obligation could be developed into opportunities for service innovation. Competitors focused on lucrative delivery services and had significantly eroded economies of scale.
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It’s free of charge, too.In the early 2000s, the universal service obligation to collect and deliver everywhere in United Kingdom was often thought to disadvantage the Royal Mail. At Sky Global Cargo & Logistics, you can drop in whenever you want between Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on Saturdays and 10am to 4pm on Sundays. If they do, you have to make an appointment and are restricted to banking hours. Many banks no longer offer safe deposit box facilities. We are happy to increase your level of insurance if you would like to cover a larger amount. At a time when domestic burglaries are becoming increasingly commonplace and the threat of violence is all too real, a safe deposit box offers an answer to the risks – and avoids the need to pay soaring insurance premiums.Įach of our boxes comes with $10,000 of insurance. Safety is the obvious reason for entrusting us with these items but underlying it is a less tangible benefit: peace of mind. Prices range for boxes from less than $100 to over $2,000 for a year, in addition a $100 (refundable) key deposit is also charged at time of rental. There are small safe deposit boxes for keepsakes, jewellery and passports, medium-sized boxes that typically accommodate items such as gold bars, laptops and legal papers and large-sized boxes and walk-in vaults that can house a lifetime’s collection of antiquities, coins or stamps – you could fit a double bed in the largest one. Security comes in more than 20 different sizes at Sky Global Cargo & Logistics
