It's the holiday season and Parcel Pete’s jetted off to the gorgeous Italy for a week for a bit of relaxation as well as delivering some of your parcels in Italy too!

Here at ipostparcels.com, we’ve had Parcel Pete keeping us up to date with his journey with pictures of the different parts of Italy he’s been visiting.

Competition:

So we’ve put together a little Italian competition seeing as though Parcel Pete’s over there at the mo!

It’s our usual competition where we ask you to retweet, like and share our posts on Twitter and Facebook.  This time round we’ll also be posting up snaps of Parcel Pete on holiday so you have to guess exactly which part of Italy he’s in.

The more you RT/Like/Share and answer the q’s correctly the more chances you have of winning £50’s worth of yummy Jamie’s Italian Restaurant vouchers. 

Jamie Oliver’s Special Delivery:

You may be thinking why did Parcel Pete decide to visit Italy? Well, not only do we ship parcels to Italy but we also recently made some special deliveries to the Jamie’s Italian restaurants across the UK, which gave him the taste for wanting more of the Italian culture.

We delivered some laptops which were needed for training purposes; we collected the laptops from one restaurant and delivered to the next and so on, just in time for their training workshops.

Whilst on his delivery round, Parcel Pete decided to buy £50’s vouchers for Jamie’s Italian for one lucky winner which can be used at any of the Jamie’s restaurants across the UK!

So if you fancy your chances of winning, make sure you enter our competition.

But hurry, competition closes at 11.59pm on Tuesday 16th July and there will only be one winner!

Guess who’s back and got a tan?! That’s right, it’s your favourite delivery man Parcel Pete here!

I’ve been busy travelling the globe making sure all is in place as ipostparcels.com has now launched its international parcel delivery service. Over the last few months we’ve received a lot of feedback from customers asking if we could set up an International delivery service. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.

International Parcel Delivery:

International delivery is on the rise, whether you’re sending business parcels or a gift to a loved one ipostparcels.com can get your International parcels to its final destination with ease.

Send a parcel to anywhere in the world and benefit from:

- Incredibly low prices
- Intelligent online booking form – automatically generates customs invoices
- Parcel collection from your home
- Booking International and UK parcels in the same transaction
- Part of UK Mail Group with 40 years experience in worldwide shipping
- Quality end to end service

Our low prices have no compromise on our quality service, so whether you’re sending a parcel to USA or China, you can be sure your parcel is in safe hands.

Competition:

Don’t forget, we’re still running our competition on my International Adventure. Keep an eye out on our Facebook & Twitter page, we’re close to the end now, competition closes on midnight 5th June. Hurry and get entering, you could win £50’s Love2Travel vouchers, a Kindle and other holiday travel essentials!

It’s that time again…we’ve got another competition for you! This time round Parcel Pete’s getting eggcited for Easter and has got a chocolate treat to give away.

With Easter fast approaching we thought it’d be nice to treat a special someone this year to a luxurious Thorntons Chocolate Hamper AND £50’s worth of Love2Shop vouchers. Not only will you win all of that but also a one off special discount voucher code for our service, saving you loads of money when you next place an order with us.

How to Enter:

It’s easy to enter and we’ve given you 4 different ways to do so:

- Simply use voucher code: EASTER255 for 10% when you place an order between 18th March- 24th March.

- Retweet our specific Easter tweets on Twitter

- Share & Like our Easter  post on Facebook

- Leave us a comment on our Easter post on our Facebook page starting your sentence off with “I’m sending an Easter parcel via ipostparcels to (person of your choice) because (why you’re sending them Easter Treats)”

1 lucky winner will be drawn so hurry & get entering!

Competition closes at 11.59pm on Sunday 24th March. 

Good Luck and don’t forget to keep a look out on Twitter and Facebook!

It’s competition time and this time round Parcel Pete’s feeling the motherly love for Mother’s Day.

With Mother’s Day just round the corner (March 10th- don’t forget!) we thought it’d be nice to treat a special mummy this year. You could win £50’s worth of Love2Shop vouchers AND a Deluxe Sanctuary Spa Hamper for yourself or a certain amazing woman in your life.

How to Enter:

It’s easy to enter and we’ve given you 4 different ways to do so:

- Simply use voucher code: MOTHER19 0for 10% when you place an order between 21st February and 5th March.
- Retweet our Mother’s  Day tweet on Twitter
- Share & Like our Mother’s Day post on Facebook
- Guess the celebrity Mum’s on our Facebook page- inbox us the answer

Celebrity Mum:

We’ll be posting pictures of 3 celebrity mum’s up on our Facebook page with 3 clues. Guess the name of the celebrity and send us an inbox message with your answer.

Winner:

1 lucky winner will be drawn so hurry & get entering!

Competition closes at 11.59pm on Tuesday 5th March.

Good Luck and don’t forget to keep a look out on Twitter and Facebook!

It’s competition time and this time round Parcel Pete’s getting loved up ready for Valentine’s Day.

With Valentine’s Day just round the corner we thought we’d give a lucky someone a helping hand.  You could win £50’s worth of Love2Shop vouchers AND get a gorgeous bouquet of flowers from Interflora sent to you or someone of your choice!

Competition Entry

It’s easy to enter and we’ve given you 3 different ways to do so:

• Simply use voucher code: LOVE220 for 10% when you place an order between 31st January to 10th February

• Retweet any of our Valentine’s related tweets on Twitter

• Share & Like any of our Valentine’s posts on Facebook

1 lucky winner will be drawn so hurry & get entering!

Competition closes at 11.59pm on Sunday 10th February.

Good Luck and don’t forget to keep a look out on Twitter and Facebook!

Parcel Pete and the ipostparcels.com team have well and truly got into the Christmas spirit of things and we’ve given our delivery vans a bit of a festive makeover.

To celebrate the launch of our new Christmas delivery van’s we’ve put together a competition for you all. 3 winners will be drawn and each will receive £50’s worth of Love2Shop vouchers valid for majority High Street retailer, perfect for the Christmas season.

Competition:

It’s easy to enter and we’ve given you 4 different ways to do so:

• Simply use voucher code VAN10 when you place an order between 10/12/12 and 19/12/12. This also gives you 10% off!

• Retweet our competition posts on Twitter

• Share any of our Christmas posts of Facebook

• Or Spot the Christmas van, take a picture and tag us in it!

But you’ve got to be quick, competition closes on December 19th!

So, send a parcel, engage with us on social media or look out for our van, either way you could be winning those vouchers!

Good Luck!

With Halloween just around the corner the ipostparcels.com team and I thought it was only right to treat our customers to a Halloween giveaway.

Competition Time:

We are offering a special Halloween Giveaway Competition, all you have to do is send a parcel within the month of October. 

Ship in the month of October to receive 10% off your order and a chance to win a  Google Nexus 7 tablet just simply enter voucher code ‘NEXUS’ at checkout to be automatically entered.

The lucky winner will be drawn on 1st November.

Nexus 7

Want to find out more about the Google Nexus 7 tablet? Just read our parcel delivery blog and get all the latest info.

Good luck!

It’s about that time again, the Paralympics have started and I’m getting into the spirit of things by bringing back my Parcel Pete’s Golden Treats competition open for all ipostparcels.com customers.

Competition time

I will be picking out a lucky winner at random for every Gold medal won by Team GB. For each Gold medal each winner will receive a £5 off their next shipment voucher available to use when booking in a parcel for next day delivery!

In it to win it

For your chance at getting £5 off your next shipment all you have to do is simply ‘follow’ @ipostparcels on twitter. Every time Team GB wins a Gold medal we’ll tweet out a message. If you retweet any of the messages  or mention @ipostparcels, you’ll automatically be entered into the draw.

All the winners will be drawn at the end of the Paralympics on September 9th 2012.

Great chance of winning

In the last Paralympics held in Beijing in 2008, Team GB won a rather impressive 42 Gold medals! Judging by the athlete’s forming Team GB this time round I say we’re in for another impressive set of Gold medals coming our way.

So let’s all get together and support our team and follow @ipostparcels for your chance at winning.

Here at ipostparcels.com we like to keep up to date on the latest news and views so we’ve put together a short review on the Google Nexus 7 device.

When Google first announced they were making a tablet device not many of us jumped for joy as past Google devices haven’t really took the market by storm. However, Google played this one rather cleverly and decided not to pitch it directly against the giants that are apple but instead take on the Amazon and Kindle market.

Price Advantage

A 7” Android tablet retailing from £159 launched in July, has already been receiving some rave reviews, the price point being the start. With the cheapest Kindle coming in at £109 with less than half the features of the Google Nexus 7 it’s pretty easy to justify the extra £50 making it a great little seller for the likes of eBay.

Software Capabilities

The software is also one of the best from Google, by utilising Jelly Bean, Androids latest software, Google are aiming the device at media consumption. Play games, read books and watch videos, the marketing message clearly highlights Google’s advances over the Kindle Fire.  You’ll be sure to find all your much loved Google apps available on the device as well as Google Now which is a bit like apple’s Siri.

Nexus 7 also boasts a rather impressive 9 hour battery life as well as a high resolution screen topping those of regular Kindle devices.

Nifty Feature

Jelly Bean software takes into play face recognition and users are able to blink directly at the screen to unlock the device.

Down point

With the smaller 8GB device storage may be an issue for some and with no microSD card slot available to expand it, some users may be better off opting for the 16GB device.

There’s also just one front facing camera and no rear.

Overall

Google have surprised many critics with this new device, they may have been the late runners to jump onto the tablet market but have certainly come up trumps with a cleverly thought out design and marketing strategy. It will by no means be a direct competitor for the ipad, however it’s set to rival the sea of other tablet devices out there and is also great for booking your next day parcel deliveries.

Competition

Keep your eyes peeled as we’ll be running another one of our social media competitions very soon and you could be in with a chance of winning the Google Nexus 7.

The Olympics are literally a few days away and the excitement and buzz around the UK is mounting. Here at ipostparcels.com we’re truly getting into the spirit of things and have put together a competition for all of our customers.

Competition time

I’ve decided I am going to pick out a lucky winner at random for every Gold medal won by Team GB. For each Gold medal each winner will receive a £5 off their next shipment voucher available to use when booking in a parcel for next day delivery!

In it to win it

For you chance at getting £5 off your next shipment all you have to do is simply ‘follow’ @ipostparcels on twitter. Every time Team GB wins a Gold medal we’ll tweet out a message. If you retweet the message you’ll automatically be entered into the draw.

All the winners will be drawn at the end of the Olympics on August 12th 2012.

See the ipospracels.com press release online.

Great chance of winning

In the last Olympics held in Beijing in 2008, Team GB won a rather impressive 19 Gold medals! Judging by the athlete’s forming Team GB this time round I say we’re in for another impressive set of Gold medals coming our way.

So let’s all get together and support our team and follow @ipostparcels for your chance at winning.

You can also keep up to date on our delivery plans throughout The Games; take a look at our previous blog ‘Olympics’ for more information.