About Us, The Courier Company

The most important client testimonials are not those from customers who have been using us for just a few months but the ones who have remained satisfied over an extended period of years. When it comes to same-day and overnight parcel delivery, security and reliability are paramount.

Our record of 99.8 % secure on time deliveries is the envy of the industry and the reason clients who have switched to us often many years ago are still with us today.

Our secret? Quite simply, Deadline Distribution is a private local company which is accustomed to providing a highly personal service within Exeter, Torbay and the South Hams as well as the rest of Devon. Being owner-managed, the buck stops with us. You won’t be dealing with faceless call centres and devil-may-care employees of some giant conglomerate.

By the same token, we are also part of a large family of similarly minded operators who make up the UK’s largest independent network, APC Overnight, which now runs over 125 depots ensuring that you and your parcel’s ultimate destination are never very far away from us. No wonder the business has been growing by 35% year on year.

We operate all the very latest tracking and logistics technology that you would expect from a national organisation but do not compromise our personal commitment to our local clients. Indeed, APC’s remarkable success is based on the age-old premise that people who work for themselves will always go the extra mile. By forming a highly professional network of likeminded firms, the organisation has been able to achieve national coverage without sacrificing the traditional local services of its members.

Being a member of APC enables Deadline Distribution to offer a fully comprehensive service including:-

• Door to door parcel delivery
• Overnight delivery
• International courier and parcel delivery
• Fulfilment services

Founder and Managing Director, Shaun McGahon, who started Deadline Distribution in 2000 after 15 years working for some of the biggest names in nationwide next-day delivery has no doubts as to why local businesses rely so heavily on the company to handle vital overnight consignments.

“Right from the outset I realised that the Devon economy’s substantial contribution to the food chain means that there is a wide variety of consignments which really are ‘Time Critical‘. You can’t mess about when it comes to perishable items such as fresh meat and veterinary samples and I like to think that’s why our long established customers stay with us year after year.

Often it means getting into the office at 5.30 on a cold winter’s morning, which I’m happy to do because here at Deadline Distribution we can’t afford to let a customer down once. Neither do I want us to let down the other members of the APC family since, between us; we proudly deliver a performance record which is the envy of the industry. Quite simply, the future of our company, APC and our customers is totally interwoven. We all rely on each other.

If that’s the ethos you are looking for, we would love to hear from you.