
Courier-Messenger Inc is a local company, based in the Valencia Industrial Center, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion via email.
CMI provides 24/7 Dispatch
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January Holidays, 2021!
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
Happy New Year 2021!

- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
Merry Christmas, 2020!
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
3 Tips Holiday Season Shipping
Tis the season for shipping… and there’s no better time than now to get your business prepared for the demands consumers expect this upcoming holiday shipping season.
Whether you’re an e-commerce based business, a marketplace seller, a vendor shipping to merchants or offer shipping in any other capacity, it’s important to align your holiday business goals with an efficient shipping strategy. Among the key factors, you should consider include understanding carrier delivery schedules, knowing what your customer frustrations are and identifying why extra fees might add to your parcel overhead. To help, consider the below tips.
Tip #1: Know the Holiday Service Schedules from FedEx and UPS
Whether you ship exclusively with one carrier or offer a multi-carrier shipping strategy for your business, it’s important to know the holiday service schedules of FedEx and UPS this holiday season. Among the key dates to identify include when the last day you can ship a Ground package, use UPS Next Day Air or provide a FedEx Priority delivery with each of these arriving on time for Christmas. Using the graph below, reference the key dates that your company should consider when supporting your shipping needs during the busiest shopping season of the year.
Tip #2: Know What Your Customer Shipping Pain-Points Are
A recent study from Pitney Bowes identified that nearly half (47%) of online shoppers reported frustration with everything from shipping to returns to lost products during the 2016 holiday shopping season. This same study revealed that 75% of consumers prefer free shipping with longer delivery times. Consequently, only 25% are willing to pay for expedited parcel shipments. Keeping this in mind, ease your customer frustration by offering efficient shipping strategies. This may include free shipping, flexible delivery options and easy to process orders. Incorporating the cost of shipping into your inventory charges, for example, can help give the perception to your customers that their shipping is free. Even if you know this isn’t the case. The main takeaway here, however, is to make sure shipping is as seamless as possible. Remember, remove any obstacle in a buyer’s path to purchase once they’re ready to make a purchase.
Tip #3: Understand What Extra Fees May Be Applied to Your Shipping Overhead
FedEx and UPS alike have a way of sneaking on extra surcharges much to the surprise of many customers. It’s critical, however, for shippers to confidently understand what surcharges will apply during the holiday season. This allows a better understanding of what extra variables may be impacting their shipping and costs alike. Leveraging a parcel auditing strategy into your shipping process can help you capture refunds and reduce peak surcharges. In addition, it also helps to reduce your at-large parcel overhead. To ensure your holidays aren’t filled with extra, avoidable costs, implement parcel auditing strategy into your shipping efforts. With no set-up fee, monthly fees or cancellation costs, there are zero excuses not to begin incorporating parcel auditing into your holiday shipping efforts… and beyond. Discover more about how parcel auditing can help your business here.
For the holidays, UPS Peak Surcharges will definitely impact all shippers. UPS will increase the following surcharges:
- Over Maximum Limits: $1100 per package
- Additional Handling packages: $17.85 to 26.60 depending on the reason
- Large Packages: $126.45 for commercial packages and $146.45 for residential packages
Additionally, FedEx will also increase a few surcharges.
- Oversize Charge: $127.50 per package
- Additional Handling Surcharge: $16.10 to $24.10 per package
- Ground Unauthorized Charge: $1100.00
Holiday Shipping in a Nutshell
Finally, holiday shipping season expectations among consumers are no longer what they used to be. Their expectations for same-day or next day delivery are becoming the norm versus the exception. In addition, their preference to shop online is becoming more dependent on mobile, easy-to-navigate websites with the ability to identify preferred shipping preferences. Keeping these key factors in mind:
- have a clear understanding of carrier holiday schedules,
- catering to your customer expectations and know their pain points,
- extra surcharges will apply to your shipping efforts so hire Refund Retriever for your parcel audit recovery.
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
Happy Hanukkah, 2020!

- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
10 Tips on How to Pack and Ship a Gift
Plan to send gifts to suppliers, clients and partners? Make sure they are in the same condition as they were when you packed them. You’ll find this vital in maintaining quality professional relationships. After all, who wants to receive a broken gift?
How to Ship a Gift
Taking care when shipping and packing gifts meant for clients, customers, or partners is important. Here are some tips on how to ship a gift for business.
Use a Box that is the Right Size for Your Gift
It may sound obvious but using a box that is the right size for your gift is an important aspect of shipping gifts. Get the box too big, and you run the risk of the item rattling around in transportation and becoming damaged. Get the box too small, and the gift could become quashed and damaged.
Think Carefully About the Packing Materials and Opt for Eco-Friendly Materials
When you a ship a gift, for example, thanking a loyal customer for their continued business, think carefully about what material you will pack the gift in. For larger, more delicate gifts, you may want to use a robust, corrugated cardboard box. For smaller, flatter gifts, a rigid cardboard express envelope is likely be the most suitable option to keep the gift protected.
“Sustainable packaging is becoming increasingly important from not just an environmental perspective, but from a business one too.”
For more breakable items, for example, if you are shipping wine as a gift for a marketing partner who has carried out an effective marketing campaign for you all year, ensure the gift is surrounded by adequate internal packaging.
Use plenty of bubble wrap, loose fill polystyrene peanuts, polyethylene foam, or crumpled paper, to provide internal cushioning and prevent movement from inside the box.
When packaging a gift, use Apple as a source of inspiration, which is globally renowned for its clever use of packaging. As the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, once said:
If your gift comprises of more than one item, a cup and saucer for example for a loyal colleague, be sure to wrap each item individually with plenty of bubble wrap or crumpled paper, to protect them during transit.
Fill Out Hollow Items
If you ship a gift that is a hollow item, such as a vase or bottle holder, fill the interior with plenty of internal package like bubble wrap. That way the item will have extra protection during transportation when such objects are especially prone to becoming broken
Weigh the Gift After You Have Packaged it
With the additional weight of packaging, it is important you weigh your gift after you have packaged it. If, for example, you are shipping wine as a gift to employees for Christmas, weigh the wine once it has been packaged up. This will provide you with an accurate weight of the package.
Add the Right Amount of Postage
When you’re sending a thoughtful gift message to say thank you to a hard-working supplier or employee, the last thing you want is for there to be a long delay in the recipient receiving the gift.
It’s therefore important that you weigh the gift after you have packaged it and send it with the right postage.
Print Your Postage Online
When you ship a gift of thanks and gratitude to clients or customers, save valuable time by printing the postage online. Use an online postage app to print a printed postage stamp conveniently and quickly to your desktop printer.
Label the Gift as Fragile
Delicate, breakable items, like fine china, glassware and crystals, make beautiful gifts for valuable clients, customers, partners or suppliers to enjoy for many years to come.
Give the gift maximum opportunity to arrive to its destination in one piece by marking the package as fragile, so the carrier knows it should be handled with care.
Use Tracking Services
To make sure your gift message arrives in the hands it’s intended for, use tracking services when you send the parcel. Tracking services, such as the ones offered by USPS and FedEx, enable you to keep track of the status and location of your package.
You will also receive proof of delivery when the gift has been reached its destination. What’s more, tracking services are free and therefore won’t cost your business anything.
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
December Holidays, 2020!
Get out your December calendar (all hail the month of the advent calendar!) and mark down some of these celebratory national days. At National Today, we love celebrating 76 December holidays.
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
What is the best time to go Christmas shopping?
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
6 Holiday Decor Trends That Will Be Huge This Year, According to Pros at Etsy, Pinterest, and More
No matter if you started listening to Christmas music back in March or you prefer to put off decorating until post-Thanksgiving, it seems that the holiday season is beginning extra early this year. According to data from the coupon and deals website RetailMeNot, 31 percent of consumers plan to shop early this year in order to avoid inventory issues and shipping delays. “In-store foot traffic is down due to the pandemic, so we will continue to see shoppers shifting to shopping online throughout the holidays,” says Sara Skirboll, the shopping and trends expert at RetailMeNot. Plus, with many of us spending more time at home this year, we predict that holiday home decorating—both inside and out—will happen earlier than ever.
Eager to welcome some holiday cheer into your home? We asked the trend experts at Etsy, Pinterest, Home Depot, and Bloomingdale’s for their predictions for the top holiday decor trends of 2020, so you can shop early and start decorating ASAP.
According to Pinterest, door decor will be particularly popular this holiday season. “Pinners are decorating their front doors to express holiday cheer while staying in, with searches for ‘Christmas door decorations’ up 125 percent,” says Swasti Sarna, the insights manager at Pinterest. Even if you’re spending more time at home, decking out the front door is an easy way to share some holiday spirit with the rest of your neighborhood.
When it comes to celebrations, Pinners are increasingly interested in micro-holidays. “They are also still celebrating, but in smaller ways,” explains Sarna. “In past years, about 4 in 10 Pinners said they care about micro-holidays like Friendsgiving or New Year’s brunch. But this year, 7 in 10 say they’ll celebrate the smaller moments.”
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For holiday decor with a handmade touch, search for indigo-dyed accents. “We’ve been wild about tie-dye all year long, so we’re pleased this natural, often earth-friendly design is here to stay,” says Dayna Isom Johnson, Etsy’s trend expert (and one of the designers of this year’s Real Simple Home!). “There are so many ways to showcase this striking motif—try a festive tablecloth or a bold Christmas tree skirt.”
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Natural touches—think, fresh greenery, dried foliage, and raw wood—will make welcome additions to our holiday decor this year. “Add it to your front door via a beautiful wreath, to your staircase within a festive garland, or to your table with textured placemats,” suggests Dayna Isom Johnson.
The trend experts at the Home Depot also anticipate that holiday shopping will start earlier than usual this year. That’s why Sarah Fishburne, the director of trend and design at the Home Depot, says, “If you see something you like, get it now.”
One trend she predicts will sell big this year: flocking. The powdery fake snow will appear on artificial Christmas trees, tree skirts, and decor all around the house.
Just as the modern farmhouse style shows no signs of stopping, Fishburne predicts that the look will be big for holiday decor, too. Shop online for subtle accents in neutral colors, like a flocked evergreen wreath for the front door.
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
Counting Days
How many day between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day?
29 days
November 26, 2020 – December 25, 2020
- CMI is based in the Valencia Industrial Center, Santa Clarita, providing transportation of time sensitive shipments of all sizes from envelopes to full truckloads.
- CMI provides same day, Overnight and Time definite Ltl point to point deliveries, through out the USA. Same day truck service is determined by availability at time of call.
- CMI provides our customers with internet tracking, and proof of deliveries at time of completion in real time.
Phone: (661) 257-8689 – Fax: (661) 257-1895
Email: Sales@Courier-MessengerInc.com – Website: ShipCMI.com
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