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Courier services in Exeter. Same-day, next-day, palletised freight. 60-minute collection and UK-wide delivery — call or get a free quote.
138k
people in the Exeter council area
4,425
registered businesses in the Exeter council area
6
postcode districts covered
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A person prices your job and replies within the hour during business hours (Mon-Sat: 07:00 - 19:00).
Local detail for Exeter
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Local delivery notes
Business area
Marsh Barton Trading Estate is an industrial estate about 1.9 km from the centre of Exeter. [1]
Business area
Exeter Science Park opened in 2015 as a centre of activity for businesses. [2]
Freight
Riverside Freight Yard is a railway yard about 1.8 km from the centre of Exeter. [3]
Delivery site
The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford) is a hospital about 1.8 km from the centre of Exeter. [4]
Local economy
Exeter's notable employers include the Met Office, the University of Exeter, Devon County Council, the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and South West Water. [2]
Roads
The M5 motorway has its southwest end at Exminster, just south of Exeter, and runs north past Bristol to its northeast end near Birmingham. [2]
- [1] Marsh Barton Trading Estate (opens in new tab)
- [2] Exeter (opens in new tab)
- [3] Riverside Freight Yard (opens in new tab)
- [4] Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford) (opens in new tab)
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0) · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
What we work around in Exeter
Hospitals
Wonford House Hospital
Named Exeter sites (Wikidata and OpenStreetMap). Deliveries to wards, labs and goods-in bays are quoted like any other job.
Registered businesses
4,425
Businesses on the ONS register in the Exeter council area, from single-van trades to distribution centres. We quote collections from any of their addresses.
Sources — Named sites: Wikidata (CC0) & OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Registered businesses: ONS / NOMIS NM_142_1 (OGL v3).
Guide prices
Guide prices for a dedicated van from Exeter
Worked out from our published rate card, city centre to city centre. They are estimates, excluding VAT: your exact addresses will move the mileage, and every job is still priced by a person, who takes access, timing and waiting into account.
| Route | Small Van | LWB Van | Luton Van |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter → London174 miles | £243.60 | £304.50 | £365.40 |
| Exeter → Cardiff108 miles | £151.20 | £189.00 | £226.80 |
| Exeter → Birmingham160 miles | £224.00 | £280.00 | £336.00 |
| Exeter → Manchester237 miles | £331.80 | £414.75 | £497.70 |
| Route | Small Van | LWB Van | Luton Van |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter and Torquay26 miles · minimum charge | £140.00 | £175.00 | £210.00 |
| Exeter and Taunton36 miles · minimum charge | £140.00 | £175.00 | £210.00 |
| Exeter and Plymouth48 miles · minimum charge | £140.00 | £175.00 | £210.00 |
| Exeter and Weston-super-Mare64 miles · minimum charge | £140.00 | £175.00 | £210.00 |
| Exeter and Wells66 miles · minimum charge | £140.00 | £175.00 | £210.00 |
Runs of up to 100 miles are charged at each van's minimum (£140.00 + VAT for a small van). Each nearby figure is worked out on the longer of the two directions, so it holds whichever way the job runs.
Short local runs are rarely best served by a 100-mile minimum. Call us and we will price the job properly.
Price your exact postcodesMore local detail for Exeter
How Exeter connects
Exeter has major road and motorway routes including A30, A38, Exeter Airport nearby and a mainline rail link at Exeter St Davids. We quote same-day and next-day collections from any address in the area.
Major roads & routes
Nearby airport
Exeter Airport
Travel time varies by collection location and traffic.
Rail link
Exeter St Davids
Rail connections
Business & industrial locations we serve
Business and industrial locations we serve in Exeter and the surrounding area — collections and drops without the hunting around.
Sowton Industrial Estate
Industrial area
Exeter Business Park
Commercial area
Matford Business Park
Commercial area
Industries we serve in Exeter
Business counts from ONS for the Exeter council area. Whatever moves in Exeter, we carry it.
Wholesale and retail trade
1,055
local businesses
We move stock replenishment and B2B deliveries for wholesalers and retailers.
Professional, scientific and technical activities
815
local businesses
We move legal documents, contracts, and time-sensitive paperwork for professional services firms.
Construction
715
local businesses
We move tools, materials, and site deliveries for construction firms.
Accommodation and food service activities
460
local businesses
We move restaurant supplies and hospitality deliveries.
Courier and freight services in Exeter
Named sites such as Wonford House Hospital are in Exeter; 4,425 businesses are registered in the Exeter council area — the local detail we plan an Exeter collection around.
Exeter sits in Devon, England with strong commercial and transport links to neighbouring towns. Braymore quotes collections from any Exeter address on all three services: same-day courier, next-day delivery and freight.
We quote same-day collections from homes, offices, factories, and warehouses throughout Exeter. On our same-day service, the job is handled by a single dedicated driver — collection to delivery, no hub stops. That means your consignment arrives faster and with a clear chain of custody from the moment we collect it to the moment it's signed for at the destination.
We handle a wide spread of job types: parts needed on a factory floor, confidential documents between offices, samples and prototypes between businesses, equipment moved between sites, and single-pallet stock drops for retailers. Each of those requires a different combination of speed, care, documentation, and vehicle size, so our booking process asks the right questions up front — what's moving, how urgent, what access the addresses have — rather than assuming one job looks like another.
What we sell at quote time is what shows up on delivery day. That's deliberately unflashy, and it's also where most other operators in the courier space miss. Exeter bookings run on facts: collection time, delivery time, vehicle, price.
Our services in Exeter
In Exeter we run all three core services. Same-day courier: collection within 60 minutes of booking, quoted for any address in Exeter, then a direct drive to anywhere in the UK with a single dedicated driver — no transfer points. Next-day delivery: low-cost UK-wide parcel and pallet service with guaranteed next-business-day arrival, collected from Exeter before our cut-off and delivered to the destination by end of next day. Freight & haulage: pallet network access, groupage, and full-load transport including refrigerated and oversized loads, with vehicles from 7.5-tonne lorries to 44-tonne articulated HGVs.
Vehicle range available for Exeter bookings runs from a small van for an envelope through to a 44-tonne articulated HGV for a full lorry load, with everything in between. We match the load to the smallest vehicle that fits — there's no commercial incentive to up-sell, and customers can see exactly which vehicle their booking is going on before they confirm.
Same-day courier in Exeter is our fastest service: one driver, one vehicle, dedicated to your job from collection through to delivery. No hub stops mean nothing gets lost in transit and nothing waits overnight for the next trunk leg. It's the right choice for urgent documents, spare parts that have halted production, emergency medical supplies, or anything else where arrival time is measured in hours rather than days.
Next-day delivery trades a little time for a lot of savings. We collect from Exeter the same day you book, consolidate with other consignments heading the same direction overnight, and deliver by end of next business day. If you're moving stock that isn't time-critical, this is usually the right tier — it's priced per parcel or per pallet.
Freight out of Exeter is for anything that needs a lorry. Single pallets through to full 44-tonne loads, refrigerated trailers for chilled or frozen, tail-lifts for sites without a forklift, Moffetts for self-unload on remote sites, and abnormal-load handling for over-height or out-of-gauge cargo. Pricing depends on vehicle size, distance, and load specifics — quote-on-call rather than off a fixed table.
Areas we cover in and around Exeter
We quote Exeter collections from every standard urban category and a few less obvious ones: residential addresses, retail premises with delivery bays, shared offices, multi-tenant industrial units, business parks, isolated rural addresses on the city edge, and the awkward in-between places (allotment sites, sports clubs, community halls) that other couriers sometimes refuse. Collections from industrial estates, business parks, trading estates and warehouse units across the Exeter area are quoted like any other job. Our drivers are set up for loading-bay windows, gated-estate access, and kerbside collections alike, so the pickup point itself rarely slows a booking down. Collections from nearby towns and cities, including Torquay and Taunton, are quoted on the same 60-minute collection window.
Any Exeter postcode can be quoted, including the EX1 and EX4 districts.
Each Exeter booking is matched to a vehicle sized for the address type — a small van for a tight residential street, a rigid lorry with a tail-lift for a warehouse without a loading dock. That reduces the ETA blow-outs that come from a mismatched vehicle: missed turnings, routes that can't take the vehicle, parking that doesn't exist for the size sent. Getting that match right at quote time is most of what keeps a collection window realistic.
Collections across the whole of Devon are quoted on the same 60-minute commitment as Exeter itself, whether you're in an outlying village, a rural business park, or on a trading estate at the edge of town. For residential and home-working customers we handle the full range: eBay and Vinted shipments that need dropping somewhere same day, personal-effects moves between addresses, gifts and parcels for family members elsewhere in the UK, and returns to retailers who've dropped their in-store returns service. For business customers, invoicing and account arrangements can be set up on request, along with per-booking reference codes and PoD (proof of delivery) with photographic confirmation on request.
Transport and logistics connections
Exeter's connection to the motorway network runs through Junction 31, Junction 30, and Junction 29. From any of those, our drivers are on the strategic road network within minutes — which keeps onward transit times short on long-distance same-day runs out of the city.
From Exeter we offer both fast regional same-day coverage and quick onward shipping to destinations across the UK. Most major UK destinations are within a same-day drive window from Exeter, and our next-day network reaches every postcode including the Scottish Highlands, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands.
Long-distance same-day runs from Exeter are typically dedicated trunks: a single vehicle and driver going the full distance, with overnight rest where the route requires. That keeps custody clean and removes the failure modes that come with multi-leg handovers. For next-day work, Exeter consignments enter our network at a known drop-off slot and route via partner depots overnight to land at the destination first thing the next morning.
Industries we serve in Exeter
These are among the sectors with the most registered businesses in Exeter, and they are the work we are set up for:
- stock replenishment and B2B deliveries for wholesalers and retailers
- legal documents, contracts, and time-sensitive paperwork for professional services firms
- tools, materials, and site deliveries for construction firms
- restaurant supplies and hospitality deliveries
Different sectors want different things on delivery day. Healthcare wants temperature tracking and tight documentation. Retail wants kerbside drop with photo proof. Construction wants delivery to specific site gates during specific windows. Legal wants signed handover to a named person. Each booking is matched to those expectations at quote time, and business-account billing is available.
Account customers in Exeter — businesses with recurring courier or freight needs — get a different setup from ad-hoc bookings: invoicing on agreed terms and a booking process that collapses to a one-line email or call rather than the full quote-and-confirm flow. Talk to us about volumes, vehicle needs, and any special handling to get an arrangement set up.
Why choose Braymore for deliveries in Exeter
- Pricing fixed at quote time: the price quoted is the price invoiced, regardless of what the actual route involves on the day.
- Single point of contact: the same person handles your quote, booking, and any in-flight changes — no being passed between departments.
- Vehicle range from small van to 44T HGV: the right tool for each job, priced honestly rather than padded for an oversized vehicle.
- 60-minute collection on same-day bookings, quoted for any address in Exeter and Devon.
- Delivery status updates by SMS or email on collection, transit, and arrival, plus UK-wide coverage from same-day through to next-day on every postcode.
How to book a courier in Exeter
- Tell us what you're sending and where to: the quote form takes about 30 seconds; for anything awkward or oversized, a phone call is usually faster.
- Confirm the quote: you'll have a firm price before any vehicle moves. Confirm by phone or by email — either way, a driver is allocated immediately.
- Collection and delivery happen on the agreed windows, with status updates pushed to you as the job progresses from pickup in Exeter through to arrival. Invoice and PoD are sent after delivery.
For one-off Exeter jobs, we quote fast and dispatch as soon as a vehicle is available nearby. Ongoing business accounts skip the quoting step on repeat work — we know your patterns, you know our pricing, and bookings collapse to a single sentence about what's moving today. Invoicing is available on agreed terms, consolidated across bookings for the period, with a single point of contact for quote, booking, and delivery questions if anything needs adjusting.
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At a glance
England- Major roads
- A30 · A38
- Nearby airport
- Exeter Airport
- Rail link
- Exeter St Davids
- Postcode districts
- EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4
Coverage around Exeter
Postcodes we cover in Exeter
Selected postcode districts in and around Exeter — same-day collection available across the area.
Places around Exeter
Towns, suburbs and villages within about 6 miles of the centre.
- Topsham
- Cranbrook
- Newtown
- St Leonards
- St Thomas
- Polsloe
- Foxhayes
- Exwick
- Redhills
- Stoke Hill
- Heavitree
- Pennsylvania
Place names © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Frequently Asked Questions
Which hospitals and universities are in Exeter?
University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Wonford House Hospital (Wikidata and OpenStreetMap). Deliveries to wards, labs, campuses and halls are quoted like any other job, with same-day collection when the load is time-critical.
How many businesses do you cover in Exeter?
There are 4,425 registered businesses in the Exeter council area (ONS). We quote collections from any of their addresses. There is no account or minimum volume — a one-off single-parcel job is priced the same way as a regular contract.
Do you deliver for wholesalers and retailers in Exeter?
Yes. Wholesalers and retailers make up one of the largest business sectors in the Exeter council area — 1,055 businesses on the ONS register. We quote collections and deliveries for any of them.
How quickly can you collect in Exeter?
We aim to collect within 60 minutes of booking on our same-day service, and we quote collections from any address in Exeter. For scheduled next-day collections, we offer 1-hour time windows so you know when the driver will arrive.
How much does a courier from Exeter cost?
Guide prices for a small van from Exeter are an estimated £243.60 to London (174 miles) and an estimated £151.20 to Cardiff (108 miles), excluding VAT. They are estimates from our published rate card — the table on this page has more routes and vans — and every job is still priced by a person, who takes access, timing and waiting into account.
What vehicles are available for deliveries in Exeter?
We offer small vans, midi vans, LWB vans, XLWB / Luton vans, 7.5T lorries, 18T lorries, and 44T articulated lorries. The right choice depends on weight, volume, and access requirements — our team can advise when you quote.
Do you deliver to business parks in Exeter?
Yes. We quote deliveries to any business park or industrial estate in the Exeter area, including Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Sowton Industrial Estate and Exeter Business Park.
How do I send a parcel to Exeter?
Request a quote on our quote page by entering your collection postcode and Exeter as the delivery address. We quote collections from anywhere in the UK and deliveries to any Exeter postcode — same-day for urgent items, next-day for standard parcels.
How every job is served
- Same-day
- Collection within 60 minutes of booking, then one driver from collection to delivery — no hub stops.
- Next-day
- Parcels up to 30 kg and pallets up to 1,000 kg, collected the same working day when booked before the usual 14:00 cut-off and delivered by the end of the next business day.
- Drivers
- A same-day job goes to one of our own drivers or to a trusted owner-driver on Courier Exchange (CX).
- Prices
- The published rate card is a guide. Every job is priced by a person, usually within the hour.
- Vehicles
- Small Car · Small Van · MWB Van · LWB Van · XLWB Van · Luton Van · 7.5T Lorry · 12T Lorry · 18T Lorry · 26T Lorry · 44T Artic · Temp-Controlled
170+
UK towns covered
60 min
Typical Collection Window
Mon–Sat
07:00–19:00 Real-Person Support
Need a Delivery in Exeter?
We quote every size of job in Exeter — from one of the 4,425 businesses registered in the Exeter council area to a single household parcel.