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Courier services in Exeter. Same-day, next-day, palletised freight. 60-minute collection and UK-wide delivery — call or book online.

138k

people in the area

4,425

registered businesses

6

postcode districts covered

Exeter delivery coverage
60-min
M5A30A38
Torquay
Taunton
Exeter
Exeter Nearby area Coverage zone

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Local detail

What we work around in Exeter

Hospitals & universities

University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Wonford House Hospital

We deliver to wards, labs, campuses and halls across Exeter — same-day when the load is time-critical.

Registered businesses

4,425

Businesses on the ONS register in the Exeter area — from single-van trades to distribution centres, we collect from any of their addresses.

Sources — Named sites: Wikidata (CC0) & OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Registered businesses: ONS / NOMIS NM_142_1 (OGL v3).

Connectivity

How Exeter connects

Exeter has major road and motorway routes including M5, A30, A38, Exeter Airport nearby and a mainline rail link at Exeter St Davids — we collect and deliver across the area on same-day and next-day runs.

Major roads & routes

M5A30A38

Nearby airport

Exeter Airport

Travel time varies by collection location and traffic.

Rail link

Exeter St Davids

Rail connections

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.

Guide prices from Exeter: estimates, excluding VAT
RouteSmall VanLWB VanLuton Van
Exeter → London174 miles£243.60£304.50£365.40
Exeter → Cardiff108 miles£151.20£189£226.80
Exeter → Birmingham160 miles£224£280£336
Exeter → Manchester237 miles£331.80£414.75£497.70

Short local runs are rarely best served by a 100-mile minimum. Call us and we will price the job properly.

Price your exact postcodes

On the ground

Business & industrial locations we serve

Business and industrial locations we serve in Exeter and the surrounding area — collections and drops without the hunting around.

Marsh Barton Trading Estate

Industrial area

Sowton Industrial Estate

Industrial area

Exeter Business Park

Commercial area

Matford Business Park

Commercial area

Local economy

Industries we serve in Exeter

Business counts from ONS. 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.

We deliver to named sites such as University of Exeter and Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital; 4,425 businesses are registered in the area — the local detail we plan a Exeter collection around.

Exeter (population around 138,000) sits in Devon, England with strong commercial and transport links to neighbouring towns. Braymore collects from and delivers to every Exeter address on all three services: same-day courier, next-day delivery and freight.

We collect from homes, offices, factories, and warehouses throughout Exeter on the same day you book. 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: we collect within 60 minutes from any address in Exeter and deliver direct 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 a full fleet 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

Our Exeter collection radius covers 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. Industrial estates, business parks, trading estates, and warehouse units across the Exeter area are all inside our collection radius. 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. We also cover nearby towns and cities including Torquay and Taunton on the same 60-minute collection window.

We collect from every Exeter postcode, 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.

Our collection radius covers the whole of Devon on the same 60-minute commitment, so if you're based just outside Exeter proper — in an outlying village, a rural business park, or on a trading estate at the edge of town — we still collect within 60 minutes. 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 across Exeter and Devon on same-day bookings.
  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. Confirm the quote: you'll have a firm price before any vehicle moves. Book with the booking form or over the phone — either way, a driver is allocated immediately.
  3. 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
M5 · A30 · A38
Nearby airport
Exeter Airport
Rail link
Exeter St Davids
Postcode districts
EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4
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Postcodes we cover in Exeter

Selected postcode districts in and around Exeter — same-day collection available across the area.

EX1EX2EX3EX4EX5EX6

Vehicles available in Exeter

From a single envelope to a full 44-tonne consignment.

  • Small Car · No pallets · up to 250 kg
  • Small Van · 1 UK pallet · up to 750 kg
  • MWB Van · 2 UK pallets · up to 1,000 kg
  • LWB Van · 3 UK pallets · up to 1,400 kg
  • XLWB Van · 4 UK pallets · up to 1,500 kg
  • Luton Van · 6 UK pallets · up to 1,000 kg
  • 7.5T Lorry · 10–12 UK pallets · up to 2,500 kg
  • 12T Lorry · 12–14 UK pallets · up to 6,000 kg
  • 18T Lorry · 14–16 UK pallets · up to 10,000 kg
  • 26T Lorry · 18 UK / 21 Euro pallets · up to 15,000 kg
  • 44T Artic · 26 UK / 33 Euro pallets · up to 28,000 kg
  • Temp-Controlled · Refrigerated · payload depends on chassis

Nearby Areas We Cover

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you deliver to University of Exeter?

Yes. We deliver to named Exeter sites including University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Wonford House Hospital, to goods-in and departmental addresses alike. Time-critical items go on the same-day service, direct-driven with no hub stops.

How many businesses do you cover in Exeter?

There are 4,425 registered businesses in the Exeter area (ONS), and we collect from any of their addresses. There is no account or minimum volume — a one-off single-parcel job is quoted the same way as a regular contract.

Do you deliver for wholesalers and retailers in Exeter?

Yes. Wholesalers and retailers make up one of Exeter's largest business sectors — 1,055 businesses on the ONS register — and we collect from and deliver to them across the area.

How quickly can you collect in Exeter?

We aim to collect from any address in Exeter within 60 minutes of booking on our same-day service. 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, including Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Sowton Industrial Estate and Exeter Business Park, and every other business park and industrial estate in the Exeter area.

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 collect from anywhere in the UK and deliver to any Exeter postcode — same-day for urgent items, next-day for standard parcels.

170+

UK towns covered

60 min

Typical Collection Window

Mon–Sat

07:00–19:00 Real-Person Support

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We quote every size of job in Exeter — from one of the 4,425 businesses registered here to a single household parcel.

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