Making sure the parcel gets to its post

Wexford start-up company Scurri.com has taken an innovative high-tech approach to managing parcel delivery and is preparing to take on the UK market.

Company founder Rory O’Connor set up Scurri.com in 2011 to use the power of the internet to provide consumers with competitively priced deliveries by utilising the excess capacity of transport companies. Within a year Scurri.com has switched focus to the e-commerce market and is now in discussions with several large and medium-sized online retailers in the UK.

“Our aim is to use technology to make parcel delivery simple — we have developed technology which links e-commerce merchants with delivery companies,” Mr O’Connor says. Scurri.com is the only company in Ireland or the UK offering this service, explains Mr O’Connor Employing a staff of five, Scurri.com plans to increase this to nine by 2014 and aims by 2015 to be servicing markets in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and facilitating the delivery of 10 million parcels a year.