Sample Courier Services
Sample Courier Services
We provide our customers with flexible and safe sample pickup and shipping solutions. Our cost-effective Sample Courier and Pack-and-ship Services save valuable time in getting your samples to our facilities.
Sample Courier Services
Our Lancaster, PA-based courier service provides secure and timely sample pick-up service and bottle delivery to clients within our Same-Day Courier service area. In a matter of hours, we can pick up your samples, pack them if needed, and transport them back to our laboratory to be logged for analysis.
Because many samples have a brief holding time, getting them quickly, easily and safely to the lab is of utmost importance. Our couriers have been trained in sample handling, sample transport and chain-of-custody procedures.
To arrange for a sample pickup, please call us 24 hours in advance whenever possible. You can also establish a convenient, regularly scheduled courier stop.
Services Available:
Regular Pickup is available anywhere within our Same-Day service route and will have a nominal fee as long as the samples are ready by 3:00 pm.
Special Pickups are those made after 3:00 pm or on weekends and will be charged an adjusted rate based on time and mileage. Special Pickups also include any location outside of our Same-Day service route.
To arrange for a sample pickup, please call your project manager at (717) 656-2300.
National Pack and Ship Services
Lancaster Labs offers sample pickup and pack-and-ship services in a vast range of locations throughout the United States. Couriers will pick up your samples at your office or project site, pack them in coolers with ice, and ship them to our laboratory via overnight AM delivery to ensure your samples arrive on time and intact. All couriers have been expertly trained in sample custody, sample packing, and DOT shipping requirements. Our sample packing process ensures that your samples arrive at our facility safely, in a timely manner and within temperature specifications. Each pack-and-ship location also maintains an emergency supply of coolers, COCs, bottles, and packing materials for those projects that just can’t wait.
Please see map for pack and ship locations
The pickup range covered by our pack-and ship operations may vary by location. Please call your project manager or our business development group at 717-656-2300 to check if your area is served or to request a pickup. We’re continually expanding our pack-and-ship locations and would like to work with you to meet your specific program or project needs.
Why Lancaster Laboratories?
- We guarantee same-day delivery if it is within our Same-Day service route.
- Our couriers can help save you time by packing your samples for transport. Having our couriers as the only ones handling your samples also simplifies chain-of-custody procedures.
- Our couriers will do whatever it takes to satisfy the demands of your project. We can accommodate pickups outside of our regular pickup routes and time schedules. If needed, we can ship coolers and bottles to you in advance, or we can have our courier leave them for you.
- We have a number of different sized cars and vans to accommodate your needs.
- Should you forget to call in advance and need your samples picked up in a hurry, our company vehicles are all equipped with phones so we can communicate any last-minute changes to the couriers. If you are on an established schedule, there is no need to remind us, our courier will be there.
- Shipping samples is a more time sensitive, streamlined, and safe process through our National Pack and Ship Services.
Please note that courier service will not be available on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.