Mail Order Services--Retail

You will find information on mail order services under this heading in Yellow Pages®. When you purchase goods or commodities from a shop or any other place without actually physically going to that place is called mail order. Mail orders are usually done with the help of a postal service. You can buy practically anything from anywhere by using mail orders — it’s just a phone call or click away.  Yellow Pages® contains a comprehensive list of mail order services across Australia.

Ordering and receiving goods became very popular during the 1970s. People started using the phone to order almost everything from clothes to washing machines. Typically, the customer made a call to the sales agency and gave the order and the address. Then, the sales agency would send their employees or contractors with the goods to the customer’s address. The customers had to make the payment when the goods were delivered. The payment was mostly made by a credit card. This became the easiest way to do shopping or often called home shopping. Sales agencies capitalised on this buying behaviour and started improving their services.

Home shopping catalogues are available to the customers to make better decisions. Recently, customers can use the internet to place an order. The payment too can be made via the Internet by using the credit card details. Most mail order services deliver the goods by using their own transport or mailing service agencies. So retailers who intend to sell their goods by mail order must have the logistics planned out very well.