Blaze Express Courier Service

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We are a delivery service company, but mostly we are a Service Company. We can adjust ourselves to fit your local or regional transportation and light distribution needs. From the one pound envelope in the office that needs to be across the street or across the state now! – To the management of your electronic parts stored in our warehouse that needs to be delivered ASAP! – From the scheduled run everyday to the occasional “on demand” delivery – From the Special Handling required for Medical Specimens to complete dedicated route structure for every Hospital Department. From New Orleans to Baton Rouge – No matter what your local transportation needs are – we can accommodate them. Blaze Express Courier Service, a locally owned family business, was established in New Orleans in 1975. With a borrowed van, a shared office and $1000.00 in his pocket, Charles J. Wolfe founded Barnett Services, Inc which later would become Blaze Express Courier Service, and began serving the New Orleans business community. As his wife Ellie was caring for their six children, she also found herself running the office. In between changing diapers she would answer the phone and handle other administrative tasks as Charles was out making deliveries and handling the operational end of the business. In 1980 the company moved to a premier business park in the New Orleans area, Elmwood Business Park, and located its offices inside the General Electric Building. The company ran General Electric’s Major Appliance warehousing operation along with providing regional delivery for them. The company was providing Local Freight Delivery, Local Courier Service, Public Warehousing and Retail Home Delivery – referred to today as Residential White Glove Delivery –for its growing customer base. It was 1991 when the courier division took on its own identity and when the name Blaze Express Courier Service was first unveiled. It was a new look and a new focus on "Courier" services. Operationally not much changed since the company under its current identity was offering courier services. It was just time to concentrate on the "courier" segment of the business which included the Medical and Pharmaceutical industries along with the “Rush Demand” business. After moving out of the GE building in 1989 the company occupied a 40,000 square foot warehouse in the Elmwood Industrial Park until 2003 when the decision to sell its Local Freight and Retail Home Delivery divisions was made. It was then that the company’s identity as Blaze Express Courier Service was solidified. After the sale Blaze Express Courier Service moved out of the Elmwood Industrial Park but after a three year absence has returned and is excited about being back in this centrally located area. Like many businesses in the area, Katrina delivered a “Blow” to Blaze Express Courier Service. In August of 2005 the company was on pace to have a record month since undergoing the changes in 2003. Instead sales in September 2005 were all but non existent equaling 12% of a normal month.

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