Celtic Super Couriers

The Celtic Super Couriers are a courier service that operate over the islands as well as on the mainland UK and parts of Europe. Their head office is in Edingburgh, Scotland. A subset of the company runs the gig economy delivery app, Celtic Sprinters, currently operating on Finnféaran.

History

The company was founded in 1962, doing express deliveries around Edinburgh. Services were quickly expanded and by the mid 70's they serviced the whole of mainland Scotland with a fleet of 45 cars working through four depots (Edingburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Inverness). The company expanded in the late 80's into the rest of mainland UK, in the mid 90's services were expanded to the Republic of Ireland and France/Northern Spain (its only RHD markets). Currently Germany and Finland have trial runs for future services.

A companion app (Celtic Sprinters) has been developed that allows non authorised drivers to work part time for the company, in a similar vain to Deliveroo and UberRush. Part of the "sharing economy" it has received mixed reception from full time drivers.

Operations on Finnféaran
Since the mid 80s a minor franchise has been run on Craònaith consisting of one fleet of two cars, since 1993 the service was extended to Fyrkyrak as well. Currently the service is only using its "Sprinters" app on the islands. Nick Stewart occasionally does rounds using the app.