Over the last 10 weeks, since lockdown started, home delivery has become an essential part of life and one London start-up has seen its business boom.

Peyk, offers a peer-to-peer delivery model and it’s couriers can be at your door within 20 minutes to take forgotten laptops, left behind credit cards and other life necessities from one friend or family member to the other. Simply log on to the app and book a personal courier who will be dispatched to fill in the order and deliver it to your door.

During the Covoid-19 lockdown Peyk has come into its own as Londoners have turned, in their droves, to the 24/7 instant delivery platform, using it to transport urgent medications, missing ingredients, important documents, short supply items such as toilet rolls, as well as other life necessities, Mother’s Day gifts, food parcels and love letters between friends and family, lovers and colleagues. One customer even used the platform to send a letter to their ex.

Often described as the Uber or Deliveroo of instant person-to-person deliveries, Peyk empowers individuals and households in the capital to send or receive anything they wish (as long as it’s legal) via their own personal courier. It is on a mission to revolutionise how friends, family and small businesses get urgent packages to each other, and is easily accessed via the web or Peyk app.

With the average price of a courier costing £4 and delivery times usually running at around 15 minutes, Peyk has the quickest pick-up time in the capital and offers the fastest, safest and most cost efficient way to send personal parcels from A to B across London. With over 3,000 Peykers currently on the road in London, 80% of which are on bicycles (the rest are on mopeds), it takes just three clicks to place your order. Your dedicated Peyker then arrives at the pick-up point within 20 minutes.

Peyk founder and CEO, Salman Moghimi, brought the platform to London in September 2018, after his own painful experience of trying to quickly send a personal package across the capital. At the time, his only options were to wait until the next day or to transport it himself, with neither option proving feasible in the circumstances. Moghimi found the experience so completely out of step with modern, on-demand, lifestyles that it inspired him to start Peyk.

Says Salman: “Peer-to-peer couriers are widely used across Asia and the Middle East, when sending things to friends and family. Peyk is now bringing a similar service to the capital, revolutionising the courier service industry and transforming the way Londoners send items to one another.

“Whether a user wants to send an important card to a family member, or finds themselves in a tricky situation without any keys, Peyk is the perfect the solution. Via just three clicks on our app, we can provide a personal courier to save the day and within 20 minutes an item will be en route to its destination.”

Given the nature of items sent via Peyk, providing a private, safe and reliable service is of paramount importance. Peyk’s unique security labels, seals and digital signatures guarantee that deliveries stay secure during transportation. Customers can also live-track their orders via the Peyk app, receiving live updates and notifications that track their parcel’s journey and, if any issues arise then these are handled by a 24/7 customer and driver support centre.

Moghimi, who is 22 years old, adds: “The increase in demand that we have seen for Peyk during the lockdown, confirms that in today’s 24/7 world, individuals need to be able to send whatever they want, to whoever they want, wherever they want to across the city they live in and whenever they need to. We only see this accelerating post lock-down, as more and more Londoners successfully try, and love, our revolutionary delivery service.”

The business has also seen a 20% increase in the number of new Peykers signing up to deliver its service during the Covoid-19 lockdown as Londoners made redundant or furloughed look to replace lost incomes.