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The Alternative Parcels Company Limited pays suppliers in 48 days on average — inside its 72-day stated terms

CRN 02855735 · Transport & storage · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

48daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 24 days inside their stated 72-day term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
72 days
Paid outside agreed terms
8% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
21%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 24 Apr 2026

Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 24 days inside the 72-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

44 → 48 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

The Alternative Parcels Company Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 48 days against stated terms of 72 days; 8% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 21% took 61 days or longer. Filed 24 Apr 2026.

The direction is slower: from 44 days in H2 2023 to 48 now — 4 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 84% of the 245 large companies reporting in transport & storage.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

21% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Our standard payment terms are 40 days net monthly however, we do offer 30 days net monthly and weekly payment terms.

Dispute resolution

Invoice queries are raised by the Manager to the supplier and followed through to resolution by the ledger team.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026488%21%24 Apr 2026
H2 2025427%20%17 Oct 2025
H1 2025486%19%24 Apr 2025
H2 2024486%21%9 Oct 2024
H1 2024488%20%29 Apr 2024
H2 2023448%21%13 Oct 2023
H1 2023509%21%24 Apr 2023
H2 2022498%21%17 Oct 2022
H1 2022519%24%26 Apr 2022
H2 2021539%22%19 Oct 2021
H1 2021477%19%14 Apr 2021
H2 2020468%16%23 Oct 2020
H1 2020467%23%27 Apr 2020
H2 2019468%16%14 Oct 2019
H1 2019446%12%18 Apr 2019
H2 2018448%13%30 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
22 Sept 1993
Registered office
NATIONAL SORTATION CENTRE BLAKENEY WAY, CANNOCK, WS11 8LD
9 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Quick answers · The Alternative Parcels Company Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 4 days slower over the window (44 → 48 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 48; across their last 6 reports it ranged 42–48 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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