Hunter Express, the Melbourne-headquartered courier and logistics company established in 1990, has expanded its same-day metropolitan courier service to cover all six Australian capital city depots. The company, which employs over 400 staff and works with a contractor network exceeding 1,000 people, now offers door-to-door same-day delivery from depots in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, and Perth.
Same-Day Network
The same-day courier service handles metropolitan consignments up to 850 kilograms per shipment. By positioning depots in each capital city, Hunter Express can guarantee local pickup and delivery within the same business day across the major metropolitan corridors that account for the bulk of Australian parcel volume.
For shippers who have historically relied on overnight or next-day services for inter-suburb freight, the expanded same-day footprint removes a layer of transit time that can be critical for time-sensitive goods such as medical supplies, legal documents, replacement parts, and perishable items.
Service Tiers
Hunter Express structures its same-day offering around three tiers designed to match different urgency and budget requirements:
- Standard — metropolitan delivery within approximately three hours of pickup. Suited to routine same-day consignments where a defined window is acceptable.
- VIP — a priority tier targeting delivery within approximately two hours, giving shippers a faster option without the cost of a fully dedicated vehicle.
- Exclusive — a direct-drive service with no additional stops between pickup and delivery. This tier is designed for urgent, high-value, or fragile freight where the sender needs full chain-of-custody certainty.
All three tiers include real-time tracking and proof-of-delivery capture, consistent with the visibility standards shippers now expect from last-mile carriers.
E-commerce and Integration
Beyond its courier operations, Hunter Express offers national express road delivery and warehousing and logistics solutions. Its Platinum plan provides a purpose-built e-commerce fulfilment solution tailored to oversized items, a segment often underserved by carriers whose networks are optimised for small-parcel volumes.
On the technology side, Hunter Express maintains integrations with several major shipping platforms including MachShip, Starshipit, Interparcel, and TrackingMore. The company also provides a RESTful JSON API that supports booking, tracking, and label printing, with webhook callbacks for real-time shipment status updates. For 3PLs and warehouse operators running multi-carrier environments, these integrations mean Hunter Express can slot into existing dispatch workflows without manual re-keying.
What This Means for Shippers
The six-depot same-day network positions Hunter Express as one of a relatively small group of Australian carriers able to offer guaranteed same-day metropolitan coverage at national scale. For businesses managing fulfilment across multiple capital cities, the ability to book a single carrier for same-day work in any major metro area simplifies carrier management and rate negotiation.
With a workforce of more than 1,400 people and over three decades of operational history, Hunter Express continues to build out the infrastructure needed to compete in a segment where speed and reliability are the primary differentiators.