★★★★★
"You cannot get more central than Crick. We pull containers off rail at DIRFT and they're on the M1 within minutes. For national trunking it's simply the best-positioned spot in the country."
Amazon fulfilment for Crick businesses — FBA prep and forwarding plus same-day FBM and Seller Fulfilled Prime despatch, all from one Golden Triangle warehouse on M1 (J18).
Amazon fulfilment for Crick from WSUK: FBA prep from £0.75 per unit (receive, inspect, FNSKU label), polybagging and bundling from £0.45, pallets built for inbound from £12.50, then delivered into Amazon’s UK fulfilment centres. FBM and Seller Fulfilled Prime picks from £1.00. Buffer stock held outside FBA. Reached via M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1), around 8 minutes from the DIRFT Golden-Triangle core near Rugby.
Amazon rejects and surcharges what does not arrive to spec. We prep to that spec, then move the stock — or ship the order ourselves.
Containers and supplier deliveries received, counted and checked against your purchase order, then prepped to Amazon’s requirements before a single carton moves.
Shipment plans built around your carton weights and case quantities, pallets wrapped and labelled to Amazon’s inbound standard, then delivered into the receiving centre.
Not everything belongs in FBA. We pick and pack your merchant-fulfilled and Seller Fulfilled Prime orders same day, and rescue what Amazon sends back.
Two clear tiers, the same as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per unit prepped, no commitment. Long-term contract rates drop as prep volumes tier up.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Receive, inspect, FNSKU label and scan each unit.
Pick, pack and same-day despatch on your own Prime SLAs.
Pallet supplied, built, wrapped and labelled for Amazon inbound.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Crick is small, but in logistics terms it is enormous. This unassuming Northamptonshire village in the NN6 postcode sits directly atop DIRFT - the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal - and beside Junction 18 of the M1, where the M6 also begins at Junction 1. It is, quite literally, the rail-freight heart of the UK's Golden Triangle. The Rugby core is around eight minutes away, and few points in Britain place a business closer to the intersection of motorway and rail than this.
DIRFT is the reason Crick punches so far above its weight. The terminal moves containers between rail and road at national scale, and the vast distribution centres that ring it - occupied by household-name retailers and grocers - depend on that connection to feed the country. The nearby Crick Industrial Estate adds further space, but it is the rail terminal that defines the area's purpose: this is where trunk-haul freight transfers from train to truck for onward delivery across the Midlands and beyond.
For all its national significance, Crick sits among familiar Northamptonshire and Warwickshire neighbours. Rugby is minutes up the A428, Daventry a short run along the A5, and Lutterworth with its Magna Park cluster lies just north via the M1. A base at Crick means being at the pivot point of the whole triangle - the place national 3PLs choose precisely because road, rail and the country's densest concentration of distribution capacity all converge in one spot.
The same links that made Crick a distribution town make it a sensible Amazon prep base. Units arrive, get inspected and FNSKU-labelled, get polybagged or bundled where the category demands it, and leave palletised to inbound spec — with the balance of the container sitting in ordinary warehouse storage rather than burning FBA capacity.
M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
~8 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Rail freight, national distribution and 3pl.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) — around 8 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Crick, plus the questions every amazon fulfilment client asks.
It sits directly on top of DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, right beside M1 Junction 18 and the start of the M6 at Junction 1. That combination of rail and motorway makes tiny Crick one of the most significant logistics locations in the country.
DIRFT is a major rail-freight terminal that transfers containers between train and lorry at national scale. Basing near it lets you tap rail trunk-haul for long-distance inbound, then distribute by road, cutting cost and carbon on high-volume flows.
Extremely close - around eight minutes. Crick effectively is the core, sitting at M1 Junction 18 where the M6 also begins. You won't find a base more central to the triangle's road-and-rail convergence than this.
Lutterworth's Magna Park, the UK's largest distribution park, is a short run north on the M1, while Daventry's estates lie along the A5 and Rugby's are minutes away via the A428. It's the densest warehousing area in the country.
Absolutely - it's the classic choice. National 3PLs cluster here because DIRFT, the M1, the M6 and the country's biggest distribution parks all converge within minutes, making Crick unrivalled for high-volume, multimodal national distribution.
Yes. Pallets are built and wrapped to Amazon’s inbound standard at our Golden Triangle warehouse and delivered into the UK receiving sites, with the Midlands centres around Rugeley, Coventry, Daventry and Rugby all a short run away — which keeps inbound freight off your margin.
That is the usual arrangement. Bulk sits with us from £4.50 per pallet per week with no capacity limit, and we build a replenishment shipment weekly from your sell-through, so FBA only ever holds what is actually moving.
From £0.75 per unit to receive, inspect, FNSKU label and scan, with polybagging and bundling from £0.45 and pallets from £12.50. FBM picks start at £1.00 plus £0.35 order processing. Every line is quoted before you commit.
Yes — picked, packed and despatched the same working day against a 4pm cut-off, from the same stock that feeds your FBA shipments. No second warehouse, no split inventory.
Typically 7–10 working days from brief to first prepped shipment, and faster when your stock is already in the UK. No setup fee, no minimum commitment, cancel any month.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| FNSKU, polybag & box-content prep in-house | Yes | Rarely |
| Buffer stock at £4.50/pallet/week | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Removal orders inspected and re-prepped | Yes | Rarely |
| FBA and FBM from one stock pool | Yes | Rarely |
We provide Amazon FBA prep and fulfilment across Crick, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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