Basic object of courier services
All you need to open your courier service is, first of all go for licence from the authority of your city or state what so ever have the authority. Then you have to work for business development with your near by companies for daily business.
After that you require vehicle for delivery and man power for delivery. Need to setup office with all the necessary requirements which is required for eg Computers, software and data base, boxes and envelopes.
In order to start a courier service you can make agreement with some company already doing the same with corporate rate and can offer some better rates to your new clients. In this way you will not have to invest a great deal of money in logistics tools. You can get new account by introducing your company's services on corporate level.