Cheap Parcel Delivery Thread MK3

Pica_pica

http://www.parcelbroker.co.uk has gone up to £7.99 for the 48hr service plus 15% vat. Just booked one and the total price is £9.19. Is anyone out there getting cheaper, please let me know as this is quite a hike!

ArmitageShanks

paul090971 wrote: »

are you for real, I work as a freight forwarding agent and I can tell you that this year has been really hard. , fuel surcharges this year was up to 20% and currency surcharges for exports were being charged at 7%, and now you moan that a box may go up from from £6-£8. I think £8 is a fair price to pay myself.

Paul

I don't think peoples gripe will be with re-sellers or brokers as they know if the courier companies put their prices up they will have to pass them on.

ludwip wrote: »

Is Directparceldistribution still with Fedex as I noticed that they offer European deliveries with the DHL?

Yes. I don't think FedEx's U.K network is good enough at the moment.

Pica_pica wrote: »

http://www.parcelbroker.co.uk has gone up to £7.99 for the 48hr service plus 15% vat. Just booked one and the total price is £9.19. Is anyone out there getting cheaper, please let me know as this is quite a hike!

I think there will be a few in the mid-high £8,

ArmitageShanks

jordanryan wrote: »

As far as I know these are all Shafi:

parceltree.co.uk - down
wigidispatch.co.uk - down but will be back, possibly with UPS too
rainbowparcels.co.uk
parcelone.co.uk
parcelcheap.co.uk
smartparcels.co.uk

How sure are we on this? Someone has told me who should know what they're on about that wigi was using Shafi, but not anymore. From what I can see, they are shafi!

ludwip

ArmitageShanks wrote: »

Yes. I don't think FedEx's U.K network is good enough at the moment.

What do you think is wrong with FedEx than?

ArmitageShanks

ludwip wrote: »

What do you think is wrong with FedEx than?

ArmitageShanks_wrote_a_month_back wrote: »

We've been using FedEx for a couple a weeks now and few observations which might be of interest.

• Your first pick up may fail
• The ANC operation which they took over needs a lot of attention, drivers don't even have scanners
• The tracking in the U.K is pants, but catches up once it reaches destination country
• Delivery time is excellent however, 3 days to the States
• Customer service is also top notch, far superior than DHL

This is obviously through DPD and works very well for Europe and Int. but at the moment I can't see how it would work for domestic services. But it is good news someone wants to muscle in with DHL on the re-selling stakes.

It was fine for us, and is probably fine for all businesses. But for one offs for domestic addresses it's probably more hassle than it's worth.


Edit: do know anyone else offering fedex?

ludwip

But it seem to work fine with DPD as they still offer Fedex

ArmitageShanks

but they're using DHL now?

ludwip

Oh yes, sorry. I didn't understand it.

ArmitageShanks

You don't know anyone else offering fedex?

ludwip

I don't, I'm afraid. If you are looking for international deliveries with Fedex as far as I heard they don't want resellers in their international services. It is quite difficult to find services to US at competitive prices.