Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

tonikeys

Kunama wrote: »

Hi,

I am so glad I have found this thread, so much usefull information and help!

Up untill now I have been using a small third seller to dispatch my garden planters. However I have gone to book with them today and there prices have gone from 10.99 to 35.00 overnight. The problem is they were the only company I could find that would ship my sizes.

I am looking to send 2 parcels

One is 160cm x 40cm x 40cm 25kg
The other is 120cm x 60cm x 40cm 30kg (just under 30kg to be exact)

I can send between 1 and 5 of these parcels a week. After 12pm cut of would be helpfull but not essential.

Thank you in advance for any help anyone can offer.

Kunama

Parcel2Go comes in at £19.99+vat for each of those if that's any good to you?

Kunama

sandiep wrote: »

£10.99 to £35.00 sounds as if the carrier has shifted parcels over 1m/1.2m from standard parcel delivery onto a freight parcel delivery. They've cut the max length in order to get more parcels into freight and make a bit more money without putting up the headline price. Which carrier was it?

Try a UPS service, they work on the basis of girth rather than simply maximum dimensions, so can be quite good with the long/thin parcels. DHL worldwide also don't have a "maximum" however a lot of DHL uk prices are domestic not worldwide, so you will see maximum dimensions.

There is a big difference in pricing between 29kg and 30kg, so make sure that you double check the weights and if the parcel is under 30kg don't put 30kg into the online price quote.

DPD have a cut off of 1m, so they'd be no good.
Parcelforce I think is 1.5m?

It was a company called Alphapack and the courier who collected was UPS. I will have a look at UPS directly and get a more exact weight although last time I tried going directly to there site I had alot of trouble trying to get a quote. I will certainly take a look though.:)

anon_ymous

from browsing the eBay forums, I discovered a site known as "bigger parcels"

I havent however checked for a quote...

jordanryan

Kunama wrote: »

Hi,

I am so glad I have found this thread, so much usefull information and help!

Up untill now I have been using a small third seller to dispatch my garden planters. However I have gone to book with them today and there prices have gone from 10.99 to 35.00 overnight. The problem is they were the only company I could find that would ship my sizes.

I am looking to send 2 parcels

One is 160cm x 40cm x 40cm 25kg
The other is 120cm x 60cm x 40cm 30kg (just under 30kg to be exact)

I can send between 1 and 5 of these parcels a week. After 12pm cut of would be helpfull but not essential.

Thank you in advance for any help anyone can offer.

Kunama

Parcel Monkey have £12.71 for the shorter 30Kg parcel.

jammin_2

Hi folks,

Need to send an old laptop to Russia, registered (sig required, insurance not necessarily).

3.5kg, 40 x 30 x 5 cm.

Anyone got any ideas? I found a website earlier, lost the link now but could find again, they're quoting ~ £28 iirc, with TNT - but they'll deliver only to a business address in Russia which *could* prove problematic (not sure yet).

anon_ymous

I sent a mobile phone to Russia once via banadoo. It came back, in the end and cost £30 ish. I used banadoo's sister non business site(as I never really intended to use them too often) I gave them a refund, minus postage(on my private eBay account), as they failed to pay customs fees.

They paid £30 for the mobile phone to be sent, and didnt pay customs fees. Now they are probably out of pocket even more lol

Make sure that you tell your buyer, that customs fees are their duty and not yours before you send

jammin_2

waqasahmed wrote: »

I sent a mobile phone to Russia once via banadoo. It came back, in the end and cost £30 ish. I used banadoo's sister non business site(as I never really intended to use them too often) I gave them a refund, minus postage(on my private eBay account), as they failed to pay customs fees.

They paid £30 for the mobile phone to be sent, and didnt pay customs fees. Now they are probably out of pocket even more lol

Make sure that you tell your buyer, that customs fees are their duty and not yours before you send

Thanks for the advice.

This is it? They don't seem to send to Russia.

anon_ymous

This is their sister site(for one off parcels)
http://www.postagesupermarket.com/

And yes, they do send to Russia. One thing with Russia is that they only allow goods in under £220
Its probably some old communist rule that they've kept

jordanryan

I didn't think anyone was sending to the Russian Federation at present? Interparcel don't have it, TransGlobal say they can only send Documents there at present. Parcel2Ship say they have a Parcel Force service. The Postage Supermarket as mentioned shows Russia with DHL Express but no-one else does?

anon_ymous

Hmmm.. Dunno. If that is the case, I will no longer send to Russia, if that was the true reason why my phone came back to me