Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

JPS29

Hi.
I dont use interparcel for the heavier stuff. It normally goes with via senditnow etc. or is collection only. Thats why this caught my eye. Dean will have a lot of business if his price for 30kilos doesnt come attached with tiny measurement restrictions for the parcel.

jordanryan

You could try collectmyparcel.com, DHL 1-2 day, up to 30Kg - £8.95.

JPS29

extortionate mate.

towbar and fittings 115 cm x80cm x30 cm weight maximum 30 kg

the link you just supplied cheapest 52.45 :eek::eek:

jordanryan

I'm not surprised, that parcel is HUGE!:rotfl:

JPS29

I've sent bigger and for less money mate. campervan bonnet with parcel force from memory about 20 quid, granted it was lighter, but a bigger package

yoyo59

kgrins wrote: »

Update on my messed-up parcel with City Link via Parcel Monkey. Despite assuring me that if found, they would return the parcel to me yesterday they delivered the item to the buyer (whom I have already refunded because he wasn’t willing to wait on a proper status).
From talking to various depots and the Camberley office, I believe the parcel (along with lots of other Parcel Monkey parcels) was sitting in Southampton depot until they sorted through the backlog this week.

See how this plays out (the buyer has contacted me by email so see if he wants to pay for the item, have it returned or what), but City Link are totally incompetent. I know that customer service had actually added a ‘return to sender’ note to the item since I had that confirmed from different reps during my multiple phone calls, but the depot handling it decided to finally pass on an item which had been sitting waiting for over two weeks without even checking if in the meantime there was any note saying to return to sender. Truly incompetent.

And Parcel Monkey must have know all along that their items got cancelled and that the most like depot for my item was Southampton (if I had know that earlier I could have phoned them and maybe they would have processed my item last week) but they said nothing. Parcel Monkey are truly useless. They have offered to refund my postage but seem to be taking their time with it.

City Link or Parcel Monkey? Never again!

i got the same problem

kgrins

yoyo59 wrote: »

i got the same problem

Yes, I'm sure there are lots of people in the same boat since whatever arrangements Parcel Monkey have with City Link allowed all our parcels to be dumped somewhere (in the south, Southampton perhaps?) and left there for two weeks.

I find it very hard to believe that Parcel Monkey did not know a lot more than they told me: if they had actually mentioned the Southampton depot I could have phone them last week and maybe got my item sent back to me then.

In my case, they recipient did sort me out and retracted the negative feedback he had left (I've still totally gone off the idea of ebay so while nice, the feedback is not that important to me).

Parcel Monkey were meant to give me a refund (& took my Paypal details) but haven't done so yet.

wisemen

I just bought a £400 used laptop from ebay and i have asked the seller if i could choose my own courier.

39 cm(W) x 27 cm(D) x 4 cm(H) - Weight 4 kg

I want fast delivery, insurance, signed for (tracking). That sort of stuff.

noticed gwizzcouriers was recommended a lot. Is there any other better then them for fragile items. I guess £300 insurance is fine and i can live with that since they seem to be so reliable.

So which courier service is the best?


EDIT - However, the following items are excluded absolutely unless specifically agreed by Underwriters prior to sending:
Micro chips, mother boards and/or memory of any kind which is not part of a complete system
Mobile telephones, components, parts and accessories

So I guess their (Gwizz) insurance covers laptops but not mobile phones. Interesting.

wisemen

Since the response to my previous question was so overwhelming I dare to ask another one.

Best/cheapest courier to ship a pair of earphones (0.3 kg max weight) from UK to singapore?

Kayster

wisemen wrote: »

Since the response to my previous question was so overwhelming I dare to ask another one.

Best/cheapest courier to ship a pair of earphones (0.3 kg max weight) from UK to singapore?

Earphones: For featherweight items like this RoyalMail will be cheapest. Best for your circumstance depends on other factors like value.

As to no comment on your previous post I have given my opinion on this a few times in the past but here goes again. You want a premier league carrier such as UPS or DHL and a reseller that responds to queries and I have found reseeler Gwizz do this, i have not had to make a claim on their insurance so do not know how that goes. If/when Gwizz change from using UPS to Citylink all bets are off.