Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

gledy2

Many thanks for your help jordan, i will put one up there too, cheers, allan

ScaramangaFife

I agree. The Royal Mail is the cheapest option by far. We send many items weighing less than 500g to Europe and the the rest of the world and have enevr found a courier for anywhere nerar the RM. Try AirSure - it's their priority service. It is meant to have more tracking info.

edoh wrote: »

Hello, I've recent printed approx 25 t-shirts which will be posted to different countries, I've looked around online but there doesn't seem to be very much information regarding a cheap courier which ships seperate parcels surprisly as theres so many t-shirt sellers.

Looking at royal mail it'll be around £3 for standard and £7 for signed for, but they've already lost 3-4 of my parcels before so I'm not sure it's a good thing to stick with them even if they are the "cheapest delivery method for under 5kg"

Each shirts parcels are around 200-250grams packed in a plastic parcel bag and there'll be around 25 parcels, what will be a reliable and cheap-ish way?

Thanks.

ScaramangaFife

Try asking your local pallet network operator if they will take XL pallets. We have sent items measuring 2m by PalletForce. As far as I understand as long as it fits on a pallet many will take it. They will charge the area used. So a 2m pallet would be almost double a 120cm pallet. Long pallets can usually be found used by builders / joiners (long lengths of wood are usually delivered on 2m pallets).

We are based in Fife and also sometimes use a private courier to bring oversized, heavy and fragile stuff up to us and delivery down south. Try Double Diamond Logistics they usually make a run up here once a week.


edy2;41863642]HI all, new to the forums but not new to the site, been saving for a while!

I have recently bought a new bed on ebay and need it couriered from luton to scotland. I am looking for a courier to deliver 150kgs of boxes that measure up to 200cms.

From reading on here my best bet is shiply so I will put an add in. Most pallet delivery services are up to 120cms so does anyone have any suggestions which courier to use as i have no experience of sending larger and heavier items. The details of the boxes are below:

Box dimensions:
180 x 110 x 25 - 63kg
200 x 30 x 20 - 17kg
180 x 140 x 25 - 40kg
90 x 25 x 25 - 10kg
120 x 80 x 20 - 19kg

thanks in advance, allan[/QUOTE]

sparkleisshopping

I have a cd that I am planning on listing on ebay. It's a rare one and i expect it to sell for about £150. The band are popular abroad as well as in the UK so I want to offer international postage. I have two scenarios that I would appreciate help with...

1. If it goes for £150+ I'll need to get an international courier that has online signature to comply with the paypal seller protection. Which courier would be best for this? How much roughly would the courier cost?

2. Would I be better to put it on for £140 buy it now so that I don't have to get the online signature? I assume I could then use Royal Mail Airsure as this has insurance up to £500.

The historical selling price of the CD tends to be between £120 - £170 so I'm leaning towards option 2 and keeping the selling price under £150 - does this seem like the best option?

soolin

sparkleisshopping wrote: »

I have a cd that I am planning on listing on ebay. It's a rare one and i expect it to sell for about £150. The band are popular abroad as well as in the UK so I want to offer international postage. I have two scenarios that I would appreciate help with...

1. If it goes for £150+ I'll need to get an international courier that has online signature to comply with the paypal seller protection. Which courier would be best for this? How much roughly would the courier cost?

2. Would I be better to put it on for £140 buy it now so that I don't have to get the online signature? I assume I could then use Royal Mail Airsure as this has insurance up to £500.

The historical selling price of the CD tends to be between £120 - £170 so I'm leaning towards option 2 and keeping the selling price under £150 - does this seem like the best option?

Even though you don't need a signature for an item under £150 it must still fully track to buyers address, and RM do not offer that service. So regardless of sale price you need to use a courier.

sparkleisshopping

soolin wrote: »

Even though you don't need a signature for an item under £150 it must still fully track to buyers address, and RM do not offer that service. So regardless of sale price you need to use a courier.

Ok, thank you for this Could you recommend a courier that would provide full tracking?

I was also wondering, if I put the cd on for £140 buy it now + £15 postage (just an example, not sure if it will cost £15), would that count as over £150 and i'd need to get online signature? Or, is that rule just based on the value of the item?

sashanut

Hi all I wonder if someone could advise me of a good courier to send a single parcel to Switzerland please? Dimensions are:

H: 20cm
L: 55cm
W: 38cm

Weight is 3.5kg. Using parcelforce I fall foul of their volumetric caculation (they charge for 8.5kg) & it is coming up very expensive even with no insurance. If I ask for insurance, which I'd prefer as they are 2 antique dolls, then its £120. Almost worth getting an easyjet flight & taking them myself! Can anyone point me in the right direction please? TIA if you can help:D

soolin

sparkleisshopping wrote: »

Ok, thank you for this Could you recommend a courier that would provide full tracking?

I was also wondering, if I put the cd on for £140 buy it now + £15 postage (just an example, not sure if it will cost £15), would that count as over £150 and i'd need to get online signature? Or, is that rule just based on the value of the item?

To be honest I wouldn't concentrate too much on the signature /non sig question realistically for an item that expensive you need to cover yourself completely, even 'over' cover yourself.

Whilst i can't help with couriers as I don't use them , from looking at the thread it does seem that it is normal for couriers to get signatures, so just wait until someone comes online who understands couriers who can give you some advice.

Kayster

sparkleisshopping wrote: »

Ok, thank you for this Could you recommend a courier that would provide full tracking?

I was also wondering, if I put the cd on for £140 buy it now + £15 postage (just an example, not sure if it will cost £15), would that count as over £150 and i'd need to get online signature? Or, is that rule just based on the value of the item?

soolin is right - dont look at the £150 as some magic amount. The amount at which you do not bother with a signature is the amount you do not mind losing when the parcel does not arrive. If the receiver says he has not got it and you do not have a signature that money will disappear from you paypal account quicker than an ice lolly melts on a hot day.

Almost any courier except Royal mail will get a signature, DHL, FEDEX. TNT, UPS. Parcelforce they all do.

Kayster

sashanut wrote: »

Hi all I wonder if someone could advise me of a good courier to send a single parcel to Switzerland please? Dimensions are:

H: 20cm
L: 55cm
W: 38cm

Weight is 3.5kg. Using parcelforce I fall foul of their volumetric caculation (they charge for 8.5kg) & it is coming up very expensive even with no insurance. If I ask for insurance, which I'd prefer as they are 2 antique dolls, then its £120. Almost worth getting an easyjet flight & taking them myself! Can anyone point me in the right direction please? TIA if you can help:D

ALL couriers do the volumetric calculation - you can repack smaller?
Put your figs into the interparcel site and the www.transglogal.org.uk site and see what pops up. Switzerland is more expensive being outside the EU and i expect your buyer will be hit with import duty which might come as a shock.