Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

Kayster

From January 2012 DHL will control the price at which their services are sold online which will result in a significant increase so if you use DHL you might need to revisit your pricing.

custardy

Kayster wrote: »

From January 2012 DHL will control the price at which their services are sold online which will result in a significant increase so if you use DHL you might need to revisit your pricing.

most likely because they have Yodel for the cheaper end and want to segregate the products

volvodude

Kayster wrote: »

From January 2012 DHL will control the price at which their services are sold online which will result in a significant increase so if you use DHL you might need to revisit your pricing.

I was just going to ask, why has DHL disappeared from all my usual broker sites. This explains it. This is totally going to bite them in the !!! I can guarantee it, if they are not competitive no-one cares who they are. I have had good results with DHL the last few months and I get regular shipments through pay per parcel or world wide parcel services with them.

Oh well, I will go to parcel monkey instead and use UPS at the risk of getting a remote fee charged to me (but seriously whos gonna go through all the paper work....). Yep thats right, DHL = no remote fee, all other couriers I get a remote fee. Go figure. Why one company doesn't deem my address remote but the others do is a strange one.

volvodude

custardy wrote: »

most likely because they have Yodel for the cheaper end and want to segregate the products

It is the european services that seem to have disappeared which is still DHL, nothing to do with yodel afaik.

ashworthm

i have an item weighing approx 25kg that i need to ship from coventry to slough, as cheap as possible.

basically the person won my auction on ebay and has only just realised it was "pick up only" so trying to look for a cheap way of getting item to them which they will pay me for.

any recomendations re a firm to se?

Kayster

ashworthm wrote: »

i have an item weighing approx 25kg that i need to ship from coventry to slough, as cheap as possible.

basically the person won my auction on ebay and has only just realised it was "pick up only" so trying to look for a cheap way of getting item to them which they will pay me for.

any recomendations re a firm to se?

You havent mentioned size. Have a look at www.parcelsplease.co.uk

paulofessex

ashworthm wrote: »

i have an item weighing approx 25kg that i need to ship from coventry to slough, as cheap as possible.

basically the person won my auction on ebay and has only just realised it was "pick up only" so trying to look for a cheap way of getting item to them which they will pay me for.

any recomendations re a firm to se?

Have a search for a local APC courier close to you. My local one would charge approx. £10-£12 and thats COD too. Worth looking into.

Kayster

paulofessex wrote: »

Have a search for a local APC courier close to you. My local one would charge approx. £10-£12 and thats COD too. Worth looking into.

There doesnt seem to be anyway of getting a price from the website which is off putting.
Their terms say you pay the first £50 of any insurance claim which isnt good either.

RFW

ashworthm wrote: »

i have an item weighing approx 25kg that i need to ship from coventry to slough, as cheap as possible.

basically the person won my auction on ebay and has only just realised it was "pick up only" so trying to look for a cheap way of getting item to them which they will pay me for.

any recomendations re a firm to se?

You can get Parcelforce via Paypal for £11.99 as long as it isn't oversize, you can get up to about £5 off that on various reseller sites, you can book that direct from your Ebay page, so your buyer can see the tracking and the costs too.

Milliebell

A couple of weeks ago I asked for help in shipping a parcel to the US. I got great responses and went with Kaysters suggestion of transglobal. They have been excellent and I have now send several parcels with them quite successfully.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the help I got, it was really appreciated.

Have a great new year,

Lin