Courier to Malta

RFW

I keep getting enquiries to ship an item we sell to Malta, cheapest rate I can find is £40 or so for a 4-5kg parcel.
Anyone know any one doing any better? Really needs to be half that to be viable.

Honey_Bear

Somewhere on the MSE Forums there is a thread about couriers costs, which includes The Post Office and all the freight companies. I found your post while searching for it, and that's as close as I can get to finding it. If anyone can redirect me/us, I'd be really grateful!

On a slightly more positive note, a scientist I know researched the cheapest quickest way to get a carton of books to Palermo, Sicily, and she (and subsequently all her colleagues) found UPS the cheapest. I was just looking for confirmation before I used them.

Hammyman

£40 is quite cheap. I doubt you'll get it for much less. The problem is that it is an island stuck out in the middle of the sea with limited transportation to it.

Obviously_the_best

really dimensions would help

eeeeeee

you have too be carefull what you pay ... it might be cheaper too get a plane ticket from ryan air and deliver it yourself

Honey_Bear

Found it! Using the link at the top of this page and then reading the advice, I eventually got to:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2008047

RFW

eeeeeee wrote: »

you have too be carefull what you pay ... it might be cheaper too get a plane ticket from ryan air and deliver it yourself

That was my answer to the customer, I can probably get return flights and a week in a hotel for the price one courier quoted. Perhaps I could get an order for a few and fly there myself.

It does seem odd, even though it is an island a way away, they do have strong British connections so thought there may be a small independent courier doing regular work there.
Dimensions would be fairly small, no more than 30cm cubed.

RFW

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Found it! Using the link at the top of this page and then reading the advice, I eventually got to:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2008047

Thanks for that, that thread is a little hard to navigate and as I said above I did wonder if there was any independents who did Malta that would be outside any of the courier resellers.

theonlywayisup

We ship daily to Malta and use transglobalexpress - they may not be the cheapest but I thoroughly recommend them.

Obviously_the_best

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Found it! Using the link at the top of this page and then reading the advice, I eventually got to:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2008047

That's the old thread, the new one is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2008047

Obviously_the_best

It'd be £18 HERE