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Courier to collect from Northern Ireland to UK

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Hi all, I'm from Northern Ireland and I need to send 3 individual parcels to the UK they are not that big to cause a problem but they weigh:

6.0 kg
5.3 kg
1.6 kg

Royal mail prices are around the £14 for the top two and around £6 for the lightest. That seems a lot? Do any of you know a NI courier service or an on-line courier that could beat these prices. I'm looking at a 5 day from collection to delivery timespan. I live in L'Derry.

Thanks...............:)
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  • charlesb
    charlesb Posts: 45 Forumite
    collect plus is an option depending on whether you mean 5 days or 5 working days

    in my experience (i live in NI) they usually take a full 4-5 working days to deliver to GB though [noting 5 working days is effectively a week as i don't think they deem sat or sun a working day]
  • grace2much
    grace2much Posts: 370 Forumite
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    edited 26 October 2012 at 2:21PM
    charlesb wrote: »
    collect plus is an option depending on whether you mean 5 days or 5 working days

    in my experience (i live in NI) they usually take a full 4-5 working days to deliver to GB though [noting 5 working days is effectively a week as i don't think they deem sat or sun a working day]

    Thanks charles, I'm on their website having a look right now........a lot of mixed reviews but I guess that is to be expected with a service like this. Some think its great others to avoid like the plague....!!! My Hermes gets more of the same - no problems or nothing but problems:-) I'll plump for one of them probably and they work out about 50% less than the R Mail
    “Having, first, gained all you can, and, secondly saved all you can, then give all you can"....John Wesley


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  • chancesare_2
    chancesare_2 Posts: 1,788 Forumite
    P4D do 6kg 30x30x30 from NI to UK mainland for 9.99 plus vat so 11.99 on a 48 hour but you have to drop off at ParecelForce depot.
  • RFW
    RFW Posts: 10,391 Forumite
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    Parcelforce via Paypal is UK wide and is £11.99 (inc VAT) for 48 hour service. Collect or drop off at their depot. That's up to 30kg.
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