Cheap Parcel Delivery - official discussion

Obviously_the_best

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

The vans tell you all you need to know.

UPS/Parcelforce/Yodel/Fedex newish livered vans, drivers with uniforms.

Citylink/TNT/Hermes ten year old rough looking vans, no uniforms, drivers who look like people you'd see shopping in poundland...

citylink and TNT both have a brand new fleet of vans in our area. Hermes deliver in the local courier's car, so no real judgement to be made there. Citylink also have uniform, as do TNT, and Hermes get hi vis with the logo on.

As for parcelforce, the vans in our area look something more like this:



Something's telling me the company in the dispatches program in Yodel, after going round one of their depots.

stuartroberts

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

The vans tell you all you need to know.

UPS/Parcelforce/Yodel/Fedex newish livered vans, drivers with uniforms.

Citylink/TNT/Hermes ten year old rough looking vans, no uniforms, drivers who look like people you'd see shopping in poundland...

I agree you get what you pay for

stuartroberts

Obviously_the_best wrote: »

citylink and TNT both have a brand new fleet of vans in our area. Hermes deliver in the local courier's car, so no real judgement to be made there. Citylink also have uniform, as do TNT, and Hermes get hi vis with the logo on.

As for parcelforce, the vans in our area look something more like this:



Something's telling me the company in the dispatches program in Yodel, after going round one of their depots.

The van livery looks like uk mail to me

John_Pierpoint

stuartroberts wrote: »

I agree you get what you pay for

Unfortunately you don't.
Some of the more professionally run operations try to engender some esprit de corp amongst their front line workers, by displaying the statistics by depot.
They are trying to get some competition between depots and engender a bit of "don't let down you mates".
If you read these statistics on the noticeboard, you will find a bell curve with some depots being good and others awful. I had a boss once who was know in the organisation as Ali Ba Ba and the 40 thieves.

Your sending or receiving depot just might be one of the awful ones.
Or worse still you just happened to get a normally good driver on a bad day.

Brooker_Dave

stuartroberts wrote: »

The van livery looks like uk mail to me

http://www.vehicleandfleetgraphics.com/images/gallery/ParcelPete1_b.jpg

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mamaunsell

I am disappointed with despatch bay, their prices always seem so low, but if you want to get an accurate quote, you have to open an account (which can never be closed). I object to the fact that I can not find the details I need. ie cost, timing etc without opening an account

Also you will find that it is a pre pay account and you have to buy £50 of credit- this costs £60, because they have added £10 in vat

The prices on the web do not show any extras such as sign for and vat

steveo3002

sarabi wrote: »

I am trying to send a box from UK to Canada, I am moving back there and I have too much stuff for only one suitcase.

I packed my box and got a quote online from transglobal and it was for UPS, but searching UPS website it says you can't send personal effects?

This seems wrong, as I was previously able to receive two boxes full of my stuff sent from Canada. Is there any way I can send my things back home, can anyone help.

Thank you

if you are flying there then an extra bag with the airline should work out cheaper than postage

sarabi

steveo3002 wrote: »

if you are flying there then an extra bag with the airline should work out cheaper than postage

Makes sense - but I only own one suitcase and therefore would need to purchase another. Plus extra bag costs £65 on the airline I'm flying (air transat/canadian affair). My quote from Transglobal/UPS was £54.45

pulliptears

I'm looking at using collect+ to send a few pairs of new shoes I've just dug out of DD's wardrobe, not used them before but the shop is literally at the end of my street so seems very easy.

Anything I should be watching out for?

luckyhat

excel wrote: »

I need to send a parcel of weight 2.7kg, dims 70/17/20cm to Germany, inc. cover for £70.

Please can anyone update me on the cheapest reliable option?

Interlink direct had a tariff for £18 a few months back just wondering if there is a better one available?

Many thanks!!

Here are the top few results from a search I did on parcelquote.net

£17.00 Parcel2Go 3+ days
£18.50 Parcel2Go 3+ days
£18.86 P4D 3 days
£19.57 Parcel2Go 3+ days

I'm not 100% sure about how much insurance is included, suggest checking this with the courier

Hope this helps..