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European Parcel Delivery
gloomgurlie
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Hello,
I am expanding my business to include European shipping in the options.
At present, I use Royal Mail 2nd class to ship all parcels in the UK. Does anyone have any experience on the best company for shipping to Europe (and worldwide) in terms of quality of service along with a reasonable price tag.
The sizes and weight of all items will be identical and will come under the 1kg mark for all parcels. These currently fall under the 'Small Parcel' option for Royal Mail. I've priced it out for Royal Mail Standard Shipping to Europe and it's around £8.
I've no previous experience of shipping parcels out and about to know if this is considered to be reasonable or not.
On average I will be sending around 150 parcels per month, which will hopefully steadily increase over time.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer some guidance
I am expanding my business to include European shipping in the options.
At present, I use Royal Mail 2nd class to ship all parcels in the UK. Does anyone have any experience on the best company for shipping to Europe (and worldwide) in terms of quality of service along with a reasonable price tag.
The sizes and weight of all items will be identical and will come under the 1kg mark for all parcels. These currently fall under the 'Small Parcel' option for Royal Mail. I've priced it out for Royal Mail Standard Shipping to Europe and it's around £8.
I've no previous experience of shipping parcels out and about to know if this is considered to be reasonable or not.
On average I will be sending around 150 parcels per month, which will hopefully steadily increase over time.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer some guidance
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hi are you on the Royal Mail account? if so, give them a call and ask about destination sort for overseas - this will bring down the price dramatically for parcels under 1kg - (in some cases it costs us less to send to USa than to sedn to Manchester) - this is for untracked items - it does not work on ISF -
Just give them a call and ask about it to see if it works for you,0 -
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Can someone suggest the quickest and cheapest courier service to Dubai? I need to send a letter of no value - but want to make sure it reaches!0
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