Courier Cost Cutting Feedback/Discussion thread

jud!th

when I tried to get a courier quote, it said they were having problems with the courier service and this part of the website would be down till further notice...

ArmitageShanks

tbh pharos are pretty expensive anyway.

probably haggling over price rises/fuel surcharges etc.

FEvans

no one would offer £1000 cover apart from royal mail special delivery

Rughead

Is it worth ringing a local specialist courier out of the yellow pages rather that one of the Nationals. They may cost a bit more however your item is certainly worth a lot of money and would be the safest way as it may be the only parcel they take.

Just a thought.

Fenris

Hi all,

Just a word of caution if using DHL/parcel2go (apologies if this has already been mentioned, but it's a really long thred!).

I've recently sent two parcles via DHL: one a printer and one a hi-fi unit, both sold on eBay.

The printer arrived at it's destination with the print-head damaged beyond repair and the hi-fi looked as though it had been dropped from a great hight. Bits broken off all over the place and the CD changer tray snapped right off. This dispite more bubble-wrap than I thought it needed, plus air baggy things and some more bubble-wrap for safe measure! Unhappy? You betcha!

These were both collected from the Norwich depot so it may just be that they're really awful in Norwich, but having read a comment on P1 of this thread about the staff wrestling with Plasma TV's etc I'm begining to think it's a nationwide problem with DHL. Please just be aware.

Obviously I won't be using them again!

Fenris

ArmitageShanks

How well were they wrapped though?

RED*RED*WINE_2

I must admit that I've sent hundreds of parcels by DHL through P2G and various other outlets and never had a problem.

mmg1g

Hi, I have had a look around but am a bit confused and wondered if anyone knew of a decent company to send a suitcase within the UK for either a 24 or 48 hour delivery. Please can you let me know Thanks Jamil

RED*RED*WINE_2

mmg1g wrote: »

Hi, I have had a look around but am a bit confused and wondered if anyone knew of a decent company to send a suitcase within the UK for either a 24 or 48 hour delivery. Please can you let me know Thanks Jamil

There's quite a few to choose from
I use http://ukcourierexpress.web.officelive.com/ & can highly recommend them or there is a few on ebay that you can have a look at Ebay parcel delivery

I also received a discount code by email today from www.worldwide-parcelservices.co.uk for 5% discount off all parcels sent during July.
Really nice of them considering that it's now the 23rd! :rotfl:
The code is ebay10pc if it's any use to anyone although they do seem to be a bit more expensive than others even with the discount.

Jakejakejake

And don't forget to enter your Discount Code: HALFSD2

Oops... bad editing.... NVM!