Deliveries to Europe

[Froggy]

A few years ago a member and friend, John McKinney, told me about a company called Parcels Please who would pick up a parcel of 60 x 60 x 30cm and up to 30 kls and deliver it to France for around £20. I have used them a lot since and the service was excellent. However just before Christmas the contract they had with UPS changed and the price went up to around £100 for the same parcel!!

Does anyone know of any couriers who do anything resembling Parcel Please's origonal deal please?

Cheers and happy new year to all, Froggy.

 

[eribaMotters]

Froggy,
try parcels2go. They contract out deliveries to different couriers. I used the service on a radial arm saw from Essex to Newcastle for £18?
I've typed your weight and sizes into the website and for an economy 3+ days service they come out at £25 + vat going via UPS. You may want to increase the standard insurance for a few £'s and I seem to recall you have the opportunity to do this once into the system.

http://www.parcel2go.com/quote-page.asp ... %7c60%7c30

Colin

 

[JakeS]

There's several parcel-courier-aggregators around (there's probably a better name for the service they provide, but that's the nearest I can think of). You could also look at Parcel Monkey and TransGlobal Express, which have both been the cheapest when I've been looking on separate occasions in the past. TransGlobal most recently!

I get the impression that a lot of these companies start up, run for a year or so on narrow margins but building up their customer base with a cheap price... and then either get forced to change their rates by the couriers they use or decide they can get away with charging more, and overnight become a bad alternative. And a new, cheaper one springs up somewhere else that you have to track down. :/

 

[Froggy]

Thanks Colin and Jake I'll take a look at all those options.

Cheers Froggy.

 

[Sawyer]

For what it's worth, Axminster use DPD: http://www.dpd.co.uk/
I often get stuff shipped to France from Axminster and the prices are reasonable (though this may be due to the 'economies of scale' as Axminster are obviously a big customer).
All the same, they may be worth checking out?

 

[jim_hanna]

There's several parcel-courier-aggregators around (there's probably a better name for the service they provide,

I think the term is 'groupage'

Regards

Jim