Best courier service to use?

whiterebel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119621519#Comment_119621519

See first post here: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055862554/new-import-duty-vat-thread-read-post-1-for-rules#latest

Electric Nitwit

Does anyone know of a courier who would collect a very large (2m, 60kg) item from the mainland and bring it to the North?

Ideally to their own warehouse around Newry so I could collect it myself

Looking at all the major companies, they seem to have a 25kg limit

mrcheez

I'm sending an envelope abroad to South East Asia.. UPS are 50% cheaper than DHL, and somehow say they will deliver from Dublin to the final destination in TWO days!?!

DHL say it will take 7 days.

So in this case DHL are double the price and more than double the time.

Are UPS reliable?? How can they get a parcel from Dublin to the far reaches of South East Asia in 2 days?

I mean that's the time it takes to fly there on Emirates

whiterebel

Probably different levels of service. DHL express could probably do the same.

UPS out of Dublin tonight to Cologne, transfer quickly and out to their Asian hub overnight.

mrcheez

No I got the most expensive quote from DHL and was 7 days

Maybe DHL don't have a hub out there

Strumms

Only ever received inbound shipments from UPS from a particular EU based clothing retailer and found their service and staff 10/10…. As well as their online tools for tracking etc….couldn’t knock them… really impressed. Nothing ever went wrong.

VG31

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121047975#Comment_121047975

I haven't used them much recently, but I sent 2-3 parcels a month with UPS from 2020 to 2022 and have nothing negative to say. I can schedule a collection as late as 2/3 pm and have it collected the same day. All my shipping was to Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe so I can't comment on worldwide shipping. However I've received packages from the US in 2 days with them before. One time a delivery was delayed in customs for about a week but that was the only issue I've had. Of course like any courier, service might vary depending on the driver in your area.

mrcheez

Odd that UPS are 50% cheaper for sending an A4 envelope than DHL... and for half the time.

I read online that UPS are supposedly always more expensive

mp3ireland2

I've to return defective headphones to amazon. Normally it's just a freepost job to portlaoise but as these have lithium batteries an post don't take them. Amazon will only refund postage up to £9…..I'm struggling to find any way to ship them for less than €23….they are only worth £33. Anybody know of an economical way to ship them?

The ferry to and from UK only €12 each way at the moment, could make a day of it :-D

drury..

MOD <SNIP> Read the forum charter please.

thebiglad

I've returned items a few times where postage is over €9, just email them the proof of payment and they will reimburse. Typically if your postage cost is below €9 they just send you €9 without need of proof when the reimburse the item.

I got an item on warehouse which was junk and basically needed to be scrapped, return postage was over €30 - they insisted on return but, fully refunded me - they seem to correlate postage costs as an unnecessary expense else they'd have drop off locations and just get their own drivers to collect on their routes.

thebiglad

MOD <SNIP> Read the forum charter please.

It's likely An Post send the parcel back by road/ferry rather than air anyhow and, I thought it was air for the restriction on lithium batteries.

mp3ireland2

Yeah i contacted them on chat and they said they'd reimburse the whole amount.

Crazy the price to ship such a small package to the UK!

It's the second set of these headphones I've had to return, shoudln't have given them a second chance! I knew somebody going up north the last time so they posted them there.

mp3ireland2

MOD <SNIP> Read the forum charter please.

JVince

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122023913#Comment_122023913

An post send everything by air.

When Amazon are delivering by an post, Amazon send a truck from the UK to an post in parkwest, thus avoiding the international ban on batteries going by air on passenger aircraft without special conditions.

DPD send items by road/sea.

Frankly Amazon should have a returns system locally here.

Ezeoul

Twice I've had items to return to Amazon with lithum batteries.

I got onto Amazon customer service chat and advised them that my local post office refused to accept the items, and I wasn't paying for a courier, due to having issues with getting reimbursement for postage from them in the past. (true).

Both times, they gave me a full refund and let me keep the items.

wannabecraig

All,

I'm looking to get some sails, chusions and a pole (aboit 1.5mtr) devliered from Cumbria in North West England to either Dublin or Belfast. How would I go about this. It's basically a facebook sail, so guy won't post or anything like that, and they stuff I need collected is not heavy, but oddly shapped.

Any ideas?

whiterebel

MOD: Moved to the existing UK couriers thread.