Best courier service to use?

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

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

Maybe DHL don't have a hub out there

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?