Which courier company to europe

[DYAKOV]

So after brexit I’ve only received bikes and parts from Europe, never sent one.

I’ve got a 20” bike packages up

parcel dims: 100cm x 40cm x 50cm @ 10-12kg

that I want to ship to France.

Can anyone recommend a courier company which won’t cost an arm and a leg to ship?

 

Thanks,

Nas

[Mark W]

Usually you can just go to somewhere like www.interparcel.com and see what prices are like. Most of the 'big' couriers will be all good (e.g. FedEx, DHL, UPS, DPD/Chronopost). In terms of shipping it it won't be much different to how it was before - you don't have to do anything else. You'll have to fill in a customs form before you ship the bike but AFAIK that's about it.

[DYAKOV]

36 minutes ago, Mark W said:

Usually you can just go to somewhere like www.interparcel.com and see what prices are like. Most of the 'big' couriers will be all good (e.g. FedEx, DHL, UPS, DPD/Chronopost). In terms of shipping it it won't be much different to how it was before - you don't have to do anything else. You'll have to fill in a customs form before you ship the bike but AFAIK that's about it.

Thanks Mark! I did go on the dpd website but I can’t seem to find my way around it. To start with, they have the dpd official website and a dpd local as well, not sure where to look. Somehow I got to a page where I saw different options e.g. economy, air class etc varying around £20 but the max size allowed was 60x60x60. Then I managed to find an option which was up to 135cm in length and up to 30kg which was great but once I selected that a pop up came up saying that this service isn’t available. I’m very confused with the dpd interface.

I will have a look at the other couriers you’ve mentioned above.

Parcelforce are giving me quotes of £200 and over….

 

Cheers,

Nas

[Mark W]

If you use Interparcel, they act as a broker - it's basically a price comparison site so you can just search there and they'll show the different prices and shipping speeds.

I just had a check and it looks like the only one available is (ironically) DPD - it's £71.35 for their 'Classic' service which is a 2-5working day service. From my experience their tracking is better than Parcel Force, and they use their own couriers within France as well (again, as far as I know) so it's all in-house whereas Parcel Force will tend to use different companies in different countries.