Thread: Postal costs on orders from UK

Originally Posted by scb

I have found Rimmer Brothers - Triumph Car Parts, MG Rover Car Parts, and Land Rover Car Parts and Spares to have very reasonable air mail rates, for lighter items at least. Although items usually take 10+ days to get here.

Yeah, I had a look at their site just the other day. They look alright. Trouble is, they don't seem to have the particular parts involved in my forst post on this thread. Oh well.....

Thanks,

John

E-mailed Paddock....told them that I wasn't so keen on the freight charges... Got a rather terse reply. I think they're cross at me. Maybe they've been reading this thread.....

I used to have an acct with TNT Global Express. Once needed a set of bearings, first issue, one cup in France, other in Belgium, cones in mid west USA. Second issue, they're 30inches in diameter.

Too impossible for someone at each location for some reason to just pack up and have waiting for a TNT to collect on our acct. We could have had it in 24hours for around $4000-. No, it needed to be "sold" to a distributor from the manufacturer. So we hired a personal freight collector, ordered the parts from the local distributor and got a letter of introduction for the freight guy to collect as the distributors courier. So off he set on a plane and so on, 39 hours later he returns with all the parts (which had their own seats on the plane) and a bill for $42,000-.

I don't really complain about freight so much now.

Originally Posted by clubagreenie

I used to have an acct with TNT Global Express. Once needed a set of bearings, first issue, one cup in France, other in Belgium, cones in mid west USA. Second issue, they're 30inches in diameter.

Too impossible for someone at each location for some reason to just pack up and have waiting for a TNT to collect on our acct. We could have had it in 24hours for around $4000-. No, it needed to be "sold" to a distributor from the manufacturer. So we hired a personal freight collector, ordered the parts from the local distributor and got a letter of introduction for the freight guy to collect as the distributors courier. So off he set on a plane and so on, 39 hours later he returns with all the parts (which had their own seats on the plane) and a bill for $42,000-.

I don't really complain about freight so much now.

What were the bearings for, a TDI or a TD5?
Dave.

Well, they've "trimmed" the package and come down to a postal quote of half the original cost. Thanks to all of you and the various suggestions thrown around on this thread.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I believe that this excessive freight is because many UK companies are too lazy to go to the Post office.
I believe that DHL pick up from the seller so they like to use them to save themselves time.

The freight by Royal Mail for a 1KG package is GBP 15.28

Business Airmail | Royal Mail Ltd

Regards Philip A

The package that will arrive at my post office on Monday should weigh around 10Kg. At 50 pound freight, I feel this to be good value.

Dave.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Some Australian couriers are as bad.

I need to get a package from Melbourne to Canberra - it is 120cm long, 40wide and 20deep and weighs 3.8kgs. This morning I rang one well known courier - because it was a one off and I am not an account holder cost for the first 1kg is $218 (no mistake) and because I was in shock I missed what the cost for each additional kg was.

Item booked through a 'broker' with the same courier for $35 and I pay $10 extra to get it insured.

So overseas senders are not necessarily all that bad.

Garry

Had the same quote a couple of months ago had a box delivered from a manufacture in qland delivered for 37.00, a couple weeks latter I filled the box with some stuff for a forum member and called around to get a quote box was lighter than when i got it but they want $218 said it was becuse the box dimenions not weight and I didnt have an account

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Hey I would be interested to hear others' observations on this: I have ordered some stuff from Paddock, and before dispatch they have sent a confirmation e-mail with delivery costs. My order is about 25 quid's worth of little odds and ends, and would make a pretty light, small parcel. The delivery options (post, couriers etc) range from 42 pounds to 62 pounds. That does seem a bit steep, even from the UK. I have run into this before and ended up cancelling the order, which was embarrassing and I felt like I had stuffed them around. But the freight charges do seem a bit hefty...

Thoughts?

fullhead gasket suit si 46 pounds from cox and turner