Parcelforce UK - who do they use here ?

Discodog · 16-03-2021 08:09PM #1

I am considering buying an ebay item from the UK. The seller would send it via Parcelforce (Royal Mail Parcels). Does anyone who they use to deliver here ? AnPost ?

PommieBast · 16-03-2021 08:12PM

Discodog wrote: »

I am considering buying an ebay item from the UK. The seller would send it via Parcelforce (Royal Mail Parcels). Does anyone who they use to deliver here ? AnPost ?

Not sure about the ParcelForce brand specifically, but letters and small packages sent to me in the past via Royal Mail were delivered by AnPost.

whiterebel · 16-03-2021 10:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?forum=144&subforums=1&sort=newest&date_to=&date_from=&query=Parcelforce

VG31 · 16-03-2021 11:02PM

GLS

SPDUB · 17-03-2021 04:36PM

PommieBast wrote: »

Not sure about the ParcelForce brand specifically, but letters and small packages sent to me in the past via Royal Mail were delivered by AnPost.

Someone I know got 5 largish parcels from Parcelforce delivered by An Post last week

Discodog · 17-03-2021 05:52PM

SPDUB wrote: »

Someone I know got 5 largish parcels from Parcelforce delivered by An Post last week

Here's hoping. Couriers are a pain for me.

Timfy · 17-03-2021 05:54PM

We're out in the sticks and so far everything from Parcelforce has been delivered by a local small courier company, via GLS

Discodog · 17-03-2021 05:57PM

The seller quoted me £70 via Parcel Force. I just sent him a screenshot from Parcels2go showing it as £25

DPD is only £14

AndrewJRenko · 07-08-2021 12:12PM

I have a package coming via Parcelforce that is showing as "DUBLIN PARCELS INBOUND Tracked in destination country" since Wednesday with no further update. There may well be VAT due. Any idea who I could be talking to in order to nudge things along?

PommieBast · 07-08-2021 04:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719414#Comment_117719414

Have they not given you a tracking number for the local delivery firm? It is probably still making its way thru customs which unfortunately can take several days :(

AndrewJRenko · 07-08-2021 07:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117720316#Comment_117720316

I have a Parcel Force tracking number, nothing else

PommieBast · 07-08-2021 09:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117721169#Comment_117721169

Could try putting it into 17track and seeing if that brings up the Irish carrier.

AndrewJRenko · 07-08-2021 09:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117721495#Comment_117721495

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, it's not finding it.

PommieBast · 08-08-2021 11:19AM

Best guess is that it is taking its time to clear customs and it is just a waiting game. I've heard that orders below €150 have had particularly bad delays.

AndrewJRenko · 08-08-2021 12:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117722984#Comment_117722984

That could be it. I put the tracking reference into An Post parcel tracker and they have it, showing as 'we have your parcel' on the same date as Parcel Force showed it as being in Dublin.

Any idea if we're typically talking days or weeks?

PommieBast · 08-08-2021 06:02PM

Back in May it took AnPost a bit over a week to deliver a package to me (from Australia) once it had appeared on their tracking system.

AndrewJRenko · 12-08-2021 01:03PM

Latest update from An Post tracking - does 'sorted' mean that it's all sorted, or sorted onto a route or what?

10 August 2021 15:50

Your delivery has been sorted

10 August 2021 15:50

We have your delivery

PommieBast · 12-08-2021 03:23PM

Not sure. Best guess is that it has at least cleared customs.

AndrewJRenko · 17-08-2021 12:42PM

Just to say that the package was delivered today, without any mention of VAT. It had a proper commercial invoice in the paperwork, which also has no mention of VAT at all.

So it looks like I got away with not paying any VAT to anyone, Irish or UK.

PommieBast · 17-08-2021 03:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117766326#Comment_117766326

Nice to hear it finally arrived :)

I have had things slip through the net once or twice in the past. Guess it down to the mood of the customs agent on duty at the time.

Parcelforce UK - who do they use here ?

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