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Couriers to/from UK

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭VG31


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Tried them recently for a 5kg parcel to UK (50x40x30)..

    Approx €25 IIRC..

    :eek::eek:

    Parcel2Go is just a booking site for couriers.

    UPS is €18 for a parcel of that size and weight. I doubt you'll find anywhere cheaper than that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    con747 wrote: »
    So who did you use? post the name if it was cheaper so the OP know's.

    Eeeasy on there!

    Didn't send it in the end! Customs Duty/added VAT over there made it non-viable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭con747


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Eeeasy on there!

    Didn't send it in the end! Customs Duty/added VAT over there made it non-viable.

    Wasn't being smart or anything, just meant if you sent it cheaper to post it!:)

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    con747 wrote: »
    Wasn't being smart or anything, just meant if you sent it cheaper to post it!:)

    No probs..


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    Danick wrote: »
    What is the cheapest way to send a parcel to the UK these days? I used to use parcel motel in the past but sending a parcel to UK is no longer an option - it's Ireland only in the send menu. I have Addresspal but I think that is just for receiving parcels. Any ideas greatly appreciated. I have to return an item to an ebay seller.

    if its under 2kg and you can fit it in the size of a shoe box (small packet rate - length, width and depth no more than 90cm combined) - An Post will charge €14. A 5kg parcel will be €23

    Make sure the contents have a stated value of under £39 and stated as a gift so that it does not attract extra uk charges


    From gov.co.uk

    The Gift allowance is £39 in value, gifts above this amount are liable to Import VAT. Customs Duty also becomes payable if the value of the goods is over £135.

    To qualify as a gift:

    the customs declaration must be completed correctly
    the gift must be sent from a private person outside the UK to a private person(s) in the UK
    there is no commercial or trade element and the gift has not been paid for either directly or indirectly by anyone in the UK
    the gift is of an occasional nature only, for example, for a birthday or anniversary


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  • Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Raven_k42


    Afternoon all - hoping someone can offer some advice or suggestions. I'm looking to get some items couriered from Dublin to my brother in the UK. Just some items from a clear-out of our Mam's house, e.g. boxes of magazines, an old chair, a few paintings, etc. Sentimental only and of no value. Seems tailor-made for a "part load". Has anyone done anything similar...and could recommend how best to do this ?. Individual AnPost-type parcels not an option - I need someone to collect/deliver.

    Many thanks,

    K



  • Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭andrewfaulk


    TbH that’s a hard one at the moment.. A lot of freight companies steer clear of personal effects shipments price private individuals are willing to pay isn’t justified for the amount of work involved.. Doubly so with Brexit, the relative lack of customs experience in IE-U.K. operators and the backlog of import clearances into the U.K. after the expiry of the import customs exemptions that were in place for the first 6 months of the year

    Also, so you are aware, for customs purposes there is no such thing as having no value..

    Your best option would be to load up a car and go visit your brother or get him to do the same



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    Personal effects are a nightmare unless you get a specialised removal firm to do it. You can't insure it as a Freight Forwarder and they have no idea if it was in good or bad condition when they got it. We did a job like this years ago when I worked in that business, an MD of a large client rang me to pick up his daughter's personnel effects in West Cork and ship them to Germany. Our MD had given explicit instructions not to. MD gets on to MD and our guy decided, against his better judgment, to do it. He had been told that it was a load of old junk, and worthless. Half a 40' trailer worth of junk goes to Germany and the day it delivers we get an irate call that the "antique" cast iron range/stove had a leg broken, and it was now quite valuable, apparently. Queue much falling out between MDs, and my guy ringing me to tell me to ignore him if he countermanded his own instructions in future......😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Raven_k42


    Thanks guys - think a run over to Holyhead myself might be the answer !!. Prob not even a full car load. Might this avoid a more complex customs drama ?. Really is personal stuff only - 3 boxes of old Billboard magazines, LPs, etc.

    Thanks,

    K



  • Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭ctbfashion


    hi All,


    just wondering what people find is the best option to send parcels to the Uk i find AN POST expensive. my item weights are usually 400g 800g or 1.2kg and would be envelopes or small parcels A4 size.


    thanks in advance



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭seanin4711


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭seanin4711


    looking to buy a bike frame from UK

    which is the best courier company to deal with door 2 door?

    thanks

    John



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭seanin4711


    anyone move anything recently from Uk to Ireland?



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭seanin4711


    how do i determine VAT etc on an item sent from a family member?thanks



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel




  • Registered Users Posts: 10,541 ✭✭✭✭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



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