How Come Shipping By Courier Out Of Spain So Expensive And How May You Get A Better Price? August 25, 2010
Posted by janey in : travel general , trackbackI’ve questioned a few major international courier companies that operate from Spain why the expense of shipping from Spain to other Countries in europe is really costly compared to the expense of a courier shipment in the opposite route. There appears to be a conspiracy of silence and so why don’t we analyze the truth.
The published price for shipping from Marbella, Spain a 5kg package to Berlin, Germany throughout August 2010 is €211.56 through UPS www.ups.com using their Express Saver courier parcel service from Spain.
The published price for shipping and delivery to Courier Spain the same parcel back from Germany using the same UPS courier service is €136.31. It is a time-specific air courier delivery service.
The gap using a road freighted Economy courier parcel is even more €136.38 compared to €45.10, three times as much to courier a parcel from Spain to Germany as the opposite routing.
The same occurs for couriers between Spain and the UK. Express Saver from Marbella to London is also €211.56 in contrast to Economy is €159.89, the return expense of the courier from England to Spain is £88.47 and £74.85 (€106.23 and €89.88 in line with today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still practically twofold.
Germany is the planet’s greatest exporting nation according to www.nationmaster.com exporting a lot more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, two places behind Belgium. With this basis, you’d probably naturally presume that there are vans and also aeroplanes full of courier parcels shipping from Germany in direction of Spain and also the UK that can not all be returning full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are 2 logical arguments in this. One is that courier collection inside of Germany is a lot more streamlined than inside the UK or Spain and which means export costs are lower. Having said that, we are talking about a door-to-door service so a collection from one country requires a delivery in yet another and as a result the complexities would seem to cancel each other out.
The one bottom line which i may reasonably draw would be that the Courier Delivery Companies are charging you the “market price” which means that the Spanish market will bear a higher price than either the UK or German market. On the other hand, the fact that there are 4 international companies competing head-to-head in a very cut-throat sector without one of them able to match their export costs from Spain to the price of getting the exact same parcel brought in from other European nations to Spain implies that there’s something wrong. Either it might be termed oligopoly pricing or perhaps there is a structural problem in collection from Spain which is not reflected in deliveries to the exact same addresses.
Thankfully there is a company named Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that breaks through these types of barriers and lets customers to send courier parcels to and from Spain not only within European countries but Around the world for the exact same cost whether or not the letter or parcel is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. In addition they provide discounts of about 50% of the published charges of the main Courier Companies on letters, parcels and packages from Spain. A quote without having any obligation is obtainable at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .
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