Why Is Shipping By Courier Out Of Spain So Costly And How Could You Get A Better Price?
I've asked the 4 major global courier providers that operate from Spain why the cost of shipping from Spain to other European countries is really expensive when compared to price of a courier shipment in the reverse direction. There definitely seems to be a conspiracy of silence therefore let’s look at the truth.
The published price tag for shipping from Marbella, Spain a five kg parcel to Berlin, Germany during August 2010 is €211.56 through UPS www.ups.com employing their Express Saver courier parcel service from Spain.
The published price for shipping and delivery to Courier Spain the same parcel back again from Germany utilizing the same UPS courier service is €136.31. It is a time-specific air courier delivery service.
The difference using a road freighted Economy courier parcel is even greater €136.38 compared to €45.10, 3 x the amount to courier a parcel from Spain to Germany as the reverse routing.
Exactly 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 price of the courier from England to Spain is ?88.47 and ?74.85 (€106.23 and €89.88 as per today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still practically twofold.
Germany is the globe's greatest exporting nation reported by www.nationmaster.com exporting a lot more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, a couple of spots behind Belgium. On this basis, you'd naturally presume that there are trucks as well as aeroplanes packed with courier parcels shipping from Germany in direction of Spain and the UK which cannot all be returning full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are 2 logical explanations in this. One is that courier collection within Germany is significantly more efficient compared to inside the UK or Spain and therefore the export costs are cheaper. However, we are talking about a door-to-door service so a collection from one country requires a delivery in another and as a result the complexities might appear to cancel each other out.
The one conclusion that i may fairly draw would be that the Courier Delivery Companies are charging you the “market price” meaning that the Spanish marketplace will bear a higher price than either the UK or German market. However, the fact that there are a number of international companies competing head-to-head in a very cut-throat marketplace without one of them in a position to match their export costs from Spain to the cost of getting the very same parcel imported from other European nations to Spain implies that there's something not quite right. Either it may be termed oligopoly pricing or there's a structural issue in collection from Spain that is not reflected in deliveries to the same addresses.
The good news is there's a organization called Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) which breaks through these limitations and lets clients to send courier parcels both to and from Spain not only within European countries but Globally for the exact same cost whether the letter or parcel is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. In addition they provide special discounts of close to 50% of the published charges of the main Courier Companies on letters, parcels and packages from Spain. A quote without having any obligation is accessible at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .
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