Why Is Shipping By Way Of Courier Out Of Spain So Expensive And How Can You Lower Your Expenses?
We've asked the four key global courier services that operate from Spain why the price of shipping from Spain to other Countries in europe is very expensive when compared to price of a courier shipment in the opposite route. There definitely seems to be a conspiracy of silence so why don't we analyze the specifics.
The publicized price for shipping from Marbella, Spain a 5kg parcel to Berlin, Germany during August the year 2010 is €211.56 via UPS www.ups.com utilizing their Express Saver courier package service from Spain.
The published total price for shipping to Courier Spain the exact same package back from Germany using the same UPS courier service is €136.31. This is a time-specific air courier shipping and delivery service.
The difference with a road freighted Economy courier package is even more €136.38 compared to €45.10, 3 times as much to courier a package from Spain to Germany as the opposite routing.
The same happens 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 according to today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still practically double.
Germany is the world’s greatest exporting nation as per www.nationmaster.com exporting much more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, two spots behind Belgium. On this basis, you'd probably naturally presume there are vans and aeroplanes packed with courier parcels shipping from Germany toward Spain and also the UK that cannot all be coming back full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are two rational answers for this. One is that courier collection inside Germany is a lot more streamlined than within the UK or Spain and meaning that the export prices are reduced. However, we are speaking about a door-to-door service so a collection from 1 country requires a delivery in yet another and as a result the complexities might seem to cancel each other out.
Really the only conclusion that we can sensibly draw is that the Courier Delivery Companies are asking for the “market price” meaning the Spanish market will bear a larger total price than either the UK or German market. However, the fact that there are actually four international companies competing head-to-head in a cut-throat industry without one of them able to match their export costs from Spain to the price of getting the exact same package brought in from other European locations to Spain shows there is something not quite right. Either it may be called oligopoly pricing or perhaps there is a structural issue in collection from Spain which is not reflected in deliveries to the exact same addresses.
Thankfully there is a firm named Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that smashes through these obstacles and enables clients to send courier parcels both to and from Spain not just within Europe but Throughout the world for the identical cost whether or not the letter or package is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. Furthermore they give special discounts of about 50% of the published costs of the main Courier Companies on letters, parcels and packages from Spain. A quote without any obligation is available at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .
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