Why Is Shipping And Delivery By Way Of Courier From Spain So Pricey And How Could You Reduce Costs?
I've asked some major global courier providers that operate from Spain why the expense of shipping from Spain to other European countries is so costly compared to the expense of a courier shipment in the reverse direction. There appears to be a conspiracy of silence therefore let’s look at the facts.
The published rate for shipping from Marbella, Spain a five kg packet to Berlin, Germany throughout August the year 2010 is €211.56 by way of UPS www.ups.com using their Express Saver courier parcel service from Spain.
The published cost for shipping and delivery to Courier Spain the exact same parcel back again from Germany employing the same UPS courier service is €136.31. This is a time-specific air courier shipping service.
The gap with a road freighted Economy courier parcel is even more €136.38 compared to €45.10, 3 times the amount to courier a parcel from Spain to Germany as the reverse routing.
Exactly the same happens for couriers between Spain and the United kingdom. 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 according to today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still virtually double.
Germany is the world’s biggest exporting nation reported by www.nationmaster.com exporting a lot more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, 2 places behind Belgium. On this basis, you'd naturally assume that there are trucks and also aeroplanes filled with courier parcels shipping from Germany in the direction of Spain along with the UK that cannot all be returning full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are 2 realistic answers in this. One is that courier collection within Germany is much more efficient than within the United kingdom or Spain and and so the export prices are cheaper. Having said that, we are talking about a door-to-door service so a collection from 1 country necessitates a delivery in yet another and as a result the complexities would appear to cancel each other out.
The only bottom line that i could sensibly draw is that the Courier Delivery Companies are charging the “market price” meaning that the Spanish marketplace will bear a larger cost than either the United kingdom or German market. On the other hand, the fact that there are 4 international companies contending head-to-head in a cut-throat industry without one of these in a position to match their export expenditures from Spain to the cost of getting the same parcel brought in from other European locations to Spain indicates there is something not quite right. Either it may be termed oligopoly pricing or perhaps there exists a structural issue in collection from Spain which is not reflected in deliveries to the exact same addresses.
The good news is there exists a organization named Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that smashes through these barriers and makes it possible for customers to send courier parcels both to and from Spain not just within European countries but Worldwide for the same cost whether or not the letter or parcel is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. In addition they give 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 accessible at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .
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