How Come Shipping And Delivery By Courier From Spain So Pricey And How Could You Cut Costs?
I have asked some key global courier companies that operate from Spain why the cost of shipping from Spain to other Countries in europe is really expensive compared to the cost of a courier shipment in the opposite route. There definitely seems to be a conspiracy of silence so why don't we examine the facts.
The published cost for shipping from Marbella, Spain a 5kg packet to Berlin, Germany during August the year 2010 is €211.56 through UPS www.ups.com using their Express Saver courier parcel service from Spain.
The published price tag for shipping to Courier Spain the identical parcel back from Germany utilizing the same UPS courier service is €136.31. It is a time-specific air courier shipping and delivery service.
The gap with a road freighted Economy courier parcel is even greater €136.38 in comparison to €45.10, three times the amount to courier a parcel from Spain to Germany as the opposite routing.
Exactly 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 cost 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 almost two-fold.
Germany is the planet's biggest exporting nation as outlined by www.nationmaster.com exporting a lot more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, two spots behind Belgium. On this basis, you'd naturally assume that there are vehicles as well as aeroplanes packed with courier parcels shipping from Germany in the direction of Spain along with the UK that cannot all be going back full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are two logical arguments for this. One is that courier collection inside Germany is significantly more streamlined compared to within the UK or Spain and and so the export expenses are lower. However, we are speaking about a door-to-door service so a collection from one country requires a delivery in yet another and therefore the complexities would certainly seem to cancel each other out.
Really the only bottom line that we may realistically draw is that the Courier Delivery Companies are charging you the “market price” meaning that the Spanish marketplace will bear a higher price tag than either the UK or German market. However, the fact that there are actually a number of international companies contending head-to-head in a very cut-throat industry with not one of them in a position to match their export expenses from Spain to the price of getting the very same parcel imported from other European nations to Spain shows there is something not quite right. Either it may be termed oligopoly pricing or perhaps there is a structural issue in collection from Spain that is not reflected in deliveries to the exact same addresses.
Luckily there is a company named Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that smashes through these kinds of boundaries and allows customers to post courier parcels both to and from Spain not only within Europe but Worldwide for the identical cost whether the letter or parcel is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. Additionally they provide discounts of about 50% of the published expenses of the main Courier Companies on letters, parcels and packages from Spain. A quote without any obligation is obtainable at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .
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