How Come Shipping By Way Of Courier Out Of Spain So Costly And How Can You Reduce Costs?
We've asked the four major global courier providers that operate from Spain why the expense of shipping from Spain to other Countries in europe is very expensive when compared to the price of a courier shipment in the reverse route. There seems to be a conspiracy of silence therefore why don't we analyze the facts.
The published price for shipping from Marbella, Spain a five kg packet to Berlin, Germany throughout August the year 2010 is €211.56 via UPS www.ups.com employing their Express Saver courier parcel service from Spain.
The published price for shipping to Courier Spain precisely the same parcel back from Germany using the same UPS courier service is €136.31. It is a time-specific air courier shipping service.
The gap using a road freighted Economy courier parcel is even more €136.38 in comparison to €45.10, 3 x the amount to courier a parcel from Spain to Germany as the reverse routing.
The same happens for couriers between Spain and the UK. Express Saver from Marbella to London is also €211.56 whereas 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 in line with today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still almost double.
Germany is actually the world’s biggest exporting nation reported by www.nationmaster.com exporting even more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, a couple of spots behind Belgium. With this basis, you'd naturally assume there are vans and aeroplanes packed with courier parcels shipping from Germany towards Spain as well as the UK that can not all be returning full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There's two realistic answers in this. The first is that courier collection within Germany is much more efficient compared to inside the UK or Spain and meaning that the export fees are lower. However, we are speaking about a door-to-door service so a collection from one country necessitates a delivery in another and therefore the complexities would seem to cancel each other out.
The only conclusion that we can reasonably draw would be that the Courier Delivery Companies are charging the “market price” which means that the Spanish industry will bear a larger 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 industry without one of them able to match their export expenses from Spain to the price of getting the very same parcel imported from other European nations to Spain suggests there is something not quite right. Either it may be termed oligopoly pricing or there's a structural problem in collection from Spain which is not reflected in deliveries to the similar addresses.
Thankfully there's a company called Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that breaks through these types of barriers and allows customers to post courier parcels back and forth from Spain not just within European countries but Around the world for the same price whether or not the letter or parcel is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. In addition they offer discount rates of close to 50% of the published costs 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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