1285 Good cheap courier service from the UK

I've been doing lots of investigating about how to get stuff sent over to Le Marche from deepest Derbyshire at the most economical rates. I needed to send framed pictures mostly - heavy and unwieldy. Fedex wanted £300 to send my parcel. Found another co yesterday who will send a parcel up to 50kilos from anywhere in the UK to anywhere in mainland Italy for £88 including Vat.
I'm waiting for them to pick it up as I type. Will let you know if it goes smoothly - they seem to be much more reasonable and flexible about the size of the parcel than anyone else.

[url]http://www.postvan.com/uk/[/url] is the link.

Just thought others might find useful..Would be interested to know if any other forum members have used them.

Marina

Category
Property Sales/Rental Advice

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/09/2005 - 05:15

Let us know how it goes - could be useful to lots of us

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/09/2005 - 06:40

Well they just picked it up ok as promised before midday so fingers x'd it'll be reunited with me next Tue or Wed. Cor I wouldn't fancy being a courier delivery driver in Italy trying to find country homes to deliver to.

Will let you know if it worked out on my return..

Marina

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/09/2005 - 13:47

[QUOTE=Marinaw]Well they just picked it up ok as promised before midday so fingers x'd it'll be reunited with me next Tue or Wed. Cor I wouldn't fancy being a courier delivery driver in Italy trying to find country homes to deliver to.

Will let you know if it worked out on my return..

Marina[/QUOTE]

Funny you should say that! We even have printed instructions for delivery men, couriers etc, for our fairly easy to find house though it is snc(without postcode). Yesterday after at least two phone calls asking for directions, still had to go out to meet courier as could not find us!!!!!!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/12/2005 - 04:03

[QUOTE=DavidandLinda]Funny you should say that! We even have printed instructions for delivery men, couriers etc, for our fairly easy to find house though it is snc(without postcode). Yesterday after at least two phone calls asking for directions, still had to go out to meet courier as could not find us!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

What I found worked for delivery people [and friends] trying to find our house [little village - back of beyond] was to give them a printout of some maps, plus photos of various critical parts of the route [with arrows added showing which way to go] - then you don't need to worry about how good your Italian is.

You can do it all on a simple Word/Draw programme on your pc

I got the idea from a hotel website I once viewed.

It has worked for deliveries, repair men and friends - without fail

I now have a few copies left at the house, and we usually carry them with us in case 'the boss' decides to buy something big

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/19/2005 - 04:08

Well I'm just back from a wonderful week in Le Marche. Weather was fantastic much to my surprise - a few showers and thunderstorms but only to add a bit of drama to the lovely sunshine. Parcel did arrive as promised. Unfortunately seemed to have been droppped from a huge height at some stage of the journey. All the glass broken despite being bubble wrapped. Sigh. As it was signed for by someone as ok I fear I have little comeback. Still I can get the glass replaced - at least the frames are there.
So I would recommend them for delivering non fragile objects only...

Marina