Why is shipping by Courier out of Spain so pricey and how can you get a better price?
We’ve questioned the four key global courier providers that operate from Spain why the cost of shipping from Spain to other European countries is so 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 analyze the details.
The publicized cost for shipping from Marbella, Spain a five kg package to Berlin, Germany throughout August 2010 is €211.56 via UPS www.ups.com employing their Express Saver courier parcel service from Spain.
The published cost for shipping and delivery to Spain the exact same package back again from Germany utilizing the same UPS courier service is €136.31. This is a time-specific air courier shipping service.
The difference using a road freighted Economy courier package is even greater €136.38 compared to €45.10, three times as much to courier a parcel from Spain to Germany as the opposite routing.
The same occurs for couriers between Spain and the United kingdom. Express Saver from Marbella to London is also €211.56 whereas 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 as outlined by today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still virtually twofold.
Germany is actually the globe’s largest exporting nation as per www.nationmaster.com exporting a lot more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, two places behind Belgium. On this basis, you’d probably naturally think there are vehicles and aeroplanes filled with courier parcels shipping from Germany towards Spain along with the UK which can not all be coming back full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are two logical answers for this. One is that courier collection within Germany is much more streamlined compared to in the United kingdom or Spain and meaning that the export prices are reduced. Having said that, we are talking about a door-to-door service so a collection from 1 country necessitates a delivery in another and therefore the complexities would appear to cancel each other out.
The one bottom line that we can sensibly draw is that the Courier Delivery Companies are asking for the “market price” meaning the Spanish industry will bear a higher price tag than either the United kingdom or German market. On the other hand, the fact that there are a number of international companies contending head-to-head in a very cut-throat business without one of them able to match their export costs from Spain to the price of getting the same parcel brought in from other European nations to Spain suggests that there is something wrong. Either it might be called oligopoly pricing or there exists a structural problem in collection from Spain which is not reflected in deliveries to the exact same addresses.
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Fortunately there exists a firm called Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that breaks through these barriers and makes it possible for customers to send courier parcels to and from Spain not simply within European countries but Around the world for the exact same cost whether or not the letter or parcel is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. Moreover they provide discount rates 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 accessible at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .