Grab the best postal rates for your parcels

Grab the best postal rates for your parcels

Whenever we visit a foreign country, we usually do plenty of research beforehand. It really doesn't matter what the purpose of the trip is, but books and the internet put so many resources out there that anyone can quickly get the low-down on the places they want to visit. This can then be used to weed out places which aren't worth a look, but equally, it might uncover a gem which we otherwise wouldn't have been aware of.

Equal care and attention taken over choosing who to entrust the sending of our precious parcels and urgent letters to can achieve some similarly rewarding results except that, here, the benefits can be to the company's bottom line, and long-term.

There is fierce competition in many parcel delivery markets, and that doesn't just apply to routes which operate over longer distances.

For every courier company, empty capacity on their vans, lorries and aircraft is space which isn't paying its way. The allocation of goods to the best, most economical route possible, and of the various forms of transport to the individual routes served, is a precise science, which can make all the difference between the profitability and otherwise of a company's whole logistics operations.

Many international couriers and mail companies, therefore, offer their best deals to clients which book large amounts of space. Whether they then use that capacity themselves, or sell it on to third parties, aren't really important to the shipper they are merely concerned with ensuring that every one of their journeys is viable.

As an individual customer of one of the major parcel couriers, it is very unlikely that they will immediately offer their best terms, simply because they have no idea whether you will turn out to be a regular client, or how many packages you might want to send with them in the future.

But by teaming up with an agency which has already done the negotiating on their customers' behalf, good, competitive discounts are readily available, especially on the international and domestic delivery routes where there is the heaviest traffic.

But even if a parcel is not going to a major city, or even a country which generates high demand for international delivery services, by not shopping around to try to find the best price, every sender is potentially missing out on the best deal to be found. It might only take a few extra minutes to go online and find out and that time could be amply rewarded.

Anyone who needs to send large or heavy items, either to a UK destination or abroad, should compare the postage rates available from several leading suppliers, such as UPS, if they are serious about cutting their costs.

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