How to Avoid Those Nasty Delivery Charges on Your Received Parcels
How to Avoid Those Nasty Delivery Charges on Your Received Parcels
Parcel delivery has long been an expensive task with the cost you pay determined by a number of factors from the size and weight of your parcel to the urgency of which you need to send your parcel by. A lot more people are sending parcels these days as the increased use of sites such as eBay and other online businesses has seen many more people acting as sellers who need to send parcels themselves.
If you have received a parcel yourself you may have been unfortunate to not be home to receive your parcel when it's delivered. This is a fairly common issue as most people will be at work when the postman comes a knocking, when no one is home then the postman will normally leave a card containing information on where to go to get your parcel. These locations will normally be the local sorting office/depot but this could be just down the road or on the opposite side of town on an industrial estate.
Not everyone has the time to get to these facilities as they tend to open at the crack of dawn and close around lunch time meaning that there are people who may not have a car or a long enough lunch break to get there and so will often choose to have the parcel redelivered to their work place or perhaps a friend or relatives home instead. Recently many parcel receivers have complained that the cost for rearranging deliveries has increased significantly and means that a lot of people are being left out of pocket for receiving important parcels or even gifts.
But how do we avoid these increasing costs? Is it even possible? The good news is that it is possible if your parcel is sent via a courier service or parcel delivery specialist; these companies will often be a more flexible service and are able to take extra steps to make sure your parcel gets delivered to its intended recipient as soon as possible.
Couriers will normally not charge for redelivery attempts, they can even make three attempts before the parcel is returned to sender and will offer to deliver the parcel to an alternate destination such as a work address and arranging this often doesn't cost the recipient anything.
Make sure if you are sending a parcel or even arranging a delivery for yourself that you choose a courier company as if this situation where you are not home to receive the delivery arises then you won't have to pay out any more than you have to.
Sending international parcels can be expensive, arranging a delivery through a recognised courier company such as FedEx, Parcelforce or DHL will ensure your parcel turns up on time and conveniently.