If you go online now and search for anything to do with parcels or couriers you will get a large number of results back
. Due to the fact that there is so much competition, the different companies need to come up with ways to encourage people to use their services instead of a competitor's. This naturally results in customers being able to find much cheaper prices than they would have before the large increase. You will usually find that you can get discounts on bulk orders with a lot of companies and the cost of sending items abroad is now not that much more than a domestic package.