I have asked the 4 significant international courier services that operate from Spain why the price of shipping from Spain to other Countries in europe is really so expensive when compared to expense of a courier shipment in the opposite route. There definitely seems to be a conspiracy of silence so let us examine the truth.
The publicized price for shipping from Marbella, Spain a five kg packet to Berlin, Germany during August the year of 2010 is €211.56 through UPS www.ups.com employing their Express Saver courier package service from Spain.
The published total price for shipping to Courier Spain exactly the same package back again from Germany using the same UPS courier service is €136.31. This is a time-specific air courier shipping service.
The difference with a road freighted Economy courier package is even more €136.38 in comparison to €45.10, three times as much to courier a package from Spain to Germany as the opposite routing.
Exactly the same occurs for couriers between Spain and the UK. 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 according to today’s rate at www.currenciesdirect.com ), still nearly double.
Germany is actually the globe’s biggest exporting nation according to www.nationmaster.com exporting much more than China, Spain comes in at 17th, two places behind Belgium. With this basis, you’d probably naturally assume there are vans and also aeroplanes packed with courier parcels shipping from Germany toward Spain along with the UK that cannot all be going back full with courier packages from either England or Spain to Germany.
There are two rational arguments in this. The first is that courier collection inside of Germany is significantly more streamlined than within the UK or Spain and meaning that the export expenses are lower. Having said that, we are speaking about a door-to-door service so a collection from one country requires a delivery in another and for that reason the complexities would certainly seem to cancel each other out.
Really the only conclusion that i could realistically draw would be that the Courier Delivery Companies are charging the “market price” meaning the Spanish industry will bear a higher total price than either the UK or German market. However, the fact that there are actually four international companies competing head-to-head in a cut-throat industry without one of these able to match their export expenses from Spain to the cost of getting the identical package imported from other European locations to Spain shows that there is something wrong. Either it might be termed oligopoly pricing or perhaps there is a structural issue in collection from Spain which is not reflected in deliveries to the similar addresses.
Thankfully there is a company named Citibox www.citibox.es (Courier Spain) that breaks through these types of barriers and enables customers to send out courier parcels back and forth from Spain not simply within European countries but Around the world for the identical price whether or not the letter or package is going to Spain or is being sent from Spain. Moreover they give discounts of about 50% of the published charges of the main Courier Companies on letters, parcels and packages from Spain. A quote without any obligation is available at http://www.citibox.es/courier-delivery-quote.php .
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