kozzae

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We are hopefully sending off our 47sk application Monday/Tuesday of next week and want to know the best way to do this. I've read some people have used couriers but what about the best way by over the post office counter? Any ideas?

Wendy

We sent ours via royal mail. I just asked for the safest, fastest way. Cost us £4.20.

spalen

General consensus is that Royal Mail are Crap . Given the amount of time you spent putting that document together it is worth DHLing it at about 45quid. There is a thread on here somewhere for a company that uses DHL but discounts it so tis like 25quid or something.

Differene is this : If royal mail lose your package - its really really lost forever they wont give two hoots. In fact - onceit leaves UK they have zero idea where it is.

IF DHL Lose your package they will find it - they take lost things incredibly seriously. Logging onto DHL Website and watching your package go to france ,amsterdam, new york, los angeles, sydney - in 48hrs - is part of the fun. I think I saw a post on here where DHL offered someone 200 quid because they thought that would cover cost of replacing hte documetns - then they found the original package . Great service

Swing-Your-Pants

Personally I've send sheds load of stuff via Royal Mail International Signed For and NEVER had a problem. Its alot cheaper than DHL and if required you can enhance the insurance. Usually stuff gets delivered in 4-5 days.

AnitaB

Hi

We used www.interparcel.com
They use DHL but are half the price!

Good luck

AnitaB

possoms

In an envelope??

rugbymad

Use interparcel as already suggested earlier.They are very good,your able to track all the way over,which I think you can't do with the Royal mail(??).
I've used them twice and they were spot on,arrived on time to pick parcel up,great service.

Fionast

I definately use a courier. we've had too much mail going missing with the post office to even consider them for something as important as this.

oliverandlisa

We have used "ROYAL MAIL INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR" costs less than a fiver and you can track and trace it on their website. Never had any problems

Lisa

SBUK

Yep.. Interparcel every time...Trackable to
We used Royal Mail once and it was soooo slow

spalen

If you search all the threads on this - you will find lots of examples of people having their royal mail international signed for being lost. Royal mail totally absolve themselves of any responsibility onceit leaves the UK.

There was only 1 thread ever that I recall where DHL had mislaid a document, and they found it 4 days later. Read the threads where Royal Mail tell people that they cannot search , wont search for 30 days, and all they do when they do search is ask the other post company - thereis NO tracking once it leaves UK. (As far as royal mail has told other people on this forum).

Given the stress involved in sending this stuff and then having to wait for dimia to be assed to send you an acknowledgement about 3 mths later - I would want to see a formal acknowledgement that it had arrived - as far as I know only DHL/Fedex/Couriers will give you that Royal Mail (as far as people on here have said) - wont.

JAJ

And if you need to prove it was delivered at ASPC, courier is the only way.

jonjon

sent ours weeks last wednesday arrived at the DIMIA monday this week 4.5 working days DHL tracked it all the way £25.00 + £10.00 insurance via interparcel A1 Service

Royal mail lost my 1st skills assessment second one took 8 weeks to arrive would not use them again