black cat

Hi all, had our meds done yesterday and all went well( as far as we know) apart from a large pain in the wallet! Dont think i want to trust royal mail in sending them, want to know exactly when they get there and who signed for them in view of the delays ! Which leads me to ask, who did you send yours with? And does anyone know what sort of size and weight they are likely to be? ( i sure it's been posted before but being a techno numpty cant find it!) Thanks all.

asher

We didn't send ours at all the medical centre did

suesk

Hi

We are hoping to send ours today fingers crossed otherwise it will be Monday boohoo. By the way we are going to use UPS. Good luck with the rest of the process lets just hope they hurry up with the backlog at LCU.

Suexx

fiogle

We sent ours via UPS - it was collected on a Thursday and arrived at LCU on the Monday morning and cost about 100 euros (about £70.00, I think) - tracking the package was mega simple over the internet and showed absolutely every destination the package went through!! Good luck!!

black cat

Ours will only send royal mail signed for!!
Good luck! Had an email from the case officer today saying LCU are processing last week in June at the moment!!!! AArrrgggg:curse:

GinaUK

Hi blackcat,

use "interparcel". They in turn use DHL and you can track it all the way.

Our medical centre would also only send "Royal Mail Signed For". We told them we wanted to use a courier. They were happy for us to book the courier who went to the medical centre and collected from there.

Well worth it for peace of mind.

Gina

Nu-Shooz

Yep, same here. Never saw the medicals at all. Got sent on by the Doctor's.

black cat

Thanks, have just had a look at there web site, do you know why they are so much cheaper then dhl themselves? (what did yours cost? £20?)

GinaUK

The reason is that Interparcel book DHL as a bulk booking. When you book DHL it's a one-off and they make you pay through the nose.

Gina

black cat

once again many thanks- this is cheaper than the clinic are charging for royal mail signed for!

hitchcock71

our doctors used fed ex for our meds and xrays and it cost £50.00

where able to track the shipment from essex to sydney took 3 days and i know who signed for them as well

hope that helps

tiff

black cat

thanks

maisey

Our meds are booked for 25th Sept and there are 5 of us, two adults and 3 children. Been told £7 for Royal mail or £20 for DHL but they charge per person.
Surely this is silly in case they get seperated.
Only cost us £20 for us to send TRA and visa each time and much more stuff than they are sending.
Anyone else had this charge for each person?

SafetyJohn

All I say is take care - our doctors charged us £160!! :curse:
Needless to say I am questioning this at the moment - would love to see their reasoning other then the keep up of their Aston Martin

maisey

Seems yet another thing were common sense does not prevail and they seem to be able to charge what they like!