Receiving postal packages in Spain
 

Hi, I'm looking in from the French forum, and would like to know your general experiences receiving postal packages in Spain. Are the success rates considered to be good or bad in general, either from Europe or sent from within Spain?
As a collector of vintage Macintosh computers, I rarely sell, but have recently been contacted on a specialist forum by a Spanish enthuisast who is interested in purchasing a fairly rare example that I've completely refurbished. Here in France I've occasionaly used Mondial Relay as a sucessful parcel courier, to send and receive packages. I see they are associated with Puntopack https://www.puntopack.es/ in Spain and provide delivery/pick-up locations with one very convenient to the prospective buyer near Malaga.
The concern I have is the parcel getting lost in transit, especially once in Spain. Is this considered a legitimate worry? Obviously I'd insure the package, but as the content would be difficult to replace, and even more difficult to find a completely refurbished example, I'm somewhat nervous launching into this.
Any feed-back would be appreciated, especially the efficiency of Puntopack for those who have used them for delivery to Spain.

Re: Receiving postal packages in Spain
 

I had some old reel to reel tapes shipped from Germany to me here in Spain and they came via the German post office and then Correos Express, it was tracked end to end and was delivered to my door. (I even got a text from Correos telling me when the parcel would be delivered).
Im assuming the French postal system has a similar (insured and tracked parcel system).

Your alternative as its something both valuable and irreplaceable would be to use a multi national courier like UPS or DHL.

I get regular parcels from all over the EU and have not had one go missing, a couple have sat in no mans land for a week or so (mainly ones coming from Italy) but their post service is useless anyway.

Re: Receiving postal packages in Spain
 

Barriej, many thanks for this! At least you've put my mind partially at ease. I'm still investigating the best means of sending the package.
Any other experiences from Spanish residents will be most welcome.

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I got a Commodore Amiga delivered from Germany via tracked DHL in 3-4 days last year. DHL will send the receiver of the parcel loads of texts and e-mails, I'm not sure if the sender has to pay more for that.

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They would have but only a Euro or so.
I used to prefer UPS when shipping in the Uk compared to the 'cheap' ones as I find, you do actually get what you pay for.
From memory I think DHL also partner with Correos and one of the big parcel delivery companies here in Spain.

If sending from Spain, Ive found that Correos Certified is great (its like Special delivery in the UK) its available for the world and is always on time (I ship artwork and Jewellery and Ive not lost one packet yet)

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I had to send my expired passport back to the UK before they would process the renewal.

I sent it Correos Certified. It took 4 weeks.

Re: Receiving postal packages in Spain
 

Wow, most of mine have got there within 2 weeks (although they get to the Uk within 4 days)
I posted a drawing to the MIL on Monday and the tracking shows it at the customs centre in Langley (code on tracking is GBLALA) got there this afternoon.

How long it will spend there is anyones guess.