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Vince
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Posted - 06/06/2012 :  06:45  Show Profile
Hi all UK store owners,
So that we can plan for future releases, can you let me know what shipping carrier you use.

Vince

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quadrant
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Posted - 06/06/2012 :  14:05  Show Profile
Hi Vince,

We use Royal Mail and Interlink Express for our shipping.

Regards,

David
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Phil
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/07/2012 :  03:24  Show Profile
I have 15 clients who all use Royal Mail



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joan
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United Kingdom
397 Posts

Posted - 06/09/2012 :  08:33  Show Profile
Hi Vince
All our small parcels are sent Royal Mail within UK and Abroad. We use a Courier service for larger items (over 4kg inland).(over 2kg abroad). We have found that we can get better rates for these if we use a service such as Parcels2Go (who have accounts with all the couriers), rather than having an account with a specific courier such as DHL, TNT, etc.
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PieMan
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United Kingdom
137 Posts

Posted - 06/13/2012 :  06:09  Show Profile
I use Royal Mail "Recorded Delivery", "Special Delivery" and "International Singed For" for smaller items and Interparcel who are similar to Parcels2Go and have accounts with UPS, DHL, FEDEX etc. for larger items or express items.

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Mike
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TJM
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United Kingdom
217 Posts

Posted - 06/16/2012 :  08:22  Show Profile
Hi

I use both Royal Mail and Interparcel.

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Tim

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Vince
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31316 Posts

Posted - 06/19/2012 :  06:58  Show Profile
As the Royal Mail still doesn't offer an online rates calculator I was thinking of maybe building into the Ecommerce Plus a way to setup weight based shipping automatically for Royal Mail rates. Does that seem like a plan? It would even be better than online rates I would say as it would be faster.
There are lists of rates here for UK...
http://c435158.r58.cf3.rackcdn.com/Royal%20Mail%20UK%20Wall%20Chart.pdf
...and here for international...
http://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Royal_Mail_International_Services_Wallchart_April2012.pdf
Does that seem like a good plan? Would you all use it if it were available?
Does everyone have an account or would it be necessary to offer both the possibliity of account rates and non-account rates?

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mgc200
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/19/2012 :  07:51  Show Profile
Hello Vince.

We use Royal Mail First Class Recorded and Special Delivery for most inland under 2Kg and Parcels2go (courier broker) for items over 2Kg.

For overseas we use Royal Mail signed for international for up to 2Kg and again parcels2go for over 2Kg

parcels2go use most of the major carriers, and we find are priced well for us, as although we send out quite a number of packs, the Royal Mail account pricing isn't viable for us because of the required quantities.

Best
Chris Cooper
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