Hi guys, which is the most vfm courier service here, I want to send a mobo, a proccy and some rams, I've used blue dart but its very costly, anything a bit cheaper? For mobos?
Voted for DTDC. One problem I have found, even though the shipment has arrived at their main branch at Patna, they take almost a couple of days to deliver. But they may be problem related to my place only.
You may also try Speedpost. I have no idea about the rates but they are very reliable and prompt.
Voted for DTDC. One problem I have found, even though the shipment has arrived at their main branch at Patna, they take almost a couple of days to deliver. But they may be problem related to my place only.
You may also try Speedpost. I have no idea about the rates but they are very reliable and prompt.
Speedpost is honest, they will never steal stuff, but they jump on the parcels just for fun, need to pack in carbon fiber cases.
DTDC hands down. They are not the cheapest around,but they are much more economical than BD. I have had many positive experience with them. All the stuff I have sold here, I have sent through them.
I simply love FEDEX
Its expensive but does the job
They all do the job. They would shut down if they didn't. The difference would be in the service, the coverage and the economy of the transactions. IMHO.
Pack it well and EMS is what you are looking for. It has been very good in my experience. But the problem is that if your parcel is lost or damaged, I don't think you can get much out of them. Sarkaari after all.
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When discussing topics like this, one thing we should all keep in mind is that experiences differ from person to person and from place to place. There is no single best service for everybody everywhere.
For example, I know that DTDC is reasonably priced and popular in many places, but they are one of the worst couriers in my area. This is based, not on just one or two instances, but on many. They are slow and refuse to do home delivery. I leave standing instructions with my regular contacts never to send me anything by DTDC, but it's not always possible to choose couriers, especially with new business contacts. So I keep receiving pakages by DTDC from time to time, and my experience with them is always BAD. Complaining to their regional office has not made any difference.
OTOH, while many people automatically distrust any government service, including EMS Speed Post, my own experience says that they are the fastest and most reliable courier in my area. Their rates are very reasonable and their pricing structure is easy to understand. You can check their rates here: Welcome to the Indiapost Web Site
When discussing topics like this, one thing we should all keep in mind is that experiences differ from person to person and from place to place. There is no single best service for everybody everywhere.
For example, I know that DTDC is reasonably priced and popular in many places, but they are one of the worst couriers in my area. This is based, not on just one or two instances, but on many. They are slow and refuse to do home delivery. I leave standing instructions with my regular contacts never to send me anything by DTDC, but it's not always possible to choose couriers, especially with new business contacts. So I keep receiving pakages by DTDC from time to time, and my experience with them is always BAD. Complaining to their regional office has not made any difference.
OTOH, while many people automatically distrust any government service, including EMS Speed Post, my own experience says that they are the fastest and most reliable courier in my area. Their rates are very reasonable and their pricing structure is easy to understand. You can check their rates here: Welcome to the Indiapost Web Site
Except that they handle the parcels very carelessly, but service is good.
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I have used :-
Speed Post(EMS) -Govt.
Blue Dart
DTDC
FirstFlight
APL (now owned by FedEx)
Maruti Courier
Professional Couriers
Aramex Couriers
and a gazillion of them...
I must say that ARAMEX COURIERS IS THE WORST OF ALL. They lie about delivery of packages. They steal stuff. They are thieves. Never ever use Aramex Couriers.
I found FirstFlight Courier to be quite reasonable on par with FedEx and Blue Dart. I don't think BlueDart handles packages well. I ordered a webcam and it was shipped through BlueDart and they smashed the box. Though the camera was intact.
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When discussing topics like this, one thing we should all keep in mind is that experiences differ from person to person and from place to place. There is no single best service for everybody everywhere.
For example, I know that DTDC is reasonably priced and popular in many places, but they are one of the worst couriers in my area. This is based, not on just one or two instances, but on many. They are slow and refuse to do home delivery. I leave standing instructions with my regular contacts never to send me anything by DTDC, but it's not always possible to choose couriers, especially with new business contacts. So I keep receiving pakages by DTDC from time to time, and my experience with them is always BAD. Complaining to their regional office has not made any difference.
OTOH, while many people automatically distrust any government service, including EMS Speed Post, my own experience says that they are the fastest and most reliable courier in my area. Their rates are very reasonable and their pricing structure is easy to understand. You can check their rates here: Welcome to the Indiapost Web Site
me too same opinion.
I too have bad experience with DTDC not once, twice, but regularly. Everytime i receive a delivery i have to run to their office to get the delivery eventhough the shipper had paid more to make sure that they would delivery of product to my home. They give excuses that the franchise at shipper place must have eaten up the extra money. They also have communication gap between themselves, if i give some instructions to the afternoon shift guy the morning shift person does not know anything about it.
After all this they keep the product in a office 3-4 Kms away from my home, eventhough they have a office 1.5 Kms from my home. I don't seem to know their logic of working. Many times they have returned the shipment without even informing or calling me up.
So EMS SpeedPost all the way, never missed any delivery. They take a day or two more, but i receive the shipment in my house.
Cancel my vote for DTDC, they are a bunch of f'n retards, I shipped a mobo and a proccy to mailme.manju 6 days ago, and the proccy was fine but mobo must have been shaken so badly that it didn't work(from the description of problem, looks like a short circuit), thank god Rashi took the rma request(still can't trust them until the mobo is actuall rma'd and returned to manju), but this is the last time I've used dtdc, from now on, blue dart 24x7.
I have only ever used two couriers, DTDC and Blue Dart and I had poor experiences with both of them. So I can't really vote for anyone on the list.
The only time I used DTDC, they failed to deliver a DD to a correct address in Mumbai and almost took a month to return it to me. The DD was for a book I ordered online. Thanks to DTDC, I couldn't get my hands on the book.
ICICI bank was supposed to courier a debit card (from Delhi I reckon) to my address in Kolkata using Blue Dart and even though my address was correct, they kept returning the card back to Delhi, citing "incorrect address" without even calling me once to confirm my address. I had to call up ICICI again and again and coax them to resend the card and everytime they did that, the result was the same. Blue Dart drove me nuts for 2 months before I finally got the card directly from my local bank.
Oh yeah, one more I almost forgot...Maruti courier. Boy oh boy do they suck or what? Delivery of PAN cards to Kolkata is usually done via Maruti courier. As expected, the PAN card was dispatched within 15 days of requesting but thanks to Maruti courier I got the card after 2 months. What happened was that they held my PAN card at the local Maruti office and never bothered to deliver it. When I gave them a real good thrashing over the phone after finding out about it, they finally sent one of their guys to my home the next day to deliver the card but believe it or not, the guy wanted a huge Rs.100 "bakshis" for finally delivering the card and that too after 2 months. Talk about shameless creatures!
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, and support you 100% on that. RUN AWAY from them.
. They give excuses that the franchise at shipper place must have eaten up the extra money
. I don't seem to know their logic of working. Many times they have returned the shipment without even informing or calling me up
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