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Home » Reader question » Who knows a reliable and affordable postal company?
Who knows a reliable and affordable postal company?
Dear readers,
Am looking for a reliable postal company DHL and FEDEX are outrageously expensive and the Thai post is unreliable. Does anyone know an affordable option?
Regards,
French
I sometimes use Kerry Express. They drive these orange cars through almost every part of Thailand. Very reliable, helpful and not too expensive. You can also use it to send parcels abroad.
If I send something with register or EMS it always arrives. Never had any problems
Hi French,
EMS is reliable and information is good.
Gr William
this one is very good in thailand https://th.kerryexpress.com/en/home/
For delivery in Thailand I highly recommend Kerry. We do a lot with them and always good and on time. Same rates as Thailand post. Thailand post rough, Thailand parcel takes a long time.
success
Too bad you don't say how the mail should go: from where to where?
From NL to TH I often send packages up to 2 kg by airmail and track & trace. Complete the consignment note neatly and simply go to the post office. It's there in a week. Never noticed any unreliable mail; you just can't control customs.
DHL and Fedex allow customs to watch as standard; regular mail goes on a sample basis and usually cycles through.
From TH to NL: 5 boxes sent with surface post (sea), but airmail is also possible. Complete the waybill neatly and simply at the Thai post office. Everything arrived neatly after 2,5 to 3 months.
Why unreliable? Never noticed in 26 years of Thailand.
From NL to TH or from TH to NL?
MY experience since 1994: bringing parcels to the post office, preferably those from then Don Muang, now Suvarnabhumi and.. faster here from DHL.
Also vice versa, in all those years, business and private, never lost a single letter or sample package.
In Thailand Kerry
I advise you to look at Kerry Express. I have good experiences with that
https://th.kerryexpress.com/en/home/
EMS from the Thai Post is very reliable and I have had very good experiences with sending with track & trace. Recently arrived by Airmail to the Tax Authorities in Heerlen within 6 days. It was an A5 envelope with about 10 A4 sheets in it for 178 THB.
I regularly bring a slightly thicker envelope that still fits in the letter box in the Netherlands to Thailand and they have still arrived to date. Not register I always say because as far as I know that is of no use and usually it takes 7 to 14 days about 50 baht, but that depends of course on the weight.
Dear French,
Recently I sent an E-bike from Chiangmai to Ubon Rachathani with ….. Nakorn Chai Air, the bus company. € 13,50 and home the next day!! Also called a Golf bag with clubs, something from Th Bth 400,-
About Thai post only praise.
I just send by airmail to NL.
Always correct.
Otherwise I have less good experience. My daughter's package from last year's Christmas has yet to arrive here.
Letter from my 5 months ago posted in NL never received.
Tribute to Thai post.
Letter from my sister…. I mean
I can't advise who to take.
The only thing I would advise against is DHL.
Every package from the Netherlands to Thailand is on the road for a month, and the price is outrageously expensive.
Those packages remain in Frankfurt for weeks.
Once handed over to the Thai post, it was delivered within 3 days.
Of course DHL always blames Thai customs, but I never knew that they are in Frankfurt.
Been sending my mail with Thai state company for 3 years. Always within 2 weeks with the recipient, usually sooner.
Always sent with fedex never any problems, but has become very expensive, box thirty kilos cost 9000 baht last year, now 11.000 baht, now DHL, thirty kilos 9500 baht, arrived in three days just like Fedex, despite the reports about black friday, that the mail was delayed, we had no problems.
After having experienced a blunder several times with registered mail from Thailand to the Netherlands and the investigation into this, the outcome was that the errors were in all cases PostNL's fault.
Mail from NL to TH always arrives and fairly quickly.
Thailand post is reliable, but not always very fast. All mail with a tracking number can be tracked.
To the Netherlands up to and including the plane to NL.
Post NL gives registered shipments their own tracking number, and finding that number is difficult to say the least.
What nonsense Thai Post unreliable. You can follow EMS routing
My wife has a lot of experience with Kerry Express and never had any problems