courier costs

[marryme]

I would like to send 6 boxes, approx. 20kg from England to Cape Town, South Africa. What is the cheapest and most reliable courier company to use and which is the best way to send the boxes. Need answers asap! Thanx.
Size approx. 600 x 400 x 400mm

[VillageVicar]

Can the six boxes be consolidated into one box or are the destined for different addresses. And just to confirm, it's only 20kg? Is that 20Kg each box or for all combined?

I was at first going to suggest sea-freight. However, the weight is too small. Therfore if I understand the facts correctly, you may not be that bad off using Parcel Force or TNT, although TNT is a bit dearer. If it's urgent, there is Freight Packaging service where you carry the item to the airport, say on SAA and your designated recipient collects it in J-berg or Capetown...

I've used Interlink for packages to Australia and Kenya and their prices were lower, however I know that they 'sub' out the services to many different companies, so you never know who will be handling it at the other end.

Best of luck
Fr Bill

[NORMANTHEDOG]

try, parcelto go.co.uk much cheaper then all the big boys.

[oldmegan]

We had loads of stuff to ship to our son in Cape Town. We phoned our local Britannia removals people and they came, boxed it all up, took it away and it arrived safe and sound in South Africa. I imagine other UK removal firms would do the same. The cost was quite reasonable. I'm not sure if DHL do removals of heavy items, we used them to send urgent immigration paperwork to Cape Town - they were absolute cr*p and the promised delivery time was missed by 4 days!! So I wouldn't recommend them!

[BenDToy]

Before suing parcel to go you may want to read this.

http://www.theukhighstreet.com/Parcel-2-Go_R23 11/

[BenDToy]

Freudian slip perhaps - I did of course mean before USING them!!