postal problems

[Michael D]

May I put in my 2 cents (even though it's in euro's)? as my other hobbies besides vintage cars involve electric guitars and antiquities I do quite some Ebay-buying and often in the UK.... in my experience: small parcels sent with Royal Mail take some 3 to 4 weeks to reach their destination when sent from anywhere in the UK to the Netherlands where I live......So ask for UPS they're amongst the best. German dispatchers seem to love Hermes....as they are cheapest and have a very dense network of drop off locations. However: Whenever you buy something from Germany: pay the vendor al little more in order to get things sent by DHL or DPD.. every time I received a parcel sent with Hermes it took weeks to arrive (where DHL and DPD only need a few days..), their track and trace reporting crazy things happening (like a parcel going to-and-fro between hubs..) sometimes with a part of a multi colli shipment missing, sometimes mistreated thus that the item inside the box was damaged in transit (having the pictures of the eBay listing to prove that the item was sent undamaged by vendor). So 'choose wisely'....