How to send a parcel cheaply?

Sending a parcel always involves different costs – regardless of the carrier you choose. A high price for a single parcel may not hurt yet, but sending more than one non-standard large parcel will cost a lot. Potential customers are scrabbling around among the offers of different courier companies, looking for the cheapest and most advantageous service. How to send a parcel cheaply – that is the question.

The most popular intermediaries for sending a parcel

The final costs for a parcel depend on the size, weight and shape of the parcel, the direction of shipment, the type of carrier. The most popular carriers are:

• Poczta Polska,
• InPost,
• Courier companies, e.g. DPD, DHL.

Cheap parcel delivery at the Polish Post Office – what is it all about?

At the Polish Post Office, relatively small parcels of standard shape can be sent by the cheapest post al service – the popular Paczka+ service (the cost of sending a parcel starts from a dozen or so zlotys). When deciding to use this service, it is important to check the weight and size specifications beforehand.

Cheap parcel delivery by parcel machine

Paczkomat InPost is one of the simplest parcel delivery methods. Cheap parcel shipping is carried out via a distinctive parcel machine. Interested persons must use the option of sending and receiving at a parcel machine or use the Internet, apps. Not every parcel is suitable for a parcel machine – size, dimensions, weight play a big role.

Cheap parcel delivery by courier

On the Polish market you can find many courier companies. The most popular are DPD, DHL, GLS. Due to high competition on the market, they offer many attractive prices for sending parcels both to Polish towns and abroad. A potential customer should compare the price lists and quality of services of selected carriers before making a final decision. All information can be found on the websites of individual courier companies.

Sending a parcel at a point or parcel machine – a simple way to save money

Ordering a courier to your home is by far the easiest way logistically. You don’t have to leave your home to send a parcel. All you have to do is wait for the courier to arrive. However, it has a big disadvantage – higher shipping costs. A much cheaper way is to go to the post office premises or the nearest parcel machine yourself. Resigning to receive a parcel in person by courier means saving as much as several zlotys (about PLN 4-5)! Sometimes such a reduction can prove to be salutary.

Sending a parcel in a parcel machine still involves printing out a label with information about the sender, recipient, limits in dimensions and weight of the parcel being sent. If you don’t have a printer, you would have to go to the nearest photocopier. However, the parcel machine has one big advantage – sending a parcel can be done at any time, even late at night.

Cheap parcel packing – what does it look like?

Shipping a parcel cheaply is not everything. The packing process is also important. How do you pack a parcel for shipping? 4 rules for safe packing – let’s find out.

You can pack your parcel quickly, cheaply and efficiently. All you need is good quality cardboard packaging, parcel fillers and various accessories.

There are a few tricks that can help you pack and secure your parcel more cheaply than usual. To significantly reduce the cost of your parcel, you can choose a cardboard box (large, medium, small), ideally suited to the contents – so that the amount of free space is kept to a minimum. The parcel will appear slightly compressed. A smaller parcel means a cheaper parcel – a rule of thumb for every courier company.

Parcel fillers are an essential addition when packing any parcel. Reducing shipping costs will only be possible with the presence of lightweight air cushions or eco-friendly fillers. Despite their low weight, these elements provide effective cushioning for the entire contents of the parcel. They will not allow anything bad to happen to the inside of the parcel during transport, loading or unloading. However, the most popular filler for parcels is the irreplaceable, cheap bubble foil.

One of the important accessories used when packing and securing a parcel are various types of strong, efficient packing tapes. To keep costs as low as possible, it is advisable to choose a wide, lightweight, high-performance tape.

Discounts

Couriercompanies, in order to attract new customers and encourage old ones to use them again, often post attractive courier shipping prices – most often this happens during the festive season. Although various marketing efforts are aimed at gaining new customers, you should not be offended by them. It is better to take advantage of the good times. There are websites with various discount codes (sometimes even a 60-70% discount) for sending courier parcels. Discounts are another answer to the question: how to send a parcel cheaply.

Recycled packaging

If the parcel is not too heavy, you can use boxes that are lying around the house to pack the contents. A lot of boxes can be found in the storerooms of grocery shops – it is worth asking the retailers if they have any cardboard boxes available. However, make sure you only choose boxes that are of good quality. Damaged, over-used food packaging could do more harm than good.

The issue of cardboard packaging is quite complicated. The best, though not the cheapest way would be to buy new cardboard boxes from leading manufacturers in the packaging industry. Such cardboard boxes have perfectly calculated dimensions, falling within the range of dimensions given by the respective courier company. In the case of old, store-bought boxes, the situation is different – they have not been created to the expectations of the carriers and therefore do not have to match dimensionally.

How to send a parcel cheaply? Other ways to save on parcel packaging

You can also use old fillers that were in previous parcels addressed to you in a cheap parcel. This is an environmentally friendly and practical way. Therefore, you do not need to buy special and new fillers for your cartons. Instead, it is recommended to use old bubble wrap or crumpled pieces of newspaper, used paper.

Cheap, high-quality cardboard boxes – only at RAJA

One thing can certainly be said about RAJA packaging – effective packaging for warehouses and e-commerce. This company has an impressive assortment – a countless number of cardboard boxes of different heights, shapes, nature of purpose, type of cardboard.

So let’s get to know RAJA’s sales hits – 10 bestsellers for e-commerce! To begin with, let us mention that all – listed below – packaging has been produced from ecological, biodegradable materials, which puts the manufacturer in a unique, positive light.

The most popular boxes for e-commerce shops include: cut boxes, book wrappers, height-adjustable cartons, bottle shipping cartons, protective cardboard envelopes, protective bubble envelopes, cartons with automatic bottoms, telescopic cartons.