Packlink price increase
Good morning, this morning after selling an item I tried to print the shipping label but I noticed that the shipping price (Italian Post with home pickup) has increased by about 36 cents. Until last week the price was €7.02, while today it is €7.38; the only explanation I can find is that we're in Christmas week, could that be the reason?
4 comments
rurigokou
·3 years agoHi, it's standard practice; every year there are at least 2-3 tweaks to shipping costs, especially when it comes to Poste Italiane services and then, as a result, to those who provide them.
The increase in costs in December has been a given for quite a few years now.
Other increases during the year happen in the first half, around April/May, and sometimes there's a middle increase between the first and second one, which happens around the end of September.
Sometimes they only affect services like packlink, which during these times of the year I think renew their contract and so based on that a new price will be set (never lower), other times they affect Poste Italiane upstream, or other couriers; I'm using Poste as a reference because it's been the most prone to increases in recent years.
perinaldus
·3 years agohello everyone
I also found the price had gone up. I don't think it's a postal increase but from Packlink itself. At the moment, using Poste Delivery Web seems more convenient. In my case, Packlink linked to eBay cost 7.82 euros, while Poste Delivery Web, disconnected from eBay, cost 6.90. But you have to take the package to the post office, otherwise it costs 1 euro more. Also, Packlink couldn't find the destination country (in Italy), while the post office could. One nice thing about Poste Delivery is that you can choose shipping with delivery to the post office instead of to the buyer's home... in this case it costs one euro less. It depends on the buyer's preferences... picking it up at the post office can be inconvenient but also advantageous... you don't have to wait at home and you have a certain number of days to collect it: in short, if I had used all the Poste options I would have spent 5.90 instead of the 7.82 requested by Packlink (and note that Packlink "gives you a discount" because it is connected to eBay.
collezionology
·3 years agoHi, I read your interesting advice on the possibility of shipping with poste delivery web using delivery with pickup at the post office or at a tobacco shop. It's definitely very convenient, but I wonder and ask you: how do I indicate this option in Ebay among the possible shipping methods I offer to the customer? I should distinguish between postal delivery to the home and postal delivery at a pickup point, but physically how do I enter it in the rate table?
How have you handled it?
heavenwelkin
·3 years agoIf you ship from the post office, Il poste delivery web has the following costs.
0-3 kg: 9.40 euros.
3-5 kg: 10.90 euros.
5-10 kg: 12.90 euros.
10-20 kg: 16.40 euros
Clearly, the user perinaldus, who found postedeliveryweb starting from 6.90 euros, did so through another shipping brokerage service.
Note that packlink offers 75 euros of insurance on the shipment (included in the price), something that other brokers do not offer.
That said, just go on google and type "cheap shipping" to find a wide selection of low-cost shipping reseller services.
Kind regards.