Best way to send a parcel to Spain

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Hi. Now that there is 0% chance that PIL will be able to join us in the UK for Christmas I'd like to surprise them with a little box of gifts.

They live on an urbanisation in Spain and are finally getting a post box but apparently it is very small so a parcel wouldn't fit. I don't know what the Spanish postal service would do with a parcel that did not fit as I don't think they deliver to the door.

I looked I to getting a courier but the quote was £100.

Can I ask those living in Spain what is the best way to send a parcel?

Many thanks

Have you tried eg Parcel Monkey? (There are others too). They check prices with all the couriers. £100 sounds like silly money unless it’s a gigantic parcel!

www.parcelmonkey.co.uk/

Also there are - or used to be - man with van set-ups that shift people’s household possessions back & forth. There are English language magazines/websites which have ads?

Expat FB group here

www.facebook.com/groups/BritishExpatsInSpain/?ref=share

Fab. Thank you @GiantKitten. I'll have a look

Good luck. I’m sure you’ll be able to find a cheaper way, even under the current restrictions

I have used Hermes international before (they will collect from your house) but that was between UK and Austria/France, not Spain - they probably deliver there too. I found it pretty cheap for the weight and reliable (parcels arrived without issue)

Parcel2Go are ones I have used to send parcels to Canada. Usually very reasonable price, a lot cheaper than you have been quoted!
Also look online at post office prices, they are often far cheaper than just going to the post office. Again I sent a 2 kg parcel to Canada and it cost £12 [ this was surface mail though ]

Thanks London and User. The problem with mail is that I don't think that the Spanish mail deliver to the door so I need to courier it.

I use DHL via Ryman’s.
Or you can also go to your local Post Offuce and they offer a signed for service in Spain, so you know it has got there.

Hermes deliver to spain to fixed collection points.

You can use the post office like you would normally, if they have a small postbox the correos will put a slip in their letterbox for them to collect at the correos office!