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Presumably this could also be due to the timing of when Interparcel's contract is up for renegotiation; if other broker's contracts expire later in the year then their price rise will be delayed.
Though it does hinge entirely on how many shipments the middleman moves or if they can make a promise to shift their punters towards UPS or the courier company they are looking to negotiate a deal with. Especially if you're pushing certain "lanes" such as USA, Western Europe etc.
On the flip-side, courier companies don't much like B2C shipments either as there's no guarantee that person's gonna be in, there might some customs fee's that need to be cleared before delivery etc. and the parcels take up space in their warehouse so they cannot stop dealing with the middle man at all because they bring in a lot of B2C revenue for that firm. Parcels in a warehouse for a courier is the worst case scenario as it's just money down the drain and you run the risk of not being able to take on more parcels if the warehouse starts filling up.
Like the person at Interparcel said, one thing the courier company will do is just hike up the middle mans rate if that company cannot promise the numbers of certain lanes or at certain weights as a way to dissuade that middle man from using their service. It's all a bit I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.
You also get a lot of chaining where a middle man will take your booking, use the account number of a bigger middle man who will then use UPS/TNT etc. So maybe P2Go has a contract with a bigger, mainly B2B shipper who has more leverage with UPS so could get a better rate.
Long story short: always best to shop around!
Thanks for the heads up, Mark.
whenever i get a dispatch update for something & it says myherpes my heart sinks a little. it means they will deliver at some absurd hour & leave a card saying to call them (which they forget/don't bother to write their number on), or leave it somewhere they shouldn't, or leave it with a neighbour. just trouble.
plus i get the general impression from things i read that they don't look after their staff as well as other companies. i try to be ethical & pro-workers so that's important to me.
between two identical products i would pay a bit extra to have it delivered by anyone but them.
so as a seller worth bearing in mind. my preferences anyway.
I use Amazon Prime a lot and again our normal delivery guy is usually very good, but over Xmas they were using temporary staff who were bloody useless: they just lobbed the parcels over our back gate, straight onto a brick patio
Prices gone back up again - yesterday back to old prices - today back up - WTF is going on - technical itch or what - just using Parcel2Go for now
(formerly miserneil)
I use transglobalexpress.co.uk now..........similar basic price to P2G and interparcel, but insurance is £10 for every £500 worth of cover (ie 2%)