Why this record exists
Send A Parcel Compare is run by Joseph Ellul, an independent publisher. We are not a carrier, we are not owned by one, and we do not carry parcels.
Why this site exists
Almost every site in this trade opens with a quote form. That is a reasonable way to sell carriage and a terrible way to answer the question people actually have, which is what does this cost. So we read the companies' own pages and write down what each one prints, with the date and a hash of the page, and we say plainly when a company prints nothing.
Who it is for
Someone in the UK with one parcel to send who wants a price before handing over an email address.
A person shifting one heavy or awkward item and trying to work out which weight band it lands in.
A small shop pricing the outbound side of its orders, at home and abroad.
What it does not do
- It never estimates a price. Where a company publishes nothing, the record says so and leaves the cell empty rather than filling it with a guess.
- It never attributes a figure to a company on the strength of a competitor's page. Evri prints a Royal Mail column beside its own and the two disagree; only Evri's own column is recorded as Evri's price.
- It does not rank companies on service, speed or reliability. It measures one thing, what each one publishes about price, and says nothing about the rest.
- It does not restate a carrier's prohibited-items list. That list changes and getting it wrong is dangerous, so the record links the carrier's own and stops there.
- It does not treat a blocked read as a finding. Seven companies' sites refused the request and are recorded as not read, never as publishing nothing.
What is on this site
17 guides, each with its sources on the page , 79 answers to the questions around them , and the comparison.
- Large parcels: Large is not a description in this trade, it is a band, and the band is set by measurements rather than by how big the box looks to you.
- Cheap parcel delivery: Cheap is answerable only against what companies actually print, and most of them print nothing.
- Heavy parcels: Above about five kilograms the trade stops pricing on size and starts climbing a weight ladder, and the ladders are steep in different places.
- Collection and drop-off: There are two ways to hand over a parcel and they are not priced the same.
- Overnight and next day: Overnight is sold in two quite different forms and only one of them is a guarantee.
- Ecommerce shipping: A shop's shipping problem is not the price of one parcel, it is that every order lands in a different band and somebody has to decide which.
- China freight forwarding: A forwarder does not fly aircraft or sail ships; it buys space in bulk and resells it, and its quote covers a specific set of legs that is almost never the whole journey.
- Sea and container freight: Sea freight is the cheapest way to move a large quantity of anything from China and the most expensive way to move a small one, because its fixed costs do not shrink with the consignment.
- USA shipping cost: The cheapest published price for a parcel from the UK to the USA in this record is 11.59 pounds, the lowest of five services one broker prices on its USA page.
- Canada shipping cost: Canada has a quirk no other major destination shares: the tax the recipient pays depends on which province they live in, so the same parcel lands at different total costs in Ontario and Alberta.
- India shipping cost: India is one of the better value long haul destinations from the UK and most senders assume the opposite.
- Europe shipping cost: European parcel prices cluster tightly and the differences between them have almost nothing to do with distance.
- Asia and Gulf shipping cost: Asia and the Gulf carry the widest price spread of any region in this record, and it is not explained by distance.
- Business courier services: Business shipping is sold on contracts rather than price lists, which is why comparing published figures gets a small business almost nowhere.
- High value and fragile: High value shipping is decided by contract terms rather than by brand, and the terms are mostly a list of things that are not covered.
- Pallet delivery costs: No company in this record publishes a pallet rate, and that is not an omission: pallet work is quoted per consignment because the variables that set the price are specific to the load.
- Import duty calculator: Free import duty calculators are genuinely useful and routinely misused, because almost everyone enters a guessed commodity code and then trusts the answer.
Where the figures come from
Parcel prices and destination coverage verified against each company's own published pages, September 2026.
Who answers for it
Joseph Ellul, Operator, Ellul MT. Responsible for what this record says and for correcting it. A correction that names the company, the figure and the page is the one that gets acted on fastest.
Reach us
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