I need to send important documents (4 pages) to the states. What shipper do you recommend? I’ve looked at DHL. Has anyone had a good experience with them?
Just send as documents in A4 envelope using EMS. Going to be a fraction of what DHL/Fedex/etc will charge and still get there in about a week.
DHL is very fast (next day or 2 days, they have their own planes), extremely reliable, but a bit expensive. They’re one of the standard carriers for sending documents between businesses worldwide. We use them for work all the time (shipping documents for international shipments, etc.).
EMS will also handle documents. It will be a bit slower (about a week) and a bit cheaper. It’s perfectly reliable for most things.
Personally, for *really* important stuff I would default to DHL, but either would be fine in most cases.
Use DHL or FedEx if it’s important. If your EMS document gets lost somewhere in delivery and you start asking around for it, your going to get a lot of shrugs at the local post office. They will be like once we put it on a plane in Japan we really have no control. Why don’t your call the American post office and see what they say.
DHL or fedex have their own planes and do last mile delivery. While you may not find it at least you will have a single company to go after when you need help.
Oh the only thing exception to this is when you send stuff to PO Boxes like tax and immigration forms. Then DHL and fedex are useless as they don’t deliver to PO Boxes and EMS is the only option.
Fed Ex…
EMS is the cheapest, DHL is ok, and FedEx has been my favorite. I could arrange for FedEx to pick up important documents at my address at a specific date and time if I set it up online. DHL delivered an extremely important document when I wasn’t home and left it in the hallway of my building.
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Just send as documents in A4 envelope using EMS. Going to be a fraction of what DHL/Fedex/etc will charge and still get there in about a week.
DHL is very fast (next day or 2 days, they have their own planes), extremely reliable, but a bit expensive. They’re one of the standard carriers for sending documents between businesses worldwide. We use them for work all the time (shipping documents for international shipments, etc.).
EMS will also handle documents. It will be a bit slower (about a week) and a bit cheaper. It’s perfectly reliable for most things.
Personally, for *really* important stuff I would default to DHL, but either would be fine in most cases.
Use DHL or FedEx if it’s important. If your EMS document gets lost somewhere in delivery and you start asking around for it, your going to get a lot of shrugs at the local post office. They will be like once we put it on a plane in Japan we really have no control. Why don’t your call the American post office and see what they say.
DHL or fedex have their own planes and do last mile delivery. While you may not find it at least you will have a single company to go after when you need help.
Oh the only thing exception to this is when you send stuff to PO Boxes like tax and immigration forms. Then DHL and fedex are useless as they don’t deliver to PO Boxes and EMS is the only option.
Fed Ex…
EMS is the cheapest, DHL is ok, and FedEx has been my favorite. I could arrange for FedEx to pick up important documents at my address at a specific date and time if I set it up online. DHL delivered an extremely important document when I wasn’t home and left it in the hallway of my building.