Hi I hope you are all alright. This might have been asked before but can someone suggest a trusted courier for my documents from the UK to the Philippines base on your experience. A courier that won't delay and lose your documents. And how long do they deliver it? Is 3 days possible? I'll accept any suggestion thank you.
DHL. If you also get it delivered to a DHL centre in a mall that will also potentially speed the process up if your address is even slightly obscure. I'd say 4 days is the norm.
I'll have to check which mall has DHL (although I've never seen one before) as I live in a town and far from the city and I always have problem with deliveries because they will always say my address is out of serviceable area. But nevertheless thank you for that. I'll consider it.
Is that so? Well that's a good news then we only have one courier in town that delivers documents and things like that which is LBC. I might have to look into DHL. Thank you.
Well my wife lived only 3 miles from the sorting centre yet it used to take an additional 3 days and copious amounts of phone calls despite her being in the city. That's why I suggested the mall as a quicker alternative. Good luck
Remember not to send anything else with your visa paperwork, sending mobile phones and other items only holds the package up, the financial documents of the visa application are time sensitive so just bear that in mind. DHL only takes 3/4 days, good service, someone also mentioned Fed Ex as being a good courier too.
If you live outsid metro manila and outside of main cities like cebu or davao, expect a DHL package to be delivered by about a week or more. My fiance sent some addtional back up documents on a (oct 20) thursday afternoon from glasgow and i got it only after a week. They have a problem with their local partner here in pinas which is www express. When i tracked the package, it has arrived manila 2 pm on sunday (oct 23) but it only arrived at the local www express office end of day on wed and scheduled delivery to my place pn thursday oct 27 (i cant believe it took them more than 3 days to send the package/document without any customs requirment from manila to the local partner when we have a domestic airport). we paid 40£ dhl while royal mail also took a week although i had to pick up the packge at the local post office but only costs 12£. Btw with dhl, you cant track the package once you hit manila since they dont hAve that technology here in ph (thats the bs they gave me when i started calling their office). On the same thing, you cant track a package via royal mail.
That's one of my concern really as I live in a remote area (well not really remote area) adn there's always problems with deliveries. I live in Mindanao so even if it will only take 3 days to arrive in Manila it might take more than that to get my docs from Manila to my place.
Yeah - same here. Im in mindanao as well. So if you are using dhl, the package will physically move uk-germany-hongkong-manila- davao via air then from davao city, it will be trucked to your area (not sure how it will work if you live zambo area). I used to work with dhl's competitor so i know that this type of service is not acceptable especially with the price you pay. We are heading to the holiday season (thanksgiving and christmas season) so take that to consideration as this might make service even worse.
It's a shame about that when you pay for a good money with a crap service. The nearest city to where I live is Cagayan de Oro which is an hour and a half away from where I live but willing to travel that short distance to get my documents.
Planning to send the documents tomorrow and my appointment will be Tuesday next week. Any advice? Am I not giving enough time for the documents to arrive?
