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Carriers

Four UK networks, quoted side by side

Royal Mail, DPD, Evri and DHL cover very different jobs. Rather than picking one and living with it, you see what each of them would charge for the parcel in front of you and choose per shipment.

Connections held centrally

You need no carrier accounts of your own

The commercial relationship with each carrier is ours to hold, not yours. You open one account with ParcelPointPro rather than applying to four networks separately.

  • No accounts to open

    No applications, no separate credentials to store and rotate, no four sets of terms to read before you can ship anything.

  • No minimum volumes

    Carrier contracts usually want a committed volume before they will talk. You ship what you ship, and can use one carrier once and never again.

  • Integrations are our problem

    When a carrier changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or moves a service, we handle it. Your form, your CSV and your API calls carry on working.

  • One balance covers all of them

    No reconciling four carrier invoices at month end. Every purchase, whoever carried it, lands on the same statement.

  • Switching is choosing a different line

    Moving a shipment from one carrier to another is picking a different row in the quote list, not an onboarding project.

Who carries what

What each network is generally good at

A neutral summary of the kind of work each carrier is built for, to help you read the quote list. Availability, coverage and cut-offs are set by the carrier, so what you can actually buy on the day is whatever comes back in the live quote.

Royal Mail

The universal postal network

Typically used for

Smaller, lighter parcels going to residential addresses anywhere in the UK, where breadth of coverage matters more than a narrow delivery window. Typical for clothing, books, cosmetics, jewellery and small accessories.

The United Kingdom’s universal postal operator, delivering to every UK address. Alongside ordinary letter and parcel post it offers tracked and signed-for parcel services, with drop-off available at post offices and, for smaller items, ordinary postboxes. International post moves through its own network and partner postal operators abroad.

  • Coverage of every UK address, including remote and island postcodes that some networks surcharge or decline.
  • Tracked and signature-on-delivery options where you need a record of receipt.
  • Formats sized for flat and letterbox-friendly items as well as boxed parcels.
  • Drop-off at post offices and postboxes, so no collection has to be arranged for low volumes.

Descriptive only. We do not quote specific service names, prices or delivery guarantees here — those come from the carrier at the moment you request a quote.

DPD

Next-day and predicted windows

Typically used for

Higher-value or time-sensitive parcels where the recipient expects to know roughly when the van arrives. Common for B2B deliveries into offices and trade counters, and for consumer orders promised for the next working day.

A parcel network built around fast UK delivery and keeping the recipient informed. Its services are known for predicted delivery windows on the day, live tracking of the delivery round, and giving the recipient options to redirect a parcel to a neighbour, a safe place or a collection point. Collections from your premises are the usual arrangement rather than drop-off.

  • Next-day and timed UK delivery for parcels that cannot sit in the network over a weekend.
  • Predicted delivery windows and live driver tracking, so the recipient knows roughly when the van is due.
  • Recipient-controlled redirection to a neighbour, safe place or pickup shop.
  • Scheduled collections suit despatch operations that pack throughout the day.

Descriptive only. We do not quote specific service names, prices or delivery guarantees here — those come from the carrier at the moment you request a quote.

Evri

Economy parcel volume

Typically used for

Everyday ecommerce despatch where cost per parcel decides your margin and a day either way is not a problem. Typical for marketplace sellers, subscription boxes and consumer returns.

A high-volume UK parcel network geared towards economy delivery, operating through a large base of local couriers and a wide footprint of parcel shops and lockers used for both drop-off and collection. Pricing is generally pitched at lighter, lower-value parcels moving in quantity rather than at premium express work.

  • Economy UK delivery aimed at cost per parcel rather than speed.
  • A dense network of parcel shops and lockers for drop-off without arranging a collection.
  • Doorstep collection available where volume makes drop-off impractical.
  • Return options via the same shop network, which keeps returns handling simple.

Descriptive only. We do not quote specific service names, prices or delivery guarantees here — those come from the carrier at the moment you request a quote.

DHL

International express

Typically used for

Parcels going abroad, particularly anything urgent, commercially valuable, or bound for a destination where the customs paperwork has to be right the first time.

An international express and logistics network with worldwide reach and long-standing customs expertise, alongside UK domestic services. Its international services are time-definite rather than economy, and it handles the customs formalities that come with moving goods across borders.

  • Worldwide destination coverage for parcels leaving the UK.
  • Time-definite international options for shipments that cannot take an economy route.
  • Established customs handling for commercial goods crossing borders.
  • Where a shipment needs customs paperwork, the required detail is part of the booking form rather than an afterthought.

Descriptive only. We do not quote specific service names, prices or delivery guarantees here — those come from the carrier at the moment you request a quote.

Consistent either way

The carrier changes. Your process does not.

Choosing a different network should not mean learning a different system. Everything around the label works the same way whoever ends up carrying the parcel.

One quote form

The same parcel details produce quotes from every eligible service, so there is nothing to re-enter when you change your mind.

One set of print formats

6 x 4 thermal PDF, A4 sheet or raw ZPL, whichever carrier issued the label.

One tracking vocabulary

Carrier scans are normalised into the same statuses, so a mixed-carrier day still reads as a single list.

One balance and statement

Every purchase draws from the same balance and appears on the same statement, with the carrier shown as a column.

One API

The same endpoints quote, buy and track across all four. Nothing carrier-specific is hardcoded into your integration.

One set of permissions

Roles apply across every carrier, so access does not have to be granted network by network.

Roadmap

More carriers are being added

Four networks cover most UK despatch, but not all of it. We are adding more, and the order we add them in is decided by what customers actually ask for.

  • Any carrier we add appears in the same quote list, prints in the same formats and reports into the same statement.
  • Existing integrations pick new services up automatically, because service options come back from the API rather than being written into your code.
  • Nothing changes about your account when a carrier is added. There is no new contract to sign and no migration to run.
  • If a network you depend on is missing, tell us. Volume behind a request is the fastest way to move it up the list.

Which carrier are you missing?

Tell us which network you ship with today, roughly what volume goes through it, and what it is carrying. It goes straight onto the list we work from.

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About these carrier names

Royal Mail, DPD, Evri and DHL are trade marks of their respective owners and are used on this page only to identify the services we resell. ParcelPointPro Ltd is an independent reseller and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. Nothing on this page should be read as a delivery guarantee: coverage, service availability, cut-off times and transit expectations are set by each carrier and can change without notice.

Compare all four against your next parcel

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