Specialist SA courier service launched

Gary Hamilton

According to Gary Hamilton, Co-Founder of Postbox Courier: "The business initially started in the UK in 2012 as a result of friends and family asking for a dependable way to send their packages back home to SA. It soon became so popular that residents in SA began to register with Postbox Courier to buy and import goods from various retailers and suppliers in the UK and Europe. We now also have services in the US and Hong Kong and have recently opened our operations in Cape Town and Joburg. We provide customers with a central delivery point in the US, the UK or Hong Kong, to which their online purchases are posted, and we then group their purchases into one delivery to SA within a three- to five-day period. In this way, we are able to save online shoppers and businesses up to 70% on their shipping costs to South Africa."

Register

SA online shoppers, businesses or expats wanting to send packages and purchases back home to SA can register with Postbox Courier (www.postbox-courier.com) and be allocated a personal postbox at any of their worldwide depots. Consumers then start ordering their goods online or directly from retailers and use Postbox Courier's Parcel Manager system to ship their one purchase or group their purchases for shipping. Parcels are then tracked and delivered directly to the customer's door in SA.

"We have found that many overseas retailers, such as Amazon, Zappos, Light in the Box, Aliexpress and eBay, either don't offer international delivery on certain products or those that do charge excessive fees or use unreliable delivery services. With our service, customers can now order parts needed to repair an appliance or the latest tech gadget from a store in the UK, have it posted to their Postbox Courier Personal Postbox, and have it in their hands in SA in a matter of days.

Postbox Courier also delivers from the UK, the US, and Asia to Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.