Which courier?

[cuvenkat]

I am sure people will have negative (and positive) things to say about all couriers, but by and large it appears that Blue Dart/DHL is the most reliable (or should I say "sucks the least") of the lot.

What is the general opinion of experienced sellers?

I am a buyer, not a seller, but after a recent bitter experience with DTDC, I have decided to only buy from sellers who promise to use Blue Dart/DHL for shipping.

(In my DTDC case: I purchased an MP4 player which the seller duly shipped, but the package was not delivered. I had given my office address, and the DTDC folks tampered with the DRS to show that the item was already delivered, and tried to put the blame on my office mailroom clerk. After a lot of arguing, they have now admitted to their mistake, and have agreed to refund the full value of that package.)

[ankitchauhan2009]

last year such a thing happened to me also. I purchased an iPod shuffle from a Mumbai based seller and he shipped me via DTDC. After 15 days of not receiving my ipod seller informed me that DTDC had sent it back to him. He after receiving told me that he received a empty packet with no ipod in it from DTDC.
Though seller had shipped me another one via BlueDart...but it took almost one month to complete that purchase although I confirmed the product as received in "My Ebay" section on seller's request.
But one year later I noticed two things----
I searched the same seller two weeks ago on ebay, gone through his feedbacks and found that he has several such issues with buyers. He has grown into severe bad reputation coz of non-shipment of orders.---- So might be this seller could be a culprit not the courier company....or may be he had provided me fake tracking numbers back then last year...
Second thing is that my recent purchase ebay ....a casio watch was deliverd via DTDC and I received it on time without any problem.

According to my experience First Flight is the best courier service in India though it's very expensive.
I'm using it from last six years and haven't came across any issue with them.

[snrama]

Hi cuvenkat,

TNT Express and Bluedart are the best. I am using TNT from 2007 and the service is awesome.

FirstFlight is good, DTDC's service has gone worst in 2008 as I have tie-ups with them since 2003. ---------------
With Regards,
Navaneeth (snrama) 😉