Price of Letter by DHL to the UK

[roger101]

The Title says it all

[Photoguy21]

Roughly, depending on weight, around Baht 1200

[Upnotover]

A4 envelope, 250g

[arick]

The time you posted on here you could have went online and found out yourself!

[frank83628]

Why DHL and not EMS at post office? Both fast and tracked

[Surasak]

2 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Why DHL and not EMS at post office? Both fast and tracked

All kinds of reasons why that can be disputed. Post a letter via EMS to the UK on Monday am in Banpet. Wednesday am and Thailand Post reports letter arrived UK 12:15pm. UK post says it is still awaiting departure form country of origin. The following Tuesday UK post says the item beliveredn13.56 pm. Total cost B1250:00

Two weeks later, letter to the same address in UK takes 5 days. The total cost B450 

DHL letter to same address a month later. FOUR DAYS @ B550. 

A small parcel to same address in UK took 5 days. Weight 1/2Kg cost B1500 via DHL. I know where my money goes!

[arick]

If sent properly it's never more than 5 days either way.

[Antiparovian]

EMS. Do your own research either in person or a thing known as Google.

[Antiparovian]

Just now, Antiparovian said:

EMS. Do your own research either in person or a thing known as Google.

 

[Antiparovian]

Surely Admin should block such ridiculous posts.

[unblocktheplanet]

3 hours ago, arick said:

If sent properly it's never more than 5 days either way.

Which do you think is safer for signed & witnessed documents?

[frank83628]

2 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Which do you think is safer for signed & witnessed documents?

DHL offer a service for important docs like that, 48hrs door to door anywhere in the world, docs only, used to be £48.

[Lancelot01]

On 6/19/2025 at 5:14 AM, Surasak said:

All kinds of reasons why that can be disputed. Post a letter via EMS to the UK on Monday am in Banpet. Wednesday am and Thailand Post reports letter arrived UK 12:15pm. UK post says it is still awaiting departure form country of origin. The following Tuesday UK post says the item beliveredn13.56 pm. Total cost B1250:00

Two weeks later, letter to the same address in UK takes 5 days. The total cost B450 

DHL letter to same address a month later. FOUR DAYS @ B550. 

A small parcel to same address in UK took 5 days. Weight 1/2Kg cost B1500 via DHL. I know where my money goes!

I had two similar experiences with EMS, the first small parcel took almost 6 weeks to arrive, it went off the tracking radar at BKK with no way of findingoutwhathadhappened.

The second, important legal documents, took 4 weeks again, they disappeared from tracking at BKK. 

Due to the urgent importance, I had to reprint the documents and have them legalised again, then sent via DHL. These arrived 4 days later.

[jacko45k]

Off topic but I just received a Christmas card here in Thailand that started off in Adelaide some time ago!

[KhunLA]

On 6/19/2025 at 4:48 PM, Antiparovian said:

Surely Admin should block such ridiculous posts.

which one  ?

 

for other, unless extremely important, or they only accept original certified letter, post a couple copies regular snail mail, as it might take a day or 3 more to get there.   Do separate the mailing by about a week, so they don't both end up in the same tray and get lost.

 

EMS probably cheapest and works fine, though you may not get a receipt of arrival.   The other acronym vendors are silly priced, and may use the same aircrafts the ThaiPost does, so reality, no special service.