Parcelforce
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Mandarin Porpoise
Parcelforce - https://www.parcelforce.com/
Parcelforce Worldwide is a courier and logistics service in the United Kingdom. Parcelforce Worldwide is a trading name of the Royal Mail and is organised within the UK Parcels, International and Letters division of the group. The company delivers to destinations worldwide, using an international partner network.
Customer service: 0344 800 4466
Parent organization: Royal Mail
Headquarters: Milton Keynes
Number of employees: 4,500
Its European delivery partner, General Logistics Systems (GLS), is also a subsidiary of Royal Mail and delivers more than one million parcels a day across 34 countries in Europe.[3] Parcelforce Worldwide is a direct competitor of other worldwide delivery brands, such as DHL, DX Group, FedEx and UPS.
Parcelforce Limited operates a "hub and spoke" collection and delivery system with two hubs based at Coventry, adjacent to the airport. One hub is for parcels for the United Kingdom, and the other for international parcels. The hub of the United Kingdom, one of the country's largest buildings, is a highly automated tracking and sorting centre covering 24,000 square metres (5.9 acres) and can handle up to 58,500 parcels an hour.
Parcelforce Worldwide operates its collection and delivery services via a network of 54 “local” depots. These have been strategically located around the United Kingdom from Inverness in the north of Scotland to Plymouth in the southwest of England. There are two depots in Wales, one central depot in Northern Ireland (serving Belfast) and two smaller satellite depots.
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Minimum Impala
Is there any update on this? There isn't a single working Parcelforce integration out there, so it would be a great thing if Starshipit could offer that.
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Abi Bennett
Minimum Impala: isnt there? Thats interesting, do you know why that would be?
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Minimum Impala
Abi Bennett: I'm not sure... It's not that other shipping integrations aren't supporting Parcelforce (Sendcloud, Shipstation, Shippypro, Veeqo, etc do) but all of them are having general issues especially with international shipments (e.g. Sendcloud and Shipstation are messing up currencies in a Multicurrency setup, Sendcloud randomly triggers Parcelforce collections, doesn't support International multi-collo shipments correctly (duplication of customs invoices), others like Veeqo are missing a way to feed back tracking information to ecommerce channels correctly, etc. which all lead to making them not really usable if doing a lot of international shipping). I tried a lot of different shipping solutions and overall Starshipit has the best feature set. So supporting Parcelforce would be really nice. In general Parcelforce seems to be supporting a quite straight forward shipping API so it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate it.