Mondial Relay versus La Poste

Summary: A participant expresses frustration about La Poste’s high rates for international shipments within the EU compared with Mondial Relay, citing an example of a lower cost with the latter. felin12 adds that there is a limitation on Mondial Relay’s insurance, which only covers shipments up to 500 euros, and suggests considering other carriers for higher-value items.

For international Intra EU shipments, there’s no more hesitation. Sending a 1kg parcel to the Netherlands cost me 6.50 euros. The postal rate was 24.70 euros. Details: the label for 1kg + tracking with the online stamp "small international parcel" up to 2 kg reserved for professionals. A rip-off! For Europe, the small international parcel rate, which is supposed to favor e-commerce sellers for shipments up to 2kg without going through Colissimo International, is actually 40% more expensive than Colissimo International, available to everyone, pro and non-pro, to the European Union. The reason is that La Poste had the brilliant idea 2/3 years ago to merge the Europe and World rates based on the "World" rate, of course. So at the moment you pay as much for a shipment to Belgium or the USA. All that’s left is to hope that Mondial Relais includes the USA in its offer as quickly as possible.