Top 10 Best Courier Services in Bangladesh

Nowadays, fast, affordable, and efficient courier services are integral to the Bangladeshi logistics, supply chain, and e-commerce industries. The days when traditional delivery systems and services rambled through long queues and expensive pricing are GONE. The top courier services in Bangladesh offer an agile and secure mode of transportation, helping businesses to effectively and efficiently deliver products to their valued customers.

Here, we delve into the evolving and thriving industry of Bangladesh’s courier services by reviewing the 10 best courier services in Bangladesh.

1. Sundarban Courier Service (SCS)

Having started its journey in 1983, under the leadership of its Founder Chairman, Imamul Kabir Shanto, Sundarban Courier Service Pvt. Limited has been a synonymous name with the courier and parcel services industries.

Service & Packages

1. Document Service: Here, SCS offers delivery of documents for both corporate and retail customers. Envelopes or packets weighing 01 to 200 grams are delivered to customers at 600+ outlets across Bangladesh.
   
   Customers can avail of this service at BDT 35/ – per document.
2. Non-Doc/Gift Item Service: This service offers delivery of parcels sized in the range of 200 grams to 3.0 kg maximum, identified as a Non-Documents (Gift item) delivery service. This service can be availed by retail clients.
   
   Available in multiple options using a 3-sized poly-pack with three colors, customers can place orders:
   • Yellow Poly: at BDT 110 – 120/- depending on delivery and weight (200 grams to 1 kg)
   • White Poly: BDT 150 – 160/- depending on delivery and weight (from 1001 grams to 2 kg)
   • Blue Poly: BDT 210 – 220/- depending on delivery and weight (from 2001 grams to 3 kg)
3. Super Express Service: Customers can get this offer when urgent official delivery is needed.

Sundarban also offers international courier services to 220 countries worldwide. Customers can enjoy online tracking facilities and air or sea freight services at competitive rates.

2. Pathao Courier

Pathao remains among Asia’s top, fastest-growing tech startups since its inception in 2015. Focusing on Digital Bangladesh, Pathao provides services through its app-based solution. It serves through ride-sharing, food delivery, and e-commerce logistics services primarily, among others.

Founded initially by Hussain Elius, Sifat Adnan, and Fahim Saleh, Pathao’s courier service, well-known as Pathao Courier, is available in all 64 districts in the country. To date, it has served over 80,000 businesses and completed over 20 million deliveries.

Service & Packages

1. Intra-City Delivery: One option by Pathao Courier is City Delivery, where enlisted merchants can deliver to their customers within 24 hours. The pricing is based on the size of the parcel.
   
   • Parcels amounting to 500 grams require payment of BDT 70/-
   • Parcels ranging from 500 grams to 1 kg require payment of BDT 80/-
   • Parcel sizes from above 1 kg to 2 kg cost you BDT 90/-
   • Anything above 2kg leads to an additional 15TK/Per KG in intra-city deliveries.
2. Inter-City Delivery: Another option by Pathao Courier is delivery outside Dhaka, where enlisted merchants can deliver to their customers within 72 hours. The pricing is as follows:
   • Parcels up to 500 grams cost BDT 120/-
   • Parcels ranging from 500 grams to 1 kg require payment of BDT 140/-
   • Parcel sizes above 1 kg to 2 kg cost BDT 160/-
   • Anything above 2kg leads to an additional BDT 25/Per KG in intracity deliveries.
3. Pathao Parcel: Currently available in Dhaka and Chattogram, Pathao Parcel ensures On-Demand, urgent deliveries from customer to destination at varying prices based on area.

3. Sheba Delivery

Sheba.xyz’s Sheba Delivery mainly targets B2B or B2C deliveries. This application-based service allows enlisted merchants to earn money through parcel deliveries in preferred areas. Sheba started its operations in 2016. Since then, many merchants have preferred this app solution by Sheba for business deliveries.

Service & Packages

As a merchant-based service operating intra-city, Sheba has particular slots for pickup and delivery.

Usually, the 1st slot is from 9 am to 12 noon, and the 2nd slot is from 4 pm to 7 pm. Also, you need to register as a merchant to access its current pricing list.

4. eCourier

Operating since 2014, eCourier currently delivers across 64 districts via 1500+ agents and over 45,000 registered merchant partners.

Run by the Founder and CEO, Biplob Ghosh Rahul, eCourier offers a wide range of services besides delivery and shipping. Additionally, it offers support services like booster SMS, fraud detection, mobile top-up, packaging services, Facebook sales automation, and others.

1. Person 2 Person Delivery (P2P): This service allows you to easily ensure gifts and personal deliveries to your friends and family.
2. Merchant Delivery Service: This service offers you a platform to flexibly deliver items like raw materials or finished products to your potential customers.
3. Air Parcel: For faster and instant delivery via air inside the country, customers can avail of this service for either person-to-person delivery or merchant delivery. For P2P delivery, BDT 300/- is charged for each 1kg item and BDT 50/-for each additional kilogram. For merchandise delivery, BDT 200/- is charged for each 500-gram item and 50/- for each added 500 grams.
4. Corporate & SME Delivery: With the help of advanced tracking systems, corporate and SME customers can avail pick and drop services and track order progress.
5. International Shipping: This service offers parcel and document carriage to popular destinations across the world, either for business transactions or personal deliveries.

5. REDX Delivery

Redx logistics company is owned by the famous startup – ShopUp. Founded in 2017, it delivers goods across 80+ franchise outlets nationwide. It has a dedicated vehicle fleet for transporting merchant and customer order shipments. These vehicles range from 1-tonne capacity to 25-tonne capacity and come in either open or covered build.

Service & Packages

1. Parcel Delivery: This service includes First-mile pickup and last-mile delivery services for individuals (C2C), small businesses (B2C), and corporates (B2B).
2. Bulk Shipment: Redx also offers bulk deliveries, especially for B2C and B2B customers.
3. Truck Rent: You can explore open trucks and covered vans to deliver your products or items in bulk anywhere in the country.
4. Logistics as a service: Businesses can outsource logistics assistance by availing a dedicated team for their company via Redx.

REDX Pricing

1. Inside Dhaka:
   • Up to 1 kg will cost you BDT 69/-
   • From 1 kg to 2 kg will cost you BDT 84/-
   • From 3 kg to 5 kg will cost you BDT 114/-
2. To Suburban Areas: (With all these, a one percent cost of delivery (COD) is added)
   • 1 kg of goods will cost BDT 115/-
   • 1 kg to 2 kg will cost BDT 130/-
   • 2 kg to 3 kg will cost BDT 145/-
   • 3 kg to 5 kg will cost 160/-
3. To Other Cities: (With all these, a one percent cost of delivery (COD) is added)
   • 1 kg of goods will cost BDT 150/-
   • 1 kg to 2 kg will cost BDT 180/-
   • 2 kg to 3 kg will cost BDT 210/-
   • 3 kg to 5 kg will cost 240/-

6. Paperfly Courier Service

Paperfly Courier Service has prominently served local customers since 2016, both domestically and internationally. Shahriar Hasan, the Founder & CEO, led Paperfly to be the first local company with 100% field force using apps and updating status in real-time.

More than 35,000 merchants are registered with Paperfly across the nation, ensuring over 1.5 billion deliveries to date.

Service & Packages

1. Doorstep Delivery Service: For packages up to 1 kg, it will cost you BDT 70/- in Dhaka City, BDT 110/- to the suburban areas near Dhaka City, and BDT 130/- to other covered cities. Additional BDT 30/- charges for each extra kilogram to other cities and BDT 15/- for inside Dhaka and nearby.
2. Point Delivery: You can also collect your parcel or delivery from Paperfly pickup points across various cities in the country. In such cases, you will be charged BDT 80/- for items weighing up to 1 kg and BDT 30/- for each additional Kg.

7. SA Paribahan

A popular courier service in Bangladesh, SA Paribahan, customers relate to it for quick delivery and advanced benefits. Chaired by Salahuddin Ahmed as the Chairman and Managing Director, SA Paribahan offers courier services with 81 branches across Bangladesh in all 64 districts.

Service & Packages

1. Document: If the parcel is an envelope, the delivery charge will be BDT 25/-
2. Non-Document: For non-document packages, the pricing varies depending on weight.
   • Up to 1 kg of weight costs BDT 80/-
   • Anything above 1 kg but less than 2 kg costs BDT 100/-
   • Anything above 2 kg costs BDT 120/-, with each additional kg yielding BDT 10/- more
   • Up to 10 kg, worth BDT 200/-

8. Sonar Courier Service LTD

Sonar Courier Service, Bangladesh’s First Online Courier Service, started operations in 1999. With service points and online delivery spread across all districts, this established courier business spans its services to industries like e-commerce, healthcare, food, automotive, manufacturing, consumer goods, and banking.

Service & Packages

1. B2C Express E-commerce Logistics Solution: an integrated e-commerce logistic solution for businesses to deliver to customers.
2. B2B Xpress – Cargo Services: vast & reliable network of 100+ transport service providers through rail, air, truck, or special handling cargo.
3. Cross-border Logistics and International Cargo Services: tech-enabled solutions carefully customized to ensure client needs and ease of imports and exports. It includes Cross-border operations to and fro China, the Far East, Inter-Asia, the US, Europe, and Scandinavian countries.
4. 3PL – Third Party Logistics: Warehousing that enables to quickly and flexibly carry out operations across Bangladesh with no fixed costs. Spread across 8+ cities in Bangladesh.

Sonar Courier Pricing

Inside Dhaka, up to 250 grams of weight costs BDT 50/-. For each additional 500 grams, BDT 25/- will be added. Within another District town, up to 250 grams of weight costs BDT 100/-. For each additional 500 grams, BDT 25/- will be added. Within another Upazila Town, prices rise to BDT 120/- for 250 grams of items. The additional kilograms charge remains the same.

Another option is the Sonar Express Service. In this offer, inside Dhaka, items weighing up to 1 kg cost BDT 100/-within another District town, 1-kg items cost BDT 150/-, and within another Upazila Town, 1-kg items cost BDT 200/-. For additional kilograms, you will need to pay BDT 50/-

9. United Parcel Service (UPS)

Air Alliance Ltd. is the Authorised Contractor for UPS in Bangladesh. UPS began operating in Bangladesh when Bengal Group of Companies-owned Air Alliance Limited became the sub-agent of United Parcel Service for the Asia Pacific Region in 1989. 1999 saw Air Alliance Limited eventually become the full-fledged official service partner (Agents) of United Parcel Service in Bangladesh.

Presently, 16 operational Express Centers exist in the country.

Service & Packages

Customers can create one-time shipments and expand globally. With UPS My Choice for Business®, customers can drive their shipment deliveries and remain updated via one dashboard.

Customers can also go global by creating an online shop through UPS. The company allows large-volume shipments internationally.

As it’s an international franchise business, you need to register to know the prices and package details.

10. DHL Bangladesh

DHL, founded in 1969, began operating in Bangladesh in 1979 and continued through agent operations till 2007. In 2008, it was revamped as a full-fledged subsidiary. Md. Miarul Haque has been serving as the Managing Director of DHL Express Bangladesh since July 2017.

This global courier and shipping business operates in over 220 countries worldwide, with 1,668,000,000 deliveries annually.

Service & Packages

DHL offers customers export services across borders. Customers get Door-to-door courier deliveries within 24 hours and 24 to 72 hours.

Documents to parcels, whatever you send, the maximum item weight ranges from 30 kg to 70 kg. The maximum shipment weight ranges from 300 kg to 3000 kg.

Additionally, corporate customers enjoy bulk shipments to different countries affected by some guidelines and rules.

As it’s an international franchise business, you need to register to know the prices and package details.

Final Words

After going over the above-mentioned list of courier services in Bangladesh, we hope you are able to select the one(s) best suited to your needs and budgets. Visit their websites to know more and ship more!