About Bulgarian Posts
Bulgarian Posts has a long and rich history going back upto the 1870s. However, for our purposes, it suffices to know that BG Post’s modern-day courier services started around 1991. Numerous state and government initiatives have helped the postal service provider widen its scope of operations.
Today, BG Post, as it’s locally called, has over 2900 post offices across the country, which in turn work as service stations for pickups and dropoffs. Bulgarian Posts, over the years, still remains the national postal service provider of Bulgaria.
Letter post, mail, inland letters, stamps, money transfers, and utility bill payments make up most of BG Post’s activities. However, this postal provider has started to include many ecommerce services to keep up with current times.
Under its Parcel services, e-commerce brands can send medium to small-size packages to domestic and international addresses. Domestic packed items must weigh under 20 kg, while international shipments can weigh a maximum of 31.5 kg. They will also need to specify if the order contains fragile items because that will need special handling and care.
As we said before, BG Post first started offering courier services in 1991. It was made possible by 2 courier delivery services, Bulpost and EMS. While Bulpost covered all domestic locations, EMS provided international deliveries. Even to this day, Bulpost Express and EMS remain the only two shipping carriers Bulgarian Posts uses.
Both of these shipping carriers can carry massive loads of upto 20,000 kg. Therefore, businesses who deal in large items like instruments, furniture, etc., will find these services especially helpful.
Bulpost and EMS also offer many add-on services like cash-on-delivery (COD), fragile items, return pickup, guaranteed delivery, etc. In terms of shipping speeds, Bulgarian Posts clients can opt for express and fast delivery, which delivers all domestic orders within 2 and 4 hours, respectively.
Retail brands can also use Bulgarian Posts for returns management, but they don’t offer free returns. Either the business or the customer needs to pay for returning items. For any palletized cargo, like inventory, businesses that want to ship across Bulgaria may use BG Posts’ logistics services. It’s a cost-friendly feature that offers timely deliveries of orders weighing upto 450 kg.
The shipping durations for domestic and international orders vary greatly depending upon the destination of the customer. Local or intercity shipments are naturally delivered faster, in most cases within 24 hours. For customers living in remote locations, it may take nearly 3 days for order delivery.
BG Posts usually delivers international orders within Europe in 3-5 days and outside of Europe in 5 to 9 days. These fast transit times are easily comparable to some of the world’s most renowned carriers.
Customs clearance procedures are carried out by BG Posts after the receipt of all necessary documents from the senders or sellers. The process and the amount of shipping insurance available for goods depend entirely on their value.
The benefits offered by BG Posts must now be abundantly clear to you after our detailed discussion above. However, remember that its business-friendly warehousing services keep the medium-sized companies a little wanting.
Therefore, we suggest using BG Posts till the time your operations scale up rapidly. ClickPost’s Bulgarian Posts API integration allows for easy order tracking and AWB generation.
