Are you traveling? Use that extra space in your luggage to carry packages that other people wish to send to their friends and relatives abroad – and get money from it!
Need to send something to a relative or a friend abroad? Find a travelers community that is willing to deliver it personally, at a lower cost than the traditional services.
Elcourier.com is easy and reliable: Elcourier.com works with a reputation system, where travelers get scored trough positive evaluations every time they successfully deliver a package abroad. Find a traveler with a good reputation and relax!
Elcourier.com community helps you… and so do you: sending a package trough one of our community travelers is cheapest than using a traditional service. In addition, the travelers can finance part of their trip with the money they receive for delivering packages
Elcourier.com takes care of the environment: using a trip to make all these deliveries, less CO2 is sent to the atmosphere. Who sends a package, helps the traveler, the traveler helps who sends the package and both help our planet.
Elcourier.com is a website that allows to organize all the orders made by relatives or friends when you are traveling and take advantage of that trip to send packages.
At a lower cost then the traditional services, those who know the traveler and/or members of the community can pay who is traveling to use the extra space in their luggage to send small packages to other people.
The operation of elcourier.com is very simple and safe.
If you are going to travel, the first thing you need to do is register on our website as a user. Is fast and east, just follow the steps.
Once you’ve created an account, login with your user name to register your next trip. You must follow carefully the steps to enter the data correctly:
- Departure City
- Destination City
- Departure Date
- Arrival date
- Means of Transport
- Available Weight
This way, those who wish to send or receive a package from or to your destination city, may select your trip to add a package.
If you accept this, elcourier.com will establish the contact between you, so you can coordinate the exchange.
It is very important that you don’t accept any package or envelope that is closed. You must me sure that what you are carrying is safe and does not break any safety standard. If you are not sure of the package you must carry, we recommend not taking it.
If instead of traveling, what you need is to send or receive a package abroad, you must also register to elcourier.com to create your account. So you can choose the most convenient trip created by other user to add your package to.
You must specify the weight, dimensions and content of the package you want to send or receive. When the user that is going to travel receives your request to add a package, he either accepts or rejects it; he can as well contact you trough the website in case he has a doubt.
Remember: you can not wrap the Package, since the traveler must be able to see what he is carrying for safety reasons.
Once the user that wants to send the package contacts a traveler that accepts it, they must agree on the price and the place where the traveler is receiving the package and where he must deliver it. When he arrives at his destination, he informs the system so the sender will know that his package also arrived.
The operation of elcourier.com is based on trust between users.
We recommend those who want to send a package taking into account the evaluations made by that other users of the diverse travelers. The more positive evaluations a traveler has, the must reliable and safe he is.
On the other hand, we strongly recommend to those who are carrying a package, not to accept anything that is wrapped or that you may find suspicious.
Those who want to send a package must take into account the security policy recommended by elcourier.com, as well as the laws of the country where the package is being brought or carried to.
To avoid any inconvenience or delays to the traveler, elcourier.com recommends considering the following:
-Specify from the beginning of the transaction what is the object you are sending. -If possible, add a scanned image of the object. - Do not wrap the package you are sending - Do not send food, unless it is properly vacuum packed and with identification labels. - Do sent send weapons, prescribed drugs, contraband articles or any other illicit object
The elcourier.com system offers its user the possibility to rate those who offer to carry their packages.
If you carry a package and the whole operation (delivery and reception) is successful, the user who sent the package with you, has the possibility to rate your procedure.
Therefore, the highest your score, the most reliable you are, and you will have more chances to be chosen again to carry a package.
elcourier.com also gives users stars to raise your reputation.
The stars are assigned in the extent that each goal is achieved. Thus, you can become a 5 stars member and benefit from a high reputation when it comes to contact other user from the website.
To obtain the starts from elcourier.com you must:
Confirm your mail. This is one of the first starts you can simply by confirming your email to register your account.
Be recommended by other user: If an existing user recommends you, you’ll be gaining credibility and making the system more reliable.
Present a document that identifies you: If you upload a scanned document that verifies your identity and it’s validated by the administrators of the system, you’ll generating greater confidence in other user.
Purchasing a certificate that confirms your identity. . If you purchase a 5 dollars certificate, this being a symbolic price, you’ll be giving a personal identification to the system. Thus, elcourier.com can confirm your real identity for greater system security.
Successfully deliver a package When you make your first delivery successfully and with no problems, you will also obtain a star from elcourier.com
As it would happen in any site of (for example) auction, Elcourier.com is completely based on trust between the user. So far, all Elcourier.com do is to make it easier for you to find people that are traveling where you need to send your package – or finance that trip you want so much to make.
But we understand that is hard to trust a complete stranger. That is why we created a reputation user system , where you can easily check before you send any package. For every successful delivery, the traveler and who sends the package get a score that ensure other users of the system that those are reliable people. Further along there will be other ways to get reputation scores; in this way, the most a user helps the community of Elcourier.com to be a reliable site, he will get more score and therefore, better reputation he will have.
You can send anything you want, as long as you don’t jeopardize the traveler. The traveler stipulates how much free space he has and he always has to approve the delivery, beside having the right to inspect the package before accepting it. In those cases, the best is the common sense : put yourself in the other person shoes and think if is reasonable for someone to carry your package in his luggage.
Obviously, sending any substance or illegal object is forbidden , either in the country of the departure or the destination country. This includes along with other things: weapons, drugs, chemical substances, large sums of money and objects of big value, for example. We recommend you check customs requirement of the destination country and always remember that the traveler is the one who takes responsibilities.
We recommend all travelers never to accept a closed package . When you get it, check it and make sure it’s legal. If you still are unsure (this includes thinking the person who is receiving it will not accept it), remember that you always have the final saying : you can say no until the last minute. Once who sends the package is gone, the package is your responsibility. Clear all your doubts before the owner of the package has left.
Who sends a package trough a traveler must always pay the delivery BEFORE the traveler carries the package. For the time being, the payment will be cash and on hand, so you can charge the delivery when the package is handed over to you.
The system of the Elcourier.com is based on trust between user, so you must trust this will happen. To fill secure, chose travelers with strong credentials and good reputation . If you don’t find a experienced traveler going to where you need, we suggest you start with a small delivery to “test” the traveler. If one person travels once to a certain destination, is probable he is going there again. Try first with a small and cheap package before you try something bigger.
The best is always to make the agreement in advance and we recommend leaving the package in a fixed location (the hotel reception, for example) in the name of the person who will receive it . Once you left it there, let the person who gave the package to you to make sure the receiver knows he must pick it up. Also, you can ask the sender to tell the receiver the code of the package to increase the security of the exchange. The receiver must know this code to collect the package; make sure you mention this to who handles the packages at the hotel.
Of course you can also take the package to the receiver or agree to meet at some place for the delivery. It all depends on how you would like to do this.
The price is calculate from a algorithm that takes into consideration the distance traveled and the weight of the package. When we calculate it, we ensure that the delivery is as transparent, equitable and fair as possible.
Not yet the payment is done when the sender handles the package over to the traveler . This way we assure both people get to know each other, that there is trust and that every detail can be checked over so the delivery is as transparent as it can be.
In all cases, you must pay the traveler at the moment you hand over the package . If there is no package to send (in case the traveler is bringing something to you), we recommend the payment is made before the trip anyway.
In that case, who has the package must contact the traveler . In case the package is sent directly to the traveler’s hotel by a shop, contact the traveler and explain your situation. It will depend on the traveler if he accepts the delivery or not. We recommend anyway to pay the traveler before the trip.
So far, nothing. It’s true: we earn nothing and as for now all we are interested in is to create a community where this exchange between trips and deliveries is possible. It’s possible that in the future this might change, so we recommend to take advantage to the fullest of this free time ; -)
The best way to better your reputation is by sending packages and/or traveling and delivering packages successfully. After each exchange, both sender and the delivery person must evaluate the exchange. If it is positive, both users will get scores and increase their reputation. The more trips with packages delivered successfully, better your reputation will be.
Sure! Any means of transport that can take you to another region is good to help the community . Take into account any luggage restriction that your transport may have, and also the extra hours you will be offline to contact who is handing over the package.
Luckily, Elcourier.com thought about that too. In the website you can schedule alerts that will alert you on your email when those trips to the place they you need to send your package are added. Just search and if you find no results, follow the instructions on the screen. As soon as a traveler adds a trip to the place you need to send a package to, we’ll send you an email so you can take advantage right away.
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