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Yes. You will enjoy all of the benefits and functionality of Parcel Wizard when you include your unique Parcel Wizard ID.
DPD Ireland is the only courier to offer this unique delivery management service - we want to give you as much flexibility as possible.
We’ll hold your parcel for six days. We’ll send you notifications to remind you to collect but after six days your parcel will be collected by the DPD driver from the Pickup Point and returned to the sender.
DPD Parcel Wizard UK Virtual Address will not accept receipt of any parcel where duty, VAT or any other payment is required.
As a DPD Parcel Wizard Member you'll be able to do the following:
  • - Manage your calendar and create schedules for future deliveries on your PC, laptop, tablet or phone.
  • - Receive text, email and push notifications about where your parcel is at different stages of the delivery journey.
  • - Receive our special PredictTM alert on the morning of delivery - we'll give you a 1 hour window within which your delivery will be made.
  • - Select an alternative delivery address from a list of up to twelve possible other delivery locations that you have registered with Parcel Wizard.
  • - Opt to have your parcel delivered to one of our Pickup Points – located at a convenience store or garage near you.
  • - Pin your exact location to a map.
  • - Check the status of your deliveries.
  • - Use the “Parcel Wizard UK Virtual Address” service – our UK virtual address - so that you can benefit from lower cost deliveries from etailers based in the UK.
  • - Use our Pickup Network to return unwanted items – just check whether the etailer you want to return to is listed in the Returns section of dpdparcelwizard.ie. Returns will be available via the App in the near future.
Yes, provided that your primary contact phone number or email address has been included in your delivery information. If they are there, we'll know you're a Parcel Wizard Club member and your delivery preferences will be adhered to.
If the shipper offers free or reduced rates on delivery to the UK, or will only ship certain product to addresses in the UK, then Parcel Wizard’s UK Virtual Address gives you a UK address which you can use when ordering on line. Once the delivery has been made to the UK Virtual Address (which is based at one of the DPD locations in Northern Ireland), DPD Ireland will then deliver the parcel straight to you with flexible delivery options to suit your schedule. Remember that you must enter your Parcel Wizard ID in the first line of the address, and then complete the address with the Parcel Wizard UK Virtual Address details.
The Virtual Address is a dedicated DPD depot in Northern Ireland use of which allows users to avail of the often reduced or free delivery that many UK e-tailers offer within the UK.
Using your UK Virtual Address, you can order from etailers that don’t deliver to ROI but ship to Northern Ireland, and for those that already ship to Ireland, often you can get better value on delivery – just check the shippers’ delivery information. It costs just €3.85 from the Virtual Address to your chosen address in Ireland. Parcels must weigh under 20kg and be a maximum size of 40cm x 40cm x 60cm. Check the UK Virtual Address section on Parcel Wizard for more details.

You have two options:

A. You can pre-pay on dpdparcelwizard.ie - you can buy 1,3 or 5 credits at a time using Paypal or your credit/debit card

B. We'll contact you once your parcel is received at the Virtual Address and you can pay then.

 

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