Oopbuy UK shipping lines, card by card
All fifteen lines the official estimator returned for a UK address on 15 October 2026, with what each card and each description actually says.
The UK board at 1 kg
This is the full list for a 1 kg parcel with no item type chosen, sorted by the list price before coupon. Prices are in pounds because we switched the estimator's display currency to GBP; the underlying figure on every card is in yuan.
| Line | 1 kg | Business days | Weight window | Last mile named | Tax label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDF-RoyalMail-GB-1 | £14.95 | 7-14 | 100 g - 20 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| OopLine-P-GB-1 | £15.25 | 8-12 | 100 g - 20 kg | not named | Tax free |
| SF-RoyalMail-GB-1 | £15.57 | 7-14 | 100 g - 20 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| ZD-Roymail-GB-1 | £16.87 | 8-16 | 100 g - 19 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| ZX-RoyalMail-GB-1 | £18.08 | 8-16 | 100 g - 5 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| ZSF-RoyalMail-GB-1 | £19.31 | 8-14 | 100 g - 10 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| S-Remote-RoyalMail-GB-1 | £19.41 | 7-14 | 100 g - 20 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| ZD-PY-GB-1 | £19.90 | 15-20 | 100 g - 19 kg | not named | Tax free |
| HF-EUB-GB-1 | £20.91 | 9-20 | 100 g - 2 kg | China Post small parcel | Duties Payable by Recipient |
| ZXPY-RoyalMail-GB-1 | £21.72 | 8-16 | 100 g - 15 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| JB-hermes-GB-1 | £28.59 | 15-25 | 200 g - 15 kg | Hermes (name) | Tax free |
| HP-EMS-GB-1 | £30.09 | 15-20 | 0 g - 30 kg | EMS | Duties Payable by Recipient |
| JD-DPD-GB-1 | £39.10 | 10-15 | 100 g - 28 kg | DPD | Tax free |
| DDF-RoyalMail-GB-BIG | £59.20 | 7-14 | 100 g - 75 kg | Royal Mail | Tax free |
| JF-DPD-GB-1 | £85.78 | 10-15 | 100 g - 30 kg | DPD | Tax free |
Read the table across, not down. The cheapest line is not much cheaper than the next four, and the gap at 1 kg is small next to the gap in delivery profile you will find on the delivery times page.
How to read a route card
- Name. A code; the last part before -GB names the last-mile carrier on most lines. The prefixes are not explained anywhere we found.
- Late coupon. 'Overdue 30 days will be compensated with £6.31 coupon' on thirteen lines, 45 days on EUB and EMS.
- Price. The list price struck through and a lower price with the current coupon applied, shown without signing in.
- Labels. Insurance Available, a tax label, and on six lines 'Triangle Shipping Line'.
- Shipping Time. A range in business days.
- Delivery Success Rate. One percentage; the detail panel breaks it down by days taken.
- Description. Free text written per line, often with rules the card does not show: remote addresses, billing steps, a second time range.
The Royal Mail-named lines
Eight lines carry Royal Mail in their name: DDF-RoyalMail, SF-RoyalMail, ZD-Roymail, ZX-RoyalMail, ZSF-RoyalMail, S-Remote-RoyalMail, ZXPY-RoyalMail and DDF-RoyalMail BIG. At 1 kg they run from £14.95 to £21.72, BIG aside.
They are not interchangeable. ZX-RoyalMail stops at 5 kg. ZSF stops at 10 kg. Six of them refuse remote addresses outright, S-Remote and ZXPY are the ones written for them, and only ZD-Roymail, ZX and ZXPY accept items with a built-in battery. ZX and ZXPY are also two of the three UK lines that take perfume under 100 ml.
Expect the same red vans at the end either way. The difference is everything that happens before the parcel reaches them.
DPD and the two-kilogram floor
JD-DPD and JF-DPD both describe a minimum billing weight of 2 kg: anything lighter is charged as 2 kg. That is why JD-DPD reads £39.10 at 250 g, 1 kg and 2 kg alike. Both refuse remote and island addresses. JD-DPD takes built-in batteries; JF-DPD does not, and JF-DPD is the dearest line on the board at every weight we read.
Their cards promise 10-15 business days and their measured profile is the fast one: about 71% of recent parcels within 10 days. For a parcel over 2 kg that has to arrive quickly, JD-DPD is worth a look; for a 600 g parcel it rarely is.
EMS and the China Post small parcel
HP-EMS and HF-EUB are the only UK lines labelled 'Duties Payable by Recipient', and both descriptions say you handle customs clearance and pay any duties yourself. HF-EUB calls itself a China Post International Small Parcel service for 0.1-2 kg. HP-EMS bills in 0.5 kg steps, says it takes only shoes, clothes, bags and other conventional products, prints its own time range of 10-21 working days against a card of 15-20, and adds that it does not accept any form of return or exchange.
Both carry the slow delivery profile: roughly 15% of recent parcels within 10 days and about 56% within 15. Their late coupon only triggers at 45 days.
OopLine and the feedback tag
OopLine-P is the only UK line tagged 'Positive User Feedback', and at 98.5% it has the highest single success figure on the board. It also has the narrowest card range, 8-12 business days.
Two details change the picture. Its first weight step is 500 g, so a 250 g parcel costs the same £9.90 as a 500 g one. And its description refuses PO boxes, military addresses, isolated islands and the UK's overseas territories, naming Guernsey and Jersey as places without postal service.
Its measured profile is the middle one: about 35% within 10 days, 86% within 15.
The Hermes-named line and the big-parcel line
JB-hermes is the line that takes the most item types on the UK board, including batteries, perfume, liquids, creams and powders. Its description, though, praises 'DHL logistics timeliness' and 'fast transportation within the European region', which reads like text carried over from another line. In the UK, Hermes now trades as Evri; the card does not say which company makes the delivery.
DDF-RoyalMail BIG starts at £51.92 for 250 g, so it is pointless for a light parcel, but it is one of only three lines still on the board at 30 kg and the only one to 75 kg. The weight page shows where it starts to make sense.
Labels and carriers the cards do not explain
Six cards carry 'Triangle Shipping Line': OopLine-P, ZD-Roymail, ZSF, ZD-PY, JB-hermes and HP-EMS. Nothing we read on the estimator or in the help centre defines it, so we do not treat it as a promise about speed, customs or price.
Oopbuy's 'Delivery Notice' page names its carriers as EMS, DHL, FedEx and China Post, followed by the bracketed note '[can add more]', which is still on the live page. None of the fifteen UK lines carries DHL or FedEx in its name. Take the help page as background and the estimator board as the current list.
The carrier list below is the one on that help page, unedited.
