International courier from Ajmer to Greece. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Ajmer door, packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 8–11 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,400 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Ajmer door to a Greek address.
Pickup, Ajmer.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill — pickups across Ajmer (Civil Lines, Vaishali Nagar, Pushkar Road, Mayo College area, Dargah Bazaar).
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. Done at our office before handover.
DTDC handover.
Same evening into the DTDC International facility; air movement to the Greece gateway via Delhi or Mumbai (Jaipur consolidation hub).
Greek customs.
Clearance at Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), Thessaloniki (SKG) or Heraklion (HER), often via a Schengen-EU trans-shipment from Frankfurt or Amsterdam. Greek Customs (ΑΑΔΕ) are generally efficient but a slow paperwork day can add 1–2 days.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, the Cretan towns and the islands. POD on WhatsApp the same day.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
Final price depends on actual or volumetric weight (whichever is greater) plus the international fuel surcharge in force on your booking date. GST is extra.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (8–11 days, door)from ₹1,400 / kg
- Economy (11–16 days, door)from ₹1,050 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from AjmerFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a Crete Sikh-Greek farming-family care kit (cotton kurtas, cooking essentials, books):
- Express, 2 kg × ₹1,400≈ ₹2,800
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹700
- + GST 18%≈ ₹630
- Approx total, express≈ ₹4,650
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Customs paperwork is the most common reason an international parcel stalls. We’ll walk you through it before pickup so it doesn’t.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for the person whose name is on the AWB — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence. We photograph it at pickup; not stored beyond DTDC’s record.
Commercial invoice
For commercial goods, a printed invoice listing items, quantity and value. For gifts, a written declaration suffices but value still must be stated. Greece is in the EU — items above €150 attract VAT and possible duty under TARIC.
Recipient AFM
The recipient’s AFM (Greek tax number) on the invoice helps Greek Customs (ΑΑΔΕ) clear the parcel quickly, especially for higher-value items. Medicines fall under EOF regulation — prescription copy mandatory.
What Greece doesn’t let in.
Greece is in the EU and follows TARIC rules, with a few country-specific sensitivities — particularly around antiquities. These are real Greek Customs and EOF rules, not our caution.
Don’t even try
- Drugs and narcotics — strict penalties; no exceptions.
- Weapons, replicas, knives — including air pistols, decorative swords and martial-arts items.
- Aerosols and pressurised containers — universal courier rule on the air leg.
- Lithium batteries above 100 Wh — restricted on the air leg.
- Counterfeit goods — fake-branded apparel and electronics are seized at Athens.
- CITES-listed wildlife items — ivory, certain skins, shahtoosh, rare-wood handicrafts without permit.
- Antiquities-look-alikes — Greek antiquities-export law is strict and inbound parcels declared as antiques may be reviewed; declare reproductions clearly as such.
- Tobacco and novel-tobacco products — vape liquids and heated-tobacco devices are restricted.
Allowed with care
- Textiles, sarees, block-print fabric, papier-mâché — declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — any topic; Sufi devotional and Indo-Greek philosophy material are recurring on this lane.
- Sealed dry sweets and namkeen (factory-packed) — declare ingredients and allergens; fine in small personal quantities, no homemade food.
- Prescription tablets — sealed strip, doctor’s prescription, no injectables, no controlled substances.
- Non-precious jewellery — declare make and value; no gold bars or unhallmarked precious metals.
- Small electronics — phones, headphones, smartwatches; declare make, model, value.
Crete Sikh-Greek care, Sufi gifts, returning-traveller baggage.
Crete Sikh-Greek agricultural community care kits
Chania, Heraklion, Rethymno and the surrounding villages have a long-standing Punjabi-Sikh agricultural cohort. Care kits — cotton kurtas, cooking essentials (no fresh produce), prescription tablets (sealed strip with prescription), books, festival items — ship steadily on this lane. Phone numbers in Greek format on the invoice make Cretan last-mile contact easier.
Sufi-devotee gifts to Greece-Muslim community
Ajmer is the seat of the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti dargah and the most important Indian Sufi pilgrimage site. Greece’s small Muslim community includes Sufi-order families who maintain devotional links to Ajmer; chadars (non-precious decorative cloth), Sufi devotional books, prayer beads, framed Arabic calligraphy and pilgrimage memorabilia ship as gifts. Declare items as ‘religious / devotional’ on the invoice.
Mayo College alumni Athens care kits
Mayo old-boy connections and their families settled in Athens receive care parcels around alumni reunion calendars and Diwali — books, kurtas, factory-sealed dry sweets, school memorabilia.
Returning-traveller baggage from Greek Sufi-tourism in Ajmer
Greek pilgrims and tourists visiting the Ajmer Sharif dargah, the Pushkar fair and broader Sufi-tourism circuits often shop too much — chadars, devotional books, decorative items, papier-mâché. Hotel pickup, packing and despatch home before they fly out is routine.
Handicraft & decorative items
Brass, copperware, papier-mâché, block-print stoles, miniature paintings. Shipped to the small Indian-Greek community and design-shop boutiques in Athens’ Plaka and Kolonaki.
Wedding & festival outfits
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas, jewellery boxes (non-precious). Shipped to the small Indian-Greek community and Crete Sikh-Greek families ahead of weddings, Eid and Diwali.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
The moment the parcel is booked into DTDC International, we send you the AWB number on WhatsApp. Type it into the public tracker at dtdc.in any time. When delivery happens we forward the POD — signed slip or photo — within the hour.
Asked most often.
I have family in the Sikh-Greek farming community in Crete — does delivery there work?
Yes. Crete addresses (Chania, Heraklion, Rethymno and the surrounding villages) deliver via the standard Greek courier last-mile after the parcel clears Athens. Add a working day or two on top of mainland transit for the Athens-to-Crete leg. Care kits — cotton kurtas, cooking essentials (no fresh produce), prescription tablets, books, festival items — are routine. Phone numbers in Greek format on the invoice make last-mile contact easier.
Sufi devotional items to a Greek Sufi-order family — any issue?
Generally fine. Declare items as ‘religious / devotional’ on the invoice with a fair value. Avoid anything that could read as a CITES-listed material (no shahtoosh, no rare-wood frames without permit) and avoid anything that could read as an antiquity — Greek antiquities law is strict. Chadars (non-precious decorative cloth), Sufi books, framed Arabic calligraphy and prayer beads clear without issue.
Why does Greece take 8–11 days from Ajmer when the UK is 6–8?
Two factors. Ajmer’s air movement consolidates through Jaipur and onward to Delhi or Mumbai, adding a working day to gateway versus a Jaipur direct lane. And Greece is on the southern edge of the Schengen zone — DTDC trans-ships through a northern hub (Frankfurt, Amsterdam, sometimes Doha) before the Athens leg, adding another. Plan for 8–11 days express; surface economy is 11–16 days.