International courier from Bangalore to Bangladesh. Free home pickup.
Picked up from your Bengaluru address at any hour, packed and documented, and flown out of Kempegowda on the DTDC International network to Dhaka, Chittagong or Sylhet. 4–6 working days door-to-door on express, from ₹600 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from Bengaluru to a Dhaka block-and-road address.
Pickup, Bengaluru.
Free at 5 kg+, anywhere from Peenya and Rajajinagar in the west to Bommanahalli and Electronic City in the south — which is roughly where this city's apparel industry sits. Evening and night collection is normal; a sample box packed at the end of a factory shift goes out the same night.
Pack & document.
This is the heavy step on this lane. Bangladesh customs is more documentation-demanding than any of its neighbours, and a commercial consignment needs a properly built invoice with HS codes before it leaves your hands, not an amendment emailed afterwards. We build it with you at pickup.
BLR gateway.
Booked in at the Bengaluru international facility and out via Kempegowda on the short eastern hop. Bengaluru flies international directly, so the parcel is not spending a day or two moving overland to a Mumbai or Kolkata gateway before it is even airborne, the way it does from an inland origin. Once it is in the air the clock runs the same as anyone's.
Bangladesh customs.
Clearance at Hazrat Shahjalal in Dhaka, Shah Amanat in Chittagong or Osmani in Sylhet. We route everything by air through these three rather than through a land border, because airport clearance is documented and predictable and the land crossings are neither for courier-sized consignments.
Doorstep delivery.
Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Narayanganj, Gazipur. Bangladeshi urban addresses are built as house, road, block and sector — "House 24, Road 11, Block F, Banani" — and the whole set is needed. A road number without a block number will not find the building.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
Billing runs on whichever is greater of actual and volumetric weight, then the fuel surcharge applicable on the day you book, then GST. Sample boxes on this lane almost always bill on volumetric weight rather than actual — fabric and trims are bulky and light, so measure the carton before you assume.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (4–6 days, door)from ₹600 / kg
- Economy (6–10 days, door)from ₹450 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from BengaluruFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a swatch book, a set of trims and two stitched samples for a buyer's office in Gulshan:
- Express, 2 kg × ₹600≈ ₹1,200
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹300
- + GST 18%≈ ₹270
- Approx total, express≈ ₹1,770
Indicative only — surcharge and rate card both move, so treat this as the shape of the bill rather than the bill.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Bangladesh asks for more, and asks more precisely, than the rest of South Asia. Almost every delayed parcel on this lane is a paperwork problem rather than a transport one, and almost all of it is preventable at your door.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for whoever's name goes on the airway bill — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence — photographed at pickup, and the image goes no further than DTDC's own record. If the shipper is a company, we put the firm name and GSTIN on the booking so the invoice and the airway bill agree with each other. They must agree; a mismatch is queried.
Commercial invoice with HS codes
Non-negotiable for anything commercial, and it needs the consignee's importer details on it — their BIN or TIN, and their Import Registration Certificate number where the goods are a commercial import rather than a sample. Ask your buyer for these before you pack. Their clearing agent will ask you for them anyway, and by then the parcel is already sitting at Shahjalal.
Prescription, for medicines
Sealed strips only, with a copy of the prescription showing the doctor's registration number and a line stating what is being treated. Bangladesh's drug regulator screens generics that are not registered locally, so send the branded pack where you have a choice, and never injectables or anything scheduled.
What Bangladesh doesn’t let in.
Bangladesh is a Muslim-majority country and its customs list reflects that, but the items that actually catch Bengaluru senders on this route are the electronic ones. Anything shipped against this list is seized at the arrival gateway and the disposal cost is billed to the receiver.
Don’t even try
- Alcohol, in any quantity — sealed, gifted, duty-free-bagged, it makes no difference. Zero tolerance.
- Pork and pork derivatives — including gelatin-based sweets and capsules where the gelatin is porcine. Read the ingredient panel before you post packaged food.
- Drones, satellite phones, walkie-talkies and radio transmitters — this is the Bangladesh-specific trap, and it catches tech senders out of Bengaluru constantly. Radio-transmitting equipment requires prior BTRC authorisation; a prototype with an unapproved radio module in it is held at customs and is difficult to get back.
- Narcotics and unprescribed pharmaceuticals — including anything sold over the counter here but scheduled there.
- Weapons, replicas and decorative edged items — flagged without exception.
- Counterfeit goods, obscene material, and anti-state or extremist content — seized, and the sender's details are recorded.
- Aerosols, all liquids, lithium cells above 100 Wh — air-leg rules. A battery inside a laptop is fine; a spare cell or power bank is not.
Allowed with care
- Fabric swatches, trims and garment samples — the core cargo of this lane, and entirely routine when documented. Mark them clearly as samples on the invoice where that is genuinely what they are, and give a fair unit value rather than a token one.
- Machine parts and spares — needles, feet, motor components, cutting-table hardware. List the part number and machine model on the invoice; generic descriptions like "spare parts" invite a physical inspection.
- Finished textiles and sarees — allowed, but this is the most import-sensitive category in the country because of its own garment industry. Under-declared textile shipments are the ones that get opened.
- Books and printed material in Bengali or English — straightforward; declare title, quantity and value.
- Sealed dry snacks and sweets — factory-packed, halal-compatible, ingredients printed on the pack. Bengaluru's chakli, mixture and dry podis all qualify; anything with ghee, moisture or an unlabelled filling does not.
- Prescription tablets — sealed strips, prescription attached, receiver's National ID on the booking.
- Small electronics without radio modules — declare make, model and true value. Anything that transmits, see the list above.
Apparel trade in both directions, and families in between.
Bengaluru and Dhaka are two ends of the same garment industry, and that gives this lane a professional character the rest of South Asia does not have. The family traffic sits alongside it rather than instead of it.
Garment samples and swatch books
The signature parcel of this route. Bengaluru's apparel belt — Peenya, Bommanahalli, Mysore Road, the Doddaballapur units — works with Dhaka and Chittagong buyers and factories constantly, and the sample cycle runs on courier. Swatch cards, lab dips, trims, labels, stitched proto samples. If there is a fitting or a buyer meeting on a date, tell us and we book to hit it.
Trims, accessories and machine spares
Zips, interlinings, buttons, thread cones, embroidery attachments and sewing-machine parts moving to Bangladeshi units. Bulky-light cargo, so volumetric weight usually decides the bill. Part numbers on the invoice, machine model named, and a fair value each — a box described only as "accessories" gets opened at Shahjalal.
Returning samples and buyer approvals
The traffic runs both ways on this lane, which is unusual. Bangladeshi factories send finished proto and salesman samples back to Bengaluru merchandising offices for approval, and we book that direction as readily as the outbound. Ask us about a standing weekly slot if your sampling cycle is regular.
Family and community parcels
Bengaluru has a settled Bengali-speaking population with relatives in Dhaka, Sylhet and Khulna, and the flow is steady rather than seasonal. Clothing, kitchen goods, medicines against prescription, children's books, and things that are simply easier to buy here. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha are the two peaks — send a clear fortnight ahead of either.
Students and academic documents
Bangladeshi students at Bengaluru's medical, engineering and management colleges, and the paperwork that follows them: transcripts, migration and provisional certificates, attested mark sheets, admission letters. Light, urgent, and always worth express with a tracked airway bill rather than economy.
IT and product samples
Bengaluru product companies with Dhaka development partners and distributors send hardware, dev kits and packaging mockups on this route. Check the radio-module question before you pack — it is the single most common reason a tech parcel is held on this lane, and it is entirely avoidable.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
The airway bill number reaches you on WhatsApp as soon as the parcel is booked, at whatever hour that happens, and you can follow it at dtdc.in. One scheduling fact is worth knowing before you panic at a stalled scan: the Bangladeshi working week runs Sunday to Thursday, and Friday and Saturday are the weekend. A parcel that arrives at Dhaka on a Thursday evening will not clear customs or move on the last mile until Sunday, and the tracking will show nothing for two full days. Plan a Monday or Tuesday booking out of Bengaluru if the delivery date matters. POD comes to you within the hour of the signature.
Asked most often on this lane.
I’m sending garment samples to a Dhaka buyer. What does the paperwork actually have to say?
More than most senders expect, and the effort is entirely front-loaded. You need a printed commercial invoice that lists each item separately with its HS code, quantity, unit value and total, the shipper's firm name and GSTIN, and the consignee's importer details on the Bangladeshi side — their BIN or TIN, and their Import Registration Certificate number if the goods are being brought in commercially rather than as samples. Get those two numbers from your buyer before you pack, because their clearing agent will ask for them and the parcel will be sitting at Shahjalal by the time you go looking. Where the goods genuinely are samples of no commercial value, say so explicitly on the invoice and still give a fair notional value per piece — a blank or ₹1 valuation reads as evasion and buys you an inspection. Describe the goods properly too: "woven fabric swatch cards, cotton, 200 gsm" clears; "textile items" does not.
Why did my parcel show as arrived in Dhaka and then do nothing for three days?
Almost certainly the weekend. Bangladesh runs a Sunday-to-Thursday working week with Friday and Saturday off, and this catches Indian senders out constantly because our weekends do not line up. Anything landing late Thursday sits until Sunday morning before customs opens or a rider moves it, and the tracking is genuinely silent across that gap — it is not a lost parcel and there is nothing to chase. Add the country's public holidays, which cluster around the two Eids and around Victory and Independence Day, and a three-day stall is unremarkable. The fix is at the booking end, not the tracking end: send early in the week from Bengaluru, and if you have a hard deadline in Dhaka tell us at pickup so we count backwards from it properly.
Can I send Bengaluru snacks and sweets to family in Dhaka?
Dry ones, yes, and they travel well. Factory-sealed chakli, mixture, dry podis, banana chips, sealed coffee powder and packaged namkeen all clear customs without difficulty provided the ingredients are printed on the pack and you declare them honestly on the paperwork. Two things do not work. Anything wet, oily or ghee-based — halwa, milk sweets, chutney, anything in a jar — will either leak into the rest of the box or be refused, and it is a food-safety and packaging problem as much as a customs one. And anything with porcine gelatin in it is prohibited outright, which quietly rules out a lot of imported jelly sweets and some capsule-form supplements; read the panel rather than assuming. Send it sealed in its original packaging, list what is inside, and keep the food in its own bag away from clothing.
Tell us the rough weight and the destination city.
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A real person at your Bengaluru door, at any hour.
Send the pickup address and a rough weight on WhatsApp, or call and talk it through. The HSR Layout desk runs 24×7, and sample boxes that finish packing at midnight get collected at midnight.