International courier from Bangalore to Singapore. Free home pickup.
Collected from your Bengaluru door at any hour, packed and documented, and flown out of Kempegowda on the DTDC International network — no overland leg to Mumbai or Delhi before it can board. 4–6 working days door-to-door on express, from ₹900 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Bengaluru door to a Singapore unit number.
Pickup, Bengaluru.
Free at 5 kg+, at any hour. The HSR Layout desk is staffed around the clock, which matters on this lane more than most — a Koramangala founder who needs signed papers in Singapore by Thursday can hand them over at eleven at night on Monday.
Pack & document.
Contents declaration, sender KYC, and a commercial invoice for anything that is not a personal gift. We also ask for the recipient's Singapore mobile, because last-mile there is confirmed by SMS far more often than by a doorbell.
BLR gateway.
Straight into the DTDC International facility and out through Kempegowda. Bengaluru holds direct capacity to Changi, so nothing on this lane spends a day railing to a western gateway first — on a four-day quoted band, losing a day at the start is a quarter of the journey.
Changi clearance.
Singapore Customs is genuinely one of the fastest operations in the world and clean parcels are usually released inside 12–48 hours. The speed is real; the tolerance is not. Anything on the prohibited list is pulled, and the list is enforced literally.
Doorstep delivery.
Last mile to any six-digit Singapore postal code — HDB block, condo, or a Raffles Place office floor. POD reaches you on WhatsApp the same day it is signed.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
What you pay is set by the greater of actual and volumetric weight, plus the international fuel surcharge applying on the day you book. GST sits on top of that.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (4–6 days, door)from ₹900 / kg
- Economy (6–10 days, door)from ₹650 / 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 Mysore silk saree, two packs of filter coffee powder and a box of sandalwood soap, about 30 × 25 × 12 cm:
- Volumetric1.8 kg (actual 2 kg billed)
- Express, 2 kg × ₹900≈ ₹1,800
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹450
- + GST 18%≈ ₹405
- Approx total, express≈ ₹2,655
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change. Singapore GST on the import is separate and is settled at the destination end.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Singapore rewards good paperwork more visibly than almost anywhere else — the difference between a clean declaration and a vague one is often a single day. We get it right before the parcel leaves your address.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for whoever's name goes on the AWB — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence. Photographed at pickup, not retained beyond DTDC's own record. For a company shipment we take the GSTIN too, so the invoice and the AWB agree.
Invoice, and why it matters here
Singapore removed the old relief that let small parcels arrive untaxed, so imports attract GST and the consignee settles it on arrival. A declared value that is honest and legible gets assessed and released. A blank or absurd value gets the parcel opened, and that is where the day goes.
Prescription, for medicines
HSA controls what crosses the border in a parcel. Sealed strips, a copy of the prescription with the doctor's registration number, and the recipient's name matching their NRIC or FIN. No injectables, no controlled substances, and no loose tablets in a pouch.
What Singapore doesn’t let in.
Singapore's prohibited list is short, unusual, and enforced to the letter — which is a combination Bengaluru senders underestimate because the lane is otherwise so easy. These are Singaporean laws, not our caution, and the consequence lands on the person receiving the parcel.
Don’t even try
- Chewing gum — banned as an import since 1992, and no, a few packets tucked into a care parcel is not an exception. Only therapeutic gum supplied by a pharmacist or dentist is permitted.
- E-cigarettes, vapes, pods and every accessory — outright illegal to import, sell or possess. Penalties fall on the person the parcel is addressed to, which is the part senders never think about.
- Chewing tobacco, gutkha, paan masala with tobacco, snuff — smokeless tobacco products are prohibited, and these are the ones that most often turn up in a parcel from India.
- Controlled drugs in any quantity — Singapore applies the death penalty for trafficking. Nothing that could be mistaken for a narcotic should go anywhere near this parcel.
- Firecrackers — a genuinely common Deepavali mistake on this lane. They are prohibited, and so are sparklers.
- Obscene material, and publications treated as inciting religious disharmony — refused at the border.
- Counterfeit goods and pirated media — IP enforcement here is not decorative.
- Weapons, ammunition, and lighters shaped like pistols or knives — a specific, real entry on the Singapore list.
- Aerosols, all liquids, lithium cells above 100 Wh — courier and air-safety rules rather than Singaporean ones, but they end the parcel just the same.
Allowed with care
- Filter coffee powder and dry podis — the busiest food item out of Bengaluru on this lane and it travels. Factory-sealed, ingredients printed, quantity sensible. SFA treats food for personal consumption differently from a commercial consignment, and the personal allowance is measured in a few kilograms, not cartons.
- Silk sarees, Mysore silk and Kanjeevaram — routine. Declare a realistic value; Singapore assesses on declared value and under-declaring is the one thing that reliably slows a textile parcel down.
- Sealed dry snacks — chakli, mixture, dry banana chips, factory-packed with a label. No dairy filling, no gravy, nothing oily enough to leak.
- Sandalwood soap and powder — perfectly fine as manufactured goods. Sandalwood oil is a liquid and does not travel.
- Company and legal documents — share certificates, board resolutions, apostilled papers. Straightforward, and worth sending express with the AWB tracked.
- Laptops, dev boards and hardware samples — declare make, model and value honestly. Battery installed inside the device is accepted; a spare cell or loose power bank is not.
A tech corridor with a Tamil grandmother at the other end.
Singapore is the shortest and cheapest international lane we run out of Bengaluru, and the traffic on it is unusually split — half of it is corporate, half of it is family, and the two rarely overlap.
Engineers who moved, and their parents
The Bengaluru-to-Singapore professional move is constant — Employment Pass hires from the ORR tech belt, Whitefield and Electronic City landing in the CBD and one-north. Parents in Jayanagar and Basavanagudi ship what the child cannot buy there: coffee powder, podi, a specific brand of pickle, winter-weight clothes for an over-airconditioned office.
Startup holding-company paperwork
A large share of Indian startups run a Singapore holding entity, so signed share certificates, board resolutions, apostilled incorporation papers and audit files move on this lane out of Koramangala, HSR Layout and Indiranagar every week. Always express, always with the AWB number sent to both the founder and the corporate secretary.
Tamil families on both sides
Singapore's Tamil community is old, settled and concentrated around Serangoon Road and Tekka, and it has held ties with Bengaluru's Tamil households for generations. Deepavali is a public holiday there and the parcel volume shows it — book two weeks out, and leave the firecrackers behind.
Students at NUS, NTU, SMU and SUTD
Smaller in number than the US flow but tighter in deadline, because Singapore terms start in August and January. Books, bedding, sealed dry food, formal clothing for internship season. Give us the hall of residence, block and unit number — Singapore addresses are precise and the last mile expects that precision.
Hardware samples and D2C stock
Prototypes, packaging mockups and small first runs going to Singapore distributors, accelerators and regional buyers. Commercial invoice with HS codes, and tell us if the consignee is a company — a business import is assessed differently from a gift and it is better to say so up front than to be asked later.
Silk and wedding shipments
Kanjeevaram and Mysore silk for weddings and for the saree shops around Little India. Sent well ahead of the date, pressed, wrapped in muslin inside a rigid box, with a fair value on the invoice.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
You get the AWB number on WhatsApp the moment the parcel is booked into DTDC International, whatever the hour — the Bengaluru desk is staffed at 3 AM as much as at 3 PM. Track it any time at dtdc.in. On a short lane like this one the tracking can look strange: the parcel is often already at Changi before the origin scans have caught up, so a quiet day mid-journey means very little. The POD comes to you within the hour of delivery.
Asked most often on this lane.
My son asked for chewing gum and a vape refill. Can I put them in his parcel?
Neither, and this is worth taking seriously rather than treating as a quirky fact about Singapore. The chewing gum import ban has been in force since 1992 and applies to ordinary confectionery gum; only therapeutic gum dispensed by a pharmacist or dentist is allowed. Vapes are further than that — e-cigarettes, pods, refills and accessories are illegal to import or possess in Singapore, and the offence attaches to the person holding the item, which in a courier parcel means your son. We will not book either, and if we find them at pickup we will take them out and tell you why. Send the coffee, the podi and the murukku instead; those are all fine.
I need signed company documents in Singapore before a board date. What is realistic?
Four to six working days door-to-door on express is the honest band, and this lane holds it better than most because both ends are quick — Bengaluru has direct capacity to Changi so the parcel is not spending a day getting to a western gateway first, and Singapore Customs releases clean documents fast. What we need from you is the recipient's Singapore mobile number, the full address with unit number, and the paperwork handed over at pickup rather than promised later. Tell us the board date when you book and we will route for it, and we will send the AWB to both you and the corporate secretary so nobody is chasing a number over email.
Will my relative in Singapore have to pay something when the parcel arrives?
Possibly, and it is better to warn them than to surprise them. Singapore ended the relief that used to let low-value parcels arrive untaxed, so GST is chargeable on imported goods and the consignee settles it before release. On a modest family parcel the amount is small. What actually causes trouble is not the tax but a vague declaration — write down what is inside and what it is worth, and the parcel gets assessed and released. Leave it blank or write a value nobody believes, and it gets opened for inspection, which costs you a day and them an explanation.
Tell us the rough weight and the destination postal code.
A real person at your Bengaluru door, at any hour.
Tap WhatsApp with your pickup details, or call directly. The HSR Layout desk answers 24×7 — international bookings included.