International courier from Jaipur to Greece. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Jaipur door, packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 7–10 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,400 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Jaipur door to a Greek address.
Pickup, Jaipur.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill — pickups across Pink City localities (C-Scheme, Malviya Nagar, Vaishali Nagar, Mansarovar, Raja Park, Bani Park, the Walled City).
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.
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 (7–10 days, door)from ₹1,400 / kg
- Economy (10–15 days, door)from ₹1,050 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from JaipurFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a stack of Indo-Greek philosophy books and a couple of block-print stoles for a friend in Athens:
- 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; Greek-translated Indian philosophy and yoga material is welcomed (Indo-Greek philosophical exchange has historic roots).
- 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.
Indo-Greek philosophy books, gem-trade samples, B2B handicraft.
Indo-Greek philosophy & cultural-exchange parcels
A genuine niche on this lane. Greek philosophy and Indian classical philosophy have a documented historical dialogue going back to the Hellenistic period — and modern Greek readers, philosophy departments at the University of Athens and small Athens-Indology circles welcome books, journals and reproduction prints exploring the Indo-Greek exchange. Declare titles and a fair value; no antiquities-look-alikes.
Gem-trade non-precious samples to Athens
Jaipur’s coloured-stone trade has small but steady contacts in Athens’ Marwari merchant community. Non-precious / semi-precious sample lots, beads, costume-jewellery components — declared honestly with item-level values.
Block-print B2B to Athens design boutiques
Sanganer and Bagru block-print fabric, dohars, cushion covers, table linen — shipped to design-shop boutiques in Plaka, Kolonaki and the Thessaloniki Ladadika quarter. Declare fibre content and a fair value.
Wedding & festival outfits
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas, jewellery boxes (non-precious). Shipped ahead of weddings and Diwali to the small but settled Indian-Greek community.
Returning-traveller baggage
Greek tourists travel to India in steady numbers — yoga retreats, Varanasi, Rajasthan tours through Jaipur. Hotel pickup of overflow shopping (textiles, books, papier-mâché, decorative items) and despatch home is routine.
Crete Sikh-Greek agricultural community care kits
Chania, Heraklion and the surrounding villages have a long-standing Punjabi-Sikh agricultural cohort. Care kits — cooking essentials (no fresh produce), cotton clothing, books — are a recurring shipment.
Diwali parcels (mostly non-food)
Diyas, decorations, pooja items, dry sweets in factory packs. Recommend express to land before the festival.
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.
Indian-philosophy and yoga books for a Greek philosophy-department friend — is that fine?
Completely fine and a recurring shipment on this lane. The historical Indo-Greek philosophical exchange — going back to the Hellenistic period and the Indo-Greek kingdoms in north-west India — gives modern Greek readers a genuine interest in Indian texts. Greek translations of Indian philosophy, English-original Indian-philosophy primers, comparative-philosophy journals and yoga material all clear without issue. Declare titles and a fair value on the invoice. The only thing to avoid is anything that could read as an ‘antiquity’ in declared value — Greek customs is strict about antiquities-look-alikes.
Why does Greece take 7–10 days when the UK and Germany are 5–7?
Greece is on the southern edge of the Schengen zone, and DTDC’s air movement usually trans-ships through a northern hub — Frankfurt, Amsterdam or sometimes Doha — before the leg into Athens. That extra hop adds a working day or two. On top of that, Greek Customs (ΑΑΔΕ) are competent but occasionally slower than Revenue or German Zoll on a busy week. Plan for 7–10 days express; surface economy is 10–15 days.
We ship semi-precious gem samples — anything special?
Same routine as our other Jaipur lanes. Only non-precious / semi-precious items below restricted-export thresholds go via DTDC International — anything that needs Assay-Hallmark or GJEPC documentation routes formally. Declare each lot clearly (e.g. ‘50 ct rough garnet, sample, $X’) with fair declared value. Greek Customs at Athens look at value declarations carefully on small heavy parcels — under-declaration backfires. Marwari merchant contacts in Athens generally have an AFM on file, which speeds clearance.