International courier from Jodhpur to Greece. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Jodhpur 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 Jodhpur door to a Greek address.
Pickup, Jodhpur.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill — pickups across Blue City localities (Sardarpura, Ratanada, Paota, Shastri Nagar, the old city, Salawas handicraft cluster).
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 (8–11 days, door)from ₹1,400 / kg
- Economy (11–16 days, door)from ₹1,050 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from JodhpurFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say antique-replica wood swatches and brass hardware samples for an Athens design-shop boutique:
- 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. Antique-replica furniture itself ships as freight, not air-courier — we route those separately.
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 and B2B antique-replica documentation. 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 and antiquities-look-alikes — Greek antiquities-export law is strict and inbound parcels declared as antiques may be reviewed; antique-replica items must clearly declare ‘REPRODUCTION’ and a recent year of manufacture on the invoice.
- Tobacco and novel-tobacco products — vape liquids and heated-tobacco devices are restricted.
Allowed with care
- Textiles, sarees, block-print fabric, papier-mâché, leather (treated) — declare a fair value; treated leather needs clear treatment notes.
- Books and printed material — any topic; Indo-Greek aesthetic and decorative-arts catalogues are an interesting niche.
- 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.
Antique-replica B2B, handicraft, leather, decorative arts.
Antique-furniture-replica B2B samples to Athens / Thessaloniki design-shops
Jodhpur is India’s antique-furniture-replica hub — the Salawas and old-city workshops produce reproduction colonial, Mughal-revival and Rajasthani heritage furniture. There’s a real Greek-Indian aesthetic dialogue (Mediterranean-meets-Mughal in interiors), and design-shop boutiques in Athens’ Plaka and Kolonaki, plus Thessaloniki’s Ladadika quarter, source furniture and decorative arts from Jodhpur. Sample swatches, brass hardware, finish samples, fabric upholstery, catalogues. The bulky furniture itself ships as sea freight on a separate lane. Always declare replica items as ‘REPRODUCTION’ — Greek antiquities law is strict.
Handicraft & decorative arts
Block-print fabric, dohars, cushion covers, papier-mâché, brass and copperware, marble inlay items. Greek-Indian aesthetic dialogue makes this a quietly interesting niche. Declare materials and a fair value.
Treated leather goods
Jodhpur’s leather cluster (jutis, bags, journals) ships to Greek boutique buyers. Treatment certificates accompany the consignment.
Wedding & festival outfits
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas, jewellery boxes (non-precious). Shipped to the small Indian-Greek community in Athens and Thessaloniki.
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.
Returning-traveller baggage
Greek tourists travel to India in steady numbers — yoga retreats, Rajasthan tours through Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Hotel pickup of overflow shopping (textiles, decorative items, papier-mâché, books) and despatch home is routine.
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.
Antique-replica samples to a Plaka design-shop — anything special at Greek customs?
Yes — declare every replica item explicitly as ‘REPRODUCTION’ on the invoice with a recent year of manufacture (e.g. ‘colonial-style writing-desk swatch, reproduction, 2024’). Greek antiquities-export law is strict and inbound parcels that read as antiques may be flagged for review. Replica-declared items clear without issue. Recipient AFM on the invoice speeds higher-value B2B clearance, and design-shop buyers in Plaka and Kolonaki are familiar with the format.
Why does Greece take 8–11 days from Jodhpur when the UK is 6–8?
Two factors. Jodhpur’s air movement consolidates through Delhi or Mumbai, adding a working day to gateway versus a Jaipur or Udaipur 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.
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 clothing, kitchen essentials (no fresh produce), books, festival items — are routine. Phone numbers in Greek format on the invoice make last-mile contact easier.