International courier from Kota to Bangladesh. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Kota door — Talwandi, Rajeev Gandhi Nagar, Vigyan Nagar, Indraprastha — packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 5–7 working days door-to-door for express to Dhaka, Chittagong or Sylhet via Jaipur-feeder; from ₹600 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Kota door to a Bangladesh address.
Pickup, Kota.
Free at 5 kg+ from Talwandi, Rajeev Gandhi Nagar, Vigyan Nagar, Indraprastha. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. Done at our office before handover.
Jaipur-feeder + DTDC.
Same-evening road feeder to Jaipur (~250 km, +0.5 day); air movement to Dhaka (DAC), Chittagong (CGP) or Sylhet (ZYL) via Mumbai, Delhi or Kolkata on Biman, IndiGo, Air India or SpiceJet.
Bangladesh customs.
Clearance at Hazrat Shahjalal Dhaka, Shah Amanat Chittagong or Osmani Sylhet. Major airports clear cleanly; we route everything through them rather than land borders, where transit is slower.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna or wherever the consignee sits. 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 (5–7 days, door)from ₹600 / kg
- Economy (7–11 days, door)from ₹450 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from KotaFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a coaching textbook stack and Bengali-translated study guides for an Indian-medical-student in Dhaka:
- Express, 2 kg × ₹600≈ ₹1,200
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹300
- + GST 18%≈ ₹270
- Approx total, express≈ ₹2,000
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. Recipient’s Bangladesh National ID number or passport helps clearance.
Prescription (medicines)
For tablets going to a coaching-alumnus or family member: a copy of the prescription with the doctor’s registration number. The DGDA flags injectables, controlled substances and unbranded generics; sealed-strip oral medication in prescribed quantities is fine.
What Bangladesh doesn’t let in.
Bangladesh is Muslim-majority and enforces a clear list at customs. Items shipped against it are seized at Hazrat Shahjalal, with disposal fees billed to the consignee. We route through major airports — Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet — because clearance is cleaner there than at land borders.
Don’t even try
- Pork products of any kind — pork ham, pork-derived gelatin sweets, sausage. Halal-policy enforcement is strict.
- Alcohol — zero tolerance, despite cultural similarity to West Bengal. Even sealed bottles are seized.
- Drugs and narcotics — including unprescribed pharmaceuticals.
- Weapons, replicas, decorative edged items — flagged.
- Aerosols, lithium > 100 Wh — universal courier rules.
- Counterfeit goods, anti-government media, religious-extremist material — seized; senders may be flagged.
Allowed with care
- Textiles and sarees — allowed but Bangladesh has strong import-sensitivity due to its own textile industry; for B2B quantities, a clean commercial invoice with HS codes is non-negotiable.
- Books, in any language — Bengali-translated Indian publications welcomed; declare title and value. Coaching textbooks ship cleanly.
- Sealed dry sweets and namkeen — Halal-compatible only; declare ingredients and keep packaging factory-sealed.
- Prescription tablets — sealed strips, prescription, recipient ID.
- Non-precious jewellery and small electronics — declare make, model, value.
- Papier-mâché and Rajasthan handicrafts — straightforward declaration.
Coaching-alumni care, Marwari B2B, Durga Puja shipments.
Kota-coaching-alumni care kits to Bangladesh-resident families
Allen / Resonance / Bansal alumni now Bangladesh-resident — small Indian-medical-student community at Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet medical universities. Books, sealed dry snacks (Halal-compatible), kitchen tools, festival clothing, prescription tablets with paperwork — picked up from family home in Talwandi or Vigyan Nagar.
Marwari business documents to Old Dhaka-Patuatuli
HISTORIC BENGALI-MARWARI TRADE — Old Dhaka’s Patuatuli wholesale market still has a visible Marwari trader presence and Hadoti-region links go back generations. Signed contracts, originals, certified copies — express courier with item-level invoice.
Wedding outfits
Cross-border Bengali-Marwari weddings happen regularly. Sherwanis, lehengas, dupattas, jewellery boxes (non-precious).
Diwali / Durga Puja parcels
Bangladesh has a sizeable Hindu minority and Durga Puja in Sep-Oct is the peak shipping window for them. Pooja items, decorations, sealed dry sweets. Ship by mid-September to land in time.
B2B handicraft to Old Dhaka wholesale
Patuatuli and surrounding lanes — historic Bengali-Marwari merchant trade. Block-print textiles, papier-mâché, brassware. Commercial invoice + KYC + customs paperwork required.
Returning-traveller baggage
Bangladeshi tourists who shopped too much in India for family visits or pilgrimage. Picked up from the hotel, packed, shipped before they fly out.
Bengali-language books and cultural materials
Heavily welcomed; cultural exchange across the border is historic and active.
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.
Why route via Dhaka airport rather than the land border?
Customs clearance at Hazrat Shahjalal in Dhaka (and at Shah Amanat Chittagong and Osmani Sylhet) is documented, predictable and reasonably quick. Land-border crossings — Petrapole-Benapole, Hili, others — are slower, paperwork-heavier, and clearance discretion varies. For courier parcels, the airport route consistently lands faster and with fewer queries, so we don’t use the land routes for this lane. Kota’s Jaipur-feeder adds about half a day to the Udaipur lane.
We run wholesale to Old Dhaka — what does the Patuatuli B2B routine look like?
Same template as any commercial export. You provide a clean commercial invoice (item, quantity, value, HS codes for textiles), KYC, and the consignee’s trade licence number — most established Patuatuli wholesalers have one. Bangladesh customs is particular about textile-import paperwork because of the local industry, so under-declared textile shipments draw queries. Declare honestly and clearance is straightforward.
When should I send Durga Puja parcels?
Durga Puja in Bangladesh falls in the Sep–Oct window and the lane gets noticeably busier from mid-September. Ship express by the second week of September; economy needs to leave by late August. Last-week shipments still go through, but Dhaka customs queues lengthen and the Old Dhaka last-mile gets choked during Puja itself.