International courier from Kota to Ireland. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Kota door — Talwandi, Rajeev Gandhi Nagar, Vigyan Nagar — packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 7–9 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,400 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST. Many Kota-coaching alumni now work the Dublin tech cluster — this is a steady lane.
Five steps from your Kota door to an Irish address.
Pickup, Kota.
Free at 5 kg+ from Talwandi, Rajeev Gandhi Nagar, Vigyan Nagar, Mahaveer Nagar, Borkhera. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. Done at our office before handover.
DTDC handover.
Same evening into the DTDC facility; surface to Delhi (~485 km) or Jaipur-air-feeder (+0.5 day) onto the Mumbai/Delhi air leg, then via a Schengen-EU trans-shipment from Frankfurt, Amsterdam or London-Heathrow into Dublin.
Irish customs.
Clearance at Dublin (DUB), Shannon (SNN) or Cork (ORK). Revenue Commissioners are among the most efficient in the EU — clean parcels usually clear in 24–48 hours.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick or anywhere else. 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 (7–9 days, door)from ₹1,400 / kg
- Economy (10–15 days, door)from ₹1,050 / 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 Kota-coaching-alumni care kit for a software engineer at Google Dublin:
- 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. Ireland is in the EU — items above €150 attract VAT and possible duty under TARIC, and B2B consignments need the recipient’s EORI number.
Recipient PPS / EORI
For personal shipments, a recipient PPS Number on file helps Revenue clear the parcel quickly. For business shipments, an EORI number is required. Medicines fall under HPRA regulation — prescription copy mandatory.
What Ireland doesn’t let in.
Ireland is in the EU and follows TARIC rules, but as an island it also runs its own biosecurity controls (DAFM) — stricter than mainland Europe on plant material and animal products.
Don’t even try
- Drugs and narcotics — Ireland’s penalties for trafficking are severe; 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, accessories and electronics are seized at Dublin.
- CITES-listed wildlife items — ivory, certain skins, shahtoosh, rare-wood handicrafts without permit.
- Plants, seeds, untreated wood, soil — Irish agricultural biosecurity is strict (protected island ecosystem).
- Meat, dairy, raw animal products — restricted under EU and DAFM rules.
- IRA-glorifying or paramilitary-themed media — sensitive given Northern Ireland history; avoid.
Allowed with care
- Textiles, sarees, block-print fabric, papier-mâché — declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — JEE/NEET prep textbooks, Allen / Resonance / Bansal study material; declare title and value.
- Sealed dry sweets and namkeen (factory-packed) — declare ingredients and allergens; fine in small personal quantities, but 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.
Coaching-alumni Dublin-tech-cluster, doctor diaspora, weddings.
Kota-coaching-alumni Dublin-tech-cluster care kits
Many former Kota JEE-toppers now work Google, Meta, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Salesforce in Dublin Docklands and Sandyford — and AIB. Care kits include books, kitchen tools (no wood), sealed snacks, festival clothing, prescription tablets. Apartment addresses in Lucan, Tallaght, Sandyford, Citywest, Adamstown are weekly destinations.
Wedding & festival outfits
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas, jewellery boxes (non-precious). Shipped ahead of weddings and Diwali to Indian-Irish families.
Marwari business documents
Kota’s Marwari trader-community sends contracts, sample invoices, GST documents, and family-firm paperwork to Ireland-resident relatives. Express tracked international.
Indian-doctor diaspora parcels
Many Kota NEET-toppers are now Indian doctors at HSE hospitals (Beaumont, St James’s, Cork University Hospital). Hospital-address delivery is routine — prescription tablets, family clothing and Diwali parcels.
Student care kits
Trinity College Dublin, UCD, NUI Galway, UL Limerick — Indian students on engineering and pharma tracks (often ex-Kota-Allen). Books, kitchen tools (no wood), sealed snacks, festival clothing.
Diwali parcels (mostly non-food)
Diyas, decorations, pooja items, dry sweets in factory packs. Recommend express to land before the festival.
Returning-traveller baggage
Irish tourists who toured Kota or wider Rajasthan and shopped too much. We pick up from the hotel, pack, ship before they fly home.
B2B handicraft samples
Block-print fabric, cushion covers, papier-mâché, miniatures. Shipped to Dublin design-shop boutiques.
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.
How fast does Irish customs at Dublin actually clear a parcel?
Among the fastest in the EU. Revenue Commissioners run a streamlined operation at Dublin Airport and most paperwork-clean DTDC parcels clear in 24–48 hours. The only delays we see are when the consignee’s PPS Number isn’t on the invoice for higher-value items, or when factory-sealed snacks attract a DAFM look-up. Both are usually resolved with a quick email from the consignee to Revenue.
We have family who were Kota-coaching toppers, now in the Dublin tech cluster — is shipping there routine?
Very routine, and a known lane for us. Google, Meta, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Salesforce — the campuses around Dublin Docklands and Sandyford employ a large Indian-IT cohort, many of them former JEE-toppers who studied at Kota Allen / Resonance / Bansal. Home addresses in Lucan, Tallaght, Sandyford, Citywest and Adamstown are weekly destinations on this lane. We deliver to a residential address only — corporate-campus delivery isn’t allowed by most facilities — but neighbourhood drop-off works fine.
Can you ship prescription tablets to a doctor relative working at HSE hospital?
Yes — HSE hospital addresses (Beaumont, St James’s, Mater, Tallaght University Hospital, Cork University Hospital) are accepted as delivery addresses for personal medicine parcels. Many Kota NEET-toppers are now Indian doctors at HSE. Send only the prescribed quantity, sealed strips, copy of the prescription with the doctor’s registration number, and a one-line note from the prescribing doctor. HPRA rules apply to anything beyond personal-quantity tablets — we’ll flag if the volume looks commercial.
Tell us the rough weight and the destination city.
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