The cheapest way to send a tracked parcel in Singapore is not an app. SingPost's Tracked Letterbox carries 2kg for $2.00 with GST already in, and Speedpost Standard carries up to 30kg for $6.20 with next-working-day delivery, which is less than half the $13 floor at GoGoX and a fraction of uParcel's $22 one-hour rush. The trade is speed and control: the postal options take two working days and one, the on-demand couriers come to your door in an hour. Lalamove has quietly stopped publishing a base fare for any vehicle at all, its pricing page now answering every row with "refer to our app", while GoGoX still prints a full rate card and a list of the 2026 dates that carry a festive surcharge, Mid-Autumn among them at 21 to 25 September. Ninja Van's Ninja Flexi starts at $3.49 with 800 drop-off points and no account needed, but no Ninja Flexi order can be cancelled or refunded once created. Every rate, surcharge and cut-off below was read off each company's own pricing page, rate PDF or app page on 4 September 2026.
A parcel crossing Singapore can cost $2 or $36, and the apps most people open first sit at the expensive end of that range.
> Quick view: cheapest tracked is SingPost Tracked Letterbox at $2.00 for 2kg, and $6.20 carries 30kg next working day. On-demand couriers start near $13. GoGoX adds a festive surcharge over Mid-Autumn, 21 to 25 Sep.
The cheapest published parcel prices in Singapore belong to the postal service, and almost nobody quotes them. Tracked Letterbox carries up to 2kg inside 324 x 229 x 65mm for $2.00 and lands in 2 working days. Speedpost Standard carries up to 30kg inside 600 x 400 x 300mm for $6.20 with next-working-day delivery, and $12.30 covers a bulky parcel up to 30kg whose length plus twice the width plus twice the height stays inside 3m, with a maximum length of 1.5m. SingPost's rate page states that all Singapore rates are inclusive of prevailing GST, so those are the amounts you pay, which is rare on this page. Plain Basic Mail is $0.62 for a Regular item up to 500g and $0.90 for a Large one, and Registered Service adds a trackable, sign-for doorstep delivery for $6.16 on top of the postage. If you would rather buy the packaging and the postage together, smartpac has no weight limit at all and comes in packs of ten: Small (220 x 150 x 65mm) $22.00, Medium (330 x 240 x 65mm) $24.00 and Box (300 x 190 x 65mm) $32.00, working out to $2.20, $2.40 and $3.20 a piece. Prepaid Labels for your own box are $40.00 for twenty, or $2.00 each, and carry 2kg within 324 x 229 x 65mm. Speedpost bookings go through ezy2ship and drop-off is at post offices and POPStations. The real catch is liability: Speedpost compensates up to $150 per article or the declared value, whichever is lower, with Enhanced Liability Coverage sold separately. Best for: anything that fits a box, is not urgent, and is worth less than $150.
All Singapore delivery rates published inclusive of prevailing GST, so $2.00 and $6.20 are the amounts charged
Ninja Flexi is the consumer-facing side of Ninja Van and it needs no account, no minimum volume and no business registration. Domestic Singapore delivery starts at $3.49 and arrives within 3 working days. Five weight bands cover almost anything a household sends: up to 2kg within 30 x 30 x 20cm, 5kg within 40 x 40 x 30cm, 10kg within 50 x 50 x 40cm, 20kg within 60 x 60 x 50cm and 30kg within 70 x 70 x 60cm. You either print the label yourself and drop the parcel at one of more than 800 Ninja Points island-wide, which the company says takes under ten seconds at the counter, or you order pre-printed labels and skip the printer entirely, or you book a pickup: orders created before 10pm are collected the next working day, with pickups running Mondays to Saturdays from 10am to 10pm. It doubles as one of the cheapest international routes out of Singapore, from $11.90 to Malaysia in 3 to 6 working days, $16.99 to Hong Kong, $19.99 to Macau, $32.49 to Manila, $45.99 to Japan, $47.99 to the United Kingdom, $49.99 to the United States and $57.99 to Australia. Two catches matter. Ninja Flexi orders cannot be cancelled once created and are non-refundable, full stop, so check the address before you pay. And the parcel must be completely sealed in external packaging, with perishables, cash, cards and irreplaceable documents such as passports all prohibited. Best for: online sellers and anyone sending several parcels a week who is happy to walk them to a drop-off point.
No account, no minimum volume and no business registration needed, with drop-off at 800+ Ninja Points island-wide
J&T is best known as the carrier behind Shopee and Lazada orders, but its own app takes ad-hoc bookings from anyone and it is the cheapest way here to have a courier come to your door. Rates start at S$4.90 and are charged on the actual weight of the parcel, shown in the app before you place the order. Two service types run: Premium+ with guaranteed next-day delivery for parcels up to 10kg, and a 1 to 3 day service that takes up to 30kg, both door-to-door and island-wide excluding prohibited areas. Doorstep pickup and delivery are free with no minimum number of parcels, which is the part that separates it from most business-facing carriers, and J&T prints the label for you at collection so you do not need a printer at all. Payment is by QR code on pickup rather than upfront. Book by the cut-off and collection happens the same day: 2pm on weekdays and 11am on Saturdays. International shipping runs to more than 220 countries from the same app, with the domestic and international weight ceiling both at 30kg. The company's Singapore site is otherwise built for e-commerce sellers, with marketplace integrations, fulfilment and warehousing, so treat the app as the consumer door into an operation sized for daily volume. One thing to read carefully: the app page footnotes its rates as exclusive of prevailing charges, so the S$4.90 is a starting fare rather than an all-in price. Best for: Carousell and Facebook Marketplace sellers, and anyone who wants collection without paying on-demand prices.
Free doorstep pickup and delivery island-wide with no minimum number of parcels, plus complimentary label printing at collection
If you need to know the price before you commit, uParcel is the one company on this page that publishes a full ladder rather than a range or a shrug. Its rate card prices documents or a 1kg parcel within 60cm total at $9.50 next day, $11.50 same day, $14.50 for 3-hour express, $18.50 for a specific delivery slot, $21.50 for a 1-hour rush and $23.50 for a two-way round trip, climbing through seven size bands to $24.50, $26.50, $28.50, $32.50, $35.50 and $45.50 at 25kg within 200cm total. Vans and lorries are priced separately, from $33 for a half van load up to $190 for a 14ft tailgate lorry on a specific slot. Three additions land on top of every one of those numbers. The rates are quoted before 9% GST. There is a platform fee of $0.50 per delivery, or $2 if a van or lorry is used. And the homepage carries a standing notice that a $1 fuel surcharge applies to all published delivery rates, with another $1 added to the long-distance surcharge. Worth knowing: the downloadable rate PDF is dated 1 April 2025 and the live calculator now prices the 1-hour tier $0.50 higher at every rung, $22 through $36, so trust the calculator. Surcharges are itemised and specific: $2 for the city, Orchard or CBD, $4 for Tuas, $15 for Changi Airline House, a $10 entry fee for Sentosa, Changi Airport, Changi Aviation Centre and Tuas South, $2 beyond 18km, $15 for a night delivery between 11pm and 7am and $0.40 a minute after 10 minutes of waiting. Volume is the lever: 5% off at 5 orders, 10% at 10, 15% at 20 and 20% at 30, applied automatically when the pickup address, date and delivery timing match. Corporate accounts pay a $10 monthly admin charge in any month with fewer than 10 bookings, though not in a month with none. Best for: small businesses that need a quotable, repeatable number.
10% off a first booking with code WELCOME10, no minimum spend, still advertised on uParcel's homepage banner although its promotions page is dated 26 July 2024 and lists the set as valid till 31 December 2024. A separate UOB card code, UOBUP10, gives 10% off on a minimum $11 booking
Code: WELCOME10
GoGoX is the on-demand courier that still prints its rate card, which makes it the only app-based service you can budget for without opening the app. Motorcycle orders run $13 to $24 depending on the route and carry 5kg within 35 x 25 x 12cm; sedan orders run $13 to $35 and carry 20kg within 70 x 50 x 50cm, described as roughly two shoeboxes. Both include door-to-door handling and both have the $1 platform fee waived until further notice, and every quote already includes parking fees. Vans and lorries are quoted as a base price that covers only loading and unloading from the vehicle: $25 to $39 for a van up to 500kg, $42 to $71 for a 10-ft lorry, $80 to $104 for a 14-ft and $143 to $167 for a 24-ft, with manpower charged separately at $15 for the first person on a van, $30, $50 or $60 on the lorries and $30 to $60 for each additional pair of hands. Service time is capped: 1 hour on bike and sedan, 1.5 hours on vans and 10-ft lorries, 2.5 hours on the larger lorries, with a 10-minute grace period and then $3, $5 or $10 per 10 minutes. The surcharges are where a $13 job stops being a $13 job. CBD zonal charges add $2 on bike and sedan and $3 on van and lorry from Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm. Secured zones such as Jurong Island, the airport zone, PSA Port and immigration checkpoints add $10 or $15 per stop. Late-night pickup adds 10% of the base fare between 10pm and midnight and 20% between midnight and 8am. High demand adds from 15% on bike and sedan and from $2 on vans between 9am and 7pm. And GoGoX is the only company here that publishes its festive dates in advance: $3 more on bike and car orders, $5 more on van and lorry orders, with Mid-Autumn covering 21 to 25 September 2026, Deepavali 7 to 8 November, Christmas 18 to 25 December and New Year's Eve into 1 January 2027. Claims must be filed within 48 hours of delivery. Hotline 6836 1110, seven days a week. Best for: anyone who wants an on-demand courier and a number they can check first.
$1 platform fee waived on all motorcycle and sedan orders until further notice, and parking fees are included in every quote
Lalamove runs the deepest fleet on this list, ten options from a motorbike courier through to a 24ft lorry, plus motorbike towing and car towing that nobody else here offers. Courier carries 8kg within 40 x 30 x 30cm, Car 20kg within 70 x 50 x 50cm, MPV 50kg within 110 x 80 x 50cm with no single item over 25kg, the 1.7m van 400kg, the 2.4m van 800kg, and the lorries 1,200kg, 2,000kg and 5,000kg. Multi-stop routing batches up to 19 locations in one job. What it will not tell you is the price. Every vehicle row on its own vehicle and pricing page now answers the delivery-fee field with "Please refer to our app/web app for accurate pricing", so there is no published base fare, and an all-day islandwide high demand surcharge sits on top of whatever the app quotes. The fees it does print are worth reading before you book. A flat $0.50 platform fee applies to every order including towing. Additional stops cost $3 for a courier, $5 for a car, $6 for an MPV, $8 and $11 for the vans and $11, $17 and $20 for the 10ft, 14ft and 24ft lorries, though the same page contradicts itself in prose by quoting $17 for both the 10ft and 14ft. CBD surcharges are $2 on courier, car and MPV and $3 on vans and lorries, Monday to Saturday from 6:30am to 8:30pm. Secured zones add $15 per pick-up or delivery. Waiting is free for 10 minutes on scheduled orders then $2 per 10 minutes, with no grace period at all on immediate orders. Cancelling after the grace period costs $3 to $10 by vehicle, or 50% of the fare once the driver has arrived. Moving jobs are capped at 2 hours with overtime at $5 per person per 10 minutes to a $200 ceiling, non-lift access is $10 per flight per person, refrigeration is $80, a tailgate is $20 and wrapping is $20 a piece. Discounts come through the in-app Coupon Shop, which sells personalised bulk coupon packs of up to 40% off and is not available on desktop. One live caution: Lalamove's durian promo page still advertises the LASTINKY and LALASTINKY codes, and the terms on that same page date the offer to 31 July 2026. Best for: awkward loads, towing and anything that needs a helper.
Coupon Shop bulk packs of up to 40% off, sold in-app only and offered per user rather than to everyone
GrabExpress is the option most people already have installed, and its pitch is upfront fixed fares in the app rather than a rate card on the web. Four ways to book, each with its own service window: Bike from 7am to 11pm for urgent documents, packed food and small items; Car from 8am to 10pm for fragile items such as cakes and flowers; Large from 8am to 9pm for small appliances, furniture and bulky items; and 4-hour from 9am to 6pm for non-urgent same-day items, with deliveries made up to 10pm. Between them the three vehicles cover 500g to 50kg, island-wide except a few restricted areas, with live GPS tracking and photo proof of delivery. The insurance is the strongest default here: every delivery is automatically covered up to S$500, and Delivery Guarantee tops that up to S$2,000, against SingPost Speedpost's $150 cap. Read the prohibited list before you book, because it is longer than most: no fragile items needing special handling, no raw meat, raw seafood, frozen food or dairy, no power banks, no cash, passports or identification documents, no credit or debit cards, no live animals or plants, no unpacked or loose items, no photos or film, and, oddly next to the S$2,000 cover, nothing with an aggregate value over S$500. Letters weighing 500g and below are also excluded, which is exactly the parcel SingPost carries for $2. You can run up to 10 concurrent GrabExpress bookings and cancel free of charge any time before the driver-partner collects the item. Best for: an urgent one-off when the app is already on your phone and the item is worth protecting.
Every delivery covered up to S$500 as standard, with Delivery Guarantee topping the cover up to S$2,000
Pickupp is still trading in Singapore and still sells the shape of service most small sellers want: 4-hour, same-day and standard 1 to 3 day delivery, plus express and international options, all priced through an instant quote generator rather than a published card. Its pricing page names the tiers and invites you to "generate a quote above to view our prices", so unlike GoGoX or uParcel there is no figure you can plan around before you enter an actual pickup and drop-off pair. That makes it the hardest service here to compare honestly, and the reason it sits last rather than higher. What it does do well is the business end: API solutions, e-commerce integration, fulfilment and warehousing, a self-pickup store network and a corporate quote desk reachable at sg@pickupp.io. If your volumes are steady, the quote you negotiate may well beat the published cards above, because the published cards are retail prices and this one is not a price at all until you ask. If you are sending one parcel today, price it against Ninja Flexi's $3.49 and J&T's S$4.90 before you fill in the form. Best for: sellers with regular weekly volume who are willing to negotiate rather than read a rate card.
Visit website| Service | Cheapest published price | What that price carries | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SingPost Tracked Letterbox | $2.00, GST included | 2kg, within 324 x 229 x 65mm | 2 working days | Letterbox delivery, no signature, and it must fit the size |
| SingPost Speedpost Standard | $6.20, GST included | 30kg, within 600 x 400 x 300mm; $12.30 for bulky | 1 working day | Compensation caps at $150 or the declared value, whichever is lower |
| Ninja Van Ninja Flexi | From $3.49 | Up to 30kg across five weight bands | Within 3 working days | No cancellation and no refund once the order is created |
| J&T Express app | From S$4.90 | Up to 30kg on the 1 to 3 day service, 10kg on Premium+ | Next day on Premium+, else 1 to 3 days | Rates quoted exclude prevailing charges; billed on actual weight |
| uParcel | $9.50 next day, before GST | Documents or 1kg within 60cm total | Next day, up to 1 hour on Rush | Add 9% GST, a $0.50 platform fee and a $1 fuel surcharge |
| GoGoX | $13 motorcycle | 5kg, within 35 x 25 x 12cm | On demand | Festive, late-night, CBD and high-demand surcharges stack |
| Lalamove | Not published | Courier carries 8kg within 40 x 30 x 30cm | On demand, 24/7 | Every fare row on its own pricing page says to check the app |
| GrabExpress | Not published | 500g to 50kg across three vehicles | On demand within service hours | Items worth over S$500 may not be sent at all |
| Pickupp | Not published | 4-hour, same day or 1 to 3 days | Varies by tier | Quote only, through the calculator or the sales desk |
Courier pricing in Singapore is quoted on four incompatible bases at once. SingPost prices by size band with GST already inside. uParcel prices by size band excluding GST, then adds a platform fee and a fuel surcharge. GoGoX prices by vehicle and route with a printed range. Lalamove and GrabExpress price dynamically and publish nothing. Comparing a $2 postal rate against a $13 motorcycle fare is only meaningful once you decide whether you are paying for the parcel to move or for it to move now.
Every figure on this page was read on 4 September 2026 off each company's own surface: SingPost's delivery-rates page, uParcel's live rate calculator and its downloadable rate PDF, GoGoX's pricing page, Lalamove's all-vehicle pricing detail page, Ninja Van's Ninja Flexi page, J&T's app page and Grab's GrabExpress page. Nothing here comes from a comparison blog.
It fits in a large envelope and can wait two days. Tracked Letterbox at $2.00, or a Prepaid Label at $2.00 a piece in a pack of twenty. Nothing else comes close.
It is heavy but not urgent. Speedpost Standard, $6.20 for up to 30kg inside a 600 x 400 x 300mm box, next working day. This is the single most under-used price in Singapore parcel delivery.
You want a courier at your door but not within the hour. J&T's app from S$4.90 with free pickup, or Ninja Flexi's pickup option from $3.49 if you would rather drop it off.
You need a fixed price in writing before you commit. uParcel, the only service here with a published ladder for every tier, though you must add GST, the platform fee and the fuel surcharge yourself.
It has to move now. GoGoX for a published range, Lalamove for the widest fleet, GrabExpress if you already have the app and want the S$500 default cover.
Surcharges are not rounding. A GoGoX motorcycle job into the CBD on a festive evening picks up $2 for the zone, $3 for the festive date and 10% of base for a pick-up after 10pm, on a fare that starts at $13. Lalamove adds $15 per stop in secured zones such as Jurong Island, the airport cargo area and immigration checkpoints, and $0.50 on every order as a platform fee.
Waiting is metered. GoGoX gives 10 minutes then charges $3 per 10 minutes on bike and sedan, $5 on vans and 10-ft lorries and $10 on the larger lorries. Lalamove gives 10 minutes on scheduled orders then $2 per 10 minutes, and no grace at all on immediate orders. uParcel allows 10 minutes at the counter and charges $0.40 a minute after. Have the parcel sealed and labelled before you book.
Cancellation is not free. Lalamove charges $3 to $10 by vehicle once the grace period passes, and 50% of the fare once the driver has arrived. GoGoX charges 50% of the base fare if you cancel after the scheduled pick-up time. Ninja Flexi does not let you cancel at all: once the order is created it is non-refundable.
SingPost, and by a wide margin, as long as your parcel fits and you can wait a day or two. Tracked Letterbox carries up to 2kg inside 324 x 229 x 65mm for $2.00 and arrives in 2 working days, and Speedpost Standard carries up to 30kg inside 600 x 400 x 300mm for $6.20 with next-working-day delivery. Both figures are inclusive of prevailing GST on SingPost's own rate page, which is unusual in this market. Above that box size, Speedpost charges $12.30 for anything up to 30kg whose length plus twice the width plus twice the height stays inside 3m, with a maximum length of 1.5m. If you want a courier to come and collect instead, J&T Express quotes from S$4.90 in its app with free doorstep pickup and no minimum number of parcels, and Ninja Van's Ninja Flexi starts at $3.49 if you drop the parcel off yourself at one of its 800 Ninja Points. The on-demand apps are a different price bracket entirely: GoGoX's cheapest motorcycle job is $13 and uParcel's cheapest next-day slot is $9.50 before GST, the platform fee and the fuel surcharge. Postage-paid packaging sits in between, at $2.20 a piece for a smartpac Small bought in a pack of ten, $2.40 for a Medium, $3.20 for the Box and $2.00 for a Prepaid Label bought in twenties.
GoGoX is the only one of the two you can price before you open an app, which is most of the answer. Its pricing page publishes a full card: motorcycle orders run $13 to $24 by route and sedan orders $13 to $35, both with door-to-door handling included and the $1 platform fee waived until further notice. Vans and lorries are quoted as a base price that covers loading and unloading from the vehicle only, at $25 to $39 for a van, $42 to $71 for a 10-ft lorry, $80 to $104 for a 14-ft and $143 to $167 for a 24-ft, with manpower charged on top from $15 for a van up to $60 for a 24-ft lorry. Lalamove's equivalent page now answers every single vehicle row with "Please refer to our app/web app for accurate pricing", so there is no published base fare to compare against, only the surcharges: a flat $0.50 platform fee on every order, additional stops from $3 for a courier to $20 for a 24ft lorry, CBD $2 or $3 between 6:30am and 8:30pm Monday to Saturday, secured zones $15 per stop and an islandwide high-demand surcharge that applies all day. One thing GoGoX prices that Lalamove does not is the calendar. GoGoX publishes its 2026 festive surcharge dates in full and charges $3 more on bike and car orders and $5 more on van and lorry orders on each of them, and the next block is Mid-Autumn from 21 to 25 September, followed by Deepavali on 7 and 8 November and Christmas from 18 to 25 December.
Between about $11.50 and $36 depending on how fast you actually need it, and on whether the quote you are reading includes GST. uParcel is the one company here that still publishes a printed ladder for every tier: its rate card prices documents or a 1kg parcel at $11.50 for same day, $14.50 for 3-hour express, $18.50 for a specific delivery slot, $21.50 for a 1-hour rush and $23.50 for a two-way round trip, rising to $26.50, $28.50, $32.50, $35.50 and $45.50 at the 25kg end of the ladder. Three things get added to those numbers before you pay: 9% GST, a platform fee of $0.50 per delivery or $2 for a van or lorry, and a $1 fuel surcharge that the company's own homepage banner says it imposes on all published delivery rates. Its live rate table already prices the 1-hour tier $0.50 above the PDF at every rung, at $22 for 1kg through $36 for 25kg, so read the calculator rather than the downloadable card. Ordering more than one at a time is the cheapest lever available: uParcel discounts 5% at five orders, 10% at ten, 15% at twenty and 20% at thirty, applied automatically at checkout when the pickup address, pickup date and delivery timing all match.
Not consistently, and the difference decides which service is actually cheapest on a small job. SingPost states plainly on its delivery-rates page that all Singapore rates are inclusive of prevailing GST, so $2.00 and $6.20 are the amounts you pay. uParcel goes the other way: its rate calculator prints "Price excludes GST" under the estimate and its rate PDF says the same, so its $9.50 next-day slot is really $10.36 with 9% GST, then $10.86 once the $0.50 platform fee lands, then $11.86 with the $1 fuel surcharge, before any city, distance or entry surcharge. J&T's app page marks its S$4.90 headline with a footnote reading that all rates are exclusive of prevailing charges. GoGoX and Lalamove both quote the fare the app will charge, with their extra fees itemised separately rather than folded in. The habit worth keeping is the same one that applies to any Singapore service quote: before you compare two numbers a dollar apart, ask whether either of them is nett, because 9% on a $36 rush job is $3.24 and that is larger than most of the gaps on this page.
You are covered far less than most senders assume, and the cap varies by more than tenfold across this list. SingPost's Speedpost Standard compensates up to $150 per article or the declared value of the shipment, whichever is lower, with an optional Enhanced Liability Coverage sold separately. GrabExpress sits at the other end: every delivery carries default cover up to S$500 and you can top that up to S$2,000 with its Delivery Guarantee, although its own prohibited list says items of an aggregate value exceeding S$500 should not be sent through the service at all. Ninja Van's Shopify-integrated Ninja Dash accounts cover parcels up to $100 as standard, with an Enhanced Protection Guarantee taking that to $200 or $500. GoGoX puts a clock on the claim rather than a ceiling in its rate card, stating that any claim must be made within 48 hours after the delivery is completed or it accepts no liability. Two practical habits follow. Photograph the sealed parcel and the label before handoff, because proof of condition at pickup is what every claim turns on. And for anything worth more than about $150, pay for the enhanced cover or use a service whose default cap already exceeds the value, rather than assuming the base fare bought you insurance.
