Line families on the menu, read as labels rather than names
Every line on every menu belongs to one of a few families. Knowing the family tells you its window, its ceiling range and how it bills.
The families and how far each one reaches
Across all 224 lines quoted on 17 October 2026 there are four families. The postal family reaches 153 destinations. The SW standard family covers 30, nearly all in Europe, with 40 lines because some menus hold more than one. YT-OU-DHL-PY covers 29. SDH-US-USPS covers one, the United States.
The labels are the estimator’s own. This page reads them as families and describes what each family does on the menu; it does not take the labels apart or name who carries the parcel at the far end.
YT global postal: the default almost everywhere
The postal family is on 153 menus, and on 123 of them it is the only thing there. The estimator prints a 12 to 22 day window on its card. Ceilings are 20 kg or 19,998 g depending on the destination, there is no volume divisor, and every one of its 154 lines stays open under the Electric filter.
It is also the family missing from three menus: the United States, Croatia and Swaziland have no postal line at all.
Its label is the same on every menu it appears on, which makes it the easiest line to recognise on any Tigbuy result page.
SW standard: the family with the most variety
SW standard is where menus get long. It serves 30 destinations with 40 lines; the UK alone has four of them and the Netherlands three. The card window is 6 to 15 days across the family, but almost everything else varies line by line.
Ceilings come in five sizes: 2, 3, 5, 10 and 20 kg. Sixteen of the forty lines bill by box size and the rest bill on weight. Five are marked for electric items. When two SW lines share a menu, those three attributes are usually what separates them, which is why the lookup card counts size-billed and electric lines per destination.
It is also the only family whose labels change from menu to menu, often with a weight cap written into the label. This site reads the cap from the estimator’s data rather than from the label.
YT-OU-DHL-PY: one per menu, weight only
This family appears once on each of 29 menus: all 27 EU members, the United Kingdom and Iraq. Its card window is 7 to 15 days, it bills on actual weight with no divisor, and its ceiling is 20 kg, except Iraq’s, which is 30 kg.
Because it never bills by box size, it is the line that behaves most differently from a size-billed SW line when the box is big and light, which is exactly what the UK example on the several-lines page shows. The Electric filter keeps it open everywhere except Cyprus.
On menus without any size-billed line that contrast disappears, and the comparison with an SW line comes down to ceiling and printed window.
SDH-US-USPS: a family of one
The US line is the only member of its family and the only line on the US menu. Its window, 7 to 21 working days, is the widest of any family. Its ceiling, 4,999 g, is the lowest of any line that is the sole option somewhere, and it adds a 58 cm limit on the longest side of the box.
It bills on actual weight and stays open under the Electric filter. Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands do not get it; they get the postal line.
Because it stands alone, its limits are the destination’s limits: 4,999 g and 58 cm. Plan a US haul around those two numbers and nothing else on the menu can surprise you.
Lines named on help pages that no menu offers
Some of Tigbuy’s help articles were written around a different set of carriers and services from the ones its estimator offers today. None of those names appeared on any of the 236 menus we read. When the two disagree about what exists, treat the estimator as the current list and the older article as background.
That does not make the help centre unreliable on other subjects. Storage, arrival checks, returns and cover are set out there and nowhere else, and this site links to those articles wherever it relies on them.
