shipping wheels which courier?

mallorcajeff

Hi
I know this has been done before but its a subject very time critical as to who to use.

I have got to post some wheels (In the UK) most people on ebay seem to put £10 postage. Every site im using say delivery from £4. I put in the dimensions of a wheel box and getting quotes of a £100? WTF?
Anyone recommend me some couriers etc that will deliver a set of wheels for less than the cost of the bloody wheels!
any help appreciated as they have sold and i need to get them off asap!

many thanks

MountainMonster

mallorcajeff wrote:

Hi
I know this has been done before but its a subject very time critical as to who to use.

I have got to post some wheels (In the UK) most people on ebay seem to put £10 postage. Every site im using say delivery from £4. I put in the dimensions of a wheel box and getting quotes of a £100? WTF?
Anyone recommend me some couriers etc that will deliver a set of wheels for less than the cost of the bloody wheels!
any help appreciated as they have sold and i need to get them off asap!

many thanks

Are they getting delivered to Mallorca? That could be why the shipping prices are so different!

Ive had good experience from a company called Hermes, we paid 25 euros per 30kg box which were quite karge from Austria to The UK when we moved here.

mallorcajeff

hi thanks for the tip. No the wheels are in the UK and will be posted to the UK (sorry for confusion) I left them there last time i was over and have just sold them. Will look at hermes.
thanks

tonybanham

Hi

Just shipped some wheels- Hermes website stated the wheel box was to big so used P4D, was about £14 for signed delivery. Hope this helps.

mallorcajeff

cheers tony I have just found out the same too big! hardly big is it!
thanks will look at p4d
jeff

ShutUpLegs

parcel 2 go or parcelmonkey come in at £10 I think, insurance extra

awsm

A lot of people use services such as parcelmonkey/interparcel to get cheap courier prices. The only real concern is you're likely not covered for insurance if anything goes wrong during the transportation (read the T&C's for exclusions). Otherwise ParcelForce/TNT generally offer the most competitive insured prices but they're still considerably more than the cheaper alternatives.

ilm_zero7

have you tried DB Schenker - they have been really good for me, and with their tracking system you can actually speak to a person!!

essjaydee

I will never use Parcel2go again after a bad experience with them, and their claims system is painful at best :evil: