Sorry for the seemingly obvious there wire bead do people squash them or just wrap them whole. cheers

Squash em into a figure of 8 and then fold over, tape up with electrical tape or similar and then wrap.

Last two I sent via Royal Mail Parcelforce.

All I did was wrap some brown paper round them at 12, 3, 6 & 9 o'clock and then bound that with brown packing tape. The post office was perfectly happy to accept and send them like this.

They arrived with no damage.

There's a website for everything

haha a website, I don't think the tyres are that flexable so may try steves method