[Closed] Anyone recommend a courier for sending bars?

surely you should`ve sorted this out before selling them so as to be aware.
Oh and look at [url= https://www.myhermes.co.uk/wps/portal/PN_CTR/Home/homepage/ ]my hermes[/url]

I always send bars via special its around £7 try a different post office I've been refused at on branch before only to send special at another

surely you should`ve sorted this out before selling them so as to be aware.

Thanks for that. I thought I had - checked on RM website and looked at other listings delivery prices. But apparently not. I'll have a look at myHermes ta.

And don't call me Shirley 😉

It's to do with the length of the parcel iirc. RM small packets service was fine when we all had 560mm bars 😆

Send them first class, wrap them up in mailing bags and bubble wrap. Presuming the rise isn't anything crazy you will be able to send them first class as a tube shaped object

The new prices are mental, no more standard parcels either.

MyHermes, but use parcel shop drop-off, not collect.

Collect+ are good also. 4.99 I think parcels are.

RM 2nd class £2.20

Wrap in bubble wrap then bin liner, add tape

Frankers - Member
RM 2nd class £2.20

Wrap in bubble wrap then bin liner, add tape

And how would you manage to disguise the fact it's longer than the permissible parccel length?

You used to be able to send a poster/similar in a long tube at small packet rate as lond as the tube diameter was slim enough. I guess that's what he is talking about.

RM site for 2nd class currently says:
[i] Rolled and cylinder shaped parcels

For rolled and cylinder shaped items, the length of the item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm, with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm.

Rolled and cylinder shaped parcels that measure up to 45cm in length and 8cm in diameter and do not exceed 2kg can be sent as small parcels.[/i]

This means a handlebar size box is too big, but I guess a handlebar is supposed to be pretty bend resistant box or no box, so frankers bubble wrap and bin liner packaging could be doable if you ask the post office person to do it as a 'tube'.

I sent a set of bars last week back to Merlin and they came to £6.75 1st class recorded.
They were Haven Carbons at 711mm wide for reference!

I think I may have been lucky at my local PO judging what others have encountered.

Perhaps it's my maths, but so far no one has been able to explain how we get a handlebar to shorter than 45cm. 😕

You used to be able to send a poster/similar in a long tube at small packet rate as lond as the tube diameter was slim enough. I guess that's what he is talking about.

RM site for 2nd class currently says:
Rolled and cylinder shaped parcels

For rolled and cylinder shaped items, the length of the item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm, with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm.

Rolled and cylinder shaped parcels that measure up to 45cm in length and 8cm in diameter and do not exceed 2kg can be sent as small parcels.

This means a handlebar size box is too big, but I guess a handlebar is supposed to be pretty bend resistant box or no box, [b]so frankers bubble wrap and bin liner packaging could be doable if you ask the post office person to do it as a 'tube'[/b].

MyHermes are quoting £2.75+vat for an 800*80*80mm parcel on 2 day shipping.

Scapegoat - Member

Perhaps it's my maths, but so far no one has been able to explain how we get a handlebar to shorter than 45cm.

This bit: [i]For rolled and cylinder shaped items, the length of the item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm, with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm.[/i] still seems to mean you can post it 2nd class. As earlier, this exception is really meant for the economical posting of rolled up posters/plans/blueprints (do they make blueprints any more?) so imagine your bar fitting into a 2 or 3 inch poster tube and posting that.

I guess you just have to have your dimensions right: if it is an 800mm bar plus a bit of packaging/padding on each end, you will not be able to send it this way unless it is flat or very low rise, as the 'tube' will be too wide (width x2 plus length must not exceed 104cm). But this gives you more room for 'rise' if your handlebar is a less gibbon-like width.

It was for a parcel to europe not a handlebar, but I have in the past had to 'walk' my local post office lady through the rules/limits regarding total HxWxD dimensions before and once she had her tape measure out and added it all up it was fine.

I went for myHermes at £4ish per package for the drop off option.

Seems a decent service and I'll be using them from now on if there are no problems. RM can take a running jump from now on.

Thanks for any help