Yes, I know there are past threads but looking for up to date recommendations.
Has anyone sent a set recently?
Most of my customers send their forks in via Collect+, Evri, DPD, or DHL.
I've used DPD a fair few times for sending warranty forks back over the last few months.
All ways been fine.
Sprung use DPD, so I used that to send it to them too. All fine, £15 collected. I think it might have been a £1k compensation limit.
Reusing this older thread and hoping for updated advice: who are we using to send a suspension fork or rear shock?
I've tried the usual suspects (EVRI, DPD, etc) which are reasonable costs until I add full compensation cover, which bumps price up to £30+ in most cases.
Or, are folk sending without full insurance cover in place...?
Worth trying the resellers like Parcel Monkey, Parcel2go etc. They resell the postage bit and sell you their own insurance as a package, I think. They can be a bit cheaper (but not always). Insurance is the expensive bit - that's just how it is.
Also worth looking at Royal Mail/Parcelforce. A lot of people complain about them, but I've often found them the most reasonably priced, and not had any problems. The basic included insurance tends to be higher than the likes of Evri, though you'd probably still have to bump it up to cover a fork.
I used UPS last time as that's who the servicer recommended, I took a punt and didn't insure to the full value.
I always use Paisley freight for full bikes, could be worth a look, I assume they do other packages as well as the whole bike service!
Thanks.
For rear shocks, RM Special Delivery before 1pm appears to be reasonably priced for <1kg, and still OK for 1-2kg. More importantly, that particular service has compensation up to £750 already included. No good for suspension forks which would be bigger/heavier than that though.
Parcelforce £19 for 5kg £750 cover on a 48hr service
That's good to know for future, thanks. Perfect for forks.
Send with Royal Mail using the basic service and insure separately with Secursus.
https://www.secursus.com/en-gb/package-insurance/
It's the only way I send high value stuff now after evri lost a Fox 34 and despite it being fully insured it took 5 months and a threat of small claims to get the money back.
