How the hell to shi...
 

[Closed] How the hell to ship a big parcel for less than stupid money?

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78cm x 60cm x 58cm. If the dimensions are slightly under, UPS can ship it for £19. Otherwise it's £85!

Anywhere else to look other than Parcel2Go and ParcelMonkey etc?


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:18 pm
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Can you dismantle it into 2 parcels?


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:22 pm
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Paisley freight quote 31.39 for that size (I put in 10kg?)


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:22 pm
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Edit, ignore me. Miscalculation


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:23 pm
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Have a chat with Tuffnels, they deal with what most of the delivery teams call 'uglys' the things outside of a small package.


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:25 pm
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Try Shiply, they operate a driver based quote system and believe me we use them a lot for shifting some rather odd shaped (and some times heavy) objects. You have to get some quotes from drivers going your way, they then give a date and time and voilà.. delivered and cheap too.


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:25 pm
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ParcelForce website quotes £30-35 for that size at 10kg (less if you're a registered rewards member).


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:29 pm
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Half pallet 3 day economy service via Palletline would be £32 to us at work. Plus the VAT to you but not £85 fo sure


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:36 pm
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Was going to suggest parcel2go, but you've already covered that!


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 9:54 pm
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Finally managed to get UPS to do it for £40.

All ****ing evening spent pissing about with this. Great service FFS. "Customer wants choice" aye, but all we get is a minefield to try and avoid being ripped off.


 
Posted : 26/09/2017 10:01 pm