Recommend a courier to carry a bike box please!

[LarryDuff]

I'm just about to use unibaggage.com to send my son his bike.

Maybe I'm not - they just quoted me £65. He could buy a decent second hand bike for that.

 

[Globalti]

Thread revival indeed. Paisley Freight works well and is easy to set up but in common with plenty of other "couriers" they are simply acting as agents for TNT who have the vehicles and the distribution.

I've sent two bikes with Paisley Freight and had no problems.

 

[Crankarm]

Midlands to Norfolk? Go by train to collect it?

 

[Kestevan]

+1 for Paisley Freight.
Used them just before xmas with no problems.

 

[swee'pea99]

I use Send It Now:-

http://www.senditnow.com/ship.html

it's normally about £13-14 for a full bike box and it's actually Parcelforce that do the delivery itself. I guess Senditnow are just some sort of bulk reseller of services. I've used them to collect about 30 packages now and never had a problem.

I was amazed to discover that they don't (if I'm remembering rightly, and I think I am) apply any kind of size restriction as long as the weight's ok. The guy who collected my bike (who was indeed Parcelforce) looked at the box rather sceptically, but he took it, and the next day it was delivered in Liverpool. I can't remember the cost, but it was absurdly cheap - under £20 anyway.

 

[LarryDuff]

Send it now do have a size restriction - Your parcel must not weigh more than 30kg (20kg if you choose to drop off and/or for the recipient to pick up from a Post Office, be no longer than 1.5m, and the length added to the size of measuring round the thickest part must be no more than 3m.

Seeing as the box I want to send is 135x70x18, according to the above formula 3.11m then that's me screwed.

 

[cyberknight]

Its not a done deal yet as im not sure of the size of the bike yet but if all goes well.......

 

[Globalti]

Jeeze... that lawn's a mess!

 

[cyberknight]

Jeeze... that lawn's a mess!

Well the person is very ill , thats why they are selling it .