For Sale: Good cheap delivery / parcel company?

I don't like Parcel Force.

There was a mention a little while ago about a decent, cheap parcel company someone uses to deliver bikes... but I can't find it. Anyone know what it was?

Otherwise, does have any suggestions on good parcel companies? I've only really used FedEx other than Parcel Force...

thanks.

For Sale? I thought you were selling your services...

Interparcel are good, you get services from big names but cheaper. Lots of options and easy to use.

Damn, I thought I was going to go into business. Better cancel that lease of the fleet of delivery vehicles.

+1 on interparcel. I've sent a few frames with them for about £15 and they have always been good.

Parcel2GO are good too.

Used them several times for complete bikes and smaller items.

cheers!

by the way, sorry if this isn't quite in the right place - I wasn't sure where to post. I might sell my 'services' for the right price, though... offers accepted

DHL via www.p4d.co.uk

www.senditnow.com

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the best

parcel2go have a good dhl deal that they do for 6.99. the maximum dimensions could be a bit tight for a whole bike but i have had a frame posted for 6.99 no problem

thank you very much people. All bookmarked!

they are all fairly similar but we use a company called parcel monkey at work, seems to be pretty cheap and everything is sent via dhl

guys,any recommendation for parcel company shipping outside UK?(cheap and reliable)

Not sure if these guys deliver internationally but they could be worth checking out if you are flexible about when you want to send stuff..

http://www.shiply.com/couriers/?ref=702376&gclid=CLiV9seMyaUCFUYe4QodyEeHEA

Thanks robin,will look into it.
Anyone heard/ use Crown Ace before?

http://www.parcel2go.com seems to have the best deals.

heading up to Pitlochry for the Etape Caledonia in May and there's no bike spaces left on the trains... guess will have to get it delivered unless anyone has any smart suggestions?

I'm wanting to buy a bike frame from US Ebay which doesn't offer intentional postage,
so I'd like to arrange a courier to collect it.

After trying all the companies mentioned above, only two offer this service for a bike frame sized box but charge £250-£300.
This seems excessive, and with customs this could prove to be very expensive.

If anybody has any experience with arranging international collections then i'm all ears.
Thanks in advance.

I used myhermes to send some bike mtb bits they were really good.

Cheers, it looks like another useful site to know, unfortunately it's only UK service though.

+2 for interparcel for mainland deliveries.

I sent a frameset with them last week. Everything was peachy.

I'm wanting to buy a bike frame from US Ebay which doesn't offer intentional postage,
so I'd like to arrange a courier to collect it.

After trying all the companies mentioned above, only two offer this service for a bike frame sized box but charge £250-£300.
This seems excessive, and with customs this could prove to be very expensive.

If anybody has any experience with arranging international collections then i'm all ears.
Thanks in advance.

You'll struggle to get any of those mentioned above to collect from the US. Your best bet maybe to try Shiply. In my limited experience anyway.

I've done international collections of poster tubes (photographic prints) through TNT. It's cost much money.

size is everything, if you input a bike box 130x20x70 12 kg with Interparcel for UK delivery, the cheapest is 7.99 plus vat; but if you end up with a box 144x20x75 and it costs 35 quid!
parcel2go are good for overseas, I sent a bike to Europe for 35 quid-ish

do you get a tracking number with any of these, as I am returning a bike frame from an idiot of a ebayer and need the tracking number to get my refund?