Cheapest way to send large heavy item?

Becles · 1 July 2007 at 1:13PM

Husband is selling some DJ kit in a flight case. We're looking for the cheapest way to send it, ideally collected from our house.

The item measures 30cm x 63cm x 54cm and weighs 20kg.

Any suggestions on who would be the cheapest would be much appreciated.

windswept · 1 July 2007 at 1:38PM

probably payperdrop and interparcel are good too.

Cute_'n'_Quirky · 1 July 2007 at 2:02PM

Are payperdrop ok to use?

Their listing on ebay looks good but you never know!

Do they get signatures on delivery?

kenshaz · 1 July 2007 at 3:07PM

http://www.amtrak.co.uk/contact.html

Get an online quote from Amtrak
http://www.amtrak.co.uk/index.html

windswept · 1 July 2007 at 3:12PM

PPD use dhl, so you can view tracking and signature online and input the tracking details into paypal.
PPD are a bit slow in responding to problems, as I found out when a parcel of mine get lost in bristol for 2 days, but now they offer a guaranteed next day service , so if it doesn't happen , your next delivery is free.
Even my parcel force account can't beat the £6.99 ppd service.

windswept · 1 July 2007 at 3:15PM

kenshaz wrote: »

http://www.amtrak.co.uk/contact.html

Get an online quote from Amtrak
http://www.amtrak.co.uk/index.html

Are you kidding???
£25 for next day on a 10kg parcel!:eek:

Jakejakejake · 1 July 2007 at 4:11PM

Parcelforce Booking
^ I use this site ^
£6.25/£6.75 for 48/24hr

stolt · 1 July 2007 at 5:38PM

i've used payperdrop a few times, and as the poster above pointed out they use dhl, out fo about 10 deliveries i've had two breakages and two complete losses, takes a while to sort out, the claims, i'm still waiting near on 6 months for a lose printer (last seen in vauxhall depot), other than that there really isnt much choice. might want to check out how much the compensation is.

Cute_'n'_Quirky · 1 July 2007 at 10:09PM

parcelforce is quite reasonable up to 15kgs.

greenstreetprince · 1 July 2007 at 10:38PM

payperdrop are very good, OP's item would only cost 5.99, its easy to blame payperdrop for the delivery problems, but its not them who deliver, payperdrop are just the agents getting you a good deal, dhl are responsible for delivery.

alot of the negative feedback left for payperdrop is absolutely of no fault of theirs!

used them a few times now, absolutely no problems

natalie1974 · 1 July 2007 at 11:39PM

totally agree with you , DHL do the deliveries , not PPD . I have used PPD approx 15 times now and not once have they lost or broken any item I have sent . The only !!!!-up I had ( and I can't figure out why it happened on this occasion as I always used to do this ) was on my parcels I used to put who it was going to in big writing at the top of the parcel and where DHL put their sticker and return to sender address in small writing at the bottom . For some reason one time the machine that reads the addresses read my address and therefore sent the item back to Dartford depot to deliver to me . I managed to sort it out by phoning DHL myself and the parcel was re-delivered the following day so in total took 48 hours .

My DHL courier said put any return info inside the parcel as DHL WILL open them to find this out .

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