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Postage - 17Kg item

Hi all,

Can anyone suggest the best way to send a fairly large boxed 17kg item once sold on ebay - I dont really want to keep making trips to the post office as im gonna do my back in :o

Any ideas how much the cost will be?

Thanks in advance

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  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 73,540 Ambassador
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    I'm a Royal Mail user so can only suggest standard parcel for £15.86 with £46 of cover.

    However I suspect a courier will be much cheaper.
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  • jordanryan
    jordanryan Posts: 230 Forumite
    Hi, try collectmyparcel.com, 17Kg with City Link is about £7.99+VAT, collected from you with tracking etc.
  • Mrs_justjohn
    Mrs_justjohn Posts: 1,245 Forumite
    DHL (book via Parcel2go)

    £6.99 +vat
  • charlies_mum
    charlies_mum Posts: 8,120 Forumite
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    If you print your postage label through Paypal, you can send up to 30kg by Parcelforce 48 for £11.99 and they will collect.
    You're only young once, but you can be immature forever :D
  • Mrs_justjohn
    Mrs_justjohn Posts: 1,245 Forumite
    Oh I forgot to mention you can get 5% off of the P2G price if you put a P2G logo in your auction (not hard to do - just need to copy some text into the HTML tab in description) so that would make it £6.99 + Vat - 5% (Usually comes out at less than £8 for me).
  • goldthornwolf
    goldthornwolf Posts: 109 Forumite
    Oh I forgot to mention you can get 5% off of the P2G price if you put a P2G logo in your auction (not hard to do - just need to copy some text into the HTML tab in description) so that would make it £6.99 + Vat - 5% (Usually comes out at less than £8 for me).

    £4 Quidco for new customers too :D
    Thank you :beer:
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