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PostPosted: 13:29 - 16 Oct 2006    Post subject: Posting heavy stuff. Reply with quote

I'm hoping to post my Thundercat engine to a blokey in Scotland, but all the couriers seem to have a 25kg weight limit, which the engine is clearly over.

Is there any easy, cheap way to post it to him? Confused
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 16 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just stick a first class stamp on it and then leave it outside the nearest postbox Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:57 - 16 Oct 2006    Post subject: Re: Posting heavy stuff. Reply with quote

Rookie wrote:
Is there any easy, cheap way to post it to him? Confused


Nope. The 25kg weight limit is a manual handling health and safety thing. You're going to have to find a specialist courier.

I recon your best bet is to contact one of the motorcycle delivery people off ebay and see if they'll do it. One bloke with a van is going to be a lot less stressed about health and safety than a multinational like TNT/DHL etc
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PostPosted: 13:58 - 16 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

DHL ?
City express?
Initial?

Sickpup?
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PostPosted: 19:46 - 16 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

At work I have sent much heavier stuff than that, sometimes around 70kg. I have used Citylink and DHL and from what I can remember they say £15 up 25kg and then start charging 50p per kg after that.

Hope that helps.
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 16 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Something like TNT where the engine can be put on a pallet as those take upto 1000kg.
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PostPosted: 02:36 - 30 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd do it no bother but it'd be far from cheap (unless you have a large drum of veg. oil lying about Wink )
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PostPosted: 11:39 - 31 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man & van from ebay or removal company.
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PostPosted: 11:52 - 31 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

i wouldnt recommend the ebay couriers.
i got a few quotes to collect an engine from chester to central scotland and was quoted in the region of £175 but more than half of them. and most of them were around the area for collection Thumbs Down

DHL/TNT/FedEx are your best bets i think.
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PostPosted: 13:27 - 31 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take it apart and buy stacks of jiffy bags Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:45 - 31 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

tribal_tiger wrote:
Take it apart and buy stacks of jiffy bags Thumbs Up


and fill the bubbles of the jiffy bag with helium Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:58 - 01 Nov 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought this was in reference to heavy, as in emotional stuff.... hee hee hee
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