Looooong parcels (Spinnaker pole)

[Keiron]

Does anyone know a carrier who will transport a 2.3m spinnaker pole form the Moray Firth to Cambridge. It only weighs 3Kg! Almost all the carriers seem to resctrict parcel length to 1.5m....

 

[michael_w]

How about your local removal company? No problem in a furniture van. Or a fine art carrier, easy peasy in the right vehicle.

 

[Dipper]

One of my daughter's friends sold a very long surfboard on eBay and then couldn't find anyone to act as courier! Luckily for her, I had a small mail order business at the time and my courier was happy to to take it for a very reasonable cost (around £25). I was using ANC so you could try contacting them - they have a depot in Inverness. ANC are a franchise which may make them a bit more flexible.

The problem with long items is that they can't fit them into their standard sized crates which get loaded onto the long distance vehicles between the depots.

 

[AIDY]

I tried anc to deliver a parcel a few weeks back. Okay if you have an account with them, don't deal with the general public.

 

[Dipper]

Ah. Right! I had an account. Back to square one.

 

[yoda]

City link - Max 2.5 M

Yoda

 

[AIDY]

I've always found city link helpful, even if people have made a few comment about them in the past they deal with the general public and non account holders.

 

[Keiron]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I'll try City Link...

Cheers Keiron

 

[bigmart]

If you have any problems we regularly, propably daily, transport packages up to 6Metres by Nightfreight. Teffnells also specialise in long packages.

Martin

 

[Adrian]

try www.interparcel.co.uk, we use them for shipping all over the world, they use whoever is the cheapest, (often UPS or DHL) on line booking and tracking, highly recomended.