 Poster: A snowHead
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Hopefully someone might have an answer to this as I am tearing my hair out trying to get a reasonable way to send some skis to the north west!
I work 9-5 and thus am not at home for parcels to be collected.
I am sending a cheap pair of skis which were listed here but were purchased off the forum by someone in the north east. They nor I wanted to spend more than about £25 to get them delivered
I arranged shipment via Parcel2Go who unfortunately appear to use Hermes for some of their deliveries, particularly for weekend collections. On 2 consecutive weekends, they have failed to collect these as the driver has effectively lied about me not being in/able to collect.
I have explored other couriers but none I can find either collect on weekends or allow a timed weekday collection (e.g. 9-12am) or allow me to drop the parcel off somewhere for it to be collected.
The closest I got was UPS who I could do a drop off for but the skis have to be in a box. I have no box big enough for them and no ability to collect one locally!
Interestingly my new skis which are replacing these were delivered in a timed way via DPD in bubble wrap. I have used the same method for these but tried DPD and this too big for them allegedly.
Apologies for the rant but if anyone has any solutions that have worked for them then I would be very grateful!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have used interparcel several times. Good value snd service
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hermes have lots of places you can drop parcels off in most areas. When I use Hermes (which I only do for low value stuff) I drop it round to a local convenience store.
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| sugarmoma666 wrote: |
| Hermes have lots of places you can drop parcels off in most areas. When I use Hermes (which I only do for low value stuff) I drop it round to a local convenience store. |
Yes, they do and I do (well have...) used them regularly. This is too big for a parcel shop they tell me.
Will look at Interparcel, thanks
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@mmgg1988, Just gone through same nightmare, ended up making cardboard box out of 3 boxes lashed together with loads of brown tape and using UPS I asked a friendly business to be a collection point, bol.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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inter parcel every time , £20 max , just tape them up in cardboard
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@mmgg1988, Just gone through same nightmare, ended up making cardboard box out of 3 boxes lashed together with loads of brown tape and using UPS I asked a friendly business to be a collection point, bol.
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