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    best postage options for a pc case?

    I've got a whole bunch of stuff which I'm going to put up in the fore sale section, including two cases.
    but cases are big and heavy (even cheap ones) so I wondering if any one has suggestions for a good cheap service so I can keep the costs down?

    eg I've got a jeantech phantom, in it's box it's about 10kg and about 4 cubic foot (12"x24"x24")
    royal mail would be about £21 just for postage

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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    Parcelmonkey use CityLink as their main courier and I've used them for several years and never had any problems. On the other hand I have heard horror stories from CityLink, especially when Scan were using them. I also used Parcelforce through Parcelmonkey and it went smoothly too. CityLink have upped their prices a lot since April though so I'm not sure how much of a saving you'd get. Used to cost less than £10 for something under 10kg insured.

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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    nice, just checked, I think it might be over 10kg, probably 12kg
    still they give a quote of £9 which is far better than royalmail/parcelforce

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    Used parcel monkey many times. Can't fault them excellent system
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    Society's to blame,
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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    We use Parcel2go a lot for the business, Yodel usually comes out cheapest (Formerly DHL or Home Delivery Network I believe).

    Sent a horse supplement out yesterday and delivery came in at £7.80 inc vat for their 48 hour service and it was just shy on 6 Kilo, they will be picking it up from the house today.

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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    heard a lot of bad thing about yodel

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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    Another vote for Parcel Monkey. used it to ship complete PC, good price and tracked well.

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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    heard a lot of bad thing about yodel
    They are fine for smaller items, it's the big stuff they are pretty clumsy with !

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    Re: best postage options for a pc case?

    I've used P4D ( http://www.p4d.co.uk ) & Interparcel ( http://www.interparcel.com ) for a few things recently and have no complains, used to use parcel2go but several poor deliveries/collections have put me off them, wasnt the end couriers fault but P2Go organising things.

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    I wish I knew about these last week. Just posted a load of DVDs that cost £12 for 3 kilos.

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