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Never posted a bike before and fear it'll be treated like a airport baggage handler.
Any recomendations and cost?
Senditnow (Parcelforce) was about £12 collected from my door.
Just pack it extremely well with lots of bubble wrap. It weighs nothing and protects against scratching - ensure as little movement as possible within the box, it probably won't spend much time upright...
Thanks, it says +£30-40 extra to insure it extra.
Yup cheapest I could find was about 40 all in to send a bike box insured to the value of the bike (500)
There was a special offer through parcel to go using DPD
Had mine shipped to and fro a few times lately back to crc. They use parcelforce and there's not been a mark on the box.
Just used UPS to bring one from germany, excellent service.
Tried it with P4D, after a week they had not even attempted to collect it, chased em loads, eventually they said they couldn't do it, couldn't give me a reason why and needed to refund me.....great no new bike for glentress trip. Won't use em again ever!
Most of it is down to the packing. We send/receive hundreds of bikes a year with TNT. The only damage we've experienced is those that have been badly packed on despatch to us. We've not lost one (yet) either.
If you have a friendly LBS they might agree to use their contracted delivery company and even provide decent packing materials that would otherwise be binned.