What is the best way to "post" a Red Stag head

[Mickeydredd]

I had an 11 pointer Stag head cleaned and offered it for sale on Ebay.

The auction ends today and it is more than likely I will have to post it to the purchaser.

Anyone got recommendations on how to package it up for safe transfer via Royal Mail etc?

 

[jcampbellsmith]

Put it in a wooden crate.
Regards
JCS

 

[Mickeydredd]

Put it in a wooden crate.
Regards
JCS

will the postage on that not be quite high?

 

[Dunwaters]

Put tennis balls or similar on the points, bubble wrap, put it in a plastic sack, wrap with tape and put another bag over the lot if required, you should end up with a triangular package with no pointy bits sticking out

 

[Stalker62]

 

[JockStalk]

Caveat venditor

Id be thinking twice before offering to post next time. But how about one of the large strong card boxes removal firms use with plenty of polystyrene beads/ newspaper etc to fill around?

 

[Mickeydredd]

Caveat venditor

Id be thinking twice before offering to post next time. But how about one of the large strong card boxes removal firms use with plenty of polystyrene beads/ newspaper etc to fill around?

I didn't want to offer to post but all the others on ebay did so just went on that basis

 

[HonestJohn]

You need to ensure you charge the right freight rate or it will eat your profits

I’d get a big piece of cardboard from ikea furniture/other, and after bubble wrapping etc, fold it over and around, then duct tape.

Postage will likely be around £25 I imagine

 

[Stalker62]

Anyone got recommendations on how to package.

On a serious note.

Wait and see who buys it.

Revert back to this thread, and ask if anyone who is passing (there is always someone passing) can pick and drop off.

It is a service I offer, every time I head North of the Wall.

Worth a punt, I would have thought...

 

[Klenchblaize]

I can just see the Daily Mirror’s front page:

“Sick man from North of the Border sends Rudolph’s severed head as a Christmas present by Royal Mail (2nd Class).”

K

 

[Mickeydredd]

On a serious note.

Wait and see who buys it.

Revert back to this thread, and ask if anyone who is passing (there is always someone passing) can pick and drop off.

Anyone driving from Scotland to Bristol shortly?

 

[Mickeydredd]

You need to ensure you charge the right freight rate or it will eat your profits

Postage will likely be around £25 I imagine

DPD next day door to door is £14.40, that is by weight so hopefully they do not charge an excess for large sized parcls!

 

[Stalker62]

DPD next day door to door is £14.40, that is by weight so hopefully they do not charge an excess for large sized parcls!

It could be worse, they could also charge by the 'point'...

 

[Mickeydredd]

It could be worse, they could also charge by the 'point'...

What a novel idea to wring more money out of folk.....

 

[lochty]

Get a large, sturdy cardboard box from your local safe storage facility or removal firm. Wrap the skull in bubble wrap and cut up some old hosepipe or pipe insulation to cover the points of the horns. Fill box with rolled up newspaper and post.

 

[Bowland blades]

well and safely wrapped and Parcelforce via your local post office . I have used them all and TBF they are the best with the least hassle . Do it after Christmas for sure

 

[Mickeydredd]

Get a large, sturdy cardboard box from your local safe storage facility or removal firm. Wrap the skull in bubble wrap and cut up some old hosepipe or pipe insulation to cover the points of the horns. Fill box with rolled up newspaper and post.

I have a large cardboard box so am planning to wrap and put the skull inside a smaller box and then into the large box to hopefully afford some extra protection from being chucked around a delivery van.

Good call on the hosepipe!

 

[HonestJohn]

well and safely wrapped and Parcelforce via your local post office . I have used them all and TBF they are the best with the least hassle . Do it after Christmas for sure

EBay buyers won’t like posting that late

 

[merlin]

Earlier this year I posted some red antlers of a fair sized stag from the NW where I live, down to the s coast where they do.

My top tips:
- however big a box you think you need, you need a bigger one
- antler tips are remarkably adept at poking through cardboard
- you will be amazed at quite how much padding is required to fill in all the nooks and crannies
- Read the maximum permitted dimension sizes on courier websites very carefully.....
- .....then disregard them, which is what Evri did when I tried to use them. Despite having read, measured, then read & measured again.
- be ready to lose the will to live
- decide never to try & post big antlers ever again.

Good luck!

 

[deerstalker.308]

A good way to protect the points (and stop them puncturing the packaging) is to cut small sections of hose pipe and stick them on each tine, I gave up posting stags as it’s a monumental ballache, buyer collect only for me