Which courier for posting optics

[fallowfellow]

Hello Folks,

Please can I ask, who do you use when posting optics? Specifically thermal or NV but also interested for normal scopes.

Royal Mail don’t seem to accept lithium batteries.

Don’t want to send anything that then isn’t insured.

Many thanks.

 

[willowbank]

For g*ds sake don’t use Evri.....their couriers are so hit and miss and you can forget claiming for damaged or lost parcels.

WB

 

[thomas]

I used DHL recently to send some high end NV. Excellent and very quick service at fraction of the cost of RM.

 

[homer]

Hello Folks,

Please can I ask, who do you use when posting optics? Specifically thermal or NV but also interested for normal scopes.

Royal Mail don’t seem to accept lithium batteries.

Don’t want to send anything that then isn’t insured.

Many thanks.

Last time I sent a scope away I used royal mail special delivery. Can insure it up to £2500. When I sent my thermal away I didn't mention the battery, and they didn't ask.
When I bought thermal it was delivery by royal mail.

 

[Liveonce]

DHL and Evri are merging

 

[WW.]

I use Royal Mail, Parcel Force and DPD for my business depending on the package. I will not use others. Royal Mail special delivery guarantees a signature. Others can be variable.

Have received from FedEx and Dx happily. Local DHL driver seems a decent chap but I won't post with that company.

 

[Malxwal]

DHL and Evri are merging

Hopefully that just means Evri are being swallowed by DHL

 

[kenbro]

Post Office I use usually ask if any batteries included. If I say yes the guy says okay.
I asked him why they ask and he said it’s just so the can be in a separate pile when the van comes to collect them.
Kb.

 

[fallowfellow]

Thanks all, that's very helpful!

 

[Demetrius]

I think you'll find that the Post office is OK with batteries that are installed in whatever you're sending, rather than just packed separately.
They are happy to deliver mobiles and computers.....

D.

 

[fallowfellow]

I think you'll find that the Post office is OK with batteries that are installed in whatever you're sending, rather than just packed separately.
They are happy to deliver mobiles and computers.....

D.

That's good. I couldn't understand it in this day and age.

 

[eldon]

What's the destination?
I had trouble sending a telescope, not a gun sight, to Eire. Annoyingly, the item went there and within 20 mile or so of the destination, only to be sent back via London to Yorkshire some 20 days later.

Beware of the small print that mentions glass not being insured
Obviously rules optics out straight away.

 

[markj1]

Hello Folks,

Please can I ask, who do you use when posting optics? Specifically thermal or NV but also interested for normal scopes.

Royal Mail don’t seem to accept lithium batteries.

Don’t want to send anything that then isn’t insured.

Many thanks.

That's odd - at work, we regularly ship laptops (with Li-ion batteries, obviously) via Royal Mail with no issues. The external box is actually labelled to show that the package contains Li-ion batteries.

Their "Special Delivery by 1pm" service comes with £750 insurance included, and this can be increased up to £2,500.

The Royal Mail are yet to lose one of our parcels - but they don't always deliver next day like they should (though you can get a full refund if they deliver late), and I would recommend not to take their collection service, because we found it to be quite unreliable - far better to take the parcels yourself to a local Post Office Counter.

We also had good experience with ParcelForce, and their parcel collection service is far more reliable than the Royal Mail's, however their basic insurance only covers up to £200, and increasing the cover amount beyond is quite pricey with ParcelForce.

 

[willowbank]

I used DHL recently to send some high end NV. Excellent and very quick service at fraction of the cost of RM.

In another life my company were collection/delivery agents for DHL the joke was that it stood for Damaged, Hidden or Lost... despite that parcels seldom went astray because couriers took a pride and weren’t overworked for peanuts.

This was in the days before ‘ White Van Man’ when good money could be earned.

WB

 

[bobt]

Drop it
Hide it
Lose it
managed to bend a steel box, caravan oven,
no come back as it had a glass door,

 

[willowbank]

Drop it
Hide it
Lose it
managed to bend a steel box, caravan oven,
no come back as it had a glass door,

Ha ha... happy days.


WB

 

[Scotty123]

Always Royal Mail special delivery
The buyer gets it the next day before 1
And if it’s late you get your money back
Plus you can fully insure the item
So safe for the seller and the buyer

 

[fallowfellow]

That's odd - at work, we regularly ship laptops (with Li-ion batteries, obviously) via Royal Mail with no issues. The external box is actually labelled to show that the package contains Li-ion batteries.

Their "Special Delivery by 1pm" service comes with £750 insurance included, and this can be increased up to £2,500.

The Royal Mail are yet to lose one of our parcels - but they don't always deliver next day like they should (though you can get a full refund if they deliver late), and I would recommend not to take their collection service, because we found it to be quite unreliable - far better to take the parcels yourself to a local Post Office Counter.

We also had good experience with ParcelForce, and their parcel collection service is far more reliable than the Royal Mail's, however their basic insurance only covers up to £200, and increasing the cover amount beyond is quite pricey with ParcelForce.

Thanks, that’s really helpful. Perhaps I miseread their site but I thought Li batteries were in the list of things not shipped. Maybe as was pointed out, that’s batteries by themselves.

Insurance and refund all sound ideal.

 

[rocketdogbert]

I have sent many scopes through RM Special Delivery with no issues within the U.K. or Eire, batteries in the scope always.

 

[Monarch Country Products]

We now use Royal Mail for 99% of our deliveries..

Click & Drop - 24/48hr tracked (and signed for high value lines or bladed items)