Can anyone recommend a good courier?

I use CityLink next day service for items that are too heavy or too valuable for RM Parcels and require tracking. They're not infallible (no courier is!) but they've given me generally excellent service over several years now. You can find them here CityLink Web-site

David

Ditto for Interlink (www.interlinkexpress.co.uk) which is the courier Naim themselves use or have used in the past. They just seem to take more care than Parcel"brute"force. Or maybe I have just had good experiences of the former and many problems with whatever the Royal Mail calls itself these days...

Parceline?



Regards,

Steve.

If £500 insurance is enough,then use Royal Mail standard Parcels.

£10.11 up to 6kg.
£11.21 up to 8kg.

Paul.

Hi,

Not sure about value for money but my local hi-fi dealer uses NightSpeed, and encourages all who send items to him to use NightSpeed also.

Apparently this is largely driven by the apparent info that Naim use NightSpeed also, because they don't break stuff.

www.nightspeed.com has the low down.

Cheers!

Rich.

Kevin ?

"Chaps" ? Please don't start transforming into MP before our eyes?

DS

OTD - Jamie Bissmore - Spinning Atoms

I rarely get so incensed that I fire off e-mails to head offices or, indeed, add negative replies to threads on internet forums, but as far as I am concerned if DHL went out of business tomorrow it would not be a single day too soon.

They break stuff, they misdeliver, they NEVER answer the telephone (three hours it has taken me, on and off), and when their head office automated system finally gives in and lets you speak to a "customer services representative" (sic.) they haven't got a clue. About anything.

This is a company that needs to look up the words "customer" and "service" in a dictionary and go back to the drawing board. Quite how an organisation so singularly fecking awful can have grown so big is beyond comprehension to me.

Please, do not use them.

Fritz, old chap, I'm not terribly sure you can end anything with "know what I mean?" with any real hope of the answer being affirmative.

Nevertheless I appreciate the sentiments.
Well, at least I think I do.

I wish you could join me in a glass of this 'ere Laurentishof Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling Spatlese 1990 that I'm currently enjoying in the garden.

Rod,

I'm afraid that's not possible.

Fritz has some shelf-stacking to do.

Regards,

JonR

Hi,

I have just used TNT to move some ATC 50 ASLs from UK to then UAE. They arrived bashed up (although in the correct packing from the manufacturer) and I am chasing a claim against them.

ATC have told me taht they use TNT as a carrier of their goods!! So they will be shipping the replacement parts.

I will let you know how I get on!!

David

In the London Borough of Tower Hamlets you'd be even lucky to find your weeks old post in local rubbish bins, etc, pension checks, doctors appointments, etc, etc, etc, maybe they should all invest in a courier firm ?


Fritz Von Ohnonotsmokedsalmonagain

Parcleforce is the best option for a private customer who is sending just one parcel.

The rates are so low that the business actually loses money on the transaction.

The only reason that Parcelforce keeps the prices low .... is the Regulator.

If you send hundreds of parcels in a year, then you may be better going elsewhere, but for a one off, Parcelforce is by far the best.

Regards

Mick Parry

I have had terrible experiences with CityLink...my advice is stick with Royal Mail or ParcelForce - or DHL/UPS for more valuable parcels.

-- woody

In the past when I was buying and selling Hi Fi amps etc AMEX was highly reconmended to me as a very reliable and cheap deliverey service.My amps were picked up at 4.30pm in Brighton and delivered at 9.30 the next day in Dundee at a cost that included insurance and was still cheaper than some of the two or three day services provided by other companys and that included Parcelforce.but you pays your money etc etc
oldie.

UPS are pretty useful as well Oldie old bean, please say hello to the seagull's wellies on the beach for me.

Fritz Von Heeavehove